While there are many books that focus on Data Analysis with Excel, it is extremely difficult to find any books dedicated to Data Analysis with Microsoft Access. This book shows readers that Access has strong data analysis capabilities that are easy to learn, applicable to all kinds business situations, and relevant to many types of organizations. What do we mean by Data Analysis? The process of categorizing data into groups, summarizing large amounts of data into meaningful information, and performing a wide variety of calculations in a fraction of the time it would normally take by hand. The market is virtually void of any documentation that offers users solutions revolving around data analysis with Access. So why isn’t Data Analysis with Excel good enough? Excel has real limitations that often force Excel users to use Access. Years of consulting experience have brought the authors face-to-face with Excel users who have offered contracts because their projects had outgrown Excel. They simply did not know what the next logical step was. Access solved their problems easily!
