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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Access

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Access is a database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools.

    $139.99

    per PC

    Wrike

    Score8.5 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Wrike is a project management and collaboration software. This solution connects tasks, discussions, and emails to the user’s project plan. Wrike is optimized for agile workflows and aims to help resolve data silos, poor visibility into work status, and missed deadlines and project failures.

    $240

    per year 2 users (minimum)

    Pricing
    Microsoft AccessWrike
    Editions & Modules
    Microsoft Access
    $139.99
    per PC
    Wrike Free
    $0
    per month per user
    Wrike Team
    $10
    per month (billed annually) per user (2-15 users)
    Wrike Business
    $25
    per month (billed annually) per user (5-200 users)
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft AccessWrike
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Every premium plan begins with a 14-day trial period.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Microsoft AccessWrike
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Wrike
    Chose Wrike
    My org simply uses QB as a basic database, but in a primitive version, due to our small amount of users. However, we are strongly considering Wrike more and more with the NEW DataHub option!
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    Chose Wrike
    Complete integration with O365
    Incentivized
    Chose Wrike
    In many ways it is similar and somewhat of a clone of Wrike however the system tended to be significantly slower when being used by our team. Not sure if that was related to our connection internally or not but when we switched to Wrike it worked significantly faster but we …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
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    92%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    568 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    28 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    837 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    19 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    391 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    21 Answers
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    452 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft AccessWrike
    Relational Databases
    Comparison of Relational Databases features of Microsoft Access and Wrike
    Feature
    Microsoft Access
    7.7
    3 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Wrike
    -
    Ratings
    ACID compliance7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database locking8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Disaster recovery7.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple datatypes8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Microsoft Access and Wrike
    Feature
    Microsoft Access
    -
    Ratings
    Wrike
    7.8
    969 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings9.1963 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings7.6832 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.3683 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings8.3845 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.0836 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings8.8963 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings7.9544 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings8.0492 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings7.5815 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings7.8730 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings7.4706 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings7.5459 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings7.723 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings6.8354 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Microsoft Access and Wrike
    Feature
    Microsoft Access
    -
    Ratings
    Wrike
    7.3
    363 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Quotes/estimates00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Invoicing00 Ratings6.628 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings7.5358 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software00 Ratings6.9220 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft AccessWrike
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.4
    (102 ratings)
    8.4
    (1004 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (15 ratings)
    8.5
    (109 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    8.4
    (340 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.3
    (24 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.6
    (21 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.4
    (5 ratings)
    9.5
    (93 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (13 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.9
    (37 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (16 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (15 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft AccessWrike
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    As a Material Purchasing/Planning/inventory tracking application, Microsoft Access serves its purpose well. It's presentation is clean, data entry is simple and the ability to customize search fields is welcome. It does, however, come with some caveats; namely, when setting search filters and the need arises to back up a step or two, with Microsoft Access you have to reset, or "clear all", adding extra steps/time to a query.
    Incentivized
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    Wrike
    Wrike helped us stitch PMO-related activities under one umbrella. The easy collaboration with multiple access types, combined with security access definitions, helped users across the organization contribute according to their roles. This helped provide the organization with multiple items to be reviewed in a single tool. This saved time in weekly review meetings by avoiding switching between multiple tools & files.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Very easy to create entity-relationship diagrams for various tables and designing mock layouts.
    • Really easy to navigate as it hold[s] the classic Microsoft UI. Another good thing is that it comes with the complete MS Office Suite.
    • It is really fast when joining multiple tables no matter what type of join.
    • Works on pretty much same SQL scripts so no need to learn a new language!
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    Wrike
    • Excellent dashboards that are easy to use and give amazing insights.
    • User friendly interface that is also easy to interact with.
    • Lot of integrations.
    • Robust project and task management features.
    • Facilitate seamless team collaboration and communication.
    • Highly customizable and multiple project views.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Microsoft Access has not really changed at all for several years. It might be nice to see some upgrades and changes.
    • The help info is often not helpful. Need more tutorials for Microsoft Access to show how to do specific things.
    • Be careful naming objects such as tables, forms, etc. Names that are too long can get cut off in dialog boxes to choose a table, form, report, etc. So, I wish they would have resizable dialog boxes to allow you to see objects with long names.
    • I wish it could show me objects that are not in use in the database for current queries, tables, reports, forms, and macros. That way unused objects can be deleted without worrying about losing a report or query because you deleted the underlying object.
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    Wrike
    • Email alerts sometimes send too slowly.
    • If you put a project on hold, it can be hard to find it once you are ready to return to it.
    • Sometimes there are too many steps/tasks and the main page can get cluttered.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    I and the rest of my team will renew our Microsoft Access in the future because we use and maintain many different applications and databases created using Microsoft Access so we will need to maintain them in the future. Additionally, it is a standard at our place of work so it is at $0 cost to us to use. Another reason for renewing Microsoft Access is that we just don' t have the resources needed to extend into a network of users so we need to remain a single-desktop application at this time.
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    Wrike
    I wish that Wrike had more drag and drop functionality that would be connected to assignee and also I wish that the finish date of a task would update to the date where you checked completed. It does not do that. Also finishing a task doesn't move the start date of the next task it "protects your time in that way", but our management team wants us to quickly see what we have down the pipeline rather than having to scroll down the list of upcoming tasks.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Access is easy to use. It is compatible with spreadsheets. It is a very good data management tool. There is scope to save a large amount of data in one place. For using this database, one does not need much training, can be shared among multiple users. This database has to sort and filtering features which seem to be very useful.
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    Wrike
    We have project templates set up based on what job type is selected in our work request form. This helps save time by having specific tasks already on each job as it is opened. Then it's just a matter of scheduling the tasks based on the job request and current workload. As long as a due date is flexible, it's easy to shift specific due dates as needed.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    I don't think the program has ever failed me. It is one of those programs where there is always a solution if you know where to look.
    Incentivized
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    Wrike
    Over two years of (almost) daily usage without outages. Don't remember any errors. I give it 9 only because some Wrike plugins (for online document edit) are based on NPAPI architecture. These types of plugins are being phased out in new browsers, and NPAPI plugins are disabled by default in recent versions of Chrome so you have to do some browser adjustments when you switch browsers or move to another computer.
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    Performance
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Wrike
    Wrike tasks loads fine, but I hate clicking files and wait for a bit of time since it is powerpoint or word, Wrike assumes I want to open those on Wrike. My suggestion is to link it to office 365 so we do not need Wrike based decoder for PPTX and DOCX
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    While I have never contacted Microsoft directly for product support, for some reason there's a real prejudice against MS Access among most IT support professionals. They are usually discouraging when it comes to using MS Access. Most of this is due to their lack of understanding of MS Access and how it can improve one's productivity. If Microsoft invested more resources towards enhancing and promoting the use of MS Access then maybe things would be different.
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    Wrike
    During my learning phase with Wrike, I initially struggled with setting up automation rules and request forms. However, Wrike support was always my go-to, resolving issues within seconds or minutes. Their assistance made the learning process much easier. My best experience was receiving step-by-step screenshots to follow, with the support team on standby until I was completely satisfied.
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    In-Person Training
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Wrike
    We had staff in person provide some training
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    Online Training
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Wrike
    I love the Wrike training options. Wrike Discover has tons of courses, learning plans, certifications, etc. This is an area where Wrike definitely shines! I wish these resources were more in your face for new people, because it seems like a lot of coworkers didn't know all of this training was available to them.
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    there is no key idea, since it is easy to implement Microsoft Access
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    Wrike
    There are a lot of bells and whistles in Wrike, and not all of it is easy or intuitive to understand once it's plopped in your lap. It's easier when there are a few choice people who understand Wrike as a platform and articulate it in such a way where it makes it easy to pass it along to others in the group
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Excel is a fantastic - robust application that can do so much so easily. Its easy to train and understand. However - excel does not provide a reporting function and that is typically where we will suggest a move to [Microsoft] Access. [Microsoft] Access requires a little more knowledge of data manipulation.
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    Wrike
    Jira did not at all help us get our work done as content creators. I think that was because Jira wasn't quite right for our uses. Wrike fits our needs so much better. I can't tell you enough the relief I felt when we adopted Wrike and I never had to use Jira again.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Wrike
    company purchase
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Wrike
    The sky is the limit for what can be done in Wrike. We started with 1 use case and within 5 months we migrated several key business practices over to Wrike because they were easier to manage. Use cases so far: process improvement, management review, corrective actions, maintenance requests, month-end financial closing, and document management. As we grow, it's easy to imagine putting even more into Wrike where it becomes a cornerstone for how we do business
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    Professional Services
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Wrike
    I do not use professional services.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Not having to recreate queries or reports every time you want to use them.
    • Once an item is created and saved as part of the database, you save manpower by not having to recreate them.
    • ROI from a usability standpoint is great. Solid product with great functionality that requires low maintenance usually.
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    Wrike
    • Different teams (e.g., contracting, compliance, provider relations) can view updates in real time, comment directly on tasks, and escalate items when needed.
    • Wrike allows us to template the contracting process (from intake to signature) to ensure consistency across payers and reduce administrative overhead.
    • Leadership can see the status of negotiations at a glance, identify bottlenecks, and prioritize resources accordingly.
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