Item: Quickbase
Rating: 10
Author: Taylor Adams

Overall Satisfaction with Quick Base

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Quick Base is being used in a few different business units within the company to manage data associated to our portfolio of assets. Like many other companies, we struggled with having multiple spreadsheets and documents where information associated to our projects lived. We needed a cloud-based solution to consolidate the data sources into a dynamic database, and we have found a solution with Quick Base.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Intuitive and user-friendly
Building apps is reasonably easy
Quick Base is customer focused and is adding functionality regularly

Cons

It's a database but we would like to use the tool for analytics due the type of information we have in it.
They're working on a true mobile app now but that has been something we have wanted.
System reports could used some better formatting.

Alternatives Considered

Salesforce App Cloud, MRI Residential Management, Yardi Property Management and Argus

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 things, but it's ridiculously expensive for what you get and just not worth it. MRI and Yardi required that we use their accounting system in order to have their asset management modules so it was a no go.

Likelihood to Recommend

We use Quick Base for both recurring and ad-hoc type reporting. For example, if I need to see what our current portfolio looks like I can just press a button and the report comes up for me to digest. This is something that would have taken much more time if it were in Excel and this why the tool is so valuable to us.
Where we get pushback from users is when they are trying to do weighted averages or complex formulas in a report that needs to go to management. It's not a financial modeling tool, but we want to get out of Excel as much as possible so it would be ideal to be able to do more formulas in the tool.

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