Independent Product Reviews

Alison Balter, a renowned author, trainer, writer and conference speaker in the Microsoft Access community is a big fan of our products and has personally used them for many years. In her book, Mastering Office Access 2003, she wrote about many of our products in her chapter, Third-Party Tools that Can Help You Get Your Job Done Effectively, which you can read online. She covered these products from FMS:

"Suffice it to say that Total Access Analyzer remains one of the most essential add-ins on the market for the serious Access developer."

Mike Gunderloy, Microsoft Online Certified Professional Magazine

	"Total Access Analyzer is a solid product that any Access developer should have in their toolbox; and one that will pay for itself in short order." Total Access Analyzer Product Review by Geoff Hollander
Gaining Access	"Conclusion: Awesome! It is not often we can so enthusiastically recommend Tools for Access. But the Total Access Analyzer and the Total Access Detective are simply the best tools of their kind I have ever used. You can produce Access databases of the highest professional quality by using them. They make you look good. They are worth every penny you invest in them." (Review) Patrick Wood, Microsoft Access MVP
	"I find that clients are impressed and comforted when I provide them with detailed documentation about the applications that I build. Total Access Analyzer is an easy-to-use tool that quickly generates documentation sure to impress just about any boss or client. (Read More) Alison Balter, Trainer, Author of Mastering Microsoft Access
	Review Total Access Analyzer April 2002, Smart Access eXTRA, Issue 3.4
	Review Total Access Analyzer April 2002, Microsoft Online Certified Professional Magazine
	Review Total Access Analyzer January 2002, Database Journal
	FMS Total Access Analyzer November 2001, Smart Access, pp. 13-14, 22
	FMS Ships Total Access Analyzer October 2000, MS Office and VBA Developer, pp. 8.
	Total Access Analyzer August 1998, EPCUG.TXT, pp. 5,9
	Total Access Analyzer: Database Analysis You Can Trust January 1998, MS Office and VBA Developer, pp. 73-75.
	Access Databases Revealed! January 1998, Access/VB Advisor, pp. 20-23.
	Documentation and Total Access Analyzer November 1997, Smart Access, pp. 13-17.
	Takes Care of Drudge Work September 8, 1998, PCWeek
	Documenting Microsoft Access Databases March 25, 1997, PC Magazine, pp.382-383
	Total Access Analyzer: Access Add-in Assists in Documentation and Analysis January 17, 1997, Visual Programming++
	Total Access Analyzer Straightens Out Access Apps July 1995, DataBased Advisor, pp. 74-80
	Total Access Analyzer Gets to App's Nitty-Gritty April 24, 1995, PC Week, page 85
	Get a Handle on Your Microsoft Access Applications Feb/Mar 1995, Access Advisor, pp. 66-67.
	Total Access 1.0: Missing Utility Aug/Sep 1993, Access Advisor, pp. 26-27.
	Total Documentation of Access Databases September 1993, Smart Access, pp. 10-12.

"Total Access Speller is ideal for both users and developers...Total Access Speller is a solid product. If you need spell checking in your applications, you should get Total Access Speller.", Paul Litwin, Smart Access

	Hand On Total Access Speller August 2002, Microsoft Office Solutions Magazine, page 37-38.
	Total Access Speller August 2002, Advisor Magazine, page 38.
	Total Access Speller March 2002, Smart Access
	Total Access Speller January 2002, Smart Access eXTRA, Issue 3.1.
	Spell Check Your Access Data May 1995, Access/VB Advisor, pp. 90-91
	Spell-Checking for Microsoft Access March 28, 1995, PC Magazine, page 314
	Total Access Speller December 1994, Smart Access, pp. 14-16.

"With an intuitive, easy-to-use Wizard interface and the Access Basic (or VBA) interface, Total Access Statistics makes it easy for users or programmers to perform statistical analysis. It generates the analysis you need with output in a useful format: tables. If you need to perform advanced numerical analysis, consider Total Access Statistics.", Pam Hazelrigg, Access/VB Advisor

	Review Total Access Statistics February 2002, Microsoft Online Certified Professional Magazine
	Analyze Your Data with FMS Total Access Statistics May 2001, Access/VB/SQL Advisor, pp. 43.
	Statistics That Don't Lie July 1997, Access/VB Advisor, pp. 10-11

"It's not very often that one runs into a product that is useful to so many members of an IS team. A network administrator can use it, because data backup is typically something assigned to this person; a corporate developer or DBA can use it to maintain Jet databases in their optimal state; and a consultant can use its e-mail notification capabilities. It's so easy to run that, in a pinch, even a power user can use it. Total Visual Agent is a real find, a rare combination of ease of use, and "bang for the buck." In the end, no other competitor even comes close!", Thomas Wagner, MS Office and VBA Developer

	Review Total Visual Agent January 2002, Microsoft Online Certified Professional Magazine
	Database Maintenance Relief January 2001, Access/VB Advisor, pp. 10
	Total Visual Agent FMS' Database Maintenance Tool May 2000, MS Office & VBA Developer, pp. 58-59
	Total Access Agent Is Better than Backup March 1997, Access/VB Advisor, pp. 12-14
	A Couple of Gems from FMS: TA Agent and TA CodeTools September 1996, Smart Access, pp. 6-9
	Total Access Agent July 1996, Visual Programming++
	Tool for Database Upkeep is Administrator's Dream April 15, 1996, PC Week, page 75

"I was certainly surprised how much the product had changed over the years. You can still "scramble" a project and obfuscate the code, but today CodeTools is much richer.", Thomas Wagner of MS Office Deployment and Development

Tech Republic	Total Visual CodeTools September 2002, TechRepublic
	Total Visual CodeTools August 2002, Smart Access, page 17-18.
	Define Enterprise-Wide Coding Standards April 2002, MSDN, page 11
	Total Visual CodeTools for 2002 February 2002, Smart Access eXTRA, Issue 3.2
	Total Visual Developer Suite March 2001
	"Finally! Someone has come up with a tool that actually helps you write code for your Access applications!" - Craig Bobchin, Access/VB Advisor
	Access Coding Made Easy October 1998, MS Office and VB for Applications Developer, pp. 56-59
	Put Clean, Consistent Code in your Access Toolbox May 1998, Access/VB Advisor, pp. 18-23
	The Best Help for Writing Code February 1997, Access/VB Advisor, pp. 14-19
	A Couple of Gems from FMS: TA Agent and TA CodeTools September 1996, Smart Access, pp. 6-9

"Total Visual SourceBook can give you an edge when it comes to that specific time frame. It allows you to be more productive in the same amount of time, therefore more profitable. How can it do that? SourceBook consists of thousands of lines of VB/VBA code - tested and debugged - ready to use in your project. Just plug it in and watch it go. You may not need all the code that ships with SourceBook right away, but the time you save when you do need it will recoup the costs for the product in short order."

Thomas Wagner of MS Office Deployment and Development

Helping Hands UK	Total Visual SourceBook February 2002
	Total Visual Developer Suite March 2001
	Total VB SourceBook Sept/Oct 1999, Visual Developer, page 40
	VB SourceBook Buyers Guide, Spring 1999 , VBPJ, page 68
4½ out of five stars!	VB SourceBook January 1999, WinPlanet Online Review.
	Borrow Code from the Library November 1998, VBPJ, page 15
	Total VB SourceBook 5.0.1 for Microsoft Visual Basic August 14, 1998, Visual Programming++
	"If only all software was this well-written, well-documented, and provided this much value" - Diane Winger, Access/VB Advisor
	Total Access SourceBook: FMS Inc.'s VBA Library September 1998, MS Office and VB for Applications Developer, pp. 58-60
	Getting it Straight from the Source October 1997, Access/VB Advisor, pp. 26-27
	Total Access SourceBook July 18, 1997, Visual Programming++
	Speeding Access Development December 2, 1996, PC Week, page 99

"Total SQL Statistics can help your VB application deliver data quickly from your database to your consumers without having to re-enter or transform it." - John Pearson
Total SQL Statistics, Visual Studio Magazine, November 2002, page 17

"...It's a great way to pick up some of the best practices in .NET coding", Rick Wayne, Software Development

"FMS has a long track record of delivering excellent value to Microsoft Access and VB developers. It looks like they'll be keeping this up with .NET developers.", Mike Gunderloy, MCPmag.com

	Total .NET Analyzer December, 2003, Visual Studio.NET
	Analyze Your Code August, 2003, Visual Studio Magazine, page 11
ZD Net Australia	Improve Code Confidence May, 2003, ZDNet.com.au
	Code Critic December, 2002, Software Development, page 20
	Analyzer That November, 2002, MCP, Mag.com