I have a friend who works on some of those medical research studies. They are required to use Excel. It is a giant pain because it is difficult to share the spr

I have a friend who works on some of those medical research studies. They are required to use Excel. It is a giant pain because it is difficult to share the spreadsheet, there's constantly different versions, and data corruption issues. All of the staff want to switch to an Access database that they can all access within the office (it would not be a complicated DB and they happen to know how to use Access). But a senior manager on the project believes that the study board only approved Excel, when the study was originally approved years ago, so, therefore, they cannot now use Access. This costs them tens of hours per week across the team.