


According to research firm Enlyft over 83,000 organizations still use Access at an 11% market share.Access still has a substantial presence in the market going by some of the following statistics Organizations across industries as diverse as non-profit, manufacturing, public sector, healthcare use it to manage data and create custom applications.

It comes bundled with the ubiquitous Microsoft Office suite, and might not be as popular as its productivity cousins (Office, Powerpoint, Excel etc.) but is almost universally known amongst the technical IT community.Īccess is a complete database application, with tremendous depth and flexibility. It was perhaps the first “low code” application builder because unlike its DB counterparts, it also allowed users to build the front end of an application to manage business processes. MS Access was the first mass market database application for Windows, and indeed across all platforms. Microsoft Access is indeed the grand-daddy of business software, first released in 1992 almost three decades ago! The short answer is – definitely not in the short run.
