If you have discovered our web site, you are probably here because of one of two reasons.

• There are no off the shelf packages that suit your needs  or….
• You have an Access database designed either in-house or externally that needs the professional approach to convert it to a proper application on multiple machines and, perhaps, across multiple sites.

You have probably come to the right place because we have years of experience writing a variety of Microsoft Access databases for many businesses – see case studies below.

Why Microsoft Access?

Access is part of the Microsoft Office suite and you are probably very familiar with some of the components such as Excel, Outlook and Word. This means that anything we create for you in Access is written using software that is already integrated into your existing work flow.

Access can be used on many levels. You may have created a simple table that allows you to keep track of customers and addresses but integrating that functionality into a system that records and sends quotations; converts them to Orders and then tracks the production of those orders is usually way beyond the capability of an employee who is better utilized to do their main job. This is where we come in. We create the application for you and this is going to be exactly what you want. It won’t be using elementary processes such as direct access to database tables but will utilize forms which will have coding behind them to carry out the database functionality in a controlled manor. We can do all sorts of things to make your office more automatic by asking the Access database to send emails to clients after some processes are completed or, update Excel spreadsheets that you already use.

We can advise on whether it is appropriate to use the inbuilt (and very effective) database or whether it might be appropriate to use a Microsoft SQL server database which can be on your internal network or out in the cloud i.e. AWS, Azure, or on a server in your WAN or LAN. The cloud solution is ideal if you have a multi-site requirement.

The applications that we write are primarily code based and can therefore be very logical in their functionality and are normally compiled so that they cannot easily be corrupted by mistake. The pre-compiled application is always available to the client to make changes or make additions such as add new reports etc.

We have a page called new digital strategy which takes you through the sort of scenario that many of our customers find themselves in when things start to get out of control and we advise you to click on the link above and find out how we may help.