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Announcing new forms beta

By Ryan Murray posted 12 days ago
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New form experience beta All customers will soon benefit from a more intuitive, modern form experience. We’ve started enabling our new form designer for select customers. Read more about the feature and how to get involved below. Over the last few years, we’ve released updated dashboards, table reports, charts, and new ways to build reports. Our journey to improve the Quickbase user interface continues with a reimagined form experience aimed to increase productivity for both app builders and their users. With the new version of forms, you can accelerate the app development process with a drag and drop, WYSIWYG form builder to help your team, see, connect, ...
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Build your Data Governance framework using Quickbase

By Maria Goritsova posted 17 days ago
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Build your Data Governance framework using Quickbase Gartner reports that more than 80% of the companies and 59 % of government entities have set up "fusion teams" - multidisciplinary (digital) business teams that blend technology and other types of domain expertise. The rise of fusion teams is evidence that the boundaries between IT and the rest of the business are blurring at an accelerated rate. What does this mean? Practically it means that IT governance has never been more important for builders, administrators, and business personnel. A good governance framework ensures apps and processes become more scalable and approachable, while also satisfying ...
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Customer Success Interview Series: Lee Gilmore

By Neil Beschle posted 02-13-2023
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In this series, I meet with former Quickbase customers, discussing their experience with the Platform, solutions they created, and what they are up to now at Quickbase. Check out my chat with Lee Gilmore below!
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Easy App Organization Tips for New Builders

By Esther LaVielle posted 02-02-2023
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One of my joys as a Customer Success Manager is to connect with new builders to make sure they have all the resources and support at the beginning of their app-building journey. The top comment shared with me is that they can build an app but it isn’t pretty. Their first app is usually a “Franken-app.” It’s alive and can do what is required, but it looks a little wonky stitched together. Let’s change this! As app builders, we are also part designers. The way the app looks and feels affects the end-user experience. UI/UX designers live by this rule: Aesthetics + Function = Higher Adoption. Meet the Marie Kondo of Quickbase In my quest to find app beautifying ...
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January Recap/February Announcments

By Neil Beschle posted 01-31-2023
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Register for City Tour: Miami Register for City Tour: Los Angeles Register for upcoming Webinars
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2023 Quickbase US Instance Hosting Transition Plan

By Quickbase Team posted 01-31-2023
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This bulletin is intended for realm and account admins of the Quickbase platform and includes information describing a plan to transition parts of the US Instance of the Quickbase platform between our existing hosting locations during the first half of 2023 and introduce a new hosting location in the second half of 2023. This hosting transition will be accomplished using planned down time similar to the data center switches we typically do 2-3 times per year. No action will be needed by customers aside from being aware of the planned down time as it is announced during 2023. Linked here you can find a full explanation of the hosting transition , and a ...
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December Recap/January Announcements

By Neil Beschle posted 01-03-2023
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Empower 2023 January Training Events Preference Center
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Customer Success Interview Series: Josh Kaylor

By Neil Beschle posted 12-15-2022
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In this series, I meet with former Quickbase customers, discussing their experience with the Platform, solutions they created, and what they are up to now at Quickbase. Check out my chat with Josh Kaylor below!
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November Recap/December Announcements

By Neil Beschle posted 12-02-2022
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A recap of November and upcoming Quickbase happenings in December. Upcoming Quickbase Events Subscribe here to stay in the know! Quickbase Keeps Henley-Valvoline a Well-Oiled Machine
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Customer Success Interview Series: Christine Rosa

By Neil Beschle posted 11-21-2022
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In this series, I meet with former Quickbase customers, discussing their experience with the Platform, solutions they created, and what they are up to now at Quickbase. Check out my chat with Christine Rosa below!
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Increased Visibility of Pipelines for App & Realm Admins

By Brian Cafferelli posted 11-18-2022
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Increased Visibility of Pipelines for App & Realm Admins If you’re wishing it were easier to see if someone else has built pipelines that are interacting with your Quickbase App, or simply wanting to know what pipelines other people have created, then you’ll be excited to hear about two of our newest features. In September 2022, we introduced a new view for app managers that provides visibility into any pipelines that are connecting to that app. We also rolled out a new way for realm admins to find comprehensive information about all the pipelines in their account. These new capabilities ensure that you’ll never have to be in the dark about anything that ...
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Quickbase Recertification for 2023: Automatic Recertification

By James Kantor posted 11-17-2022
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Quickbase University is working on changing the way our customers maintain their certification credentials. We will move away from requiring professional development units (PDU’s) to targeted learning courses to maintain certification. Although this remains our plan, Quickbase University has made the decision to roll out these requirements beginning in 2023 for 2024 certification. As such, all 2022 certification credentials will automatically renew at the beginning of 2023 . This means that all holders of Quickbase 2022 certification credentials do not need to perform anything for 2023 certification. In the coming months we will release more information about ...
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Keeping Your Apps Running Smoothly As They Grow

By Brian Cafferelli posted 11-11-2022
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Keeping Your Apps Running Smoothly As They Grow Quickbase helps companies to see, connect, and control their most complex projects. Innovative business users are creating Quickbase applications fit for their team’s unique needs. And the result? Business teams are sharing the right information with the right people, at the right time. Over the past twenty years, we’ve seen this story play out many times. But as companies begin to realize the benefits of a unified platform like Quickbase, word gets out. Apps built for individuals spread to teams. Apps originally built for teams are shared with other departments. Each of these expansions builds on prior successes. ...
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SAML Public Authentication Certificate for Signed Authn Requests

By Quickbase Team posted 10-31-2022
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Many customers use our SAML authentication feature. A subset of customers may have the “Signed Authn Requests” option selected in their Quickbase SAML configuration. That option is a security enhancement that results in Quickbase signing the authentication requests made to the customer’s identify provider (IdP). In order to validate that the signed requests actually come from Quickbase, we provide the customer with a public authentication certificate. Customers using the “Signed Authn Requests” option must ensure their IdP is configured with the public authentication certificate from Quickbase. If the public authentication certificate configured in the customer’s ...
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Realm Admins and Pipelines: See All, Do More

By Neil Beschle posted 10-12-2022
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I was thrilled to be working at Quickbase when we launched our Pipelines integration platform, and all the exciting customer meetings and developments that followed. Customer builders dove right in, creating Pipelines, migrating Automations, and exploring our rapidly growing selection of Channels. After several meetings with these customers, I noticed one piece of feedback that was gaining popularity, “We can’t see other people’s Pipelines.” I immediately thought of the phrase, “Too many cooks in the kitchen.” I imagined a reckless kitchen full of chefs who were cooking the same meal but not seeing each other's creations or recipes, resulting ...
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Updates to Pipelines Channel Limits

By Adam Hoover posted 10-11-2022
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Here at Quickbase, we’ve always been focused on removing complexity and confusion from the process of solving business challenges. That’s why we are excited to announce that this October we are starting the process of introducing an exciting change to the way we align the integration channels in Pipelines with your Plan. The change will consist of two updates that are designed to open the door to a wide range of new connected solutions in Pipelines. There will no longer be a limit to the number of channels that can be enabled and used for each account We’re introducing a new tiered channel access model, bundling our integration and automation capabilities ...
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Quickbase & Procore - Partnering to Fuel Integrated Business Innovation

By Adam Hoover posted 09-13-2022
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Introducing a new partnership between Quickbase and Procore As we continue to invest in our mission to help Quickbase customers see, connect, and control their most complex projects, we are always looking for opportunities to add more valuable capabilities and offerings. That’s why we are so excited to announce our new partnership with Procore, the industry leading construction management tool that is purpose-built to help construction companies, specialty contractors, and property owners take control of their construction project outcomes. Working together, Quickbase and Procore unlock innovative business-led solutions for the unique workflow challenges ...
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Application Managers, Account Admins, and Realm Admins… Oh my!

By Chris Nehring posted 08-23-2022
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The responsibilities and permissions of the admin roles in Quickbase Within the Quickbase platform there are several admin roles that you may come across. Each has their own set of permissions and entitlements. Knowing which role (or roles) you are in, and what the capabilities of each role are can make a big difference in how you use the platform. We’d like to start with explaining the three most common admin roles that we have: Application Managers, Account Admins, and Realm Admins. Intro Bobby – Application Manager with Full Administrator Permissions River – Account Admin with Full Management Permissions Joyce – Realm Admin/Account Admin ...
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Calling all Quickbase Expert-certified staff: Volunteer request (with thank you gift!)

By James Kantor posted 08-19-2022
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Are you Quickbase Expert certified and want to help us improve the Expert exam? Quickbase University is currently refreshing and improving our certification exams and we need Expert-certified volunteers to give us input on the new Expert exam design. By filling out a job task analysis (JTA) survey, (estimated time 30-45 min) you can give vital input to ensure members of our community are assessed on how our platform is actually used – from your perspective. So, if you think that you’d like to help in this way, please review the participation details below and apply to help. We will also happily send thank-you gifts of $25 Amazon gift cards to everyone* who ...
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Performance Insights

By Soumya De posted 08-16-2022
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Introduction I am pleased to introduce a significant tool that we are releasing in Quickbase called Performance Insights. This will help builders of Quickbase apps diagnose and resolve performance hotspots within minutes, without getting a PhD in software architecture. I want to share why this is such a big deal and the describe the unique challenges that we face at Quickbase when it comes to performance. What makes Quickbase special? I joined Quickbase more than 20 years ago as an early engineer. Over the course of those twenty years, I've had the great opportunity to work on many of the core features. Even after all that time, I'm constantly amazed ...
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