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I love access, and pushed it at many jobs that I have been at. Many times you have small teams who just are not worth the investment of enterprise systems while
by kls 7y ago
I love access, and pushed it at many jobs that I have been at. Many times you have small teams who just are not worth the investment of enterprise systems while they are still growing that part of the business. Access allowed them to solution their needs while the requirements are still in flux. Once a department becomes big enough the access solution serves as a working prototype to generate requirements to build a proper system. It is a shame that Access has fallen out of favor and there really are no web tools that compare to how well it enabled users.
- sverhagen 7y agoExcept that for most of us there's probably an eternity between "big enough ... to build a proper system" and actually building one.
- chihuahua 7y agoOne could argue that Microsoft PowerApps (Dynamics 365 CDS model apps) is the enterprise equivalent of Access. It's extremely easy to build a CRUD app without writing any code.
- collyw 7y agoAccess has always been relatively easy to build an app with close "to no code". The problem is that you still need to understand the principles of a relational database to use it properly and that is usually taught after basic coding.