Software

We pride ourselves on providing cost effective solutions to our clients. We are expert developers in most of the industry standard software packages. We will make recommendations as to software as necessary.

Generally, most small to medium sized businesses will use Microsoft Office. Microsoft Access comes as part of some of the Microsoft Office packages, if not, it can be purchased separately. Access is inexpensive and integrates exceptionally well with other MS products via VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). This allows data to be exported effortlessly across the Office suite (e.g. Excel and Word) allowing data exports to reports, graphs, charts as well as producing standard letters, documents, certificates, timetables etc etc.

For a small stand alone database solution used by one to ten users, Microsoft Access will be perfectly acceptable to use. As the number of users increase, or more importantly, network traffic increases, then an effective solution should use a 'back-end" database server of some type. SQL SERVER (from Microsoft) is generally what we recommend for the best 'back-end' integration with Microsoft Access, providing excellent processing power and security, but all different types of database servers are available catering for all types of business requirements.

In our experience an excellent solution is a Microsoft Access 'front-end' application running on an SQL SERVER database. But this is only an example. If your business already employs other technologies, or you would wish to use them, we will be more that happy to provide a solution.