Great tool for our organization
December 31, 2022
Great tool for our organization
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Quickbase
I've been using Quickbase for about eight years now, and, uh, very few people at my company are certified in the software.So I am certified. So I've basically become like the Quickbase help desk type deal. So I get use cases from many departments, many different areas. anything from project management to, um, life cycle management of vendors to document reviews and approval processes. It's, it's pretty versatile.
- I like the data visualization options. I think those are nice. I think it's just very intuitive and user friendly. It's easy to pick up. It's probably the best attribute.
- Right now it's meeting my needs, so I haven't had any specifics just yet.
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
I would say yes. Most of it is studying the, you have to start by, I guess you could say getting an understanding Quickbase of that way you can build within the application. The way that we've established success is anytime we're building an app for a specific use case, we start by mapping out the process with a workflow. So a Visio document or something like that. And then you build the Quickbase application to mirror the. And when that happens, it tends to be a, very efficient process.
- 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
Building, employing business applications faster, improving ability to drive insight, improving collaboration, I'd say. I feel like with my company there was a lot of duplication of effort by having things in different areas and with Quickbase, we're able to eliminate a lot of that. With the pipelines and with automations, you're able to automate a lot of things that were previously done manually. So that's been a lot of time savings. Yeah, good time savings there. Just the automations and the pipeline connecting to different cloud-based applications. So that's been a nice time for us.
Depends on how dumb they are. That's a range of outcomes question. Like I have customers who are very technically savvy and it's very easy to coach them. And then I have customers I've been working on for 18 months and it's painful.
Yeah with my company, it's pretty normal to have the original designer resign, retire, go somewhere else, and all of a sudden you inherit an application that you didn't build.I actually mean you didn't. You essentially have to study it and in some cases perfect. The challenges that the original designer put in place.
I think one of the challenges that I've experienced with my company in particular is that we don't require people to get certified in order to build in Quickbase. We can just basically get people a license and let 'em go out there and start building, and sometimes that leads to good results. Sometimes that leads to disastrous results when people start building without really knowing what they're. And then the person who inherits that application has to create the foundation correctly or restructure it so that way it can do what it needs to do.
So yeah, I have inherited I would say quite a few. For the most part I would say the process has been successful. It's just a matter of understanding what the customer's trying to accomplish with that app.
I think one of the challenges that I've experienced with my company in particular is that we don't require people to get certified in order to build in Quickbase. We can just basically get people a license and let 'em go out there and start building, and sometimes that leads to good results. Sometimes that leads to disastrous results when people start building without really knowing what they're. And then the person who inherits that application has to create the foundation correctly or restructure it so that way it can do what it needs to do.
So yeah, I have inherited I would say quite a few. For the most part I would say the process has been successful. It's just a matter of understanding what the customer's trying to accomplish with that app.