Item: Quickbase
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Quickbase

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

So in my use case, I'm developing enterprise-level applications that I use across the company that gives users access to centralized data. For our organization, there are around 2000 business applications in Quickbase, out of which really 450 of them are in production, and actively used daily applications. The remaining are all tested in-depth, et cetera. That's what we have at Southwest Airlines.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Ease of use of quickly prototyping something. It's really fast to prototype something Quickbase even if it ends up living somewhere else or if it's not the chosen solution where it's going to live in, it's really easy to prescribe something in a matter of hours or if not days.
And most frequently, we've seen solutions that end up being Quickbase because the users love it. The users also love to interact with it just because it's seamless and it's what the developer makes out of it.
And the second best thing I really like about the platform is the ability to code pages. So you can actually extend what you're doing. If the feature is not there, you could basically just use it as a table storage solution and then you could build a custom interface on top of it and do pretty much whatever you want there.

Cons

Just one thing that pops up. It's not especially with like heavy utilization - it's scalable where medium-level enterprises could use it, but especially for use cases where you dealing with millions of rows the table size literally taps out, and we've got applications where scalability has become an issue.

Key Insights

Do you think Quickbase delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Quickbase's feature set?

Yes

Did Quickbase live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Quickbase go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Quickbase again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

It's super suitable for business development applications. Internal development is where people develop their own applications. It's less suited where you have a gigantic application that you need to be scalable, and it's not suitable for that, although you could ask Quickbase to extend the table size to fit that need. But you would really be overextending it by quite a bit, and that would slow down your application.

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Great for enterprises to centralize data.