QuickBase vs JIRA
May 24, 2017

QuickBase vs JIRA

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with QuickBase

I have used QuickBase as a collaborative task tracking solution for teams for over a decade. It has been implemented for both individual teams and multiple teams that need to share information. Its ability for simple and fast customisation has allowed us to take a base solution and customise it to our unique needs.

Pros

  • As an online, cloud service, it alleviates any software installation and maintenance needs.
  • It is one of the few online solutions that provides real data relationships between entities allowing for powerful reporting.
  • Its dynamic forms for both viewing and editing data are superb for customising the way different people and roles interact with the data.

Cons

  • Its user interface is still fairly old and requires the entire page to shift into Edit mode to update a single field.
  • Record level access rights across related entities is an absolute pain to get correct.
  • It is missing modern ways of letting users to interact with the data, e.g. drag drop between lanes etc.
We were looking for a collaborative team task tracking solution and reviewed many different products that were dedicated to solving such a problem, or had the capability.
QuickBase can both allow you to create it from scratch or apply a pre-defined template from its market place. In both cases you can then customise it to your needs.
The major downside with QuickBase is that its data entry is still outdated versus the alternatives.
I have been using QuickBase for over a decade as a solution for collaborative task tracking within single teams or across multiple. Fundamentally it's an online database with forms and whilst many other applications provide very similar services, QuickBase does this incredibly well. Over the years though, it has failed to keep up with modern user interfaces and it now starts to feel slow to do basic data entry.

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