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February 12, 2025
Track Training & Licensing
There are two great tabs in the Employee 5-2-1 screen—one to track Training, one to track Licenses. There are some existing reports that pull info from these tabs, and they are quite handy. The info can also be pulled into Power BI reports, BTW. On the Training tab, you can create a short list of […]
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February 06, 2025
New Technology Lingo
Phishing, Smishing, Vishing, and Quishing… What? With the explosion of technology in the last 40 years, there’s a whole new dictionary of words that didn’t exist a few decades ago, and some have new meaning (mouse!). Here are four (4) you should get familiar with. Phishing: This scam technique focuses on email. The sender is […]
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January 29, 2025
The POWER of Power BI
In April, we finally held a webinar on the Power of Power BI. We’ve been looking forward to sharing this for quite a while. Our clients have done some amazing things with this tool, and we knew it would be exciting to share some of these solutions and get those creative juices flowing for all […]
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January 14, 2025
Growth Mode? Let’s Talk!
If You’re In Growth Mode, Can We Talk? Quite a few of you are GROWING! Whether it’s larger contracts, new lines of work, or expanded geography, quite a few of you are growing. That means your teams’ needs are growing as well, and that includes technology, our specialty! We would really like to join the […]
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January 09, 2025
Excel to S100C – Changes!
Many of our clients use the very helpful and efficient trick of copying data from Excel into the data grids of Sage 100 Contractor (S100C). For example, a user may gather data using a time clock system that generates a CSV file with payroll information. Then, when preparing payroll to process in Sage, that time clock data […]
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January 08, 2025
Camera Etiquette
We hold all our online meetings with cameras on! It shows we’re engaged, listening, and giving you and each other our undivided attention. We also know that some of our clients don’t have cameras available, such as those using a standard PC at the office (although we recommend purchasing a quality camera that’s easy to […]
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December 30, 2024
Vouchers in S100C
When Textura or a GC Pays Your Subs… We have a client with an exciting new project coming up. Many of their subs will be paid directly through Textura, so the question came up, how to make the entries and run the job in S100C? Great news—S100C is nicely built to handle this very well! […]
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December 26, 2024
Change Management
As you can imagine, we see a LOT of change as part of our industry. And as we support our clients, we often have a front row seat as they roll out changes; some technology-related, some business-process related, some people related. As I put this together, it was just last year that we were sharing […]
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December 16, 2024
Book Review: Trust
I heard Dr. Cloud speak on the topic of trust during last August’s Global Leadership Summit. Based on the presentation, I ordered the book; glad I did! An opening quote: “While trust often begins with a feeling, it can’t only be based on a feeling… It has to be rooted in more solid, observable, essential […]
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December 12, 2024
DNS Filtering
DNS Filtering—Great so Far! In mid-2023, we rolled out DNS filtering to ourselves, then when we saw the results, to our clients. In our November 2023 newsletter, we shared a little about this service and what it does. It’s officially part of our service offering to all our fully managed clients. In summary Domain Name […]
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