Deciding the best approach to meet your application needs depends upon a host of parameters. You will want to consider application tiers and requirements, resources available, time and budgetary constraints, as well as how easy the solution needs to be to customize and update. An infographic walks you through your options, including an overview of decision points and key considerations. http://www.quickbase.com/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-approach-for-your-business-application-needs-infographic/

1. Choosing the
Right Approach
for Your Business
Application Needs
What decisions do you need to make?
Who are the builders in your organization?
What are the top motivators to move from
high-control to high-productivity platforms?
What can builders do without coding in
business productivity platforms?
one
two
three
Buy
(Packaged Applications) (Application Development Platform)
(Stability) (Speed)
Build
High-Control Platforms
Business Productivity Platforms
High-Productivity Platforms
IT Productivity Platforms
Is your application-building objective stability or speed?
Is your goal to improve business productivity or IT productivity?
Buy or Build?
Builder
(Business)
Basic to advanced Excel skills
Power Builder
(BU IT*, Business, Central IT)
Scripting or Analyst skills
Professional Developer
(Central IT, Outsourced)
Coding skills
$ $$ $$$
Business Productivity
High Productivity Platforms
Development Skill
*BU IT – Business Unit IT
Population
High Control Platforms
IT Productivity
Change and update
applications faster.
Shorter time-to-
solution
Improve application fit
with business needs
Accelerate digital
transformation
Lower the cost of
a solution
Facilitate real-time
application changes
Develop
applications faster.
Deliver applications that
better fit user needs and
exact processes.
Self-service
application creation
Self-service
reporting
Self-service
workflow automation
Self-service
permissions
Self-service
integration
Self-service
maintenance
What are the key reasons to select business
productivity platforms over IT productivity platforms?
What application-building collaboration
models are emerging?
$ $ $$$ $$ $$
Builder Builder BuilderPower Builder Power Builder Power Builder
Business-led
IT IT ITBusiness Business Business
Balanced IT-led
Build, deploy,
maintain
Take over to
maintain
Provide help
as needed
Build and
deploy
Work together to prototype, build,
deploy and maintain
Enabled by Business Productivity Platforms
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Launched in 1999 and headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., QuickBase Inc., formerly
a division of Intuit, is an independent company focused on helping businesses of
all sizes drive productivity and digitally transform their organizations. The platform’s
unique interface enables users to create custom applications faster and easier
without learning code. Today, QuickBase is used by more than 6,000 customers,
including half of the Fortune 100, across a variety of industries and use cases. The
company is backed by Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe.
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