dbFront vs Microsoft Access: Which is a better fit?

Needed assistant connecting to my domain and azure and support was awesome. Software is an excellent solution for a quick way to have a front end to your DB.

Also the truncation of the text in the table view was also a disadvantage to my particular use case.

Karin K

Director of OSPInsight Services & Support

DbFront made it easy to create an in-house front-end to our SQL database that allows us all of the functionality we need to update and maintain our records. It's awesome and constantly improving.

One problem is that you can only have two level relationships. So you can select say Record A to show related Record Bs and then select a Record B and show related Record Cs.

My overall experience is very good and overall I think the software is very good with a fast setup time as compared to you having to create an interface from scratch your self.

Karin K

Director of OSPInsight Services & Support

I haven't found anything yet that I dislike. Usually if it's missing it's because I haven't learned how to configure it yet.

Karin K

Director of OSPInsight Services & Support

The help center for understanding the application and setting it up is very easy to follow and the Support is very responsive.

Alex A

Data Reporting Officer

Also all of this has been achieved under a tight deadline and requires almost no programming knowledge to use or setup.

Abid A

Manager Operations

It can also supports visual basic and user with advance knowledge and get maximum benefits out of this amazing software by Microsoft.

No remote access of files, user based restriction is to be designed, multi user access is limited. No track of devoloment status.

With Microsoft being a popular software of various applications having a familiar layout and to link to Excel spreadsheets is good. The queries that can be made is very useful to make things quicker.

The setup of the server was really tough. When I had to set it up on one of my clients' machines, it took me a couple of hours to figure out what libraries were missing.

What we like about this software is the UI that helps the non tech to easily understand what they need and where to find. For us tech person behind, we like the of ease implementation and maintenance.

Additionally there is limited integration with other data formats.

Mohammed Ameen M

Technical Support Specialist

My overall experience working with MS Access has been rather pleasant. We mostly use it to have ease of use of reports with regards to our assets and equipment.

This does give it a busy feel that can be intimidating, however, everything I've used with it has worked well.