Corporate workgroups can use QuickBase to track sales prospects, manage projects, share customer service information, and hundreds of other tasks where there is currently no easy solution. With enhanced features such as increased database size, role-based permissions and customizable workflow and notifications, this service can help workgroups dramatically improve communication and productivity, as well as reduce project administration or customer service costs by up to 50 percent.

The original QuickBase service -- which has been renamed QuickBase for Small Business -- and the new service, QuickBase for Corporate Workgroups, are available immediately at http://quickbase.intuit.com.

"QuickBase for Corporate Workgroups enables the everyday business user to create solutions in minutes, rather than in months. This kind of efficiency and cost saving is critical to any business for ultimate success," said Jill Ward, vice president and general manager, QuickBase. "In conducting research with our customers, we found that many corporate workgroups were using our small business QuickBase service because of its ease-of-use, versatility and efficiency. We learned from these corporate customers that there were additional capabilities that would be useful to them because of their size, structured organizational roles and more complex processes; so we created QuickBase for Corporate Workgroups to meet their specific needs."

At the core of QuickBase for Corporate Workgroups is ease and intuitive functionality. This Web-based service is easily accessible via a Web browser and Internet connection, allowing private viewing of critical information in one central location, both on and off the business premises.

QuickBase for Corporate Workgroups enables users to do multiple things like track projects among cross- functional teams; share customer information between sales and service departments in the company; and manage issue lists between distributed team members inside and outside the company. Users can easily share their databases and have complete control over who can view, modify or add information to it. Because information is consolidated in real time, users can gather information and track it efficiently.

QuickBase for Corporate Workgroups includes new features that can satisfy the needs of larger or more structured organizations such as:

• One consolidated workgroup account, giving everyone on the team the ability to create databases under one billing account
• Greater capacity with database size up to 10 MB
• Room to grow with the number of databases, database storage capacity, and users (additional fees apply)
• More control over users' accessibility to databases, either by individual or role within the workgroup
• Extended permissions, allowing for additional sharing rules within the team
• Enhanced workflow features designed to keep members informed and up-to-date
• Workgroup administration capabilities, including adding new members, resetting passwords, deactivating members
• QuickBase usage monitoring and reporting, giving the administrator more control to monitor usage and view lists of databases created by the team who is accessing them

Helping Corporate Workgroups Work More Efficiently
QuickBase for Corporate Workgroups can helps teams increase productivity and more effectively manage projects and information. The service consolidates workgroup information in real time, so that data is never entered twice and there is minimal lag time between submission and use. The service also provides formats for creating tables, reports and queries quickly and easily. With improved team coordination and communication, workgroups can be more efficient and deliver projects, products and services faster than ever before.

"With QuickBase, we collaborate more effectively and have reduced our time-to-market," said Wayne Showalter, Ventana Medical Systems. "Our development team uses QuickBase to track projects and share the information with field sales and sales engineering. We tried several alternatives in the past, including spreadsheets on a shared network drive, that just didn't work."

Intuit hosts all QuickBase databases, relieving customers of the administrative burden of having to purchase, configure and maintain servers. There is no hardware or software to load other than a current Web browser. Intuit employs industry-recognized security safeguards to protect companies' data, including 128-bit Secure Socket Layers (SSL) protocol to ensure your information is neither intercepted nor corrupted during transmission over the Internet.

Pricing and Availability QuickBase for Corporate Workgroups is available immediately at http://quickbase.intuit.com and offers a flexible pricing plan for each workgroup's growing information management needs. The basic/standard corporate workgroup service plan is $500 per month, which includes: 50 standard databases (up to 250KB each), one large database (up to 10MB each), 500MB for attached files and 75 users per database. Additional service packs are available that increase number of users, databases and capacity.

QuickBase for Small Businesses offers service plans ranging in cost from $14.95 per month to $49.95 per month. For both services, sales tax will be charged, depending on the users' locations, if applicable. Additional information on pricing for both services can be found at http://quickbase.intuit.com.

Registration and Internet access are required. Terms, conditions, pricing, features and service options subject to change without notice.