By now you would think we had heard it all from our customers – “streamlined operations”, “increased visibility”, “enhanced collaboration” – this is what QuickBase and online database applications do best. But this particular customer story truly is staggering. Procter & Gamble’s GBS Project Management Organization (PMO) has saved significant operational costs, reduced 18-24 full days of meetings per person, per year and freed staff of labor and time-intensive data entry since implementing QuickBase.
With 138,000 employees in 80 countries, P&G faced the challenge of managing data and processes throughout its multiple business units around the globe. Teams used thousands of Excel spreadsheets to manage numerous projects, making reporting an arduous and often inaccurate task. The basic administration and upkeep of these documents was also time and resource heavy.
P&G deployed its first QuickBase database application just weeks after purchasing it, consolidating hundreds of projects into a single, accessible online database.
“One of the biggest benefits of using QuickBase is our ability to speed alignment between service lines and increase project visibility—particularly among those requesting resources from multiple departments or service lines.”
-Eduardo Garcia, Site Services Leader for GBS’s Fabric & Home Care Innovation Center
After seeing the value and ease of QuickBase – and how quickly and affordably it was installed – other P&G teams developed their own QuickBase database applications to address their inefficiencies. Today, nearly 70 custom-built project, process and portfolio management applications are driving increased collaboration, productivity and visibility among more than 6,000 geographically and technically diverse users – all managed by just one administrator.
For more details, you can find the full P&G case study here.
What are the cool ways that you have been using QuickBase and how is it helping you? Let us know by leaving a comment.
We got a request from a QuickBase enthusiast today that has a form with four check box fields representing, North, South, East and West. When he checked North, he wants the other South, East and West options to disappear and if unchecked to make them reappear.
Definitely something QuickBase can do with a few form rules. Let’s take a peek.
Many items like this can be found in our Knowledgebase, QuickBase Innovation Network and Community Forum but it is so much more fun to do this live in one of our 10 live weekly webinars. All questions welcome.
QuickBase is web based so much of what we would like to customize with QuickBase can be done using basic html.
For instance if you want to add a custom QuickBase login right on one of your company’s web pages, you can do it by adding some simple html code to produce the following form.
This is a live form embedded into this webpage. Try logging in.
This is the basic code that was pasted into this website:
<body>
<form name="mainform" action="https://www.quickbase.com/db/main?act=api_authenticate" method="post">
<input type="hidden" value="https://www.quickbase.com/db/main?a=myqb" name="rdr">
<input type="hidden" name="NextURL" />
Login:<br /><input name="username">
<br />Password:<br /><input type="password" name="password">
<input type="submit" value="Enter" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
You can find out more about embedding forms by attending any of our 10 weekly live webinars or visiting our Community Forum, On Line Help and Knowledgebase.
An Australian QuickBase customer asked today, “How can we change the 01-20-2010 (U.S. date format) to the Euro 20-01-2010 format?”. They want their reports to display in a format that is customary for their country and locale. Well you can if you add a formula text field and reformat the date.
There is also a really good QuickBase Knowledgebase article you can reference.
By the way we hold 10 live webinars each week. Many explore customization ideas like this one.
Register here.
I’m pleased to announce that this week, the QuickBase team rolled out some improvements to the search functionality of the QuickBase website. For those of you familiar with QuickBase, you may have used the search in the past to search the QuickBase Help documentation or many of our other support resources using the search box in the upper right-hand corner of our website (located on the blue navigation bar at the top right of this page).
You can see the new search here: http://quickbase.intuit.com/search
Improvements include:
- More accurate search results
- Live Search
- Popular Searches
- Complete UI Overhaul
If you have any questions or would like to give feedback about the new search functionality on our website, please let me know. I would love to hear how we can improve our search, as well our website, in the future.
There is a new iPhone application in the iTunes Store called PocketBase. What is noteworthy about this application is that it works natively with QuickBase. Instead of accessing QuickBase via the iPhone’s web browser, MCF Tech has leveraged QuickBase’s API to present QuickBase applications with native iPhone functionality.
Don Larson, founder of MCF Tech will be demonstrating PocketBase and answering questions in a live 2:00pm Eastern time webinar on Thursday 1/7/10. You can register for this webinar at http://quickbase.intuit.com/webinars/.
MCF Technology Solutions http://mcftech.com are certified Intuit Solution Providers.
Hope to see you Thursday.
One of our engineers does daily crossword puzzles. Many times when I pick up something from the printer I see a crossword puzzle in the pickup tray. I know it is Ira’s. He has a wonderful routine that I think satisfies in him what many feel when faced with a QuickBase formula URL challenge. Maybe that’s why he has been with QuickBase so long.
I had a question in a webinar recently around the use of “&z=”&Rurl() and rdr= in a formula URL button. It was a great question and one that made me think of Ira and his crossword puzzles. I think whether you do crossword puzzles or whether you create formula URL buttons they are all the same – Fun.
Happy New Year!
See the QuickBase Innovation Network Article:
http://quickbase.intuit.com/developer/articles/using-zrurl-and-rdr-formula-url-fields
