Item: Quickbase
Rating: 9
Author: Enrique Sierra

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We manage boarding and training services for canines, for dogs. And we have to keep track of all the information like a database of all the canines with the names, the microchip numbers, the training sessions, all ofthe information about the vendors and the medications, and everything related to the canines. Then, we have to keep track of the training sessions, which is another separate piece of information. Of course, we have to track boarding and the channels of different employees and I mean, it's a lot of information that we keep in the system.

Pros and Cons

The fact that it's a low-code solution is certainly a plus.
It's also very easy to implement and to interface with other sources of data, such as an Excel spreadsheet can be easily just uploaded to the tables.
We have created some specific tools using some third party programmers that interact with Quickbase, and it's been a great experience.

We have a large community of people that we need to interact with, and it hasn't been that easy to create some kind of portal to add a request feedback form from people outside the Quickbase system. Yes, I would say we probably need to learn more about the product and how to use it, but that has been one of the biggest challenges.

Usage for Project Management

Absolutely. Creating the concept of what exactly we need to have the application up and running, it just takes sometimes a few days to maybe a week or so - but it's very user-friendly and very easy to deploy and implement. Of course, it can be enhanced and tweaked on the spot. So that has been a great feature.

Alternatives Considered

Zoho CRM

Since 2016, we started using Quickbase, and I've managed three or four different accounts for different projects and we stayed with Quickbase since then.

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

If you have a lot of information in Excel and you're managing a ton of spreadsheets, this is the perfect solution because it's very easy to integrate and very easy to manage. You can set up user permissions, you can set up subscriptions, notifications, everything is very easy. Now, if you want to interface that with other systems or interact with other types of solutions, then it's a little bit more challenging. But I understand that it can be done. We're not there yet, but we know it can be done.

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