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.
Pros
- 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.
Cons
- 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
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