FAQ · Project planning, cost, and security
What happens during a Microsoft Access database assessment?
An assessment examines the technical application, the business workflow, current risks, and realistic modernization options.
Short answer
An assessment examines the technical application, the business workflow, current risks, and realistic modernization options.
What this means in practice
The purpose is to replace assumptions with an evidence-based plan. Access Evolved reviews the database safely, interviews process owners, and identifies immediate repairs separately from strategic changes.
✓Inventory objects, VBA, macros, linked sources, integrations, and dependencies.
✓Review deployment, backups, security, performance, corruption history, and support risks.
✓Map users, roles, tasks, reports, exceptions, and manual workarounds.
✓Evaluate data quality, volume, growth, and migration complexity.
✓Compare repair, enhancement, SQL back end, Power Platform, and custom options.
The practical next step
The resulting recommendations can include urgent fixes, architecture options, a phased roadmap, major assumptions, risks, and a preliminary effort range.
This answer provides general guidance. The right recommendation depends on your application, data, users, licensing, and business requirements.