Darryl Collins
darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au
Mon Oct 24 17:45:12 CDT 2011
I have set up Office 365 for my wife's small business operation - a team of about 8 people working in 2 locations plus from home and on the road. They had the usual system of craziness, multiple versions of spreadsheets, word docs everywhere - terrible version control - stuff on USB sticks - multiple copies of the database - blah blah, everyone with their own gmail or yahoo emails - just a big mess. Frankly Office 365 has been bloody brilliant. I especially love the advantage of having an Outlook exchange server via the web plus all the sharepoint stuff online. All for a small monthly fee of about $7 per user. Having the ability to organise meetings and share calendars has been great for her team. All their common database info (as Sharepoint lists now) is live and online and if one of them updates info it is immediately available to all. Best of all they can access it thru any web brower. Might not suit everyone but it has been great as the girls don't need to purchase any new software or equipment to make this work, although having Office 2010 installed on your PC raises the game to a whole new level again. They also love the Lync IM tool, which allows desktop sharing for meetings etc, plus chat and IM. Works really well. So far darn happy with the set up. Maybe not for everyone, but for her it has been great. She has neither the money, time or experience to host a dedicated server for this sort of thing so it has provided her with some real and tangible benefits. Heh, I sound like an advert I know, but credit where it is due - MS have done a good job on this. For people like Monica and her set up this sort thing is just ideal and she gets a lot of bang for her buck and it is easy for the users to understand and use. Cheers Darryl. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rusty Hammond Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2011 4:30 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Any Access add-ins to put app on mobile devices? The FileMaker Go app is able to tie back into a FileMaker server via a network and/or internet connection so it will sync as long as you have an internet connection and your firewall setup correctly. Looks to me like Microsoft is pushing more towards using Sharepoint for this kind of stuff. Using the browser in the mobile device. That's not a bad idea, that way there's no app to install and maintain for each mobile os. I gotta find me some more hours in the day to learn all of this stuff. Rusty -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of David McAfee Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 12:15 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Any Access add-ins to put app on mobile devices? Up through Windows Mobile 2003 (Maybe even in WM5, I can't remember at the moment) you could have CDB (Compact version of mdb) on devices. I was very easy to bring data back and forth between device and PC. cdb's were deprecated by MS when they brought out SDFs (SQLCE). You could still connect with ADO and copy stuff between the SDF and mdbs or SQL Server. SQL CE was supported by WM5/6. MS dropped support for this when they released WM7. I dropped support for MS after that :P I'm currently learning Android Development and plan to start learning Apple programming next semester. At least they both share SQLLite. On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Charlotte Foust <charlotte.foust at gmail.com>wrote: > Nope, although Cellica Database will run on both Windows and Android > and allows you to connect to an Access database. It's a pain to > create the forms though because it automatically scales the form to > the screen of your phone > > Charlotte Foust > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Rusty Hammond > <rusty.hammond at cpiqpc.com > >wrote: > > > I came across an article about an add-in for Filemaker Pro (called > > FileMaker Go) that will allow you to develop an application in > > Filemaker on your Mac or PC, then port that application to an iOS > > application ready to run on your iPhone and/or iPad. Pretty slick > > and I've even seen a mobile work order dispatch application > > developed using the set-up. An electrician is using it to send out > > work orders to his crews. He put iPads in each of his trucks. > > > > Has anyone come across one that would port an Access app to either > > iOS, Android, or maybe even Windows Mobile??? > > > > > > Rusty Hammond > > > > > > > > ******************************************************************** > > ** > > WARNING: All e-mail sent to and from this address will be received, > > scanned or otherwise recorded by the CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc. > > corporate e-mail system and is subject to archival, monitoring or > > review by, and/or disclosure to, someone other than the recipient. > > ******************************************************************** > > ** > > -- > > AccessD mailing list > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > > > > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com ********************************************************************** WARNING: All e-mail sent to and from this address will be received, scanned or otherwise recorded by the CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc. corporate e-mail system and is subject to archival, monitoring or review by, and/or disclosure to, someone other than the recipient. ********************************************************************** -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com