We performed a comparison between Appian and QuickBase based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Rapid Application Development Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."In terms of interface, it's very good. In terms of infrastructure, it's amazing and already using multiple tools behind the scenes. It's a low-code platform, so it's very easy to implement."
"The setup is easy."
"The agile manner that we require to create our workflows. This is probably the most critical part of our solution and the time it takes to start processing the solution."
"Low code development: Code can be developed pretty quickly which leads to less turnaround time for automation of business processes."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The application life cycle is very clear. I started learning it and giving some workshops to my team. Creating the users and the building is very structured. Documentation is nice and it's easy to learn."
"Even with an on-premise implementation, the scalability is still high, so it is easy to scale up."
"Appian helps you do a lot of things. It's easy to configure and build an application platform, and it offers a lot of features that you find in an RPA solution. It's flexible so you can reuse it for a variety of use cases."
"The reporting tool: It helps in data analytics to provide the solution more efficiency."
"We have made good use of the ability in QuickBase to add multiple apps for various departments and purposes, while some apps are shared."
"It is low-code. We are able to go in and create apps quickly. It is very helpful for the size of our company. We're a mid-size company, and at this moment, we don't need anything externally. We don't have to go out and consult a consulting firm to build something from the ground up. So, the ease of that and being able to get development quickly up and running has been good for us."
"I am impressed with the product's automation which makes everything easy."
"There's a lot of stability in QuickBase...I really appreciate the processing part of QuickBase, especially considering how we're able to get information in real time instead of having to wait."
"This solution has provided for Rapid deployment of data collection tools, replacing spreadsheets with near real-time data."
"It has superb ease of use and no code needed to create and build apps and databases."
"Creating applications in Quickbase will take, literally, a fraction of the time it would take to create them in other database applications (which shall remain unnamed)."
"We would like to see more reduced latency. We would like to make sure that the scale-out factor will be much more as workloads come in."
"It is difficult to set up the on-premise version."
"Occasionally, certain pre-made modules may not be necessary and customers may desire greater customization options. Instead of being limited to pre-designed features, they may prefer a more flexible version that allows for greater customization."
"It is also not easy to learn. Training tutorials could be improved."
"The documentation needs to be improved."
"Something I would like to see improved is an SQL database connection."
"The tool itself is pretty good, but the main area that we struggled with was the backend. The frontend development is really good, but the backend modeling can be streamlined a little bit. There are good integrations, but tying them through the data layer and then up into the frontend could be improved a little bit. It does read/write on the data source, and you can configure it to just write or just read, but there is a little bit of work involved."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"Third-party integration -- they are working on it and I find their brand-new still-in-beta Webhooks very promising."
"Its UI needs improvement. They should improve it and make it a little bit more modern. We should also be able to have more real-time information that connects with other software platforms. It has an open API, but it doesn't always connect with some of the other platforms that we would like to utilize. These are probably two of the biggest things for us, and hopefully, they will keep ensuring that in the future, they continually build QuickBase to be a little bit more efficient in that regard."
"I would like to see the reporting enhanced because some of them are not easy to generate."
". For example, we need a third-party to create and save a document in PDF, MS Word, or MS Excel format. The document saving capability is probably the feature that we most often have to procure from an outside provider."
"The dashboard is not organized."
"Unfortunately, there is still no new report formatting available natively, and would still require 3rd party developers to help with that. ."
"I would like to see better options for producing paper reports from Quick Base, rather than viewing things exclusively on screen."
"It would be beneficial for the QuickBase team to focus on improving the integration of cloud-based storage platforms within their product. In use cases like ours, where QuickBase serves as a centralized source of truth for construction projects, having seamless integration with platforms like Dropbox or OneDrive would greatly enhance the product's capabilities."
Appian is ranked 6th in Rapid Application Development Software with 57 reviews while QuickBase is ranked 15th in Rapid Application Development Software with 73 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while QuickBase is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of QuickBase writes "Reliable, user-driven platform, that is scalable". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Pega BPM, whereas QuickBase is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Oracle Fusion Service, Sales Creatio, OutSystems and Amazon AWS. See our Appian vs. QuickBase report.
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