Efficiency and Collaboration Proposal
Team B
BIS/220
September 18, 2012
Instructor

Title of Paper The main purpose of this proposal is to show how changing Party Plates current information system is beneficial. The sales department should consider a relational database such as Microsoft Access versus their current database, Microsoft Excel. Team B will explain the usefulness of converting data currently held in Microsoft Excel into a relational database using Microsoft Access. Team B will also introduce types of collaborative software; how this software can improve communications and streamline work processes.

Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel is the most used spreadsheet program (Grauer, Poatsy, Mulbery, Hulett, Krebs, & Mast, 2011). In Excel, a worksheet is a single spreadsheet that typically contains descriptive labels, numeric values, formulas, functions, and graphical representations of data (Grauer, Poatsy, Mulbery, Hulett, Krebs, & Mast, 2011). A workbook is a collection of one or more related worksheets contained within a single file; by default, new workbooks contain three worksheets (Grauer, Poatsy, Mulbery, Hulett, Krebs, & Mast, 2011). Storing multiple worksheets within one workbook helps organize related data together in one file and enables you to perform calculations among the worksheets within the workbook (Grauer, Poatsy, Mulbery, Hulett, Krebs, & Mast, 2011). Business typically uses Microsoft Excel to store simple information. Microsoft Access
Microsoft Access consists of seven main components: tables, relationships, queries, forms, reports, macros, and modules. Tables are the backbone of a database (Simply Access, 2012). They are look similar to a spreadsheet in Excel. Relationships are the bonds that hold each table together (Simply Access, 2012). Queries are the means of manipulating the data to display a form or