Introduction
Incorporating Microsoft Access in Business Organizations
Microsoft Suite is reasonably a good product, and within the suite is Access. There are many users who enjoy this database program and others who have a strong dislike of it. Those users that enjoy it, have evaluated database software and have compared to the other database (Excel) find it a great fit to incorporate in for their office automation system users (OAS) and even software developer. Access is a powerful engine and it integrates well with other Office products. It does cost a bit of money however, on the order of $200 or thereabouts per desktop. Some small to moderate company favor this product and see the benefits of it, while larger companies or business are not certain if the database system will not cause delays in retrieving and storing data.
Conversion to Access Databases
When an organization initially utilize the Excel program converting to Access provides usefulness relational spreadsheets. On the other hand Excel has non-relational spreadsheets that provide listed data which cannot be query to other spreadsheet data. Each of the programs, Excel and Access have the ability to store a large amount of data, so transferring large amount of data is equivalent. Microsoft has enabled the process to convert files from Excel to Access relatively simple. To bring data from Excel the spreadsheet can be copied and pasted to an Access worksheet. Another procedure is to import an Excel worksheet into an Access table, or link to an Excel worksheet to an Access table (Nelson, 2012).
Accesses enables users to covert worksheets from Excel and manage the information into tables and sorted based on a specific subject, when the data store has is reoccurring relational information then Access is the most useful software than Excel. The Access software enables another table that has...