Create Zoho Creator Web Apps from Microsoft Access Database

 
Microsoft Access is

basically a database application on the desktop. Where as, Zoho Creator is a

powerful, scalable, and secure cloud computing platform that lets you

build and run database applications online. Some of our users call it

as 'Microsoft Access + Visual Basic for the web' (Sorry, PDF).

So, what happens when you migrate data from Microsoft Access to Zoho

Creator? Well, it can become a powerful web application. This is

basically what we are doing with our announcement today. We are excited

to announce the latest addition to our family of Microsoft plug-ins - Zoho Plug-in for Microsoft Access (EXE link).


Two weeks back, we integrated our collaborative productivity applications into Microsoft SharePoint. Last week, our project management application added the capability to import your existing projects from MS Project to Zoho Projects 2.0. This week, we have a new add-on that imports your data effortlessly from Microsoft Access to Zoho Creator and Zoho Analytics and does much more.


So,

what happens when you migrate your database (MDB file) from Microsoft

Access to Zoho Creator? Your entire database structure and data are

migrated to Zoho Creator and an application is automatically created

with Forms (Tables) and Views etc. This is a quick way of creating a

web-based collaborative database app from your non-collaborative

Microsoft Access DB. Once the Microsoft Access DB is migrated to Zoho

Creator, the collaborative aspects kick in where the entire

application (or parts of it) can be shared with multiple users.

To summarize the core functionality of this plug-in in three short points, this is what it does...

  • Migrates your Database from Microsoft Access (MDB File) to Zoho Creator & Zoho Analytics
  • Automatically creates a web-based database app from your Microsoft Access database &
  • Allows you to share your applications with others
This video will give you a good idea on how this works...





Also check out: Why you should migrate from MS Access to Zoho Creator

Zoho

Creator platform offers more flexibility for your applications. Once

you have your app migrated from your MDB file, you can edit your

existing application online and can also add additional business logic

using Deluge Script,

our scripting language. The power of Deluge Script makes it easy to

design business workflows and perform a variety of automated actions

based on the criteria specified. If you have your app created and if

you are not a Creator expert, but want to take advantage of our

advanced functionality, we have many developers in our community who

are willing to help you with your app. If you think your migrated

application can be valuable for other users, you can also sell your

application in Zoho Marketplace.

Once you have your app created in Zoho Creator, it can also be deployed onto Google AppEngine.

Migrate Microsoft Access DB to Zoho Analytics:

This migration tool not only imports your data to Zoho Creator, but it can also import the data to Zoho Analytics, our Online Business Intelligence tool that lets you analyze your data and create powerful reports including charts, pivot tables, dashboards etc. Once you have your data imported from Access, similar tables are automatically created in Zoho Analytics and are available for analysis.

This

Migration tool is available for free. So whether you want to create a

web-based database app from your existing data, or analyze your data or

share it with others, this migration tool makes it extremely easy.

We certainly hope you'll find this tool useful. As usual, we can't wait

to see the amazing apps you build on our Zoho Creator platform.

Comments

22 Replies to Create Zoho Creator Web Apps from Microsoft Access Database

  1. Zoho creator is definitely one of the best tools for web application developing out there. I have checked many of them but they lack one or other thing. Zoho creator is the best one for sure. I am developing a http://www.rightfiles.com/mp4converter.html" rel="nofollow">mp4 converter at the moment so Zoho creator will definitely help me in some ways. Thanks for publishing this article here by the way.

  2. Zoho creator is definitely one of the best tools for web application developing out there. I have checked many of them but they lack one or other thing. Zoho creator is the best one for sure. I am developing a http://www.rightfiles.com/mp4converter.html" rel="nofollow">mp4 converter at the moment so Zoho creator will definitely help me in some ways. Thanks for publishing this article here by the way.

  3. HelloWe couldn't import a .mdb file to Zoho Creator. The program says :
    Problem encountered while creating the application IAMError:Z101:Invalid_Ticket
    This is with win XP.
    And with Ubuntu or Archlinux, we doesn't find the good tool to migrate the files. Is there a solution ? Thanks a lot for your answer and for your great tools.Jerome (France)

  4. HelloWe couldn't import a .mdb file to Zoho Creator. The program says :
    Problem encountered while creating the application IAMError:Z101:Invalid_Ticket
    This is with win XP.
    And with Ubuntu or Archlinux, we doesn't find the good tool to migrate the files. Is there a solution ? Thanks a lot for your answer and for your great tools.Jerome (France)

  5. ramonaortega:We found an application migrated from MS-Access db created in your account. We have sent you a detailed email regarding the issue. Please get back to us for further clarifications. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.--Yoge

  6. ramonaortega:We found an application migrated from MS-Access db created in your account. We have sent you a detailed email regarding the issue. Please get back to us for further clarifications. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.--Yoge

  7. Oliver -Currently we have two deployment options:When your Creator application is ready, you can use it in Zoho's servers. If you don't want to do that, you can also take your App and deploy it to Google's AppEngine. Now, that will take a little more work and knowledge from your side, but that's also that can be done too.Finally - more than a million people trust Zoho with their data on a daily basis. You can read more about how your data is secure at Zoho at: https://blog.zoho.com/general/...Rodrigo

  8. Oliver -Currently we have two deployment options:When your Creator application is ready, you can use it in Zoho's servers. If you don't want to do that, you can also take your App and deploy it to Google's AppEngine. Now, that will take a little more work and knowledge from your side, but that's also that can be done too.Finally - more than a million people trust Zoho with their data on a daily basis. You can read more about how your data is secure at Zoho at: https://blog.zoho.com/general/...Rodrigo

  9. Wow, looks awesome.Only question I have: is Zoho Creator available to use in the Intranet on our own server? Because I do no want to upload any of our business data to your servers... :)Thanks,
    Oliver

  10. Wow, looks awesome.Only question I have: is Zoho Creator available to use in the Intranet on our own server? Because I do no want to upload any of our business data to your servers... :)Thanks,
    Oliver

  11. Fantastic. I have been waiting for something like this to come around for a while now. Does the migration tool support .aacdb databases ie Access 2007?

  12. Fantastic. I have been waiting for something like this to come around for a while now. Does the migration tool support .aacdb databases ie Access 2007?

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