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March 05, 2025
Microsoft Price Increase
Beginning April 1st, Microsoft has some price changes for all renewing and new M365 licenses. Also, there’s a price increase for Power BI and Teams Voice new and renewing licenses. This is not an April Fools joke! Before I share the details, we have some great news for our clients with Managed M365 licenses! Any […]
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February 25, 2025
Book Review: Self-Talk for Success
I’ve heard this before—the person we talk to the most is ourselves! So what are the messages, what are the encouragements, what type of ‘talk’ do we use to ourselves? Mr. Mason makes the point that we often speak to ourselves (usually not out loud!) in a manner we would never use with others. We’re […]
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February 17, 2025
We Provide Full-Service IT
We serve the technology needs for Construction companies. For 38 years, if a construction company needed technology to reduce overhead and become more efficient so they can build our communities, Syscon was, and is, the partner of Choice. In fact, we started as an IT company back in 1986. Contractors in the Chicago area were […]
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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 22, 2025
Book Review: Big Little Breakthroughs
We heard Mr. Linkner speak at an industry evening in Texas. He shared his background as a jazz guitarist, then starting several tech companies, and the dream to rejuvenate Detroit. In the event and in the book, he shares some pretty intriguing stories. He admits these are not the ‘rocket scientists’ but rather everyday people […]
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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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