QuickBase, the tool for easy custom data gathering applications.
April 14, 2017
QuickBase, the tool for easy custom data gathering applications.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with QuickBase
Within our organization, we are using Quickbase for two main applications. First, we are using Quickbase to manage our contracts. We created an application to store the vital details along with a digital copy of the contracts. We then created a notification to alert us at a specific interval when the contract was coming due. This has helped us to stay on top of the various contracts that we as the IT team manage. This is a need in our company because we do not have a legal team to manage these kinds of documents. Quickbase has filled in great for this need. The second application we use Quickbase for has been for a notification solution for when new employees are hired and terminated. This application grew out of a need to be notified when new employees were hired at remote office locations. The problem was that people were getting hired and IT was not notified so we could not have the correct accounts created ahead of time. We created this application to solve this issue. Once created we were able to tailor the notifications for other departments that wanted additional notifications as well.
- Quickbase is great at allowing a customized interface. If you can think of the field and how it will be used, Quickbase will have you covered.
- Quickbase does a great job at notifications, we have used custom notifications a lot with our applications and its always worked well.
- Quickbase could do a better job at user management. Fortunately we don't have to do a lot of user management, but when we do it's confusing on where we even need to go to get all the permissions removed/added.
- Quickbase could do a better job at navigation in general. Sometimes finding that specific configuration page is hard. We have spent a good amount of time with this product and still have a hard time navigating the tool.
Our team and our company for that matter, have benefited from our deployment of Quickbase. Long ago when we first started with Quickbase we had the need to build a custom application and this tool allowed us to quickly deploy a tool that would get our people doing the actual work we need them to do and not spinning their wheels on deployment or configuration of a more specialized tool.
Before selecting Quickbase (and even after selecting in the years since) we have looked at other tools to do what we use Quickbase for and we have discovered that Quickbase still holds up well to these other tools. Quickbase continues to develop the tool based on customer feedback and we have benefited from this development. While we still look at other tools periodically, Quickbase is still easier to use and keeps us and our team doing the actual work we need done and not spending time trying to get a new tool off the ground.
Quickbase takes a few minutes to understand the navigation and structure to building a good application. What we did in the beginning, and since as Intuit (the company behind Quickbase) was look at how some of the canned applications did what the do for certain functions. We learned from this process to now we have developed our own applications from the ground up without being professional developers.
- Building and deploying business applications faster
- Building and deploying an application (or multiple applications) that meets our exact needs
We have used Quickbase to get a Contract Management application and New User/Terminated User application off the ground quickly. We have used other applications in the past, but these have been the most used applications with Quickbase. The deployment of these applications was quick and painless because the tool is fairly easy to use and we have had some experience in the past with Quickbase. Developing an application on our own has allowed us to make sure the exact fields and exact placement can be achieved. We can then get the exact data we need to be efficient and no spend time sifting through data that isn't relevant, or missing.
We have continually updated our custom applications within Quickbase. The ability to right-click and drag and drop has made getting a new look or adjusting some of the fields easy. To try and do this within a tool like C++ or other software development tool would not be possible, Quickbase allows for non-developers to make quick, easy and efficient changes to your custom applications.