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MERGER: Help4Access Automated Custom Tools Cut IT Risk, Migrating 65,000 Legacy Access Database Applications When two supermarket giants merge, it’s not just stores and grocery inventory that must be joined together. There’s also IT infrastructure, which comes with an element of IT risk. In 2018, Safeway became a subsidiary of Albertsons – and Safeway’s vast collection of legacy Access databases emerged as a risk factor to be evaluated and managed. As the acquirer, Albertsons mandated that Safeway adopt Microsoft Office 365. When Safeway readied its migration to Office 365, it tallied 65,000 Access databases that had sprung up at many locations over recent decades. The result was a complex web of no-longer-supported data repositories on which daily operations depended.Albertsons engaged Help4Access to plan and manage Safeway’s enterprise-wide migration to Office 365, because they realized that regional divisions still depended on Microsoft Access database applications developed by shadow IT groups dating back as far as the 1990s.
