Our research is important to our job and well-organized data will allow co-workers to correctly assess, replicate, and evaluate your research results. Microsoft Access supports employees to quickly record and account for information with the ability of Microsoft Office confident user’s interaction with its design abilities that do not require intense database knowledge. Access stores information in the form of tables that are similar to worksheets but are designed for gathering large and various types of data that is stored in other tables and locations, and even in fields in other tables. The practice of creating a group within a group and then performing calculations are far more difficult using Microsoft Excel.
In addition, “professional developers have found that Microsoft Office Access can save time and meet business requirements for many applications.” (Microsoft Corporation, 2006) With Microsoft Access, someone can integrate tables, forms, queries to their database from other Access databases. Microsoft SQL (Structured Query Language) Server databases, Windows SharePoint Services sites, ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) data sources, Excel, and other data sources all have the capability to work with Access. (Microsoft Corporation, 2006) Due to the large range of information that can be collected using Microsoft Access, this can make creating reports, sharing with co-workers and time management easier and more effective. Databases are good for finding connections in data. “Microsoft Office Access can play a useful role in meeting a wide range of data-tracking requirements.” (Microsoft Corporation, 2006) Microsoft Office Access gives the user an extremely “powerful data editing capabilities” (Smothers, 2009) that can be well-maintained for future uses.

References
Microsoft Corporation. (2006, June). Microsoft Office Access. Retrieved from http://www.microsoft.com/office/access
Smothers, C. (2009, July 6). Advantages and Disadvantages of Microsoft Access. Bright Hub. Retrieved from http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/41453.aspx