Mobile Workforce
Access Migration for Mobile Workforce
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. Crews write the job up in the truck, and then the office types it all in again.
Does Imagi-Tech do Access Migration for field service teams?
Yes. Imagi-Tech provides Microsoft Access migration to field service teams across ten Ohio markets, from our office in Marietta, Ohio. We scope and quote each project after a free audit. The problem it addresses: crews write the job up in the truck, and then the office types it all in again.
Sound familiar?
Where field service teams 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.
Mobile Workforce
The systems we end up in
Most field service teams run some version of these four. Our Access Migration work usually starts with getting them to share data.
Dispatch and scheduling boards
Work orders and field tickets
Photos, signatures, and proof of service
Timesheets and payroll hand-off
What changes
- Techs close jobs on a phone before leaving the driveway
- Office stops re-keying what the crew already wrote down
- Invoices go out the same day the job closes
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.
The Proz
A mobile crew needed onsite photos to reach the office the same day, and the general manager wanted a scheduler to drag jobs onto. After eight years of continuous development, The Proz is the dominant hood cleaner in their area.
8+ yrs building and improving the same system
Work Order ApplicationThe PM Company
Years of features stitched onto the same app had left maintenance workers with an interface nobody enjoyed. We rewrote it on Vue, and crews now start and pause jobs on a tablet and switch between them on the fly.
FalconSnap Software SolutionHMR Plumbing
Several crews worked across several counties, and the office had no shared view of the day. FalconSnap puts the schedule and job photos in one place, with status updates, on phones and desktops.
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 Mobile Workforce, 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 Mobile Workforce
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.
What does Access Migration cost?
Scope decides it, so the free audit comes before any number. You get a fixed written quote before anything is billed, and you keep the audit whether or not you hire us. Digital Marketing is the one exception, sold at a published monthly price.
Can Access Migration work around the systems we already own?
Yes, and that is where we start. We modernize around what you already have. When something has to go, the audit shows you what keeping it costs before we price replacing it.
Where does Imagi-Tech work?
We work out of 200 Putnam St, Suite 201, Marietta, Ohio, and cover ten markets across Ohio. Most work happens remotely because it is faster, and we schedule on-site time when hands on hardware will help.
How does an Imagi-Tech Microsoft Access migration project start?
With a free audit. We look at what you run now and give you a plain-language read on what is solid and what is one bad morning away from trouble. Scope and price come after that.
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.