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QuickBase History

1999 - Joe Rice, Jim Salem, and Claude von Roesgen, the founding partners of Turning Mill Software, develop oneBase®, a Web-based database service for the easy access, consolidation, and sharing of business information.

Fall of 1999 - Intuit acquired Turning Mill Software, adding oneBase to its growing product portfolio.

December 11, 2000 – Intuit renames oneBase and launches QuickBase, a “web-based tool for sharing information that will revolutionize how small businesses and workgroups collaborate with employees, vendors and customers.”

May 10, 2001 - QuickBase Wins PC Magazine i3 Award for best "Internet Software" at magazine's inaugural Innovation in Infrastructure (i3) awards program.

2001 – QuickBase wins PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice award.

August 10, 2001 - Jill Ward named vice president and general manager for QuickBase.

April 8, 2002 – QuickBase for Corporate Workgroups released. Designed to meet the needs of workgroups of 10 to 200 people, this enhanced service provides easy access to their own centralized databases to share information.

September 16, 2002 – Sales Manager and Project Management Service enhances Corporate Workgroup solution. New Sales Manager application helps sales teams better manage opportunities from lead to close and enhanced project management capabilities to help facilitate document management, reporting, and sharing within teams.

January 23, 2003 - New Project Management Enhancements add deeper project management capabilities and offer Business Teams a Way to Manage Projects More Easily, Efficiently and Affordably

2003 – Jana Eggers named general manager of QuickBase

November 13, 2003 – New QuickBase IT Applications released enabling IT professionals and technology support teams to effectively manage their project portfolio, easily track incoming requests, and efficiently share their knowledge.

February 9, 2004 - New QuickBase Exact Forms Feature enables currently static Microsoft Word®-based forms and other documents to be easily integrated with dynamic data and instantly sharable on the Web.

April 5, 2004 - Sprint, PR Newswire and UCLA Anderson School of Management select QuickBase For Collaboration and Information Sharing Applications. Organizations join a growing list of customers including Fleet Bank, Hyperion, Medical Action and NCR Professional Services using QuickBase for product management, training, legal, information technology, and marketing and sales.

November 1, 2004 - Fall 2004 version of QuickBase helps workgroups managing their everyday business processes through spreadsheets and e-mail. New version combines data, process, and communication management functions in a single, Web-based tool to give users centralized, accessible business management applications.

2005 – QuickBase wins SIIA Codie Award Winner for “Best Business Software Product or Service”

2005 – QuickBase wins PC Magazine's Editor's Choice Award

2006 – QuickBase named eWeek Excellence Award Finalist

March 13, 2006 – QuickBase releases Sarbanes-Oxley compliance application.

June 20, 2006 - QuickBase adds dynamic forms, new charting and packaged application updates to make configuring and using QuickBase applications faster and easier than other software alternatives.

October 25, 2006 - New QuickBase Release includes iCalendar, vCard Integration, and a Library of more than 200 applications. Enables users to more easily create and change reports through the use of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML technology, or AJAX.

January 2007 – Bill Lucchini named vice president and general manager of QuickBase.

2007 – QuickBase wins SIIA Codie Award for “Best Project Management Solution.”

April 3, 2007 – Intuit and O’Reilly Media release “QuickBase: The Missing Manual," the first-of-its kind, continuously updated guidebook for users of QuickBase. It is the first Missing Manual title to be issued online before appearing in print and it marks the first book written about the QuickBase product.

November 27, 2007 – QuickBase Enterprise Edition spearheads strategic initiative focused on large company deployments. Become the first Web 2.0 team collaboration platform that meets business user needs while delivering the visibility and control IT executives want to manage enterprise-wide deployments in large companies.

New services, pricing and support offerings help ensure that QuickBase is continually meeting the unique needs of large enterprises with multi-thousand seat implementations.

January 31, 2008 – QuickBase sponsors TheAppGap, a group blog that discusses the Future of Work, the worker and workplace and focuses on collaboration and technology.

February 19, 2008 – QuickBase Business Consultant Program enables entrepreneurs with domain expertise to become successful solution provides by creating unique business applications tailored specifically to the industries they serve – without technical expertise or coding.

Today – With 225,000 people and more than half of the Fortune 100 using QuickBase, it has become the only proven solution that can be tailored to support the unique processes and workflows of different work groups regardless of size, location or industry. By focusing on ease of use and adding features based on customer feedback, QuickBase is both a pioneer and leader in the software-as-a-service space.

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