Quickbase Review.

We utilize Quickbase in many situations, from simple forms to capture essential information and status updates to increasingly more complex systems that help connect different departments and condense daily operation KPIs into one automated report or dashboard. Quickbase helps solve communication breakdowns and minimizes the need to memorize information. Accessing the databases while on the road is highly beneficial and allows us to avoid relaying information over the phone and waiting until that department is within their working hours.

Quickbase has introduced the ability to have dashboards with reports pulled from multiple applications. This allows each department to work within its own set of applications made specifically for its tasks and responsibilities. Then, we are able to pull the relevant information and auto-populate various fields or even create the needed records for processes within other departments, depending on the situation.

Quickbase is very easy to change on the fly. If we have a couple of projects that require some specific details, we can either add options to the existing process and fields or add the new fields within 5 minutes (depending on the request). Even making new reports to highlight a certain aspect of our operations can be done extremely quickly without waiting for IT or the software itself to implement a solution.

Our projects are complex because each one can be very different from the next and require high flexibility while still maintaining standards and consistency between terms and processes. We have utilized this by having preset selections and the option to add your own text in a separate field. This will then get processed through a formula that can combine the two fields, and if we notice that an option is consistently being entered manually, we can add it to the preset options and inform the team of the change.