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Migrating Access back end to the cloud
Hi. I am an amateur. Using Access 365, I have created a small Access database for a local charity and I would like it be usable by 3 or 4 people at once and so I think I need to get the back end (t...
- Do you want to run this relational database application as a web - browser based application, or as a desktop application?
I don't know which "guys in India" you mean, or what they recommend, but you really don't need a lot of other software packages if you are going to continue to use this as a desktop application. However, if you want to replace the Access interface with one that will operate in a web browser, you WILL have to invest in and learn to use the appropriate tools for that.
So, start by explaining who will actually use it, where they are physically located (in a single facility or dispersed among several) and how you anticipate using this relational database application. From there, we can examine some options.
This is not an ideal solution but I store a copy of our backend into a DropBox folder. I then wrote the code that sync's all my tables to it. 10 people work together this way. Occasionally, there are conflicts but DropBox shows when this happens and I just delete the conflicted copy and Sync again and usually everything works fine.