Excellence IT have an extensive portfolio of bespoke database solutions built for our customers on top of Microsoft SQL Server. These solutions enable our customers to design and optimise their own business processes which in turn minimises administrative overhead while ensuring maximum management visibility through Microsoft's Business Intelligence (BI) tools. These powerful BI tools (including Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, Integration Services, and Analysis Services) allow us to present an integrated, real-time view of the business to our clients which dramatically impacts the responsiveness and precision of their management and decision-making.

Is that Excel spreadsheet getting out of hand?

Your company may be wasting huge amounts of time maintaining desperate systems with unmanageable lists like employee, customer and sales details in a hundred different places. This is costing your company massively in terms of staff utilisation but also in opportunity cost by not delivering the levels of service possible. Also, without the potential to create reports to highlight trends, you could be missing out on sales opportunities.

Microsoft estimates that 70% of Excel users are using databases in Excel.

Many companies use Excel spreadsheets when they should really be using a database instead. The advantages of using a database platform include:

• Multiple, simultaneous users with low risk of data loss.
• Protecting data against user error.
• Integrating databases easily with other IT systems.

A well designed database will last you for years.

If you would like to move your spreadsheet files into a database or are currently using Microsoft Access databases, we can help design a well managed system and store this data securely and efficiently using Microsoft SQL server. Benefits:

• Unlimited users from an unlimited number of branches accessing the database concurrently.
• Keep Access as the front end, therefore gaining the benefits of both systems.
• No noticeable slowdown in performance as long as server resources are sufficient.
• Enterprise client-server solution with enterprise backups and transaction logging.

Essentially, we could help you grow your business without growing your payroll as the improved systems continually make it easier for staff to do more work.

Also, using SQL server affords unprecedented management control by providing a fully integrated view of the company through reports. In technical terms this means translating current systems into Microsoft SQL databases with an Access/SharePoint front-end while reports are generated within SharePoint.

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