Every organization depends on data management to fulfill its mission.  When the data is mission-critical it might be stored in custom enterprise systems (Oracle, SQL Server, SAP or a custom off-the-shelf package) and managed by an IT staff to ensure its security, integrity and timeliness.  At the same time, users build thousands of databases every day in Excel and Access.  These databases might be mailings lists in Access, pivot tables in Excel, or prototypes of new business systems.  While these databases are not mission-critical they enable staff to do their job. These non-enterprise databases may be ephemeral or they may proliferate so that what was once a non-essential mailing list in Access for one person may become valuable to the organization. 

But as more people begin depending on these 'homegrown' solutions, these systems show their limitations in scalability and may lose their effectiveness.  For example an Access database that worked well for one person may not allow several people to use it at the same time, so it gets copied onto desktops which results in data duplication and version conflicts.  A pivot table in Excel that was a great productivity tool for a workgroup needs to be expanded to provide the same reporting functionality for a whole department and needs to be published on the organization's Intranet.  In many organizations the IT department is limited to supporting the mission-critical enterprise systems and cannot provide the necessary support for non-enterprise databases.  Where can businesses find help for these important systems?

Holloway Systems fills this unique niche in the market.  We help organizations maximize their overall productivity by making these non-enterprise systems as efficient as possible.