by Kirk Trachy under QuickBase Advice & Tips, QuickBase News

In support of those CogHead Customers that are looking at how they can get their data out of CogHead and into QuickBase we are swapping out our regular Wednesday, 2:00pm webinar with “CogHead to QuickBase – Migrating Your Data”. This 30-60 minute live and interactive webinar will be held each Wednesday at 2:00pm Eastern through April 29th.

http://quickbase.intuit.com/webinars/

Whether you use CogHead for CRM, Sales Opportunity tracking or for Project Management, this webinar will show you how you can export your CogHead data and import it into QuickBase. We will take Companies, Contacts, Projects and Tasks and import them with their relationships intact. QuickBase is used by over 50 of the Fortune 100 Companies – every day.

by dlevy under Uncategorized

I know that all the folks recently displaced by the recent Coghead announcement are really faced with some tough decisions over the next next few days/weeks/months.

Customers are scrambling to find a long-term solution that can run and and grow with their business.
Partners are scrambling to find new solutions onto which to migrate their existing customers.
Developers are looking for new and exciting platform offerings on which to build the most powerful, rich, web enabled applications that can reach a substantial marketplace!
All three of these groups are looking for powerful, proven solutions that can help them meet their goals, and grow with them.

I believe that Intuit QuickBase is the answer! QuickBase has been growing for over 8 years, and we currently have companies large and small, from half of the Fortune 100, to thousands of small businesses relying on QuickBase every day.

To that end, we would like to take this moment to invite all existing Coghead customers, partners and developers to attend the following upcoming events in which we’ll introduce our offerings and provide everyone with the information they need to make the best possible decisions for their customers, their businesses, and the marketplace.

For Partners and Developers : QuickBase will be hosting a free online web demo for all Coghead Partners and Developers to discuss QuickBase
During this presentation we will cover :
• How QuickBase can meet your business needs
• How to make money developing and reselling QuickBase applications to your customers
• How to build Rich Internet Applications with the Intuit Partner Platform and QuickBase, to market and sell to over 25 million QuickBooks users world-wide!
To kick off the call, we have invited Bill Lucchini, Intuit VP and QuickBase GM, who will discuss QuickBase’s commitment to the Coghead customers, partners, and developers.

The date of this presentation will be on Tuesday March 3d, 2009 at 10am (PST)
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To join this meeting
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1. Go to https://intuit.webex.com/intuit/j.php?J=338346797
2. Enter the meeting password: 123
3. Click “Join Now”.
4. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen to join the teleconference.
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For Customers: QuickBase will be hosting a free online web demonstration for all Coghead existing customers to introduce them to our tested, proven and reliable platform
We will cover :
• An overview of the QuickBase platform-as-a-service model including a review of its 250+ template applications from which you can build custom “right-for-me” solutions for your business
• A review of the “Big 5” : the core components that make QuickBase the most customizable, flexible, secure PaaS offering on the market today
• An interactive Q&A to review any outstanding questions or issues including a review of the QuickBase Offer to Coghead Users who convert and next steps for beginning your migration

The date of this presentation will be on Thursday March 5, 2009 at 10am (PST)

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To join this meeting
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1. Go to https://intuit.webex.com/intuit/j.php?J=336291688
2. Enter the meeting password: 123
3. Click “Join Now”.
4. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen to join the teleconference.
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If you should have any questions about the above or would just like to learn more about how QuickBase can help your business, please don’t hesitate to contact me directly at Darren_Levy at intuit.com.

by Bill Lucchini under Customer Stories, Industry Trends, Partner Corner, Uncategorized

Last night TechCrunch announced that Coghead, a startup that built an online database, is going out of business.  Personally, I’m sorry to hear about it.  I’ve met some of the Coghead team and they are a smart, entreprenuerial team.   This is an important class of applications and there is a lot of opportunity, but in this environment it’s very hard to be a startup dependent on outside funding.  Today, I definitely feel lucky to be a part of Intuit, to be profitable, and to be the #1 player in the online database world.  For QuickBase I certainly feel that everything is a little harder in this economic environment but this news certainly reminds us to be thankful about what is working.

Based on this news we thought about what Coghead users, partners, and employees will do.  Here’s what we can offer:

• For Customers: We recognize that you need to move fast to replace Coghead and if you’re anything like QuickBase users, your apps are critical to your business.  To help ease the transition we’re offering:
  • Six months of free service to get started.  We’d like you to be able to focus on getting your business transitioned and not covering a monthly subscription.
  • Two hours of free consulting with a member of our QuickBase Business Consultant Program who can help rebuild your application in QuickBase
  • Unlimited support
  • Lastly, we will be offering webinars specifically for Coghead customers where we talk about QuickBase and discuss transition issues.
  • You can visit our web page for the offer here.
• For Partners: For those of you who have built businesses around Coghead we’d like to offer participation in either our QuickBase Business Consultant Program or our Intuit Partner Platform. 
  • The QuickBase Consultant Program is perfect for Solution Providers who are good at working with customers to solve their unique problems with QuickBase.  For customers you bring with you we will honor our 20% revenue sharing and we are working to organize a special free QuickBase training class specifically for partners coming from Coghead.  As a QuickBase Business Consultant you’ll also be eligible to participate in our lead share program.  If you are interested in the QuickBase Business Consultant Program please either apply directly to the program, or email darren_levy at intuit.com. 
  • The Intuit Partner Platform (IPP) is designed for Independent Software Vendors that want to build SaaS businesses targeting Intuit’s 4M small businesses.  Like Coghead, IPP uses Adobe Flex for the User Interface so you should find some familiar tools.   If you are interested in the Intuit Partner Platform, apply here, or contact alex_barnett at intuit.com.
• For Employees: Any Coghead employee who is interested can submit a resume to Intuit and we will do our best to get it in front of all the relevant hiring managers either inside or outside of the QuickBase team.  Please send your resumes to sally_russell at intuit.com.

I wish Paul and his team the best and I hope we can help.