[bluedino]

Office is everywhere. Therefore Access is everywhere. Even if there is (or was) a better piece of software, it wouldn't get any exposure or use (unless it was web-based, perhaps?).

Every day, some random employee starts tracking items or documents in Access as a personal tool, and then more people in the organization hear about it, features get added, and then the company starts running on it, then it begins to fail and they migrate over to a 'real' ERP system.