database design and development

Our aim in database design is to achieve databases that are easy to use, straightforward to maintain and rich in yields of information that can be used to business advantage.

Also, recognising that few businesses manage to specify their database perfectly at the outset, we build each database so that it is open to modification and extension without excessive additional resources.

DMW has been designing and developing Microsoft Access databases for 18 years, since Access first arrived in the UK. So we offer a wealth of experience to help you achieve exactly what you need.

database development return on investment

Design and development costs should be weighed against the ROI that will accrue from the use of the database over its lifetime.

We work closely with our clients to make sure any database matches business needs and objectives, intent on yielding that return on investment.

We assist in focussing on true needs, and on distinguishing these from wishes. Wishes, which may sound like good ideas at the outset, inflate specifications and lead to inclusion in a database of areas that never get used or maintained properly. Thus wishes may over-complicate a database and certainly will inflate the cost of development.

database consultancy

Experience across scores of business sectors and business applications means we have much to offer in determining the best approach to take for a new database.

Certainly we can help you avoid the sorts of costly mistakes that are still being made in the specification, commissioning, development and usage of relational databases.

bespoke database designs

These are some of the databases we have developed for clients in the UK:

• Addressing
• Asset Management
• Contact Management
• Customer Complaints Management
• Customer Sales and Orders
• Document Numbering and Tracking
• Enquiry Management
• Estimating
• Financial Market Intelligence
• Human Resources
• Insurance Premiums and Claims
• Marketing Management
• Office Integration
• Product Returns Tracking
• Sales and Product Production Forecasting
• Sales Leads and Tenders
• Supply Chain Management
• Time Logging/Time Sheet Tracking
• Work in Progress

At least one of these we know made it to Spain, Sweden and Singapore.

database conversion

As you upgrade from Office 97 through 2000, 2002 (XP), 2003 and 2007, you are faced with the question as to whether or not upgrade your Access databases.

DMW is gradually phasing out support for Access 97 databases but we continue for the forseeable future to convert Access 97 databases to later formats.