Application Development

Microsoft® Access & Excel Applications

We develop applications for (almost) any requirement.

The following are some examples of Access or Excel front-ends and solutions developed using Office-Automation and VBA; connected to Access, SQL Server, MYSQL or other back-end databases:

  • Complete or partial / modular Production and ERP systems: inc. Quoting,  Design,  BoMs , Purchasing, Costing, Inventory / Warehouse /barcoding, Invoicing, Maintenance-Scheduling, Project Documentation etc. using MS Access and Excel Front-ends and Multiple Back-end databases.
  • Using an Excel Workbook as a Front-End to a database: quoting, estimating or modelling front-end, as an offline/online data-capture device. When you get back to the office, connect to almost any database to load or save your data and lookup tables.
  • Production Control: Machine part and material assemblies, optimised ordering (across multiple jobs), ACAD integration, complex quoting of assemblies. sub-assemblies and miscellaneous components. Machine and resource scheduling and workflow control .
  • Appointment Scheduling, Projects and Task management: schedule resources, track usage, monitor due dates, reminders and responsibilities
  • Electronic Document Filing: storage, multi-context indexing and sharing – instant access to hundreds of thousands of documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, tiffs etc.
  • Inventory control: including material-offcut tracking, supplier material and production details. Tracking of material manufacturers certificates and mapping to work-orders.
  • Asset-register: including location, movement and depreciation-reports
  • Membership databases: including all forms of data and communication
  • Contact management: including process-tracking & reminders of pending/overdue stages.
  • Automated mailing: including personalized content, automatic cycling, tracking and grouping. Automatically store e-mail into a database for archival or reporting requirements.
  • Automated Word Document Generation and Merging Word, Excel and Access.
  • Job, machine and worker Scheduling: multi-stage processes, machine and resource availability
  • Dynamic price lists: mobile Excel price lists synchronized with databases and generating orders and quotes in the field.
  • Remote Time-entry and activity-logging (web-based): including reports for all types of users and formatted documents for invoicing.
  • Document & form dispensing: Web-based, authentication-controlled access.
  • Automated price-lists (spreadsheets), updated electronically, that print invoices and reports on demand, and upload sales-data directly into order-fulfillment systems via the internet, or emailed from customer sites. Imbed pricing-rules, bundling arrangements and custom ordering formulae into a simple Excel front-end.
  • Use Excel, connected to web services and databases, as an online analytical tool. Download data, track workflow and production statistics as they happen; know all the figures first.