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Microsoft Access: Accessible and Fast
August 16, 2017

Microsoft Access: Accessible and Fast

Vahishta Mistry | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Access

The main reason we used Access was to analyze a database too heavy for Excel. It was a single database and needed to be accessed and updated on a monthly basis with millions of rows of data. We also needed to run complicated vlookups and other functions on this data.
  • Easy to use larger database sizes
  • More convenient than MS Excel for quick retrieval
  • A bit easier to train employees to use it
  • A bit outdated now that cloud solutions do the same thing
  • Needs some training time
  • Switching between Windows and Mac users isn't easy. We experienced some glitches.
  • It helped us save roughly $200 a month as a similar tool cost about that much to run the same data
  • It earned us about thirty minutes of time a week as we'd have wasted that time on running the data remotely
For our use case it was quite adequate, where we needed to do vlookups on a database that had millions of rows, far more than Excel could handle. It needed a bit of setup and training for our staff.