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- A bit outdated now that cloud solutions do the same thing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