We strive to put this in place and get our clients the significant value it can deliver, while providing the governance that minimizes the risk of such powerful new tools.  Our Enterprise Services offering includes training, support and governance of new App Creators within a company, so Advantage can accelerate and amplify the value of QuickBase use across an organization.  It is a turnkey offering that helps large enterprises get all the value QuickBase can offer while managing cost and risk, and reducing the burden on I.T.

If your enterprise is not using QuickBase as smartly and broadly as it should, this report’s findings should prompt you to act, and contact us if we can help.

We applaud their initiative, but many businesses are not onboard yet and are missing significant value. If you aren’t fully employing QuickBase as a cloud platform for instance, how much value is your company losing?

Also noteworthy that 140,000 employees at the General Services Administration and Department of Agriculture are moving to cloud-based (Google) email. If you are concerned that your business data may not be secure in the cloud, we propose that QuickBases’s secure, central, controlled system is far better than all the spreadsheets and documents those 140,000 employees are emailing around.

Desktop apps, like MS Office, are the standard tools that business units use to get their work done.  The newer, more sharable versions of these are Gmail, Google Spreadsheets and Documents. While all are useful, they fall short at the next level–when workgroups need centralized collaboration that supports their workflows and reporting needs. In addition, companies’ main transaction systems, like GL and ERP, are neither meant for collaboration nor agile enough to keep up with the evolving needs of business units.

This means there is an “App Gap” between the tools that business units have to do their work and the tools that they really need to do their work. QuickBase is the most credible of the cloud-based, web-based online databases that can fill your company’s App Gap. Cloud-based tools like QuickBase can provide:

• Powerful, central, sharable and easy-to-use solutions that empower better collaboration, workflows and productivity
• Business unit use without IT help or programming
• Access by authorized users anywhere in the world – 24/7/365 – with no new hardware, software or related maintenance
• Highly versatile, agile database apps with workflow, real-time reporting and notifications that can solve many varied business needs quickly
• Integration with other web services to leverage existing development

Give your business units more powerful tools and they can solve many vexing workflow and collaboration failures, improving productivity and work throughput. We are seeing the most visionary companies use these tools across and outside their enterprise (including customers, partners, supply chain) for even greater value.

Advantage enthusiastically helps our client companies with intelligent, best-practice deployment and support of the QuickBase platform to help them gain the maximum value from these new cloud power tools.  Contact us if we aren’t already helping your company as we could.

To learn more about the App Gap concept, please visit http://www.theappgap.com/.

We’ll post successes, new ideas and developments wherever we find them. The focus will be on business improvement, how to best connect your people and information and, most important, how to get more value from QuickBase as a cloud platform.

We look forward to connecting with you!