MS Access

I've been working to create forms following the tutorials. MS access seems really powerful as a database tool, and while it doesn't have the drag and drop usability of Zoho, but it is more flexible and customisable.

Below is a screen-grab of what I've been doing. Again I've customised the colours and inserted the logo from my blog to show how you could use it for corporate or small business purposes.

Access Introduction...

I haven't used MS Access for a a few years. I'm using this class to run through the Tutorial using Access 2007.

Initialy this tutorial helps me to create the data tables.

More to come...

Link with Branding.

Here's a Link that shows the below map, but this time with branding.

I've used the same branding as my RDT blog, this would be really useful if you were presenting data to a client, you could include your company branding to give a really professional impression.

Dabble Export

Map representation of sample sales data by region

Initial thoughts on Dabble DB

Dabble seems to concentrate on data manipulation and data presentation. Very Powerful and you can quickly manipulate data in ways that would take me ages in MS Excel. Also the ability to quickly share this information; in either specific views, part or whole data is very impressive...

Intial thoughts are that I would look to use ZOHO to collect Data via forms and then export it to Dabble to use the data to discover trends, opportunities and present the data to various audiences...

...more too follow...