As well as Microsoft® Excel, we are skilled at using and programming Microsoft® Access. While powerful in itself, if the client requires, this can be modified and programmed with additional functionality.

The advantages of this to a business are potentially huge, and include:

• Automated Reports: Reports can take hours, or even days, to create; pulling in data from various disparate sources, then combining them all, formatting it all to look presentable, and arranging the information so that it is readable. We can automate reports so that they create themselves in seconds.

• Databases: Microsoft® Access is a perfectly good database application for a small business or medium-sized department. We can also program databases to add in additional features as and when required.

• Split Databases: In some cases, it may be advantageous to have the information in a database sitting on a single machine (which would act as a server), while several other machines would feature the user interface (the "front end", as it's called in IT jargon). Thus, several users in an office could query and amend a single database without the entire database actually being on their own PCs.

• Intelligent Input Forms: Such a form could be used to automatically update information held on other files on a PC or network, or could eMail the data entered onto it to another party. It would be "intelligent" in that it would be aware if information was missing, or of the wrong type, etc.