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Quickbase vs. Salesforce Lightning Platform

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Quickbase

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AQuickbase helps users tackle any project, no matter how complex. Quickbase helps customers see, connect and control complex projects. Whether it’s raising a skyscraper or coordinating vaccine rollouts, the no-code software platform allows business users to custom fit solutions to the way they work – using information from across the systems they already have.

    $700

    per month

    Salesforce Lightning Platform

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce Platform is designed for building and deploying scalable cloud applications with managed hardware provisioning and app stacks. It provides out-of-the-box tools and services to automate business processes, integrate with external apps, and provide responsive layouts and more.

    $25

    Per User Per Month

    Pricing
    QuickbaseSalesforce Lightning Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Enterprise
    Full Customizable
    per month/billed annually
    Business
    Starting at $2,200
    per month
    Team
    Started at $700
    per month
    Starter
    $25.00
    Per User Per Month
    Plus
    $100.00
    Per User Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    QuickbaseSalesforce Lightning Platform
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsQuickbase offers three key plans, with feature distinction, simple and consistent entitlements, and a flexible licensing model, giving users the option of either user based or usage based licensing across all 3 plans.—
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    Community Pulse
    QuickbaseSalesforce Lightning Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Quickbase
    Chose Quickbase
    Out of the box softwares come with out of the box assumptions that are difficult to mold your workflow to so companies generally adapt part of their workflow to how the software works and then when that fails revert to doing it outside of any system. Quickbase does the opposite …
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    While Salesforce has a much larger market share, I prefer Quick Base when it comes to custom app development. Even with Lighting, many of Salesforce's back-end tools needed to customize forms and processes are not actually low-code and require a pretty good understanding of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    Could not find Forms.com. Simpler to build and deploy. Better forms designer. Handles more common business scenarios.

    Salesforce is too rigid and inflexible. It requires too much technical knowledge for citizen builders.
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    We looked at about 15 solutions to fit our needs and did not have much luck with out of the box real estate softwares. For the price and functionality none of the products we looked at were even close to Quick Base. Salesforce can be customized and manipulated to do a lot of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    We selected Quick Base for its ability to easily be customized to our needs and its ability to have dynamic reporting.
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    We have evaluated Salesforce App Cloud and we find that Quickbase requires less technical expertise with comparable deliverables at a lower price point.
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    Salesforce is really the only platform that stacks up to Quickbase. However the cost is astronomical in comparison.
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    Unless you have a SQL server database attached to your SharePoint site, SharePoint is not even in the same league as QuickBase with regards to functionality.

    Salesforce.com, verva crm, and service max are designed for specific processes within the customer resource management …
    Incentivized
    Salesforce
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    QuickbaseSalesforce Lightning Platform
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Quickbase and Salesforce Lightning Platform
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Lightning Platform
    7.6
    39 Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings5.939 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings8.837 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings7.133 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings7.135 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings8.836 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings9.036 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings7.333 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings7.531 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.334 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings6.331 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings7.936 Ratings
    User Ratings
    QuickbaseSalesforce Lightning Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (520 ratings)
    6.7
    (39 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (54 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (40 ratings)
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (16 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (44 ratings)
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.8
    (22 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)