Item: Quickbase
Rating: 9
Author: Brady Petrik

Overall Satisfaction with Quickbase

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are an international company dealing with bevs of information coming from all sources at all different times. We use Quickbase to make sure we have a shared data pool to process the information before we hand it off to our users to summarize all the work that we get done. Really to handle large amounts of information coming from all different ways and make sure that everyone can see this good information at the same time.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Quickbase is great for large data information and processing. We use it very much for qc, pre-work, and automations taking care of a lot of the information that can be handled automatically before we hand off to our human users. Automation as far as transforming information quickly and effectively as soon as possible to optimize or optimize our workflows.

Cons

We've switched from automations to pipelines and we would like to see some additional logging in pipelines if at all possible. The more information we can get, the better seeing how connected it is and what tables the pipelines are touching, how often they're running, what information is running through them at any given time. That would be a big help to us.

Return on Investment

I would say that every dollar we spend into Quickbase, we see that reflected in how much work we're able to get done for the individual users. Transferring, especially from spreadsheet-based operations to Quickbase operations where it's allowed us to scale our business and you know, for people and size and amount of customer and intake that we can do. So the return on investment has really been exponential.

Alternatives Considered

Workato

Their logging is a little bit more advanced than I would say the pipelines is, but as far as information storing and again, wide accessibility, Quickbase just blows it out of the park. As far as getting the same information spread along to a wide base of people, Quickbase is really the go-to.

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?

Yes

Would you buy Quickbase again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

A good example I can think of is we have large-scale quality control that we use for live products within the industry. And we were able to up our ability to process by I would say tenfold at least. Just again, doing a lot of pre-qual and a lot of automatic checking that they could then we can hand off to our users for the more qualitative aspects. Areas where it could use a little bit more support: I would say large data tracking for quick responses. A lot of times we need feedback on a minute-to-minute basis and Quickbase runs much more on an hourly cycle. I would say getting speed of use of information and processing when you're looking for something much more shorter scale than say a daily, weekly, or monthly.

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