Microsoft Access offers an excellent platform for building low-cost, yet very powerful applications through either its desktop interface or through the web. Our Access Database Consultants have the years of experience to help build custom business software to help you collect, maintain, transform, and analyze your business information.

CSP has a broad range of experience with MS Access - from simple database setup through the creation of rich desktop and web applications allowing immediate and intuitive access to your data. We can even help you maintain a consistent interface across your internal windows-based systems and your web portal.

As a company, we believe that developing prototypes is often a very cost-effective and efficient method for evaluating a solution before dedicating the resources necessary for a full-scale project. Because Microsoft Access allows simple and rapid development of desktop and web applications, we can help you to visualize your finished application quickly and inexpensively. In this way, you can test how the final application would operate before committing to the full-scale solution. In those situations where specifications need to be changed, implementing those changes is much quicker and simpler when employing Microsoft Access' prototyping abilities.

MS Access provides a stable platform for the initial version of many applications. When the database becomes larger and / or mission critical, the strengths of MS Access begin to fade. As your business grows, it is not unusual to discover that MS Access no longer meets all of your needs. Slow response, errors, data corruption, lack of security, and other issues become more pressing as your business increasingly depends on the rapid, accurate delivery of data. Microsoft's "big-brother" to Access, Microsoft SQL Server, was designed to handle the needs of a large organization with tremendous reliability and performance. However, the conversion process in moving from MS Access to Microsoft SQL is sometimes difficult. CSP has years of experience in migrating MS Access data and applications, and can help you make the transition smooth and trouble-free.

Keep in mind that it is frequently not necessary to replace your MS Access Applications (front-end) when your database (back-end) begins to have trouble keeping up. Microsoft Access has the ability to allow its user interface to access data that is "served" by other sources, including Microsoft's own SQL Server. By making minor conversions, it is usually possible to preserve your investment in an MS Access interface while adding the full power and reliability of MS SQL Server to your applications!

While many users are comfortable with the interface provided by Microsoft Excel, and gather a great deal of information into its spreadsheets, analyzing that data and making it available in a useful format can be problematic. Quite often, companies find that some of their most important information is locked away inside large Microsoft Excel documents that cannot be easily searched, manipulated, or processed in an efficient manner. At CSP, we have helped many of our clients convert and combine the information from large and multiple spreadsheets, with varying formats, into one or more MS Access or MS SQL databases so that they can fully utilize the data. Our experience means that we are knowledgable and efficient at the Microsoft Excel to Access conversion process and can get you up and runnning quickly and cost-effectively.