224: Speed up business innovation at enterprise scale, with Quickbase

Today I’m joined by Quickbase, a company who are on a mission to unleash the creativity and problem-solving power of everyone in your business, so you can innovate every day.

Quickbase is an application development platform that unites business and IT teams by enabling problem solvers of any technical background to work together to safely, securely and sustainably to create an ecosystem of applications. Quickbase helps businesses accelerate the continuous innovation of unique processes by enabling citizen development at scale across one common platform.

Today Peter Rifken, Principal Solutions Consultant at Quickbase, joins me to chat all about the company: what they do; the importance of operational agility; and the power to be found in unlocking the potential of your people.

 

IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:

[06.02] An introduction to Quickbase.

“Our goal, at the highest level, is to help our customers achieve operational agility.”

[08.13] An explanation of the terms no-code, low-code and citizen development.

“No code gives you the ability to create end-to-end enterprise grade solutions – but with no coding experience required.”

[13.45] How the Quickbase platform works and its four common pillars.

[17.59] The key misconceptions or objections around embracing a cloud-based citizen development platform like Quickbase.

“We’re talking about the cloud, so I hear a lot of: ‘if you were in this room, talking about Quickbase, 5 years ago – you would’ve been thrown out!'"

[24.22] Integration, scalability and Quickbase Pipelines.

“Legacy systems aren’t going away… We built Pipelines to both plan for your new integration needs and that connectivity to legacy.”

[28.09] Why empowering your people, and unlocking their potential, is so important.

“No-code taps into everybody’s inherent ability and need to solve problems.”

[32.32] The age of operational agility, and how can Quickbase can help facilitate it.

[35.54] The culture and mindset of Quickbase’s ideal client.

[37.48] Case study: how Quickbase helped transform a key client's approach to establishing a new distribution center.

[41.22] What the future holds for Quickbase.

 

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Head over to Quickbase’s website now to find out more and discover how they could help you too. You can also connect with Quickbase and keep up to date with the latest over on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, or you can connect with Peter on LinkedIn.

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