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November 13, 2025
Sage, Power, Virtual Servers
For S100C users that log into the Sage Server, usually to launch the Sage Database Admin tool to run the Tune Up, Archive a prior Fiscal Year, or to Archive Payroll (coming in a few months!), the Sage tool that checks the power seems to be missing a few lines of code. The Database Admin […]
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November 13, 2025
Book Review: Co-Intelligence
Chris recommends this book to everyone he talks with! Mr. Mollick is a professor of management at Wharton, specializing in entrepreneurship and innovation. He’s been following and researching the emergence of AI for a while now, having been featured in various publications. In addition to a fascination with how AI is impacting businesses, especially start-ups, […]
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November 05, 2025
Sage Support: Beware!
During the crazy December and January season, Sage and Aatrix support are buried in calls and chat requests; it’s nearly impossible to get ahold of them! This isn’t unusual, and the hackers know all about it—an opportunity for them to try to trick you! A couple years ago, Sage 100 Contractor support moved to the […]
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November 05, 2025
New and Exiting Team Members
It seems quite a few of our clients are bringing new team members on board. We are helping with the setup of these new employees, both for the office and the field. This includes setting up their email, access to SharePoint folders, Power BI reports for Project Managers, and a login to critical software such […]
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October 29, 2025
Copilot – An Idea for You
We received two payments from a client which covered several invoices. We hadn’t received a remittance advice, but we could tell it wasn’t just the oldest invoices, so we were stuck on how to enter the payments. I wondered if Copilot could help! So we entered (copied) the open invoice amounts into Excel, then entered […]
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October 22, 2025
Shiny New Gadget of the Month – Saros Z70 Vacuum
Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t just changing IT—it’s reshaping everyday life, too. Case in point: Roborock Saros Z70, a revolutionary home vacuum showcases how AI is touching every industry, even household cleaning. The Saros Z70 doesn’t just roam around; it thinks about how to clean. Equipped with a foldable robotic arm, dual onboard cameras, and real-time […]
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October 22, 2025
More Social Engineering
Larry was the recipient on this one. The subject line said ‘Attention Required! FinancialStatement | SecureMail | Review Copy’ and included the day and time sent. The ‘sender’ said it was from ‘DirectNotifyCenter, glenn@lec.com.’ Good news—before opening the email, the banner says ‘You don’t often get email from glenn@lec.com…’ reminding us that we don’t know […]
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October 15, 2025
Positive Pay—Sage versus Syscon; What’s Different?
In a very recent version of S100C, Sage has added a Positive Pay feature. This allows you to create a Positive Pay report from S100C that can be uploaded to your bank. It’s definitely less time and less error-prone than hand-typing the checks on the bank’s site. However, there are some limits to the built-in […]
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October 15, 2025
CFO 4.0; Ready?
Chris and I recently attended the Construction Financial Managers Association (CFMA) Annual Conference in Florida at the Gaylord Palms. According to the CFMA team, there were over 1,700 people in attendance, with over 600 of them as first-time attendees; pretty exciting. In addition to many great breakout sessions (we often choose different ones to get […]
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October 08, 2025
Sage: Fact vs Fiction
At the CFMA annual conference, Glen West from Sage provided some very clear updates on these products during the Sage lunch presentation. We welcome his transparency and wanted to share what he said. We’ve found vendors, other Sage Business Partners, and anyone who loves to share their opinion have been mis-stating the status of these […]
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