Why Migrate?

Many companies are looking for strategies and tools to migrate from Microsoft Access to a more powerful environment, such as .NET.

The reasons for this interest vary, but include:

• Secure important data;
• Increased development possibilities;
• Enterprise deployment capability;
• Platform standardization;
• Customer/partner alignment;
• Admistrative or political decisions.

At What Cost?

The cost of a migration process depends on several characteristics of the original system: size of the application, complexity of its components and behaviour patterns to migrate, inter alia.

ATX offer a free project assessment service which results in an effort and cost estimation for the overall migration project.

The Scope of Access2Net

Access2Net is targeted at the application layer only. Migration of data and reports is possible through the SSMA tool from Microsoft.

Access2Net Converter converts Microsoft Access Forms and modules to a target .NET solution, in 100% pure .NET code. Users can choose their target platform: Windows Forms or Web Forms, in either C# or VB.NET. Any VB code inside the Access database is also included in the conversion.

Mind the Gap!

All migration techniques have to address the semantic gap that separates the original from the target environment.

Access2Net incorporates a sophisticated reengineering approach whereby code structures are identified and transformed into the desired target using the MVC architectural pattern. This powerful feature provides 3 major advantages over a 1-1 syntactic mapping:

• A greater percentage of the source code is automatically converted;
• The resulting architecture enables easier maintenance and evolution;
• The resulting code complies with Microsoft best practices.

Access2Net offers a significant reduction of effort and costs over a manual migration process.