Manufacturing
Quality-Control Tracking
Custom development and ongoing support for a national flooring manufacturer using SharePoint data sources.
Helping businesses with Microsoft Access since 1995
Microsoft Access Support, Development, Modernization & Migration
Keep your business-critical Access applications working, improve them as your operations change, and migrate or modernize them when the current foundation no longer fits.
Discuss Your Microsoft Access NeedsStart with the problem
What's happening with your Access database?
Choose the situation closest to yours. Each path leads to focused guidance and a practical next step.
Reliability
My Access database is broken or unreliable.
Change
We need changes to an application that already works.
Continuity
The original developer is no longer available.
Performance
Our database is slow, difficult to share, or outgrowing its current setup.
Migration
We need a practical path to SQL Server, Azure SQL, or a modern application.
Rules
Important business rules are trapped inside a legacy system.
Selected project experience
Built around real business work.
From manufacturing to nonprofit care, our work connects business processes, data, and the applications people use every day.
Explore Our Project ExperienceManufacturing & Distribution
ERP Applications
Custom development and ongoing support for a New Jersey manufacturer and distributor, including an online-store interface.
Nonprofit Care
Care Management
Application development and ongoing support for a New Jersey nonprofit, including third-party billing integration.
Focused Access expertise. A broader technology perspective. Access For Business is a division of Strand Management Solutions.
Meet the TeamThree ways we help
The right next step for your Access application.
Support
We maintain Microsoft Access applications and resolve problems when errors or slow performance disrupt daily work.
ExampleForms open slowly, searches take longer, and reports keep people waiting. We trace the cause, identify the bottleneck, and address the underlying performance problem.
Explore Access support
Development
We improve the Access application you already use—or build a new one—to better support your team.
ExampleWe extend your existing Microsoft Access application to support new or changed business processes. For example, we can bring online-store orders into Access without retyping them.
Explore Access development
Modernization & Migration
When an Access application struggles to support more users, locations, data, or integrations, we help determine what to keep and what to migrate.
ExampleMove the application's data tables to SQL Server while retaining familiar Access forms and reports, or plan a phased migration when the current architecture no longer supports the application.
Explore modernization & migrationExperience that informs the next step
40+ years of business database experience.
We have seen the full lifecycle of business systems—from desktop databases and VBA applications to SQL Server, cloud databases, and modern web applications.
That perspective matters when deciding whether to fix, improve, migrate, or replace an existing Access application.
1979
Strand Management Solutions founded
The broader technology practice behind Access For Business.
1995
Access development and support
Practical Microsoft Access work shaped around how each client operates.
40+
Years of business database experience
Experience across Access, SQL Server, cloud databases, and modern applications.
Modernization is a decision, not a default
Keep what works. Change what needs to change.
- Possible pathSupportBest when the application still fits the business and needs reliable maintenance, troubleshooting, or repair.
- Possible pathImproveBest when the application works but its forms, reports, queries, VBA, or workflows need to change.
- Possible pathModernizeBest when the interface still serves staff but the data layer needs SQL Server, Azure SQL, or stronger integration.
- Possible pathTransformBest when new access, integration, or platform requirements justify a broader replacement.
Discuss your Microsoft Access needs
Start with the system you already have.
Tell us what your Access application does, what has changed, and where the pressure is. We will help you determine a practical next step.
Discuss Your Microsoft Access Needs