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MICROSOFT ACCESS UPGRADE

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The Opportunity

If your organisation uses Microsoft Access, it will no doubt have benefited from the rich feature set and rapid development capabilities of this product. However, it is commonplace for various problems to occur as organisations grow and the demands made upon Access based solutions increase exponentially. The following discusses these potential problems and outlines a very cost effective solution. Use our Microsoft Access Upgrade Check to see if you should consider upgrading your Microsoft Access based solutions.

Growing Pains

Naturally, as organisations grow, systems are required to evolve to support more complex requirements, more users and significant data volumes. This is the point at which problems can arise including loss of stability, data corruption, performance degradation and unacceptable downtime.

These problems are often compounded by the original designer of the systems leaving the organisation, changing roles or simply reaching the limits of their technical knowledge. If by this point, a system has become 'mission critical', any down-time represents a threat to the organisation itself.

Background

Microsoft Access was never designed to scale to 10's of users or highly data intensive data operations. As a self-contained product, it is intended for small-scale database solutions for a handful of users and modest data volumes.

Microsoft SQL Server on the other hand is an enterprise-class, client-server database platform that is nonetheless surprisingly inexpensive. This powerful product represents the key to the future for Microsoft Access Databases that can no longer support the demands made upon them.

The Solution

Thankfully, you don't need to "throw it all away and start again" as that would be very time-consuming and inevitably expensive. In most cases, much of the original investment can be utilised by 'upsizing' the solution to use Microsoft SQL Server as the database 'back-end' whilst keeping your familiar Microsoft Access 'front-end'.

Dependent on the size, scope and techniques employed within the database, the cost of this process can be as little as £950+VAT (excluding Microsoft SQL Server licenses).

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