3. Company
Snapshot • Founded in 1998 and HQ in the San Francisco, CA
• Subsidiary of Strategic Enterprise Solutions, which
specializes in management consulting in enterprise
architecture, data warehousing, and business intelligence.
• Mission: “driven by the desire to help our clients leverage
the full power of the Microsoft Access platform”
• 100% success rate in helping >100 of companies with MS
Access Database applications
4. Leadership • Sasha Froyland (founder), is a certified Enterprise Architect
with 22+ years of experience architecting IT solutions for
companies in start-up to Fortune 500.
• The inspiration to develop this unique company
came from his first-hand knowledge of working for highly
successful companies like Time Warner Telecommunications,
Level 3 Communications and StubHub.
• As start-ups, these companies recognized the advantage of
leveraging MS Access’s flexibility to develop their core
business systems. This key decision point was pivotal to their
future success.
5. Value based objectives
Higher Returns
Customize
Application
Minimize
CAPEX
Reduce
OPEX
Our primary goal is to deliver a tailored
application which meets the desired
business needs effectively and delivers
a higher return on investment for the
application.
6. Why Help4Access?
Commitment
Credentials
CapabilityCharacteristics
Our application ensures security, data
integrity, performance and scalability which
means more effective the way you need
Our vast experience in building MS
Access database applications with pre-
built Solution building blocks and
Architecture building blocks that saves
development time and effort
Our past success stories with multiple happy
customers who are willing to refer us (Time Warner,
LifeWatch, L3 Communications, Laradon Hall etc.)
The founder’s personal commitment
as a leader to ensure every single
corner is touched
12. Post phase 2, fully developed and tested
solution ready for use (Phase 3 – Production)
Development from physical requirements.
Actual code within the application
deployed into production.
Business Requirements
Statement of work
Spreadsheets
Sample Reports
H4A’s Solution Building
Blocks
Microsoft Access
Database Platform
Three phased approach to development
Physical requirements guided by ABB:
Context & Process Flow Diag.
Physical & Logical Data model
Data Migration Plan
Use Cases
Data Dictionary
Screen Layout
You
Architecture
Building Blocks
Phase 1: Analysis
and Design
Phase 2:
Develop &
Deploy
13. How a MS Access Application fits into
Enterprise Data Management Strategy…
14. Maturity of Enterprise Architecture
Business Silos Architecture
maximizes companies’ individual
business units’ functional needs.
Standardized Technology
Architecture
provides IT efficiencies through
technology standardization and, in
most cases, increased centralization
of technology management.
Optimized Core
Architecture
provides companywide data and
process standardization.
Business Modularity
Architecture
manages and reuses loosely-
coupled IT-enabled business
process components to preserve
global standards while enabling
local differences.
17. Evolution of
Microsoft
Access
Applications
in an
Enterprise
Architecture
Diagram (1/2)
Stage1
BusinessSilos
Goals:
- Maximize business value.
- Automate business processes.
- Reduce costs.
- Fast solution delivery.
2
1
MS
Access (2)
Technology Perspective:
- Front-end: Microsoft Access application on PC.
- Back-end: Microsoft Access database on fileserver.
* (Most processing occurs on the PC)
Business Perspective:
- Individual applications.
- Local business leaders.
- Local/functional optimization.
Stage2
Standardized
Technology MS
Access (2)
Technology Perspective:
- Back-end: Microsoft SQL Server.
* (Processing split evenly between PC and SQL Server)
Business Perspective:
- Shared technical platforms.
- Increase system performance and reliability.
- Reduces costs and risks but decreases flexibility slightly.
- As business services mature they provide increased revenue or
decrease costs.
Microsoft Access Lifecycle
SQL
Server
Technical Perspective:
- Front-end: Mixed. Immature business services
MS
Access
(2)
Web
Applications(3) (3)
18. Evolution of
Microsoft
Access
Applications
in an
Enterprise
Architecture
Diagram (2/2)
2
3
S
- As business services mature they provide increased revenue or
decrease costs.
SQL
Server
Stage3
OptimizedCore
Business Perspective:
- Optimized data.
- Optimized core business processes.
- Eliminated data redundancy.
- Data available across the organization.
Data Warehouse
BI Reporting
Dashboards
Fiber Channel (FC)
Technical Perspective:
- Front-end: Mixed. Immature business services
remain on Microsoft Access while mature business
services move to web platform.
- Back-end: Centralized database server.
- Business services migrate away from application
layer towards web server. (3)
- Most project involve corporate IT.
* (Most processing occurs on web server).
MS
Access
(2)
Database
Server
Farm
Web/
Application
Server
Web
Applications
n
tier
2
tier
4
Stage4
BusinessModularity
Data Warehouse
BI Reporting
Dashboards
MS
Access
(2)
Database
Server
Farm
n
tier
Web
Applications
Service Orientated Architecture (SOA)
FC FC
Technical Perspective:
- Business logic as services continue to migrate
away from the application and application
server layers to the Service Orientated
Architecture (SOA) layer. (4)
(3)
(4)
(3)
(3)
(3)
(3) (3)
Over time business services migrate from Microsoft Access applications (stage 1) into SOA (stage 4) layer.
Business Perspective:
- Organization optimized for global
flexibility as well as locally flexible.
20. Analyze &
Design
Develop &
Deploy
Application
Production Value Delivery
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