Item: Quickbase
Rating: 10
Author: Luisana Cardenas

Overall Satisfaction with QuickBase

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am part of the Center for Technology and Learning at SRI International and we are currently using QuickBase in our department. We use Quickbase to track various different projects we have ongoing, each having their own app. Each project can be very different so we track various things from schools, teachers, students, to observations, surveys, and tests. I am not aware of other departments using QuickBase but we have been approached by other departments that are interested in using it. I believe the main problem for other departments and the reason they hesitate to join Quickbase is the cost. We are a non-profit organization so it is a bit harder to convince a project manager to add this cost to the budget, although I would argue that it does end up saving us much more time/money in the end.

Pros and Cons

Pros

One of the first things I fell in love with when switching to QuickBase from FileMaker was how easy it was to make reports and how many were already built into Quickbase. This saved me HOURS.
Quickbase is very intuitive. I don't have a ton of experience using databases, besides FileMaker, and I was able to teach myself how to use Quickbase and now am the go-to person when creating databases for new projects.
The Quickbase community is amazing. If there is something I don't know how to do it's as simple as searching my question and it has most likely already been answered. If not, I can post the question and it gets answered within minutes.

Cons

I honestly have not found any areas for improvement. Any time we need some different functionality it is already available, we just didn't know about it. Quickbase can do way more things than we need, at the moment, and that is amazing. Whenever we think of something else we'd like to add to our database it's easy to add.

Alternatives Considered

FileMaker Pro

Quickbase is much easier to use than FileMaker. I can create reports on QuickBase within minutes whereas on FileMaker it would take me hours to create something similar. The online access is definitely a big plus as well. FileMaker had limited access online and was not very user-friendly.

Likelihood to Recommend

We use Quickbase to track schools, teachers, students, and tests. Quickbase works very well to keep all of this data linked and have live reports showing what we've received, who's consented, who isn't, and create up to date rosters that include only those that meet our criteria. It's also a big plus that we can use this while out in the field on observations at these schools and can update while we're there.

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