What Language Should I Use?

[bisk8nes]

Hi guys!
 

I want to program a system to show graphics in the company I work. Basically, it would be a system that retrieves information from a database and create a series of graphics showing the performance of the company. It should be noted that a lot of people would use the system to include data on it (so I would need different "users" and stuff)

First I was using excel, but since it didnt have a tool to format graphics based on data (like conditioning formatting for cells) I started to use VBA on it. But now I feel that it's too complicated to use a tool for the Job


Well, my question is, WHAT LANGUAGE SHOULD I USE? I was thinking about using Visual Basic or C#, using Microsoft Access as database. Do you guys think that it's a good choice for what i am going to do?

 

[SpenceSouth]

Java is a great language when you are dealing with information that will run on many different machines. 

[CoolBeans]

English

[MikeD]

What database are you/is your company using?

[lutzee]

First, Access is terrible use a real database solution, eg MariaDB 

 

Second language doesn't matter so much, its a simple system, the django python web framework would be great for what you want. 

[bisk8nes]

What database are you/is your company using?

 

Nowadays they're just storing the information on excel

 

First, Access is terrible use a real database solution, eg MariaDB 

 

Second language doesn't matter so much, its a simple system, the django python web framework would be great for what you want. 

 

I was thinking about access because it's easy to use. I'll read about MariaDB

[lutzee]

Nowadays they're just storing the information on excel

 

 

I was thinking about access because it's easy to use. I'll read about MariaDB

 

Access is far from easy to use, proprietary, poor to nonexistant API, unreliable and breaks half the standards for databases. Just don't use it in a corporate environment. 

[MikeD]

I was actually going to suggest you use a DBMS like PostgreSQL or MySQL and then build a website with PHP and some graph-making tool like JpGraph, which would be accessible to everyone through the web without any need for a program on everyone's computer.

 

But apparently, as @lutzee suggested, the django python web framework would do something similar so that might be a good choice.

[bisk8nes]

I was actually going to suggest you use a DBMS like PostgreSQL or MySQL and then build a website with PHP and some graph-making tool like JpGraph, which would be accessible to everyone through the web without any need for a program on everyone's computer.

 

But apparently, as @lutzee suggested, the django python web framework would do something similar so that might be a good choice.

I am still considering that idea. Probably it'd be the easiest way to do it