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Office Databases and Systems
IT Consultancy
Considering installing new information systems?
Either to improve profitibility or break into
new markets. Seagrass can help by assessing the
technical feasilbility of your plans and providing
an independent analysis of the risks. Where necessary,
Seagrass can project manage and co-ordinate work
carried out for you by other professionals. It
is likely that you have already established good
working relationships with web design companies
and/or Internet Service Providers. Our aim is
always to work with your existing suppliers to
communicate and co-ordinate with them so that
as a team we can provide the solution that you
desire on time and to budget.
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Why doesn't Microsoft Access
have all the power I need?
Microsoft Access has come a long way from it's humble
origins as a simple single user database, for example
it now has the ability to connect to much more powerful
Structured Query Language (SQL) servers. It has considerable
programming and logic handling ability and is a good
choice for many mid-range or lower applications. However,
MS Access is not a professional programming platform
and has serious limitations which are a trade off in
order to keep usability simple.
Microsoft has never suggested using MS Access as an
general purpose business problem solution platform.
Access lacks the programming power to address the more
complex business requirements you might have, now and
in the future. Also, Microsoft have always positioned
Access as an end user desktop tool, shipped as part
of their Office Suite and as such is geared toward a
single or at most only a handful of concurrent users.
More powerful, scalable and often more cost-effective
solutions can be found with platforms/technologies such
as .NET, PHP or Java and databases such as Microsoft
SQL Server, mySQL or Oracle.
Access Data Recovery and
Maintenance
If you're having problems with your database (Lost data,
Too slow, Poor security) we can repair it, in many cases
recover the data and improve the configuration to reduce
the risk of future corruption. Many databases, particularly
Microsoft Access, are prone to corruption which often
leads to performance issues and loss of data, and repairing
them can sometimes be difficult even with the built-in
tools. If you're able to send
us a copy of your database, we'll give you an appraisal
of the damage and a quotation to repair it. Please check
our privacy policy
if you have concerns about confidentiality. Also, if
it's an obscure or particularly old format we'd appreciate
as much information about the database as you can offer.
In addition we also offer maintenance contracts for
any existing applications and databases you might have
that have had developed by 3rd parties. This will take
usually take the form of email and business hours telephone
support and can be negotiated in terms of an hourly
rate or a fixed monthly fee. In most cases this can
take the form of remote working (e.g. Virtual Private
Network, Remote Desktop, Terminal Server, VNC or PC
Anywhere) which offers geographical independence (and
hence, faster response times and cost effectiveness).
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