SaaS & Tooling / Database Modernisation
Turn your battle-hardened MS Access database into a scalable web app.
That Access file has probably survived office moves, staff changes, heroic workarounds, mystery macros, and at least one person called “the only one who knows how it works”. We take that indispensable little kingdom of forms, queries, tables, reports, and VBA folklore and rebuild it as a secure, modern, multi-user web application that can grow without creaking.
From desktop dependency to cloud-ready product.
We migrate Microsoft Access databases into fully scalable web applications with proper authentication, role-based access, clean data models, dashboards, automated workflows, integrations, reporting, audit trails, and deployment patterns that do not depend on a shared drive behaving itself.
Discovery without drama
We inspect the tables, relationships, forms, reports, queries, macros, VBA, import/export jobs, and the quiet manual rituals that never made it into documentation.
A real web application
We rebuild the experience as a browser-based system with secure sign-in, permissions, validation, search, dashboards, approvals, notifications, and clean operational workflows.
A database that can breathe
Access tables become a properly managed database on SQL Server, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, or MySQL, with backups, performance tuning, migrations, and reporting designed in.
Proof of concept in 7 to 10 days.
Days 1-2: autopsy and architecture
We identify the core entities, critical workflows, data quality issues, integrations, and the smallest valuable slice that proves the migration approach.
Days 3-7: working web app slice
We build a usable web prototype with migrated sample data, authentication, one or two priority workflows, and enough polish for real users to challenge it.
Days 8-10: evidence and roadmap
We harden the proof, capture feedback, identify migration risks, estimate the full build, and leave you with a practical delivery plan rather than a speculative slide deck.
Hosted by us, or handed over to you.
Hosted by Unicorn Consultants
We can run the platform for you with managed hosting, backups, monitoring, patching, deployment support, and a pragmatic support model. This suits teams that want the new application without inheriting another operational burden.
Hosted by your own team
We can deploy into your Azure, AWS, hosting provider, or on-premise environment with infrastructure notes, CI/CD guidance, backup plans, and handover documentation so your team keeps control.
Let the Access database retire with dignity.
Book a focused call and we will identify whether a 7 to 10 day proof of concept can prove the migration path, the hosting model, and the first high-value workflow.