Powerful with some caveats.
January 04, 2023
Powerful with some caveats.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Quickbase
I use it every day. I'm in it, I'm programming it. There are, the good thing about Quickbase is it solves a lot of problems. It's very flexible. It's very adaptable. You literally have a live application and if a process changes, if a law changes, if your idea changes, it can be changed in a live application on the fly. It's one of those things where if you have a business or even just a team in that business that needs to be very flexible, needs to change a lot, Quickbase is really great.I've also used it as for prototyping for more legacy databases, which is always good because then you can work it out, work out the processes, work out the fields you need, work out the architecture and things like that. Of course, I also have done that and they've just ended up using QuickBase as their legacy database. There is that too.
- Definitely the flexibility is one of the best things about it. The, I was just talking to some people where it's, if. Come in there and you don't know anything, you can make something happen.
- If you are, like, I always say, can my mother use it? Can she walk into this? Can she make something happen? And the answer for Quickbase is, yes, she can make something happen. She can make some process happen. However, most, it doesn't limit someone from learning more and solving more complex. And that's what I like about it.
- Coming in as a person who will learn different programming languages, who will do different things, like your limitations are really on what you put on yourself in learning.
- If you're looking for really good reporting, if you're looking for user ability, then that's, then I would say Quickbase is the one that you wanna go with.
- They're always improving, which is good. I feel like they have gotten away sometimes from listening to their users.
- So that can be challenging Sometimes. They've gotten into doing some things that are fancier, which sometimes slow down the system. But again, they're pretty good at listening to some extent and they try to improve. They're very enthusiastic. It's not always in the right direction, in my opinion. It usually course correct and all in all, I would say it's probably the best, most stable, most secure and flexible product out there.
- There are other ones that are more robust.If you take something like a AWS, the learning curve on that is huge for what you can do in Quickbase, much quicker, much simpler with a lower learning curve. But you're not gonna get, say the, power or the same streamlines. So there's always give and takes with these things, but there is a place for Quickbase and and it's very robust for what it is. It does not dumb it down. But there are things, if you're looking for a powerhouse of data processing, I would say that's probably not the system you wanna go with.
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?
Yes
Would you buy Quickbase again?
Yes
- Building and deploying business applications faster
- Improving our ability to drive insights from our data
- Improving collaboration across one or more teams
- Solving a specific business challenge
- Building and deploying an application (or multiple applications) that meets our exact needs
I would say this product delivers positive ROI. Although, it is expensive. If you look at that first price tag, you are going to go oh my, that's fun. Especially cuz it's per user, per seat and you do have to consider, how you're going to be using it if random people to sign up for something. This may not be the product for you go with jot form or something, but if you're looking for something that's secure for your employees and you have enough employees to use it, it can def you have to be able to know why you're using it.It does save a ton of time. It handles a lot of things automatically that a lot of people just do on their spread. Just over and over again. And, spreadsheets can be damaged, contaminated formulas can be wrong. It just has a natural way of rooting out those problems, which of course, saves tons of time, tons of money with dealing with that kind of stuff. It has with pipelines, the ability to bring stuff in and all together, and you can, with the database, you can have different apps. So getting the license depending on what you're using for I would say the ROI can be good to very high.
Oh yes. I deal with some of what I'm hired for is some of the most complex projects and complex situations that are out there. FMLA, government stuff, recipes, manufacturing, telecom, banking international acquisitions, properties, international.Things have changed a lot with things that need to be secure and private. And these are large companies that use this. I usually work for larger companies but I've worked for small ones too. And you can put in a lot of factors to things and make them happens like seamlessly. It makes things effortless.Things like on the job injuries and FMLA leave act and manufacturing, personal private recipes for vitamins and, HR things. Those are the kind of things that I specialize in and those are things I work in and I work in Quickbase for those things.
I update them all the time. Like I said I work in industries and sectors that often. And they're out of the control of the company that I work for. They, it's a government rule.I've worked in disaster recovery, the world changes social life changes. There's those kind of things just. Have it all the time. As far as live apps I change those often. Changing processes can be a delicate process depending on how you do it. I personally do not use the sandbox feature.I actually dev live, I dev in production. Yeah, I know. Live it on the edge. And but that's just my personal preference. It's often because of the immediacy of what I do and because I'm very specialized in what I. And I have lots of experience in it but it can be done. And most of the time the people here are they're developing in applications that are being used.They're changing applications and improving applications that are currently in use. So it definitely can be done. You don't need to stop work, you don't need to do those kind of things. There's, you, could you take time to plan and. You work in it and you deploy, but it's not the same length of time as changing something in a legacy database and you can roll it back.And that is a great feature. They're always constantly backing stuff up, which trust me, when I was in my learning phase, especially 11 dangerously in production, yes, , you learn to back your stuff up, but it's always good to have that additional. Back that they've backed, QuickBase has backed it up for you as well,