Assessing Access
March 18, 2018
Assessing Access
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Access
We used Microsoft Access to keep track of clients and prospects who were interested in participating in our boot camp. It helped us manage contact information, if they had filled out the necessary paperwork, how many session each person had participated in, emergency contact information, any health concerns a client wanted us to be aware of, starting measurements, etc.
- It is highly customizable, so if you have access to someone who understands how to build the system you can do so many things with it.
- It can be intimidating and difficult to learn. Not for someone who is impatient or not technical.
- I wish Microsoft Access had better support resources. I always felt like I was on my own when I had to resolve issues.
- It's very easy for user errors to throw everything off.
- It was a startup database, so we were able to build from the ground up. This was positive because we had a lot of freedom.
- For the same reason, this was negative because we didn't have a lot of direction in what we wanted to do with the database.
Most other databases have a specific use case or purpose. Microsoft Access is very general in this sense and lacking any kind of direction. Fortunately, you can "google" you way through it if you have any kind of technical background. We chose this as an easy option for our startup database, but we did grow out of it (recently).