Item: Quickbase
Rating: 9
Author: Bryony Mackey

Overall Satisfaction with QuickBase

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently Quickbase is being leveraged across multiple business lines and departments. Quickbase provided a robust and easy to implement solution to track everything from sales leads to corrective actions records. We have Quickbase integrated with multiple other systems using the API provided. We heavily rely on Quickbase relationships between applications and tables, as well.

Pros and Cons

Pros

The ability to search/filter by name or type through field lists is particularly helpful when searching a large application.
Using variables in formulas helps us keep char limits and processing time down on large formulas.
The new dashboards are easy to set up, slick and fast. They help our users find the information they're looking for faster.

Cons

We would love if QuickBase allowed us more storage. With larger applications, 500mb is a very small cap compared to other enterprise level solutions. We are forced to aggressively archive leads which could have been turned into clients if they could have been kept and worked.
Integrated deployment solutions would be beyond welcome. It's incredibly tedious to make our changes in a copy application, and then make them all again manually in the production environment. It's time-consuming and more prone to error.
Change the sandbox solution. Currently, if you create a sandbox, you cannot make any changes to production. We have different levels of changes and cannot afford to lock our production environment for weeks on end for a larger enhancement.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think QuickBase is great for companies with little to no IT support (which is where we started). It allowed regular users to create and stand up applications within days which were fairly robust. It's incredibly easy to use and understand which leads to the rise of citizen developers. We currently do not allow those in our company due to the overhead we'd face in supporting applications we did not create ourselves.

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Davin Wilfrid
(Vendor Representative) commented 9 years ago
Thank you for the great review, Bryony! We're huge fans of Freedom Financial, and we're glad you've been able to drive so much value from QuickBase. We also value your feedback on our app storage capabilities and sandbox features. These are both areas of focus for us and we think the next version of QuickBase will go a long way to helping solve some of your challenges in this area.

Experience with QuickBase