Having experienced trying to convince upper management along with the IT department to allow anything on "their" network including Microsoft Access which they hold hundreds of user licenses for is pretty rough and it takes time. (emphasis added)
For the IT Department it is
THEIR network. Fortunately, I am now retired. Before retiring, I had attempted to migrate the MS Access database that I had developed to Microsoft SQL Server so that staff would have improved access to the database. That suggestion plummeted faster than a lead balloon falling into a black hole.
The proposal was rejected, in part, as they seemed to believe that MS Access was
toxic. I guess they believed that a database coming from MS Access would somehow "
infect" their precious database. Next, they did not want anyone, but an "
approved" MIS professional to even touch their database. Finally, I lacked, the 5000+page study/implementation plan peer reviewed by an army of MIS "
professionals". After all, you can't implement a database without extensive planning (and extensive consult involvement) for at least 10+ years!!! (satire)