The most notable thing about database has always been the undisputed matter of performance. The ultimate supremacy of the database has always been determined on the basis of its performance. There have always been certain tenets, on the basis of which the performance of databases were judged, like which database can support the most users? Which won the recent challenge in benchmarking? The battle for performance continues at full force but in the dizzying pace of technological advancement, it would be safe to say that the database that would bag the winning position has to be ace enough to provide an all encompassing solution to all the database centric issues encountered by a business firm. So the one that can provide a full database service is the one sought after by all businesses.

    Performance has been and will always be the most important criteria by which to judge database performance. A data store has to be packed with enough juice to support all their application, if it doesn’t meet the requirement, then it isn’t worth it. A database with a top notch performance will provide you with a maximum return on investments by completely utilizing both its software and hardware resources. Today's markets are facing the additional competitive pressures of managing, structuring as well as sharing data so data access is being increasingly pressurized.

    Excelq is reputed to provide you with all your database solutions and help provide you with maximum return on your investments by optimal performance.

Excelq Solutions to Database Design

    When it comes to designing and development of customized database systems, you can trust Excelq. The needs of your business are superbly interpreted and applied by the Excelq design engineers to provide you with a database design that is both structured and has an informative layout. The experts at Excelq are geared to understand your business needs and provide you with the most cost effective and efficient ways to meet the database design needs of your business.

Advantages of the Smart Client Application

    The smart client applications uses database from websites and enables real time. The smart client application is ideal multi user interface in big businesses and translates your business needs into a well structured database design and is suited for all your database management needs. Smart client application is also cost effective and phenomenally cheaper than most other applications, in terms of maintenance, design and development. When you choose Smart Client Application, you get the best performance, usage and power. The best highlights of Smart Client Application are:

• Browser Based
• Targets consumer businesses of audience
• High usability
• Fast performance
• Comparatively lower maintenance and development costs
• High Security

    The smart client application is used by most businesses to manage functions of applications, maintain and create database records and make the resulting records of the database available to target audiences through the website.

Operate Excel Over the Internet

    It’s a known fact that MS Excel can help you sort and analyze all kinds of data regarding your business. But the one great disadvantage is that the Excel spreadsheet that is useful for one business and is used extensively by that firm gets modified overtime, its features expand and there is an overall increase in complexity involved. So after the same spreadsheet has been done to death, the effort required earlier to manage the Excel spreadsheet, now exceeds the gains from the business. Thankfully, there is an easy way to avoid this complexity and make life easier by migrating your Excel spreadsheets to the application called Microsoft.NET which helps manage your business data by providing smooth repeatability options, improved quality and least problems with security and control issues. So with Microsoft.NET, you not only get more efficient data management in a user friendly way but all of the benefits come with significantly low cost so that the cost of managing your data does not encroach upon your profits from the business.

Significant Advantages

    By converting your Excel spreadsheets to MS.Net, you can not only save your data in a more flexible, structured and secure format but can also preserve the original modes of functioning of the spreadsheet. So your data becomes more organized, manageable and cost effective. Some definitive highlights of the MS.Net transference are:

• Good work flow
• Concurrent updates supporting multi user
• One for all security system that secures all aspects of the application with a single password
• High functioning full audit trails
• Unlimited data capacity
• Comes with both two dimensional as well as three dimensional data structures.
• Data integrity ranges from highly to somewhat constrained.
• Highly efficient and workable interface that ensures easy transference and management of data.

    The best part about transferring data to MS.Net is that you can view, manage, analyze, import and export the data as it is.

Online Database with MS Access

    The immediate problem with MS Access is that it was not build to be accessed over the web by large groups of people at once. The software application was designed to be used by small groups over the web but the competitive atmosphere of business requires that the Access database has to be shared with large groups of employees for reference and ease of use. It is natural for a large business firm to want to share a highly customized database uniquely suited to the business requirements, with large groups of employees so as to allow them to use it from various locations while on the move, thus saving time and increasing mobility. But the one major problem is that by trying to make your access database available online you might end up with significantly slow application, crashed application, error pop ups, corrupt data and even threatening security issues.

    MS Access was designed to cater to small groups via the internet and has limited database storage capacity. So with the more complex the database and the more number of people, the storage capacity of Access gets smaller and smaller. Additional pressures can cause Access run into significant performance and security issues. There are a few criteria which when exceeded, will cause trouble with MS Access.

• The size of the database has to be up to or less than 300 MB
• The number of concurrent LAN users has to be within a limit of ten people
• The online users of Access have to be not more than three people at a time.

    When you ignore these criteria and push beyond the limitations of Access, you are bound to face real problems soon. These problems start up even sooner when MS Access has not been designed or coded appropriately to meet the standards of professional database.

    But thankfully, there are several methods available nowadays that allow online usage of Access. Among the methods of online usability of Access, there are a few approaches that involve the lowest risk.

• Using remote Access solutions like Citrix, Terminal services or GoToMeeting which are among the most popular.
• Another way is to situate Access applications on a shared network drive so that all users in that line of the network can access the applications.

    Many people use the synchronization feature of MS Access which is simply trodding on dangerous paths because this multi user, multi site feature almost always leads to disasters including the application and the data becoming corrupted and unusable. Unfortunately there are some technical drawbacks of MS Access which simply cannot be overcome through straightforward methods of programming techniques. You may try sophisticated techniques to increase the workability of Access on a temporary basis but soon you will be forced to spend more money and time to repair and maintain the application. In time, the cost of maintaining the application may exceed the gains of business made through the application.

    The best way to go about these technical problems is to test the differences in performance among the many servers on the MS business platform that may allow the operation of Access via the internet. The best way is to determine which combination gives you the biggest investments for your business with the lowest hassle. The few suitable combinations are:

• Online access vs. LAN access
• Depending on the frequency of usage choose from either heavy or moderate usage frequency.
• 5 users vs. Enterprise wide deployment depending on the number of end users at a time.
• The complexity of the business database or the product determines the combination to choose.
• Level of compliance with the industry and auditing ease determines the combination
• Type of content like dynamic or static also has to be taken into consideration when choosing a combination.

    Combining your old MS Access application with a SQL server database makes good sense because here internet access is not a problem provided your application is well designed. It has been noticed by many users that by combining your old Access applications with SQL server simply makes many of the technical problems associated with Access go away. It is the opinion of experts that developing customized business applications on MS Excel and Access according to the requirements of each type of business can be a costly and hassling affair but by simply developing business applications on the SQL server saves a lot of time and hassle. The difficulties associated with deploying and controlling MS Access are significantly reduced when the platform is shifted to the SQL server.

Smart Client Prototypes

    Prototypes are the ways to determine the process of custom building of business databases. The Excelq Smart Client prototypes communicate and provide a visual verification to the clients of new applications, their layout, work capacity, overall capabilities, ease of use and suitability to various business requirements.

Kinds of Prototypes

1. Patient Case Manager Prototype
2. Social Services Case Manager Prototype
3.   Healthcare Provider Testing Prototype
4. Loan Manager Prototype

    You can click to run any of the prototypes to verify the capabilities and usability of each. A the outset of every new project, Excelq has to deal with three major issues namely the outcome of the project, the time required for the project and the cost of the project. So the prototypes are an effective and easy way to answer these questions, thus removing the anticipated risks of the project. Excelq prototypes are efficient, accurate without any waste.

The Smart Client Foundation System

    The Smart Client Foundation System of Excelq is an example of two decades of hard work to enhance the Microsoft SQL server platform. The enhancements have imparted a range of capabilities generic to any top notch database system. To meet the diversified needs of the clients as well as the various industrial requirements, long periods of implementation, designing and management have gone into the application. All customized database requirements are put on the platform of the SCFS and allows the engineering team to work on the database schemes and deliver the most cost effective and highly efficient solutions to all industry based problems on Excel. Some of the noteworthy features of the SCFS are:

1. Intelligent  Payload – complete dual directional encoding of the payload, the client side data stored in memory and/or in disks, improved application responsiveness even over slow networks, reduced network traffic, effective data compression which reduces the overall workload and speeds up application operation by reducing network load, easy encryption and storage with the existing layers of data.
2. Form construction and layout – build or browse forms and edit with filters, consistent and easy to use interface, lower cost of development.
3. Flexible security – User defined security structure where the user roles can be shifted, defined and managed, admin controlled industry roles with flexible option of accommodation with the industrial growth without any reconstruction, different users can have different roles on the database depending on the organization, admin roles to assign other admins or members roles to define and/or manage the organizational privileges.

    So the online database systems at Excelq are really the ultimate solution to all your database problems.