Management Thinks Quickbase Can Replace Power BI

I’ve been a BA for two years now in a large U.S. company. Several times I’ve had management suggest that maybe I should use Quickbase in place of Power BI. Maybe I’m not able to churn out dashboards as fast as they want, but please give me some ideas to push back.

The company bought into Quickbase a year ago and is impressed with its ability to track and chart projects. Clearly the directors and VPs want to see the lofty ROI the salesmen promised. A few Quickbase enthusiasts are driving hard toward adoption. Funny, but we also have SharePoint Online that doesn’t get used to any depth. But I digress.

What advice do you have for me to make the case for Power BI over Quickbase for data transformations, connectors, and rich visual analysis? I’ve used Quickbase a little and don’t see what the big deal is. It seems to serve a completely different need.

(Some teams have Einstein/Tableau, which seems a lot more closely related to Power BI than Quickbase. I don’t have the Tableau option.)