Comments on: Watch Out Salesforce. Intuit Opens Up QuickBase To Developers

By: Intuit’s Partner Platform Goes Multilingual With Federated Apps

Intuit’s Partner Platform Goes Multilingual With Federated Apps — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:25:57 +0000

[...] year, Intuit opened up the API to its management software, QuickBase, to developers who wanted to build web applications and [...]

By: Riled and Rankled

Riled and Rankled — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:38:34 +0000

My company is using the Canadian version of Quickbooks to which we haven’t been able to get any decent time tracking software to mesh with it. I did finally find Edison’s Attic BigTime that used to be very highly rated on Intuit’s site.

Now after two months of trying to get both pieces of crap to cooperate I’m finding out that Intuit’s mother ship in the U.S. is offering time tracking integration but not to Canadian customers.

So, from all this new info over the last two months I’m finding out that Intuit doesn’t appear to have any approach planned to support/market to it’s Canadian customers other than the brain dead piece of software they’re fobbing off only because someone did manage to get it cranked out before they changed their business model. Which also explains Edison’s Attic’s lack of support and technical expertise in their product offering. Why try and support time tracking software in BigTime when Intuit has it now built into their platform.

The SaaS model also has serious drawbacks. The last thing the partners of the company where I’m employed want is a database of all our sensitive information being handled by some kid in Texas that makes $15 an hour. They’re real fond of our client lists, receivables and staff information being leaked out to someone.

Hopefully Microsoft gets off of it’s butt and releases a Canadian version of their accounting package. Even if it doesn’t come with time tracking software I know I could write a c# application with SQL that would tie into it. Hell, I’d probably be able to do my own start up and sell the damn thing.

By: QuickBooks Expert

QuickBooks Expert — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:38:50 +0000

Oops this is my website, if you’re interested.

By: QuickBooks Expert

QuickBooks Expert — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:38:13 +0000

QuickBase is really powerful and its great they have opened up to 3rd party devs. This will make QB and even more powerful software package.

By: .: GAFNO.com - Hot World News Blog :. » Blog Archive » Intuit joins the Linux revolution

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:08:19 +0000

[...] as a platform (Linux) upon which its applications could run. It opened the door a bit more in April when it opened up QuickBase to developers, but now seems to be paving the way for a more complete launch into open source with its Linux [...]

By: Laura Lederman

Laura Lederman — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:56:05 +0000

Has anyone heard that Intuit will be developing on the force.com? This would seem to be in conflict with them opening up QuickBase.

By: Randall

Randall — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:58:00 +0000

Vendor lock-in is doubly problematic with QuickBase’s offering. Not only are customers locked-in to Intuit’s product suite (see #5 above), but they are locked into Flex as well and neither is particularly impressive.

By: Christian Fauré » Blog Archive » Les plates-formes web de développement

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:14:04 +0000

[...] Petit à petit, l’écosystème des plates-formes web de développement (DaaS, Developement as a Service) commence à se dessiner.Dressons une petite liste : il y a Amazon (+Heroku ), SalesForce, récemment Google avec Google Apps Engine, puis de plus petits acteurs comme Bungee Labs, Coghead, Rollbase, et aujourd’hui Intuit. [...]

By: Brian Morearty

Brian Morearty — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:55:53 +0000

Thanks for the mention of QuickBase. I’ve been an Intuit employee since 1999 and have used QuickBase and its API since it was introduced. It’s a nice product that’s well worth trying if you’re considering an online database, either as an end user or a programmer. My favorite experience with using its API was when we automatically logged things QuickBooks was doing in our QA environment (within Intuit, not outside Intuit) to the DB to track and improve QuickBooks quality during development. It was cool–it served as a central online log where we could find problems that were happening on QA machines. QuickBase would send us an email if a bug was logged, we would fix it and do another internal release, and then we’d see the bug disappear in the subsequent logs. It was easy to do using the HTTP API.

By: Thomas P

Thomas P — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:27:36 +0000

The cloud computing angle is a logical one for the larger old-school developers with the resources/dollars to market them. The problem is they rely on apps built from the ground up.

How could you possibly stack the Intuit project manager up against tools like http://www.copperproject.com or http://www.basecamphq.com ?

They ought to be partnering with the smaller guys and bringing them on board rather than throwing out the old if-you-build-it-people-will-come tripe.

By: Thomas P

Thomas P — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:25:49 +0000

The cloud computing angle is a logical one for the larger old-school developers with the resources/dollars to market them. The problem is they rely on apps built from the ground up.

How could you possibly stack the Intuit project manager up against tools like http://www.copperproject.com or http://www.basecamphq.com ?

They ought to be partnering with the smaller guys and bringing them on board rather than throwing out the old if-you-build-it-people-will-come tripe

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Salesforceにライバル現れる―Intuit、「QuickBase」をデベロッパーに公開

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Salesforceにライバル現れる―Intuit、「QuickBase」をデベロッパーに公開 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:59:34 +0000

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By: Mike Ni

Mike Ni — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:49:05 +0000

NetSuite also has a compelling platform upon which to rapidly build business applications. The choice becomes (a) building and extending your specific business processes without having to rebuild things like accounting, CRM, order management (e.g., NetSuite for building things like vertical solutions), (b) building add-on apps to CRM or accounting (e.g,. SFDC or Intuit), or (c) developing from bare metal (e.g., Google or Amazon)

By: A Quickbooks user

A Quickbooks user — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:02:08 +0000

As a quickbooks user I would like to warn everyone that a deal with intuit is a deal with the devil, every year they remove features from the old flagship product quickbooks pro ($175 retail per seat) & adding them to the newer “premier” version ($325 per seat) Now add to that little trick the fact that they are forcing me to upgrade by holding my credit card clearing services hostage. If I don’t upgrade they stop letting me use their service and it’s a HUGE pain in the ass to change services to say nothing of the integration. their service is a bit more expensive but the integration makes it worth while.

all in all, If you haven’t taken the quickbooks pill, avoid it!

By: Sunil

Sunil — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:57:47 +0000

Salesforce has a compelling and proven platform in this space, with a business application and customers. This provides a good direction when developing a new app and ready customers who see the app as an additional feature. Amazon and Google are just infrastructure providers. They do not provide the same cohesiveness and integration. This new business of Intuit is a good bet from that perspective. There could be a market where Intuit, Salesforce and other such providers integrate more tightly to provide a wholesome business app marketplace where customers can pick and choose all the features they need for their business. Underneath it could be Salesforce powering CRM, Intuit for Accounting and maybe another player for supply chain.

By: Vasudev Ram

Vasudev Ram — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:54:55 +0000

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(I refreshed the page a few times to check that it was not some problem with my browser, but it still shows as described above).

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Vasudev Ram
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By: Ramblings of a Short Man » QuickBase opens up to developers

Ramblings of a Short Man » QuickBase opens up to developers — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:45:51 +0000

[...] picked up on QuickBase’s foray into being a developer platform and it’s great hit. And this is [...]

By: coffeeforclosers.org » Blog Archive » The Enterprise Platform Battle is Joined… by Intuit.

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:14:44 +0000

[...] AppExchange platform model has been allowed to reign relatively freely, until recently. Today Erik Schonfeld blogged that Intuit has announced that they are opening their Quickbase platform to developers for [...]

By: Frank Church

Frank Church — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:56:17 +0000

We’ll see, but the small customers they are used to don’t have much aptitude for this sort of stuff. Time to review their API…

By: Vasudev Ram

Vasudev Ram — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:36:04 +0000

Sounds interesting all right – thanks. Will check it out.

- Vasudev