QuickBase, Inc., provides a low-code application development platform called Quick Base. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company was divested from Intuit in March 2016. In Jan 2019, Private-Equity firm Vista Equity Partners announced buying a majority stake in Quick Base from Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe for a reported $1 billion. Quick Base is used by more than 6,000 customers, including half of the Fortune 100, across a variety of industries and use cases, including process and project management, asset and order tracking, customer and contracts management, time and expense, sales and HR applications. Competitors include Appian, Microsoft PowerApps, Mendix, and OutSystems.
Services
Quick Base is a low-code platform that allows non-technical developers to build, customize and connect scalable, secure cloud applications mapped to unique business challenges without compromising IT governance and control. The platform addresses a broad set of business use cases through its customizable application platform that includes workflow and process automation, forms, and personalized charts and reports driven by customizable business logic. The platform is known for empowering citizen developers in the line of business to deliver "right for me" cloud applications with the visibility and accountability required by IT. This methodology unites IT and the business to accelerate business transformation across the organization through rapid prototyping of processes and apps that are built, deployed, and customized without requiring traditional professional application development resources.
History
In 1999, Joe Rice, Jim Salem, and Claude von Roesgen, the founding partners of Turning Mill Software, develop OneBase, a web-based multi-tenant architecture based database service to enable easy access, consolidation and sharing of business information. In Fall 1999, Intuit Inc. acquired Turning Mill Software, adding oneBase to its product portfolio, that includes QuickBooks and TurboTax. In 2000, Intuit renamed oneBase and launches Quick Base, a "web-based tool for sharing information that will revolutionize how small businesses and workgroups collaborate with employees, vendors and customers. In 2005, QuickBase was chosen as PC Magazine Editors' Choice. Other competing products have won the Editor's Choice Predicate as well since then. In 2005 Quickbase won the SIIA Codie Award for "Best Business Software Product or Service." In 2015, QuickBase received 4/5 star review in CloudPro Magazine and won the SIIA CODiE Award for Best Real Estate/Construction Management Solution and finalist for Best Cloud Platform as a Service. In 2015, Intuit announced plans to divest itself of Demandforce, QuickBase and Quicken operations. In 2016, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe completed its acquisition of Intuit QuickBase. In January 2019, Vista Equity Partners purchased majority equity in the company for more than $1B. Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe remains a minority stakeholder. In August, 2019, Quick Base buys Cloudpipes, which provides integration and automation tools for business applications through a cloud-based platform. In January 2020, QuickBase Inc. was included on Built in Boston's list of Best Midsize Places to Work in 2020.
