This was presented at SharePoint Saturday in Indianapolis on January 30, 2010. Access Services puts application development in the hands of business users and makes it so IT becomes real strategic advisors for effective use of technology.

1. Making Access & Excel
Services Work For Business
Presented by: Andy Hoffman
Ambassador Solutions

2. Andy Hoffman
www.andyhoffman.net www.ambassadorsolutions.com
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3. IT Tug -O-War
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4. It Will Get Done
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5. Conflicting Solutions
IT Business
Long Lifecycle Quick
Code Agile
SP
Stable Technical Risk
Supported Not Supported
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6. IT Business
SP
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7. RFP Database
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8. Not a Database
QuestionAnswer State
ID State_ID
State
State_ID
District_ID
District
Topic_ID District_ID
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Question Title
Answer
Topic
Topic
Topic_ID
Topic
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9. Lookup Columns
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10. Title
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11. Editing The QA
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12. Demo 1
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13. Sales Distribution
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14. Distribution Tracking
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15. Total Time
Form 2
Report 4
Total Weeks
6
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16. Cohesive Applications
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17. Cohesive Applications
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18. Cohesive Applications
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19. Cohesive Applications
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20. Cohesive Applications
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21. Distribution BI Demo
Demo
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22. 34%
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23. 15%
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24. Time
Complexity
Technical Ability
Reusability
Flexibility
Acceptance
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25. Strategic Advisor
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