Darryl Collins
darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au
Mon Nov 21 21:32:33 CST 2011
Heh, for sure. But given that a lot of small businesses use Excel sheets as their principal database for everything - moving that data into to sharepoint lists usually is fairly simple and brings a lot more data integrity than keeping 5 different versions of Excel as their 'master' database, or I have seen many times "Budget_Final_Final_FinalV2 (Dave's version).xls" - ... Oh the horror, the horror.... Cheers Darryl. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Tuesday, 22 November 2011 2:06 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] time to retire ? >There are limits on using sharepoint lists as a complex database ofcourse but for 90% of the stuff small businesses need it is just brilliant). LOL. that's the understatement of the year. John W. Colby Colby Consulting Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it On 11/21/2011 5:31 PM, Darryl Collins wrote: > Arthur, > > Set up two small businesses on Office 365 and I can speak highly of it. > > Allowing these small operations to have access to services such as an Exchange server for outlook and shared calendars, secure and version controlled documents, online databases plus communication tools like Lync 2010 has been a game changer for them. > > Both businesses are really impressed and have gone from being 'not sure' to really starting to understand how this can save them buckets of time and money (less errors, less documents, easier comms - plus secure docs storage and back up). > > They also love that their stuff can now be accessed via any web brower (IE does work better though). And as you say, all for $7 dollars a person. Best bit is if you suddenly add 3 new folks, all you do is add 3 more licences via the admin console and they bill you next month. Personally I am sold on this. The more I used it the more I like it. There are limits on using sharepoint lists as a complex database ofcourse but for 90% of the stuff small businesses need it is just brilliant). > > And it is dead easy to set up as well. Great stuff! > > Cheers > Darryl. -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com