QuickBase, the tool for easy custom data gathering applications.
April 14, 2017

QuickBase, the tool for easy custom data gathering applications.

Peter Beringer | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • 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.
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.
I believe Quickbase is an excellent tool for those users or groups that are looking to build a custom application to get their team or company off the ground quickly. The alternatives we looked at were expensive and time consuming to even get fully configured. Quickbase will allow you and your team to get busy doing the work you need the tool to do and not spending weeks and months just getting the tool configured.

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