Archive for the ‘QuickBase News’ Category
by Greg Collins under QuickBase News
Business critical apps, ones with complex relationships supporting many processes and having multiple administrators, are an exciting possibility for any team using QuickBase. In the past, making changes to these applications was best accomplished by copying the application, working on it and switching everyone over to the new version – safe, but not so simple.
That’s why I’m so excited about this product release. We are introducing a Developer Sandbox for all Enterprise accounts that will let you make changes to your live applications without risk. You simply create and test the changes in the safety of the sandbox application, continue using the live application, run a compatibility check to identify any problems and update the live app with your changes – safe as houses.
There are new features that all customers will enjoy. An improved user management area allows account administrators to easily manage access of thousands of QuickBase users. Finding users is much easier with dynamic search and sorting capabilities, while modifying status is simplified with bulk actions and the ability to provision users by importing a CSV file.
Lastly, a great usability tweak worth mentioning is better visibility and tuning of [non]searchable fields. This is a great way to make fast searches even faster.
by Kirk Trachy under QuickBase Advice & Tips, QuickBase News
If you know of anyone that has long wanted to integrate QuickBase with SQL Server, Microsoft Word, Excel, Access or Visio, be sure to invite them to attend this webinar entitled “Using ODBC with QuickBase”. Scheduled for 2:00 PM Eastern time Thursday 10/15 we will talk with Claude von Roesgen one of the early co-founders of QuickBase and author of Qunect http://qunect.com.
This webinar session will show and demo how it is set up and how it works. Like all of the 10 live weekly webinars, they are free and open to questions and answers. Register here.
by Kirk Trachy under QuickBase News
Tune in Thursday 9/24 at 2pm Eastern time for a webinar entitled: “ How to add Microsoft Outlook to QuickBase”. This open webinar showcases “SendToQuickBase” and “SendToOutlook” an Outlook integration product from SoftTech, Inc. “SendToQuickBase” bridges and extends QuickBase so users have full Outlook Integration for email, meetings, appointments, tasks and contact updates.
Anything that is in Outlook is sent to QuickBase and anything in QuickBase can be sent to Outlook.
Joe Acunzo, President of SoftTech, Inc. will be on hand to show how to set up and use “SendToQuickBase” and “SendToOutlook”. If time permits we will dive in to how this product is used for routing inbound emails directly into QuickBase (i.e., email requests) and how companies use this for logging QuickBase events.
The webinar is entitled, “ How to add Microsoft Outlook to QuickBase” and you can register at http://quickbase.intuit.com/webinars/.
This is one of 10 live and interactive webinars we hold each week. All are welcome.
by Dave McCormick under QuickBase News
After more than nine years of hosting QuickBase discussion forums on QuickBase itself, we’ve decided that it’s time to join the 21st century and move to a more purpose-built platform. It’s been a great run, but it’s time to give our users more functionality and a richer experience.
As of Monday, September 14th the QuickBase discussion forums will be hosted on Intuit’s Community Forum platform. The Intuit platform provides easy access to discussion forums for most of Intuit’s products and services and gives users a voice in the development of the site.
It takes commitment, understanding, and a whole lot of know-how to create a vibrant and helpful community like you have. Over the years we’ve been participating right along with you (Big shout out to Jess!) and it’s been great to see everyone contribute whatever they can to improve the discussion. Go ahead, take a bow.
Here are some of the features we think you’ll like about the new forum:
- Rich user profiles including contact information, photos and bios
- RSS and Email subscriptions to forums, questions and answers
- User comments on questions and answers
- Rich Text editing for posts
- Point system that rewards helpful and prolific community members
With this move we’re looking forward to a new chapter for this community. Not only are we excited to provide a more complete discussion experience, but we’re really looking forward to seeing new faces and hearing new voices in the forum.
Best of all we can’t wait to hear from you. What are you looking for in a community? What motivates you to contribute? What would you say to someone who’s a community skeptic? What’s your best story about how our forum has helped you? We’d love to hear your thoughts on any of the above… better yet, save it for next week and post it to the forum. There could be some QuickBase swag in it for the best story or the most compelling discussion. Next Friday we’ll let you know who took home all the cheddar!
Thanks for being a part of this tremendous group of people and most of all, thanks for using QuickBase!
Dave McCormick
by emccann under QuickBase News
THINKstrategies, Inc., announced that Intuit’s online database, QuickBase has been named the latest winner of the Best of SaaS Showplace (BOSS) Awards program. The program is aimed at promoting the measurable business benefits being delivered by today’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions.
Some of the customer examples that were highlighted in the press release represent the benefits QuickBase customers are seeing, whether they are using QuickBase for Customer Service Management, SOX Management, Project Management or CRM:
- Citizens National Bank spent $150,000 for Siebel CRM software and an additional $350,000 in integration costs, only to find out that it didn’t meet the needs of their relationship banking team. Citizens replaced Siebel with QuickBase, costing only $249 for 10 users, plus $3.00/per month for each additional user, improving the productivity of their call center team and level of customer service delivered.
- Google estimates that QuickBase delivers cost savings in the $100,000-200,000 range by saving 1,500-2,000 administrative man-hours of work over the course of a year managing its SOX compliance efforts, according to Erik Jonte, Google’s IT Risk Manager.
- Kayak.com avoided spending $300,000 a year in salaries and benefits for an estimated 12 extra staffers to run traditional customer-service software by leveraging QuickBase for a subscription fee of $10,000 per year. Kayak uses QuickBase to manage projects, vendors, and some accounts.
- Pure Water Technologies estimates it has saved $50,000-$100,000 annually by migrating to QuickBase from Saleforce.com. This includes reducing administrative staff by 75 percent; saving $3,000 per month in CRM cost; and gaining more than 50 hours of sales time daily.
by Kirk Trachy under Inside QuickBase, QuickBase Advice & Tips, QuickBase News
If you thought QuickBase was a powerful database before you are really going to be impressed with the addition of formulas, summary and lookup fields to our forms.
This isn’t just hiding or showing fields or sections on a form. This is controlling your form with formulas, changes to lookup, summary and reference fields.
This opens up many new possibilities for forms:
Say you have projects and you have a field called [Project Type]. You use that to describe whether it is a Marketing, Sales or Support type of project. Every time you add a task you need a different set of fields to show based on the project type. Before you would have to create a long task form with all the unneeded fields showing. With form rules now sensitive to lookup fields your project type can now control what your task form looks like. It’s fast, easy and simple.
How about a better way to keep on top of your project’s issues? Say you want to see your issues when they are open but want them to go away when closed. Using a Summary field you can now have them pop up when opened and disappear when closed.
Here’s another one, let’s say we are working on a task and it is overdue. How about using form rules to pops up an alert screen, switches the priority to high and require a note be entered? You can do that too.
We also enhanced our QuickBase alert functionality. You will notice them in applications and on your My QuickBase page.
“I cannot express how excited we are for the dynamic form rules. First conditional drop downs and now this! Christmas was early this year! Thanks QB Team!”
-Melissa
“This is incredible!!! I am so happy to be able to have more power over my form rules! This will save all those creative workarounds I was used to dreaming up! …Conditional Drop Downs & Form Rules!!!! Thank you QuickBase!!!”
-Hunter
“Thanks for listening and making it happen. Keep the enhancements coming!!”
-D.J.
Check out the video to see how you can use this new feature and review the release notes http://quickbase.intuit.com/resources/node/2004 for a complete item listing.
If you have any questions be sure to let us know or pop into any of our 10 free weekly webinars at http://quickbase.intuit.com/webinars/.
Have a blast!
by rmcdonald under QuickBase News
Although, we post a release announcement at least a week in advance so you can plan for the downtime, we continue to test our releases right up to the end. As can sometimes occur, we found a serious issue late in the process.
After numerous discussions, we made the difficult decision to postpone the release to ensure that the problem is appropriately fixed and tested before we release.
We are continuing to assess the issue and I will post an update to this blog as early as possible next week. Thank you for your understanding and I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Robert McDonald
QuickBase Product Manager
