Construction
Access Migration for Construction
That Access database from 2009 still runs the shop. We move it to the cloud with your business processes intact, and you review and approve the work at each checkpoint along the way. Job costs live in spreadsheets and change orders in email, so the margin shows up after the job is done.
Does Imagi-Tech do Access Migration for contractors and builders?
Yes. Imagi-Tech provides Microsoft Access migration to contractors and builders across ten Ohio markets, from our office in Marietta, Ohio. We scope and quote each project after a free audit. The problem it addresses: job costs live in spreadsheets and change orders in email, so the margin shows up after the job is done.
Sound familiar?
Where contractors and builders usually get stuck
- One Access file on one shared drive runs a department
- It only works on one machine, and that machine is old
- The person who built it retired, and the forms are held together with hope
- Nobody will touch it because nobody knows what breaks
What's included
What you get
- Full audit of tables, queries, and reports
- Data cleaning and migration with zero loss
- Modern cloud front end your team can use anywhere
- Parallel-run period so nothing breaks
- Documentation and training
Your business logic moved to the cloud with every record intact.
Construction
The systems we end up in
Most contractors and builders run some version of these four. Our Access Migration work usually starts with getting them to share data.
Estimating and bid tracking
Job costing and committed costs
Change orders and RFIs
Field time and equipment logs
What changes
- Job costs you can check on any day of the month
- Change orders that get signed and priced before they are billed
- Field hours that land in payroll without retyping
How we work
Access Migration, cut into four pieces
Audit the database
We document every table, query, form, report, and macro, including a few nobody knew were still running.
Blueprint the rebuild
We map the old structure to the new one and flag any data that needs cleaning. Scope gets agreed before we touch anything.
Migrate and prototype
Data gets checked as it leaves the old system and again when it lands. Before cutover you test a working front end against real records.
Parallel run and hand off
The old and new systems run side by side until the numbers match. After that we hand over the keys along with documentation and training.
Proof
Work like this, written up
Each write-up explains what the client was up against and how our fix turned out.
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Get a clear read on your technology
We'll run a free audit and explain what we find in plain language. You keep the report whatever you decide.
Get Free Audit →Where we work
Access Migration for Construction, by market
Pick the market closest to you. We send the same people and follow the same process everywhere we work.
Mid-Ohio Valley
Central Ohio
Southwest Ohio
Questions we get asked
About Access Migration for Construction
Can you move a Microsoft Access database to the cloud?
Yes, that is what this service does. Your business processes move across intact, and you review and approve the blueprint and the prototypes at each checkpoint. Nobody has to rebuild the workflow from memory afterward.
Will we lose our data or our reports?
No. During the review we list the reports people run and rebuild each one as part of the scope. The month-end report comes across with everything else.
Does the team have to relearn everything?
No. We document how the work runs before we rebuild anything, so the new system looks familiar to the people who used the old one. It also works on desktop, tablet and phone.
Our Access database still works. Why move it?
If it works well, leave it alone. The audit shows you where the risk sits, whether that's a single shared drive, one machine holding the only working copy, a version nobody can license any more, or a developer who has left.
Who owns the work when the project is finished?
You do. That includes the data, the documentation, the system itself, and every login. We never hold anything back to keep you as a client.
What if the person who built our current setup has left?
That is the normal case, and we handle it often. We document what you have from the outside, based on what it does, and the people who use it every day are usually the best source.
Do you work with contractors and builders?
Yes. Contractors and builders across Ohio are a big part of our client list. The process stays the same whatever the sector: an audit, a written scope you approve, prototype checkpoints where they fit, and then launch and support.
Are we too small for Microsoft Access migration?
Almost certainly not. Most of our clients are businesses where the person in charge of technology is in charge of three other things too, and we built the process around that person.
Free audit
Let's get started
Tell us what's giving you trouble, in your own words. "Our Access database is dying" is plenty to go on.