Wood Industry
Access Migration for Wood Industry
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. Yard inventory sits on a whiteboard and kiln schedules in a notebook, with orders kept in a legacy database.
Does Imagi-Tech do Access Migration for sawmills and lumber yards?
Yes. Imagi-Tech provides Microsoft Access migration to sawmills and lumber yards across ten Ohio markets, from our office in Marietta, Ohio. We scope and quote each project after a free audit. The problem it addresses: yard inventory sits on a whiteboard and kiln schedules in a notebook, with orders kept in a legacy database.
Sound familiar?
Where sawmills and lumber yards 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.
Wood Industry
The systems we end up in
Most sawmills and lumber yards run some version of these four. Our Access Migration work usually starts with getting them to share data.
Log and lumber inventory by species and grade
Kiln schedules and moisture records
Order entry, tally sheets, and shipping
Grading, yield, and scale tickets
What changes
- Tally that matches the yard without a walk-around
- Kiln and order schedules visible to the whole crew
- Yield reporting you can set prices from
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.
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 Wood Industry, 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 Wood Industry
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.