Highlights from EmpowerPro 2025
At this year’s Empower Pro, we explored a topic that’s core to every Quickbase customer — how to scale with control and confidence. As organizations embrace no-code and AI-driven app development, governance is no longer optional; it’s the foundation that keeps innovation safe, compliant, and sustainable.
Our session, Scaling with Control & Confidence, was led by Lyla Rozelle, Rayna Stoycheva, and Ventsislav Tasev. They unpacked the newest tools and upcoming features designed to help admins and builders collaborate, move faster, and stay in control.
Why Governance Matters in the Age of AI
No-code platforms have unlocked creativity across business lines, but they’ve also blurred the line between IT and operations. Builders crave freedom to experiment; admins need assurance that what’s built can scale securely.
Governance is the bridge between those worlds — ensuring builders can innovate with confidence while admins can trust that the environment is safe.
Three industry trends make this balance more important than ever:
- AI-driven development is accelerating app creation — and the risks that come with it.
- Distributed workforces are empowering citizen developers across every department.
- Enterprise-scale adoption means mission-critical systems are now built on no-code.
Quickbase’s governance strategy rests on three pillars: Discover, Protect, and Control.
Here’s what’s new across each one.
Discover: Seeing Your Account and Apps Clearly
A Revamped Account Summary
Managing an account shouldn’t require detective work. The new Account Summary page gives realm and account admins a single, self-serve view of:
- Contract details and plan limits
- Usage data from Platform Analytics
- Admin contacts and support links
Now you can track usage, drill into app details, and explore new features — all from one dashboard. It’s cleaner, faster, and designed for self-service.
AI App Intelligence (Beta)
Ever inherited an app and thought, “What does this even do?”
AI App Intelligence answers that question in seconds. It scans your app and summarizes its purpose, key tables, roles, and most-used fields — perfect for new builders or anyone auditing an existing app.
Paired with Visual Builder, it gives you a living blueprint of your app without digging into every setting. This feature is currently in open beta for Business and Enterprise plans.
Protect: Safeguard Data Without Slowing Innovation
Enterprise Malware Scanner
As Quickbase apps handle more external documents — bids, contracts, vendor uploads — protecting that data becomes mission-critical.
Our new Malware Scanner, powered by Amazon GuardDuty, scans uploaded files automatically via Pipelines. You can configure actions based on scan results:
- Restrict downloads of suspicious files
- Delete infected attachments
- Notify admins or security teams
It’s quick to implement, easy to customize, and available now on the Enterprise plan.
Control: Manage Access and Deploy Changes with Confidence
REST APIs for App Access
Managing who gets access to what just got easier. With new REST API endpoints, admins can:
- Add, update, or remove users, user groups, and email domains (trustees) programmatically
- Retrieve all app roles automatically
These APIs make it possible to integrate Quickbase with your HR or identity systems — ensuring access changes sync instantly when people join, move, or leave.
Governance Core Apps & Admin Console Connected tables
For admins who want a single command center, the Governance Core Apps (available in the Exchange) provide out-of-the-box dashboards and workflows powered by Admin Console Connected (ACC) tables.
New upcoming tables — User Groups/Email Domains and Group Access — make it even easier to spot external domains and track which apps groups can access. Once connected, these apps turn governance data into action.
Application Lifecycle Management: Native and Intuitive
Under the hood, our ALM capabilities are powered by Quickbase Language (QBL) — the foundation for all ALM workflows. QBL defines your app’s schema in a structured, portable format, enabling accurate deployments between environments. The latest version, v0.12, now covers nearly every solution component, including apps, tables, fields, reports, charts, dashboards, pipelines, and connected tables — with support for emails, additional pipeline channels, and document generation coming soon.
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is evolving from a complex setup into a native experience built in experience right into Quickbase.
With the upcoming ALM UX, you’ll be able to:
- Create Dev/Test/Prod environments
- Deploy changes with version control and approvals
- Review a full deployment history with audit trails
The first beta version is focused on more experienced builders, with plans to make it even easier for nontechnical users.
Availability:
- Business plan: Dev + Prod environments for smaller solutions.
- Enterprise plan: Adds a test environment, approvals, extended history, and solution APIs.
Scaling Safely, Building Boldly
Governance isn’t about restriction — it’s about enabling innovation without fear. From AI-powered insights to automated protection and native deployment workflows, these updates make it easier than ever to build fast while staying in control.
Together, these innovations embody Quickbase’s belief for proper governance:
- Builders can move faster.
- Admins can breathe easier.
- And your organization can scale with confidence.
Interested in exploring these features or joining a beta? Reach out to your Quickbase account team or visit the Community for follow-up resources from Empower Pro 2025.
