PCA has converted 100s of custom Excel-based data management systems into well-formed MS Access Database Applications. The key to successful Excel to Access conversions is to maintain the original business and functional intent of the Excel system, while taking full advantage of the structured information model and workflow advantages that a well-designed MS Access database can offer. We can handle your Microsoft Excel to Access data conversion needs as well.

Spreadsheets provide Power Users with tremendous data power and flexibility for developing custom business database applications. However, as Excel database spreadsheets get used more often by more people in the organization -- as Excel Spreadsheets get copied, modified, enhanced and emailed around -- they tend to grow in weight, scope and complexity. Excel Database Spreadsheets also grow more critical to more peolple's day-to-day business operations. The low cost, ease-of-use and flexibility that are Excel's strength now become a burden. Reconciling different spreadsheet versions, Importing Excel Data or Exporting Excel Data, copying & pasting data into MS Access Databases, repairing errors, an inability to derive meaningful information, etc. are all too common challenges. This is the time to convert Excel to Access databases.

Many businesses rely on PCA to help them successfully convert Excel to Access Database Applications and bring their information to the next level: an MS Access database application. It's critical that the Excel to MS Access conversion preserve the original business integrity of the Excel spreadsheet, provide a platform for stable and repeatable business information flow, and eliminate the costs and complexities inherent to many multi-user Excel Database applications. PCA can help you decide if converting Excel to Access is appropriate for your business objectives.

Databases such as MS Access provide a more structured approach for managing critical business data than is possible with an Excel spreadsheet or Excel Database. Excel Database Spreadsheets provide infinite flexibility, but at a cost. MS Access databases provide for larger quantities of data, but also provide for more highly structured applications. The good news is that PCA can upgrade your Excel Application to Access. At the same time, we can often simplify your complex Excel application, while keeping the Excel spreadsheet-like functionality intact when we convert Microsoft Excel to Access databases. Excel to Access Conversion is one of PCA's specialities.

PCA will Import Excel databases or Export Excel into MS Access in a way that preserves the valuable Excel Data model that you've worked hard to design for your business. We can also build routines that automatically Export Access to Excel or Export Excel to Access.

Once an Excel application has been imported from an Excel database spreadsheet to an MS Access Database, the MS Access data can still be viewed and analyzed in Excel! But the input, and equations, and data manipulation become part of a structured, well-defined MS Access database application, which provides for improved data entry consistency, improved versioning as new functions get added, and provides Users with an easier, more straightforward structured user interface.

As Excel spreadsheets grow more complicated and more people use the Excel spreadsheets, they can quickly grow out of control. It's time for an MS Access database application to help stablize the business utility of the spreadsheet. MS Access databases provide a more structured approach for critical data than does an Excel spreadsheet with good flexibility and infinite quantities of data and more structured applications. PCA can help Import Excel to Access and make your Excel Application available in a multi-user, well-structured application. For mission-critical business applications, the Excel data can be controlled in a secure way, and the Excel Data made available through secure role-based security over the Internet as a Smart-Client application!

Practical Computer Applications has the experience of converting many, many Excel spreadsheets into well defined MS Access Applications. We can handle your MS Excel data conversion needs too. Contact PCA, Inc. to learn more about converting your MS Excel to MS Access.