Microsoft Access, a database management system from Microsoft which is widely used for both small and large database deployments. The software combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with software-development and graphical user interface tools. It is also a part of Microsoft Office suite of applications which includes Word, Outlook, and Excel, among others in the professional and higher editions. Like a relational database, MS Access allows linking user-related information and import or link directly to the data stored in the databases and other applications. The DBMS software can also work directly with data from other sources, like PC database programs, with SQL databases on the desktop, servers, minicomputers, or on mainframes with the help of the data stored on Internet or intranet web servers.
Microsoft Access is widely used to store information for reference, reporting, and analysis. It helps users to analyze large amounts of information, and manage data more efficiently. The significant advantages of MS Access are that it is easy to install and use, easy to integrate, .NET friendly, saves money, it is multi-user support, offers convenient storage capacity and makes it easy to import data. Unlike Microsoft Office or spreadsheet, Microsoft Access is the most advanced and complicated product that requires higher levels of experience and training and at the same time offers higher levels of efficiency.