New QuickBase Strategic Initiative Focuses on Large Company
Deployments
Enterprise-wide Team Collaboration Platform and Services Balances IT
Requirements With Business User Needs
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Business Wire EON) November 27, 2007 --
Intuit Inc.’s
(Nasdaq:INTU) QuickBase®
today launched a strategic initiative aimed at striking a balance
between the needs of both business users and senior management when
utilizing online business applications. As part of this initiative,
QuickBase is introducing a new Enterprise
Edition, the first Web 2.0 team collaboration platform that’s
perfect for business teams while delivering the visibility and control
that IT executives need to successfully manage enterprise-wide
deployments in the largest companies. New services, pricing and support
offerings will help ensure that QuickBase is continually meeting the
unique needs of large enterprises with multi-thousand seat
implementations.
“End users’ demand
for customization and IT’s need for
centralization are at polar opposites today,”
said Josh Holbrook, program manager of enterprise research at Yankee
Group. “QuickBase is unique in the way it
bridges that gap by focusing on the needs of both without compromising
what's important to either. IT now has the control it needs, while end
users have the flexibility they desire.”
The New Way for Teams to Collaborate Across the Enterprise
QuickBase provides one platform from which workgroups can easily create
an unlimited number of applications to automate business processes and
improve communication and collaboration either by selecting from
hundreds of ready to use templates or by designing one from scratch.
Because they are created by the end user, QuickBase applications help
improve productivity and efficiency by solving critical business
problems in a way that matches the exact workflow and unique needs of
the business user – something generic
spreadsheets cannot match.
“The SaaS market is changing from
one-size-fits-all, IT-provided applications to customized workgroup
applications built by the end user,” said
Bill Lucchini, vice president and general manager of Intuit QuickBase,
which is currently used by more than half of the Fortune 100. “We’ve
taken our success at the workgroup level and incorporated feedback from
dozens of CIOs to find the right balance between IT and user needs. We’re
confident that these new enhancements will help knock down the internal
barriers that could stop the spread of QuickBase inside a company and
create exciting new enterprise growth opportunities for QuickBase.”
QuickBase Enterprise Edition provides IT departments with improved
insight into usage, tighter security and management over expenses
throughout company-wide deployments. The Administrator Operations
Center provides one central location to get instant visibility
into QuickBase usage within the company. Now senior management and IT
can easily find and remove inactive users, keep track of all traffic
accessing applications and identify potential security risks by knowing
who is accessing confidential company information inside and outside the
company. The Administrator Operations Center also provides visibility
into budgeting overruns and management of expenses by monitoring user,
space and attachment limits by application and application manager.
Other key applications and features to better serve enterprises include:
-
Centralized Policy and Administration screens enable corporate
passwords and security policies to be set.
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LDAP Integration allows IT to integrate QuickBase with existing
corporate directory sign in and access rules.
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IP Address Filtering helps enforce corporate data security
policy, allowing only authorized internal users to access QuickBase
when they are on the intranet or connected by VPN.
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Centralized User Management helps central teams easily manage
application access across large numbers of users. For example,
disabling a user once removes that user’s
ability to log into any account or application in the system.
New Services, Support and Pricing
QuickBase Enterprise customers also receive several premium services,
including expedited technical support call-backs and quarterly reviews
with a dedicated support engineer. QuickBase has also created an
Enterprise Business Development Team dedicated to resolving potential
problems and identifying new opportunities that better serve enterprise
needs.
QuickBase Enterprise Edition’s competitive
and flexible pricing enables companies to roll out QuickBase to 500
users for as little as $1,800 per month. Customers scaling up will
receive special pricing incentives on larger seat implementations.
Product information: QuickBase
Enterprise Edition site
Other resources: The
QuickBase blog
About Intuit Inc.
Intuit Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial management
solutions for small and mid-sized businesses; financial institutions,
including banks and credit unions; consumers and accounting
professionals. Its flagship products and services, including QuickBooks®,
Quicken® and TurboTax®
software, simplify small business management and payroll processing,
personal finance, and tax preparation and filing. ProSeries®
and Lacerte® are Intuit's leading tax
preparation software suites for professional accountants. The company’s
financial institutions division, anchored by Digital Insight, provides
on-demand banking services to help banks and credit unions serve
businesses and consumers with innovative solutions.
Founded in 1983, Intuit had annual revenue of $2.67 billion in its
fiscal year 2007. The company has approximately 8,000 employees with
major offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and other
locations. More information can be found at www.intuit.com.
Intuit, the Intuit logo, and QuickBase, among others, are registered
trademarks and/or registered service marks of Intuit Inc. in the United
States and other countries.
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