Our Team has performed comparative analysis of Quickbase and Turanto for all features and below given chart throws light on how the features of Turanto are more suitable for enterprise application.
Our team feels that, from the perspective of both developer and end users Turanto is more compatible, easy and user friendly to operate and can create application in minutes without much technical knowledge. This is among the top USPs of Turanto. On contrary, providing codes and being on cloud makes it more appropriate for modelling and deployment. To create complicated projects, Business Rules and Workflows enables the process modelling in forge manner.
Comparative Analysis of Technical Advancements between Turanto and QuickBase.
Features | Feature Comparison List | Turanto | QuickBase |
Registration | Domain name followed by application name | ✓ | ❌ |
Real time monitoring | ✓ | ❌ | |
Public Application | ✓ | ❌ | |
My Teams Application | Right now its same as Public Application | ✓ | ❌ |
As we are creating Organization and users, Organization wise application can be shown here. | ✓ | ❌ | |
Create New Application | From Scratch | ✓ | ✓ |
Entity | New Entity from Scratch | ✓ | ✓ |
Entity Info | ✓ | ✓ | |
User Interface / Toolbar | ✓ | ❌ | |
Audit & Monitoring | ✓ | ❌ | |
Sort Order | ✓ | ❌ | |
Internal Database Details- Internal name | ✓ | ❌ | |
Layout 3 column or 2 column | ✓ | ❌ | |
Property | For non Property Info- editable property, lock is displayed | ✓ | ❌ |
validation Rules | ✓ | ❌ | |
Location- Allow GPS tracking of image property | ✓ | ❌ | |
Create Derived tabs | ✓ | ❌ | |
Allow ranking of records (numbered property) | ✓ | ❌ | |
create derived property | ✓ | ❌ | |
User wise page design | ✓ | ❌ | |
Business Rules | Can define rules while generating properties (Dynamic rules) | ✓ | ❌ |
Only Add action and Add condition are available in QB; Turanto has advance features | ✓ | ❌ | |
Associations | Quickbase shows relationship diagram ; Creating association is easier in our case then in Quickbase | ✓ | ❌ |
All major association Properties are similar | ✓ | ❌ | |
Groups | Can be directly created while creating Property | ✓ | ❌ |
Set Column layout: one, two, three column or free flow layout | ✓ | ❌ | |
Set Group layout: Panel or accordion | ✓ | ❌ | |
Calculated Property | Display name | ✓ | ❌ |
Tool tip | ✓ | ❌ | |
Display always (on grid) | ✓ | ❌ | |
Set Calculation: equal, sum, average, max, min, count | ✓ | ❌ | |
Calculate expression: + – x % / | ✓ | ❌ | |
Copy records of one entity to another entity in same application | ✓ | ❌ | |
Verbs | ✓ | ❌ | |
Drop down Hierarchy | ✓ | ❌ | |
Instructions | ✓ | ❌ | |
Workflow | ✓ | ❌ | |
Create workflow | ✓ | ❌ | |
Create states | ✓ | ❌ | |
Define state transition | ✓ | ❌ | |
Roles and permissions for state transitions | ✓ | ❌ | |
Assign workflow to multiple entities | ✓ | ❌ | |
Allows your users to request meetings with customers | ✓ | ❌ | |
Roles | Create role for user access | ✓ | ❌ |
Set Permissions | Assign CRUD permissions on entities for given role | ✓ | ✓ |
Permissions can be added / edited | ✓ | ✓ | |
Application Security | Allow multi-tenant security on application (no feature seen in QB) | ✓ | ✓ |
Code Fragment Hooks | Write code for specific operations before, on and after saving of record. Before and on deleting of record. | ✓ | ✓ |
HTML help guides, search easy | ✓ | ✓ | |
External Integration Services | Json Data, Xml Data, WSDL | ✓ | ✓ |
User Information (first name, email, change password etc) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Active directory | ✓ | ✓ | |
3rd party login in | ✓ | ✓ | |
Security Compliance settings | Role | ✓ | ✓ |
Dynamic role mapping | ✓ | ✓ | |
User based Security | ✓ | ✓ | |
Email Template | ✓ | ✓ | |
Freeze application | ✓ | ✓ | |
Copy Application | ✓ | ✓ | |
Code Download | ✓ | ✓ | |
Registration Page | Registration Page | ❌ | ✓ |
Automatic email | ❌ | ✓ | |
Email Authentication | ❌ | ✓ | |
Application URL | HTTPS URL | ✓ | ✓ |
Sample data insertion in application | ✓ | ✓ | |
Business Apps (public apps or other users app are not displayed only business apps are displayed) | ❌ | ✓ | |
After login page, QB shows My Apps & Suggested Business Apps. In Turanto it tasks one more click | ❌ | ✓ | |
Home Page | Home Page UI – Need improvement in Turanto | ❌ | ✓ |
Current Application version (Turanto doesn’t have it; Its in Knowledge base in QB) | ❌ | ✓ | |
Home page customization – Home page can be customized easily in quickbase, as it contains widgets | ❌ | ✓ | |
My Application | Display – Both Detail view & List view in Icon view in QB; Only List view in Turanto | ❌ | ✓ |
On creating new application, help is displayed on left side, similar it should be shown in My Apps | ❌ | ✓ | |
Options to select Business apps should also be displayed as in QB | ❌ | ✓ | |
Advance search – In Turanto it doesn’t search all fields/ columns | ❌ | ✓ | |
Business Application | Turanto can create business applications as per this feature (with sample data) | ❌ | ✓ |
From Business Application | ❌ | ✓ | |
Method: Creating application by database or by Excel sheet | ❌ | ✓ | |
New Entity Using connected data (from other services, CSV file or from sample data) | ❌ | ✓ | |
Entity Icon selection, if we give name then suggested icon also appears | ❌ | ✓ | |
Entity Page – It contains 3 columns | ❌ | ✓ | |
1st column – Table Structure (No of fields, Relationships, Configurations options) | ❌ | ✓ | |
2nd Column – User Interface (define what users will see on entity home page), Reports & Charts | ❌ | ✓ | |
3rd Column – Workflow & Permission – Notifications, Subscription, Access (users role access display) | ❌ | ✓ | |
Database setting of Entity can be done from here | ❌ | ✓ | |
Import / Move Entity in an application from other QB application | ❌ | ✓ | |
Map besides address property | ❌ | ✓ | |
Call data from another property | ❌ | ✓ | |
Property Icon selection, if we give name then suggested icon also appears | ❌ | ✓ | |
Search and Replace data (same as crtC & Ctl R in excel) | ❌ | ✓ | |
Preview button – how groups and property will look in actual application | ❌ | ✓ | |
Copy Entity | Bring one application entity in to another application entity | ❌ | ✓ |
Bring one application Property as another application property (from external services or from sample data) | ❌ | ✓ | |
Forum | ❌ | ✓ | |
Database | Turanto – need database access separately ; Quickbase – from admin only | ❌ | ✓ |
Alerts | New update alerts are popped up | ❌ | ✓ |
Help | In quickbase, user can create & upload custom help guides for the particular application | ❌ | ✓ |
Print Option | Report / graph print | ❌ | ✓ |
Customize icons for entities ( various icons are available) as well as properties | ❌ | ✓ | |
Other features | Customize pages – Layout change from top to side way | ❌ | ✓ |
Last visit details of user | ❌ | ✓ | |
Chat Option – 24 X 7 chat option available as per website for product queries | ❌ | ✓ | |
Report Section | QB has their own report / charts, Turanto is using SSRS | ❌ | ✓ |
Admin Section | User- Email is send to user as soon as its created with details of application | ❌ | ✓ |
Manage Billing Option | ❌ | ✓ | |
Summary for account, all details of apps, & Org Users access managed at one place; Monthly /yearly option | ❌ | ✓ | |
Performance check | Application performance & Network performance can be check from add on in application settings only | ❌ | ✓ |
App statistics | Account details, files data size, application size, no of users..etc | ❌ | ✓ |
Registration Part | ✓ | ✓ | |
Application name followed by domain name | ❌ | ✓ | |
From Import Spreadsheet / db (in Turanto we have this separate option, can be merged here) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Most of the other features are available in both | ✓ | ✓ | |
User, Permission – defined from property field also | ✓ | ✓ | |
Launch | No launch button, but applications are created very fast and on the fly | ✓ | ✓ |
Personal Settings / My Preferences | User can set or change his preferences | ❌ | ✓ |
Feedback form | ✓ | ✓ |