Recent News from FMS
 The Hot Mommas Project:
FMS Creates a Social Networking
Website for
Female Entrepreneurs (December 2008)
Seeking to build the world's leading case study site for
businesswomen and entrepreneurs, a professor at the George
Washington University Business School chose FMS to get it
done. Key Features include:
-
 Social networking features including
tagging and public profiles
-
Rich text authoring
-
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) driven URLs for
participants' cases
-
Great prizes for competition
winners!
Read more about this
social networking website.
White Paper: Application Development During Uncertain Times
(November 2008)
Read FMS president Luke Chung's
white paper on how to best develop applications and
position yourself during these challenging economic times.
Balancing budgets, application requirements, and the rapidly
changing external environment, a strategy that's quick and
nimble is in more demand than ever. Learn how to best
position yourself and your organization in these challenging
times. Minimize risk and maximize your potential by getting
solutions into production quickly and letting the market
decide what survives and dies. Application evolution and
natural selection is most powerful during times like these.
Make sure you anticipate those forces.
Streamlining the Harvard College Interview Process (November
2008)
 It's
the season for high school seniors to apply to college. This
year our Professional Solutions
Group is helping
Harvard
College automate their interview process. Almost every
student who applies to be a freshman is offered a personal
interview with a local Harvard alum. With over 22,000
applicants last year, it's quite a challenge to match up
applicants with interviewers, and manage all the paperwork.
Our Professional Solutions Group created a web based
solution using SQL Server, Visual Studio .NET, and an Access
administrative interface to assist with the process. With
Harvard now providing massive scholarships based on
financial need (families making under $80K a year don't have
to pay anything and those making up to $200K pay only 10%),
we expect an even larger pool of applicants. Best wishes to
all who apply!
 Total
Access Speller 2007 Ships (October 2008)
The Microsoft Access 2007 version of
Total
Access Speller is now shipping with many
new features.
New X.5 versions are also available for Access 2003,
2002, and 2000.
Total Access Analyzer 2007 Ships (October 2008)
 Thank
you for your patience! The much awaited Microsoft Access
2007 version of
Total Access Analyzer is
now shipping.
 Total
Access Memo 2007 Ships (August 2008)
Total Access Memo 2007
for Microsoft Access 2007 is now shipping with full
support for Access 2007 through Access 2000. Easily add
rich text memo fields to your forms and reports tied to
your tables. Includes a built-in full screen text editor
to let you easily add fonts, point sizes, styles,
paragraph settings, graphics, hyperlinks, and more! You
can even spell check your formatted text with support
for 20 languages.
Free Seminar for Microsoft Access to SQL Server Upsizing
Co-Sponsored by Microsoft on June 27, 2008 (Reston, Virginia)
Please join us for a half-day seminar on upsizing Access applications
to SQL Server.
Luke Chung, FMS President, and Steve Clark, FMS Project Manager and
Microsoft MVP, will present these topics:
- Where Microsoft Access Fits in the Overall Database Strategy of
an Organization
- Approaches to Upsizing Access to SQL Server
Microsoft Access to SQL
Server Upsizing Seminar
 Microsoft
TechEd Panel Discussion: Are we there yet? Successfully
navigating the bumpy road from Access to SQL Server (June 18, 2008)
Watch the televised video of Luke Chung, FMS President, on a panel
discussion at the 2008 Microsoft TechEd Conference in Orlando, Florida.
Hosted by Microsoft's Mary Chipman, the panel discusses the
challenges and approaches of migrating Microsoft Access applications to
SQL Server.
Microsoft Access to SQL
Server Upsizing video
Total Visual CodeTools 2007 Ships (May 13, 2008)
 Total
Visual CodeTools 2007 helps you write, cleanup, and
deliver better VB6 and VBA code. Discover why so many
Access, Office and VB6 developers rely on Total Visual
CodeTools to simplify their application development, fix
existing and inherited projects, and deliver more robust
and supportable solutions.
New features
include support for Access 2007, detecting unused
variables, improved code builders and utilities, and
much more.
Free demo available.
Special Offer for Microsoft MSDN Premium Subscriptions (May 2008)
 FMS
is pleased to provide a two year MSDN Premium
Subscription for almost the same price as a one
year subscription. If you're serious about
developing applications on the Microsoft
platform, you need to get this amazing resource!
Available while supplies last.
Details...
Total Access Startup 2007 Ships (March 13, 2008)
 Total
Access Startup 2007 is now shipping. Discover how Total Access
Startup ensures your users run the latest version of your database with
the correct version of Microsoft Access. Centrally manage an unlimited
number of Access databases across your network and simplify upgrades
between versions.
New features
include support for Access 2007, launching ADPs, supporting multiple
Access versions on the same database, and much more.
Press Release.
See you in San Diego, CA (March 2008)
Luke Chung is speaking at the March 19th meeting of the San Diego
Access User Group from 6-8PM.
FMS is exhibiting at the Microsoft booth at the DoDIIS conference
March 16-19th, so stop by if you're there.
For details, visit our
Upcoming Events page.
Total Access Admin 2007 Ships (Feb 5, 2008)
 Total Access Admin 2007
is now shipping. Discover how Total Access Admin lets you monitor any
Access database (Access 97 through 2007) to see all the current user
connections. Watch how and when they enter and exit your database in
real-time, keep a log file, and troubleshoot problems. You can even set
it to compact the database once everyone exits.
Microsoft Access Help and Resource Center
Due to our extensive resources for Microsoft Access, a centralized
page was created to make it easy to find all the information:
Microsoft Access Help and
Resources
It includes a brief history of Access, our experiences with Access,
links to technical papers, tips, and other resources. New items include
 Free
Book Offer for Microsoft Access 2007
Get this Access 2007 book, a $24.99 value, for free! Through special
arrangements with Zac Woodall and his book publisher, we're pleased to
offer a limited quantity of his book, The Rational Guide To Microsoft
Office Access 2007 Templates, with the purchase of one of our Microsoft
Access 2007 products.
Details...
New Technical Paper for Creating Monthly Summary Reports in Access
Written by Luke Chung, learn how to create spreadsheet like reports
with monthly summary columns without writing any code.
Details...
New Product: Sentinel Visualizer is Shipping (September 5, 2007)
Sentinel
Visualizer revolutionizes data analysis with a powerful combination
of features to let you maximize the understanding of your data. Gain
insight into multi-level relationships and complex networks. Apply link
charts, data filtering, gradient metrics, geospatial maps, timelines,
social network analysis, and much more.
Press Release
FMS Participating and Speaking at Advisor Summit in Miami, FL
FMS President Luke Chung is speaking in the Microsoft Access track of
this event. We will also have a booth among the exhibitors.
Details...
FMS Product Announcements for Microsoft Access 2007
We've been working with Access 2007 for over a year since the alpha
version was released and are delighted by the considerable investment
Microsoft made to enhance Access.
Rather than simply porting our products to
Access 2007 with the same functionality as before, we've invested the
time and effort to make sure we take advantage of the new capabilities
of Access 2007, added features requested by our customers, and applied
the new Office/Access 2007 look and feel.
Here's a summary of our plans
and schedule
Total Access Statistics 2007 is Shipping (July 20, 2007)
 Total Access Statistics for
Access 2007 is now shipping with many new features. Enhancements for
users of Access 2000, 2002, and 2003 is also available in a new
X.7 Version.
Additionally, the Total Access Statistics web site is updated with
information on the new versions,
product PDF fact sheet, new tour, etc.
Total Access Emailer 2007 is Shipping (May 18, 2007)
 FMS is pleased to release our first product for Microsoft Office
Access 2007.
Total Access
Emailer 2007 is now shipping and introduces several exciting
enhancements over the original release, including support for the new
ACCDB database format, new field types, new user interface, and the
ability to attach Access reports as PDF or XPS files to your emails.
GSA Schedule Contract Awarded to FMS (April 16,
2007)
 FMS
receives a General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule Contract to
provide software products and consulting services to the US Federal
Government.
Microsoft Gold Certification for 5th Consecutive Year
 Microsoft
designates FMS as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for the 5th year in
a row. This is Microsoft’s highest partner certification level and
reflects the proven experience and expertise of FMS for creating
solutions using Microsoft technology.
Read on...
Protecting our Children with the National Center For Missing and
Exploited Children (Feb 07)
We recently began working with the good people at the National Center
for Missing and Exploited Children (www.ncmec.org)
to see how we could help their efforts. We also learned a lot about how
to better protect our children.
Read on...
FMS Free Links to Outside Resources (Feb 07)
Can't find what you're looking for on Microsoft Access, .NET, SQL
Server? Visit our newly updated
free links page
and utilize the list of outside resources we've put together for your
convenience.
Microsoft Featured White Paper, by Luke Chung, Updated (Jan 07)
In an effort to keep you, our customer, up with the latest advances
in the industry, we have again updated one of the key white papers
regarding Microsoft Access.
Learn when to use Microsoft
Access and when to use SQL Server in your organization. This newly
updated white paper discusses database needs, evolution, and challenges,
the advantages, limitations, and myths of Access, and how to use Access
and SQL Server strategically in your organization.
Total .NET SourceBook 2005 is Shipping (Oct 06)
FMS released
Total .NET SourceBook 2005,
the latest version of its best-selling professional source code library
and code repository for Visual Studio .NET. The newest version supports
Visual Studio .NET 2005 with a comprehensive collection of royalty free,
ready-to-use .NET programming code in C# and Visual Basic .NET.
Find out more...
FMS Celebrates 20 year Anniversary (Oct 06)
Founded in 1986, FMS is celebrating its 20th anniversary in business.
This proud achievement is a very significant milestone for us. Very few
companies survive so long, much less firms in our rapidly changing
technology industry. Our success over the years stems from properly
serving our customers, employees, and vendors through many business and
technology cycles. And, of course, the continued support our customers
give us for our innovation and customer service.
We'd like to thank you...
New Versions of Total Access Analyzer Available (Oct 5, 2006)
FMS, Inc. is proud to release new versions of
Total Access Analyzer with many new features and enhancements.
Version 11.7 is now available for Access 2003, Version 10.7 for Access
2002/XP, and Version 9.7 for Access 2000. Total Access Analyzer is the
most popular Microsoft Access add-in winning every industry “Best Access
Add-in” award since 1994. The new versions generate even more
comprehensive documentation and analysis of Access databases to help
help users and developers create better solutions.
FMS President Luke Chung featured on Microsoft website (Sep 06)
Learn when to use Microsoft
Access and when to use SQL Server in your organization. This white
paper discusses database needs, evolution, and challenges, the
advantages, limitations, and myths of Access, and how to use Access and
SQL Server strategically in your organization.
News Archive
|
