Item: Quickbase
Rating: 8
Author: Tara McCrillis

Overall Satisfaction with Quickbase

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We started using Quickbase as our publishing database, so basically it manages our entire publishing schedule. We're introducing a finance forecasting app. We have a contract app and we have a CRM app. All of our apps communicate with each other and manage all of the data throughout the organization.

Pros and Cons

Pros

I think that complexity of organization of data has been really great. Our data on the surface seems very simple, but when you really dive into it, it's very complex and it has a lot of different levels and it. Quickbase has allowed us to really structure it in a way that we can grow with it, but also it keeps everything very organized.

Cons

We had to hire out building it. It was a little bit too complex for our knowledge base. But we have great team building our system, so we're happy with it.

Return on Investment

The positive impact for us is that it's allowed us to streamline workflows so that we can save money and efficiencies.

Alternatives Considered

Claris FileMaker

When we were choosing Quickbase, we looked at FileMaker Pro and a couple of other ones that I don't remember, but we ultimately went with Quickbase just because of the flexibility of building it exactly how we needed it to be.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Quickbase go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Quickbase again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

I think in our industry we probably could have gone with something that was already built, but the flexibility of Quickbase has allowed us to, I think, scale differently than we would have with a pre-built system. We've been able to really cater it to exactly what we need. We've also added some of the add-on apps that are adjacent to Quickbace which have allowed us to automate a lot of workflows. So it's been great across the board for us.

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