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Category
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Server (Office Based System)
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Quick Base (Cloud Based System)
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| Hosting | Apps are hosted on your premises | Apps are hosted in the cloud |
| Hardware costs |
Requirement to invest in Server Hardware which will include regular upgrades and maintenance |
No Hardware Costs. |
| Energy costs | Need to budget for electricity, cooling costs and noise reduction for server hardware. | No Energy Costs |
| Licensing | Requires Server software licenses to be mainained annually | Requires User Licencing (per Month/ per User) |
| IT impact | Will require IT staff to install and maintain | Does not require any additional IT Staff |
| Deployment |
Requires time to install server software and any database software that may be required. |
No hardware setup time required. Login and create your Apps. |
| Maintenance | Monitoring and Operating System updates will need to be programmed. | Maintenance is carried out by Quick Base automatically. |
| Backups | Need to create and manage backups. | Backups are created and preserved automatically by Quick Base. |
| Scalability | May need to buy additional hardware and spend time with setup and configuration. | Scaleability is really a matter of just adding more users and or creating more applications and linking them if required. It just not an issue. |
| Operations and Monitoring | Quick Base’s operations team employs automated incident detection, escalation technologies and procedures which ensure that any infrastructure or platform issue is rapidly addressed, 24x7x365. Customers may view status updates at https://service.quickbase.com/ | |
| Disaster recovery | Will need backup and disaster recovery procedures. | Data is hosted by Quick Base |
| Internet connection speed | Data can be accessed via private data centers and across private LAN connections. | Access to data is dependent on an Internet connection or WAN network. |
| Security | You are responsible for the physical security of your server hardware. | AWS is responsible for the physical security of the server hardware. |
| Encryption | Need control over encryption requirements | Quick Base encrypts customer data in motion and at rest. All communications over non-trusted Internet networks are encrypted via a 256 bit (SHA2) TLS certificate, TLS 1.0, 1.1, 1.2. Quick Base encrypts data at rest at the application layer including app data and file attachments using AES256. Quick Base is disabling support for TLS 1.0 in April 2018. |
| Network Uptime | Dependent on your internal network and system. High availability can be resource intensive – costing both time and money. | AWS EC2 Service Level Agreement is a monthly uptime of 99.95%. |
| Automation | Schedule server scripts as needed. | Limited ability to schedule scripts. |
| ESS | Supported | Supported, except for ESS Adapter. |
| ODBC/JDBC | Supported. Drivers need to be installed. | Supported. Drivers are provided. |
| Plug-ins | Supported | Supported. Check with your provider for availability of specific plug-ins. |
| Custom Web Publishing with PHP and XML | Supported | Not supported |