great resourc for small business t harness the power of data
What do you like best about the product?
Quickbase is easy to customize to our unique situations.
What do you dislike about the product?
A little tricky to program if you're not technically proficient. We overcome this by using a great Quickbase service provider, Trinity.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Currently using Quickbase to manae 4200 jobsites and up to 150 active projects at any one time. A great resource for our small staff
Empowers content management and application creation without SQL
What is our primary use case?
I use Quick Base for management purposes. It functions as a content management system that does not require SQL. It allows me to store data, publish pages, and operates as a single-point solution for a no-code, low-code platform.
One of my projects involved creating applications for patients, where forms and pages can be created using different languages like React, with data stored in Quick Base.
What is most valuable?
One of the valuable features of Quick Base is its ability to function as a content management system without the need for SQL. It allows for storing data, publishing pages, and is a no-code, low-code platform.
I used it for patient applications, with forms and pages created in different languages such as React. I can view everything in one place on the Quick Base site. This provides a unified solution without needing different databases or pipelines.
What needs improvement?
The user interface of Quick Base is complex. It can be difficult to navigate, and ideally, it should be simplified to facilitate use by anyone, not just certified individuals.
There is room for improvement in front-end functionalities. I cannot deploy and use front-end features anywhere; they must be deployed inside Quick Base.
The introduction of hooks would allow for easier deployment elsewhere, such as GitHub. Additionally, their APIs have limitations, such as reliance on XML for backend APIs, which restricts their utility.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Quick Base for two to three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability of the solution as eight out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Quick Base has high potential to scale, and I would rate its scalability at nine out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
Technical support is really good, and I would rate it a nine out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I was previously working with OpenNebula and have now switched to a different vendor.
How was the initial setup?
The setup process is moderate, not simple, and it requires a quick walkthrough of the entire system. A technical person who has experienced a walkthrough can work on it.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Pricing could be cheaper. I rate it around a seven out of ten. Mainly larger companies use it, which influences the pricing structure.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
A main competitor for Quick Base is Salesforce, along with other low-code, no-code platforms.
What other advice do I have?
I prefer Quick Base for its functionality. It allows front-end creation, exposes backend APIs, and doesn't require a separate database.
Overall, I rate the product an eight out of ten, and I can recommend it to others.
As for AI integration, initially, there was no AI use two years ago, however, now some aspects are being integrated. They're exploring how to improve AI on the platform. I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Overall QuickBase Review
What do you like best about the product?
QuickBase is an intensly powerful tool depending on how it's being used. My organization leverages QuickBase in ways that nearly no one leverages the platform. It's Low-Code to No-Code driven solution makes the platform that much better in being able to generate things on demand.
Pipelines is the bread winner. It's generally easy to integrate with both internal and external functions!
Platform uptime is significantly impressive.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do not like the fact that QuickBase deprecates functionality without identical/working alternatives.
Certain Formulaic Items can get a bit tricky and can be tough to implement. There's not enough documentation available related to Formulas where it can get specific to your Application, Enviornment & or Business Needs. Even if you are a QuickBase Expert you will run into some challenges. (This will likely change with the implementation of AI)
The QuickBase Application Table Sizes can sometimes be tough to work within the confines of said table size, due to the maximum table size within QuickBase's Platform, there is a lot of functionality that I am unable to take advantage of as the Data Set Sizes I'd need would quickly exceed the allowed table size. This in turn forces us to build code to generate the equivalent of what we could get out of QuickBase Natively.
Cannot stand that every report you can download from QuickBase has to be in .CSV, would be nice if .XLS or .XLSX is supported, same for PDF Reports. Especially given that Subscription Reports have the ability to email out the same report as a PDF.
If you are not a Jinja Ninja, pipelines can be a bit tough to work with. Native QuickBase fields/sub-fields are widely used within QuickBase however you cannot leverage Pipelines Natively within a "Search Records" step to procure the data you need, instead you'd have to do a Make Request to the QuickBase API's to procure the same data, when you leverage the QuickBase API in many cases you will require Jinja to parse the response payloads which is also tricky.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
QuickBase Solves a lot of issues in terms of being a Front End UI for both Internal and External Users.
Data collection is the biggest one, for example. It would take 30 seconds to create a new field, make it visible to a specific user on a form where as if you needed to do this in something like an Angular or React Front End it requires code changes to both the front end and the back end.
In our organizations use case, it's significant that we have the ability to "Stage" all the changes we need to have done which will interface with backend code based solutions.
Excellent tool that solves real problems
What do you like best about the product?
The power of table relationships goes beyond compettitors and allows complex solutions to be created with low-code
What do you dislike about the product?
Data centres are only in North America and Europe and the data storage space is limited
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Major Projects reporting and tools
Simple way to create a complex database
What do you like best about the product?
I love that it is an easy platform to create a very personalized database
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some quirks/bugs, but mostly they are minor.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is making it possible to keep track of all aspects of our business in one place.
An excellent platform for quickly prototyping and delivering new data-heavy processes and workflows
What do you like best about the product?
The biggest upside is the platform's instant prototyping for data structures and templated reporting.
You can quickly scale up new data structures and processes to test workflows.
The general customer support is responsive to email/portal queries and questions.
The general interface is easy to use for non-technical users who have any experience with any web-based
The Proserve (purchased block of consulting hours) support is excellent. Quickbase has suite of experts with deep knowledge in specific focus areas - we engaged them around API usage, data validity and overall platform governance - they were engaged.
What do you dislike about the product?
The downside of the interface simplicity is the lack of custom controls, logic and validation - if you have complex data entry/data validation needs, you may need to look to other automation platforms to handle data validation.
Luckily, the APIs are near complete coverage and make data automation in and out of the platform easy. The platform scales well to many users and SaaS uptime was never an issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quickbase is a great platform to quickly design and scale up workflows, projects and other low-code data-intensive initatives; it provides excellent data visibility for management and analysts. Quickbase is excellent for speed-to-market and iterative design; letting us handle integratins quickly w/o having to design a low-code from scratch.
Easy to Use Tool for Custom Apps
What do you like best about the product?
It makes it easy to create apps without knowing how to code. drag-and-drop feature and ready templates save a lot of time. it also connects well with other tools and easy to implement as a newbie as well
What do you dislike about the product?
It is expensive, especially for smaller businesses, Sometimes advance customization is not as easy and might require deeper knowledge of the product, User interface can be better
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us maintian many data domains into 1 place like projects, people, sites etc. It also saves time by automating tasks and reducing mistakes in our data. we use Quickbase webhooks for real-time data which helps us keep our data and system upto date
Some good and some bad things.
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to customize a database and having different options to how the database works is awesome!
I like the idea of the Office Hours however, I wish there were more opportunities/times available (instead of 1 hour each day).
There are ways to create custom roles for internal and external users; this helps keep certain data/internal processes private.
What do you dislike about the product?
They force changes on the users (e.g. the Sidebar Navigation versus Top Navigation); changes in how some of the reporting graphs are (e.g. the total change from a gauge chart to a totally different circular design).
These changes without letting the end user decide what is best for them is not very customer friendly.
There should be more individualized trainings available, specific to what the business users needs are; I don't mind the general training/certification, but it's too generalized and doesn't always fit the actual training needed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm still waiting to hear about the graph issue I shared a several weeks ago.
The current graphs shorten long titled categories (on bar charts, pie charts, etc.). Yes, the new dashboard does fix this, which is great. However, the new dashboard gets rid of the current gauge charts and replaces them with some circular design.
I wouldn't mind switching to the new dashboard if we can keep using the current gauge charts. OR, fix the issue with the long titled categories having "..." on the charts on the current dashboard.
Quickbase - All in one solution for your organization (Like IFS and Salesforce CRM)
What do you like best about the product?
Simplicity at it's peak. Quickbase API documentation is really helping everyone of us everyday.
What do you dislike about the product?
Instead of Field ID's or Table ID's in API call, if we can get Table Name and Field Names with Field ID's and Table ID's will help us recognize each table and field in less time. For this we are maintaning seperate mapping sheet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using it to store our satellite data and also using it for storing and managing Employees data everyday.
Quickbase deployment in small business setting
What do you like best about the product?
The biggest benefits for our organization have been the relability and speed of working with large data sets. It is easy to create most simple apps and connect data in relatively simple ways. When we have more complex requirements it can be more difficult, especially for users with no coding experience. Our team uses Quickbase daily for a number of different work tasks. Implementation went smoothly with native support for a salesforce connection which helped us automatically refresh data from a key client.
What do you dislike about the product?
Customer support is lacking severly. Self serve options are to search forums which often have outdated information which can send you down a rabbit hole that doesnt even solve the issue at hand. Support has been decent over email or phone, but can take considerable time and is totally hands off in an attempt to drive sales for enablement services. We were afforded an hour of enablement through our customer success manager to build a simple Google Sheet pipeline, but after the builder couldn't figure it out we were simply delegated to regular support to resolve the issue which didn't provide any confidence in the value of paid enablement services. We are in our 3rd year with Quickbase are reviewing other options as we are not confident we are receiving the most value out for the premium price of the service.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quickbase is helping us keep our improtant data safe, private and easy to work without us having to worry about cloud infrastructure and data backups. It provides easy, customaizable ways (forms) for our teams to interact with our data and report on it.
