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For SAGE’s developers, using MS Access provides a direct connection to the SQL Server database storing the web content, while providing dynamic, pre-built controls. Similar functionality using web programming languages would have been time-consuming and costly. With MS Access, our developers could manipulate the data using preexisting controls rather than multiple pages of programming scripts. Furthermore, MS Access permitted a more dynamic environment that allows the site administrators to perform data manipulation without “postbacks” to the server and other limitations a web environment imposes. This significantly sped up development time and cut down development costs for a custom solution. Access also facilitated the quick deployment of useful features like a text editor to format content.

Using MS Access as the foundation for a custom web CMS for Collier Shannon Scott, SAGE took advantage of its flexibility and users’ familiarity with it to create a solution comparable in price to an out-of-the-box system, but with features and functionality of a custom solution. We were also able to develop this custom solution in significantly less time and expense than using web technologies. However, SAGE did not let the platform or convention limit it in creating an intuitive and engaging user interface that makes managing the web site easy. Collier Shannon Scott now post content updates to their web site and manage its pages faster and more efficiently than ever. According to David Carns, “once again, experience pays.”

Matthew Daniel is the Manager for Application Development. Peter von Elling heads SAGE's interface and design efforts for web sites and applications. To learn more about SAGE’s solutions for content management, please contact Matt at mdaniel@sagesol.com or call 202.659.9390.