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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Backlog

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ABacklog is a project management and bug tracking tool for teams that want higher productivity, greater visibility, and simple project tracking. Development teams can work together with Design, Marketing, IT, and more. Backlog is designed to get everyone on track by organizing work, teammates, projects and tasks. The activity feed and watchlist are designed to help users keep an eye on relevant work and deadlines. Gantt charts and burndown charts are designed to help users visualize project…N/A

    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

    Pricing
    BacklogQuickbase
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprise
    Full Customizable
    per month/billed annually
    Business
    Starting at $2,200
    per month
    Team
    Started at $700
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BacklogQuickbase
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Quickbase 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
    BacklogQuickbase
    Considered Both Products
    Nulab, Inc.
    No answer on this topic
    Quickbase
    Chose Quickbase
    We inherited QuickBase from its use by a vendor. Ultimately, we built it into a powerful tool, but have not investigated other offerings.
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    At that time, we evaluated BaseCamp and Primavera. Ultimately, we chose Quickbase due to the flexibility, ease-of-use, reporting capabilities, and cost.
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Would buy again
    141 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    122 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    142 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    106 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    107 Answers
    Features
    BacklogQuickbase
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Backlog and Quickbase
    Feature
    Backlog
    9.5
    2 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    Task Management10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team Collaboration10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score7.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BacklogQuickbase
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.5
    (520 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (54 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (40 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (16 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.4
    (44 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (22 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BacklogQuickbase
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Nulab, Inc.
    ticket management
    Read full review
    Quickbase
    I no longer think that Quickbase is the way of the future. They do not fix major bugs in a timely manner, and are releasing basic functionality behind a paywall. I believe that Enterprise Level Tier should be given certain things, like SLAs on Support and up-time. However, as a low-code no-code platform the majority of the accounts, "builders", and users are not going to be able to justify the cost of an Enterprise Tier Plan, and won't be able to use the features that Quickbase continues to advertise.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Nulab, Inc.
    • Backlog is one of the best management and collaboration tools available in the market for better managing of resources at the workplace.
    • I have been using this platform for a very long time and it has been helping me a lot to manage the business processes, manage employees, managing leads on different projects, and coordinating with colleagues.
    • It has been helping me a lot to check the issue in the project completion.
    • It gives me real-time status on the project/gives right insights of the system.
    Incentivized
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    Quickbase
    • Rapidly bring new ideas to life
    • Great authentication and authorization system out of the box
    • Connects with many major third-party services (via Pipelines)
    • Reporting and Dashboards are awesome
    • Excellent emails notification system to keep us in the loop when data changes
    • Intuitive UI for building forms and reports
    • Nice playground to test new ideas
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Nulab, Inc.
    • Price is very high for small teams and department of short term contracts.
    • GUI can be more intuitive.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Quickbase
    • I'd like to see a link on email notices that take you directly into said notice. On an app that only has 1 or 2 email notices firing, there's no issue. However, we have some tools that are so complex that they have about 20 email notices firing at any given time based on the action users take. In this case, if we have to go in to modify a notice, we have to guess or scroll down the long list of notices to see which one we need to customize. It would be great if Quickbase had the URL of said notice somewhere at the footer of that notice so when Administrators click on it, it takes them into the exact notice they need to update.
    • When filling out or reviewing a lengthy form, I'd like to see the Save & close button, as well as a Save & next option at the bottom of the form rather than having to scroll back up to the top of those forms just to click on those choices.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Likelihood to Renew
    Nulab, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    For our use-case of QuickBase, there really aren't any other products out there that can offer us the same out-of-the-box solutions they provide to us. We're also so integrated with it in our daily processes that to move away from it abruptly would cause mass chaos, so it's going to be renewed for at least the next several years.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Nulab, Inc.
    nice to use in the night as well
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    Quickbase
    Quick Base has done everything we have asked it to do and then some. Our original goal was to have one system for CRM that encompassed both the sales process and the customer management. We have gone w-a-y beyond that with analytics, project management, system bug logging, and historical effort reporting.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Nulab, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    Once we did get Quick Base configured and customized it was reliably available when we needed it. We may have had one or two occasions when the product was inaccessible but those were few. The greatest challenge with its availability was its difficulty with integrating with our systems.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Nulab, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    Some of our tables that hold over a million records are starting to perform poorly, with some summaries taking over 20 seconds to load. This may be an indication that it is best to archive old data when reaching large volumes like this.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Nulab, Inc.
    I would give 9 but one less because of the high price.
    Incentivized
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    Quickbase
    If you utilize the community, the support is amazing. Unfortunately, I find their actual support system a bit underwhelming. They don't seem to have a great process for interacting directly with an issue and often sweep significant issues under the rug by categorizing them as "Enhancement" ideas or legacy items.
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    In-Person Training
    Nulab, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    It is very easy to get training from their University portal and still if we don't know their, then we can ask their support too.
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    Online Training
    Nulab, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    Quick Base already is having a separate portal of providing training to customers and it is very easy to use and updates as per the new features added in to the application
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    Implementation Rating
    Nulab, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    I was not directly involved with the initial account implementation, only a bystander. For the app I directly implemented for my department only, I wish I had know to create an app diagram first. I don't remember if that was suggested. I think that would be a great help tip tool when a new app is created, to have a page with a check list of what is needed or how to get started. If you are a regular app builder, then you can bypass it or have the ability to turn it off in the app settings.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Nulab, Inc.
    Backlog has all of the top-notch features to increase productivity, visibility, and project tracking. Backlog is easy to use. I first just logged in to the platform and it was [ready] to go. I easily started working on it and it started giving me the bugs’ details on our project. Always available for queries. Listen to the queries very attentively and try to give a solution on the go if applicable. Otherwise, take some time and respond with the advanced workable solution in the limited time frame.
    Incentivized
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    Quickbase
    Well, there's a plethora of low-code tools out on the marketplace and, you know, there's a reason that we've decided to partner with QuickBase because it has all the right balance of the ability to integrate with the ability for a citizen developer to create apps successfully. So if you look at something like Zo Ho's low-code offering, for example, yes, there are some similarities there, but they're really dependent on all of their other licensed products to get you where you want to be, where with QuickBase you have the ability to truly create something custom.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Nulab, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    It has evolved really well with our company, but there is a hard limit to the table size that has begun to affect us and not let us grow. The table size limit is set at 500 MB and we have had to jump through quite a few hoops to be able to get by.
    Incentivized
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    Professional Services
    Nulab, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    For clients we use Qucik base to develop application
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Nulab, Inc.
    • SLA should be given by single candle
    Read full review
    Quickbase
    • ROI is HUGE. Our company saved over 3.5 million in one year alone based on developments that year in Quickbase that saved time for many teams
    • Less user error - implementing automations and standardized workflows has led to less user error as was previously seen by maintaining spreadsheets or Smartsheets
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