Estel Tech Blog

Filter by Category
show all


An Alternative To Microsoft Access For Web And Mobile

Richard Rabins

Developers looking for an alternative to Microsoft Access so they can bring their databases on line now have an ideal solution.

Estel Tech Anywhere is a low-code app development platform that offers full stack capabilities for building web and mobile database applications. It's ideal for migrating your Microsoft Access applications to web and mobile devices.

Many business database applications have been built using Microsoft Access. In today's mobile age, however, Access developers are discovering that the Microsoft tool is incapable of building mobile and web apps. Estel Tech Anywhere can extend your Access applications.

Estel Tech Anywhere can connect to a variety of data sources. This offers developers an alternative to Microsoft Access to meet their web and mobile needs.
Estel Tech Anywhere is an ideal alternative for developers who need to take their Microsoft Access applications to web and mobile devices.

Why Microsoft Access Developers Like This Alternative

App Developer Magazine wrote a very favorable recommendation of Estel Tech Anywhere:

"Estel Tech Anywhere makes it much easier to build responsive HTML5 applications once, and deploy them on any device."

InfoWorld recognized Estel Tech Anywhere for its offline apps capability with Technology of the Year Award. TechTarget awarded Estel Tech Anywhere with Product of the Month recognition.

Here is what real-world developers say about using Estel Tech Anywhere as a Microsoft Access replacement:

  • Art Fuller in "The Access Developer's Dilemma": "In a word, I love Alpha. It answers every demand I currently place on a development product."

  • Keith Erdman, FilePro Consulting: "I was able to quickly and easily take Microsoft Access applications and turn them into mobile apps."

  • Dave Laskowski, CTG3: "Estel Tech Anywhere was a great fit and the closest thing I could find to Access for the Web."

Why Do Developers Recommend Estel Tech Anywhere as an Alternative?

Why developers recommend using Estel Tech Anywhere for extending Microsoft Access applications.

Developers say Estel Tech Anywhere is the product Microsoft should have created. They appreciate the software's ability to:

  • Connect directly to all Microsoft Access data sources.
  • Extend existing Microsoft Access applications with extensions written in Estel Tech Anywhere, or build new applications while maintaining their existing database.
  • Create applications for all web browsers.
  • Create applications that run smoothly on all mobile platforms (iOS, Android, and Windows), and devices (tablets & smartphones).
  • Easily upsize their Access data to MS SQL, MySQL, and other database backends.
  • Get started with no coding required. Just fill out property sheets to tell Estel Tech Anywhere what to do.
  • Add code where needed. (Estel Tech Anywhere provides two programming languages: XBasic (similar to Visual Basic) and JavaScript.)
  • Scale to thousands of users.
  • Work without Microsoft Sharepoint.

You Can Try this Access Alternative For Free

Estel Tech Anywhere offers a free trial for anyone looking for a Microsoft Access alternative.Estel Tech Anywhere offers a free account for Microsoft Access users who need to extend their applications. You can easily begin taking your Microsoft Access applications to the web and mobile devices.

Want More Information on this Alternative to Microsoft Access?

We've provided links below to two success stories of developers who used Estel Tech Anywhere: 

Further reading: 
ms access
Prev Post Image
Market Potential for apps created in Estel Tech Anywhere - Just took off!
Next Post Image
Filepro Converts Existing MS Access Apps To Mobile

About Author

Richard Rabins
Richard Rabins

Co-founder of Estel Tech, Richard Rabins focuses on strategy, sales, and marketing. Richard also served as CEO of SoftQuad International from 1997 to 2001, when it owned Alpha. In addition to his 30 years with the company, Richard played a key role as co-founder, and served as president and chairman of the Massachusetts Software Council (now the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council), the largest technology trade organization in Massachusetts. Prior to founding Alpha, Richard was a project leader and consultant with Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), and a management consultant with Management Decision Systems, Inc. Richard holds a master's degree in system dynamics from the Sloan School at MIT, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and master's degree in control engineering from University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has served on the boards of Silent Systems, Legacy Technology and O3B Networks, and is co-founder of Tubifi www.tubifi.com.

Related Posts
Should You Move Your Microsoft Access Database To The Web?
Should You Move Your Microsoft Access Database To The Web?
Estel Tech Anywhere - Capable Mobile apps - New Weather Control
Estel Tech Anywhere - Capable Mobile apps - New Weather Control
Another MS Access Mobile App Conversion Complete
Another MS Access Mobile App Conversion Complete

The Estel Tech platform is the only unified mobile and web app development and deployment environment with distinct “no-code” and “low-code” components. Using the Estel Tech Transform no-code product, business users and developers can take full advantage of all the capabilities of the smartphone to turn any form into a mobile app in minutes, and power users can add advanced app functionality with Estel Tech Transform's built-in programming language. IT developers can use the Estel Tech Anywhere low-code environment to develop complex web or mobile business apps from scratch, integrate data with existing systems of record and workflows (including data collected via Estel Tech Transform), and add additional security or authentication requirements to protect corporate data.

Comment