Add a skilled spreadsheet user to a start-up or a franchise and it’s every entrepreneur’s dream come true. But while spreadsheets solve, they can also create real business problems.

If your business has been going for a while you have a lot of data. Someone typed in every line of it. In many cases they had to type the same thing over and over, hopefully not making any mistakes. You’ve paid for every byte of data in your accounting system and all your databases – some data, you’ve paid for more than once.

Is Microsoft Access still a valid solution for small to medium-sized businesses?

A database development solution is more than a bunch of rows and columns. Here are five questions to help you assess your current or future database development solution: