Specialist help for business-critical Access and VBA applications, from new database development, troubleshooting and performance improvements to SQL Server migration and complete modernisation.
Most Access systems start small: a database built to solve one person's or one team's problem. Years later the same database is processing orders, scheduling work, holding compliance records or running the stores, and the business would struggle to get through a day without it.
That growth is a sign the system has been useful. It also means it now needs the care any business-critical system needs, and often it has never had it.
What matters is that the business depends on the database, not how large the business is. The work is scoped to the system in front of us.
Built by the owner or inherited from a former colleague, used by a handful of people, with no IT department behind it. Small jobs are welcome: a one-off fix, a specific fault, or straightforward advice on whether it is worth changing at all.
Relied on every day by a team or a department, extended many times over the years, and starting to strain as the number of users and the volume of data increase.
A long-established system that still runs part of the operation. Talyon works alongside your IT team and within your change control, security and confidentiality requirements.
From new Access development and urgent repairs to SQL Server migrations and complete application modernisation, Talyon helps businesses build, protect and improve the systems they depend on.
An independent review of your Access application, with a practical report on risks, problems and options. The sensible first step.
Find out more02Broken applications, VBA errors, corruption, Office upgrade and 64-bit problems, including systems whose original developer has gone.
Find out more03Slow forms, reports and queries, record locking and multi-user contention, diagnosed and fixed at the cause.
Find out more04Move the data to Microsoft SQL Server and keep the Access front end your users already know, engineered so it performs.
Find out more05New Access databases designed properly from the start, and new forms, reports, features and automation added to the applications you already have.
Find out more06Staged migration to SQL Server, .NET or web technologies for systems that have outgrown Access, without losing what they know.
Find out moreIf the application will not open, the database is reporting corruption or an Office update has broken something, see Access Rescue, or go straight to the enquiry form and request Access support.
Replacing a working Access application is not automatically the right answer. Access remains an effective platform when it is properly designed and supported. Each stage below is a sound place to stop.
The existing application, understood, stabilised and properly supported. For many systems this is enough.
The familiar Access front end stays. The data moves to SQL Server for multi-user reliability, security and scale.
Where the business case supports it, the front end is rebuilt in stages on the SQL Server foundation.
Many systems are best served by stage one or two. How staged modernisation works.
Comfortable working with existing Access and VBA applications rather than insisting on immediate replacement.
SQL Server, .NET and modern application architecture provide a realistic migration path when one is needed.
Recommendations reflect business risk, cost and operational disruption, not technology fashion.
You work with experienced technical expertise rather than being passed through a large support organisation.
Over many years Talyon has developed its own tools and techniques for Microsoft Access and .NET work. They take much of the repetitive effort out of development, SQL Server upsizing and conversion to .NET, so projects move faster and the results are more consistent. The judgement stays with an experienced developer, who reviews and finishes the work.
These are anonymised illustrations of typical engagements. They are not customer testimonials, and client details are kept confidential.
Supported the modernisation of a substantial legacy business application containing complex workflows, operational rules and extensive historical data.
Work included database analysis, SQL Server development, application modernisation and preservation of established business processes.
Investigated performance and reliability problems within an established multi-user database application.
Areas reviewed included queries, forms, VBA, data access patterns, database architecture and user workflows.
Migrated data and application functionality from desktop database architecture toward SQL Server while retaining familiar user workflows and minimising operational disruption.
Start with an Access Health Check. You get a practical, written assessment of the system you have, the risks it carries and the sensible options, before committing to any larger project.
Talyon was founded by an experienced software developer specialising in business-critical database applications and legacy system modernisation, with more than 30 years of Microsoft Access development behind it, including work in critical sectors such as medical, aviation and defence.
Modernising a legacy system requires more than knowing the destination technology. You also need to understand the system you're replacing. Talyon combines long experience of Access, VBA and SQL Server with modern .NET development, so advice covers both where you are and where you could go.
More about TalyonWhether the database has suddenly stopped working or has been running successfully for twenty years, start with a conversation about what you have and what you need.
UK-based, working with organisations worldwide.
