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  • May 26, 2016

    Hermes Creative Award Winner!

    Syscon, Inc. Announced a Winner in the Hermes Creative Awards May 26, 2016 | Contact: Renee Montgomery, Message Maestro, Syscon, Inc.| 630.850.9039 Hinsdale, IL –The Hermes Creative Awards’ 2016 international competition for creative professionals with over 6,000 entries awarded Syscon, Inc. the Gold Award for its recent Ladybug Campaign. Syscon clients received a postcard and a mousepad […]

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  • May 18, 2016

    Video Update: New Email Scam To Watch Out For

    Email scams are so tricky, it’s best to not take any chances.   Watch our president’s short video about an email scam she just got and what you can do when you get one. Bonus: Click here to see the actual email referenced in the video

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  • May 16, 2016

    Business Ledger: Mary Zirlin

    May 16, 2016 Syscon, Inc., technology solutions business based in Hinsdale with another office in Arizona, has named Mary Zirlin as its new Financial Wizard, also known as Controller. She will oversee all aspects of Syscon’s accounting and human resources, as well as assist clients with business consulting solutions. With more than 20 years in […]

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  • May 06, 2016

    Video Update: Over Under Billing

    Contractor Clients and Friends, Tax Season brought a renewed interest in using Over Under Billing or WIP (Work In Progress) reports to track jobs.   Watch our president’s short video with some client examples and info on reports that integrate with Sage 100 Contractor.

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  • May 05, 2016

    Business Ledger Tech Tips Column 2016 May 5

    Click here to visit the Business Ledger homepage and view the entire publication. Click here to go directly to the online version of Catherine Wendt’s “A Look at How to Keep Passwords Safe, Secure”  

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  • May 02, 2016

    Be on Guard – IT scams that can burn you

    It happened again; a client received a call from someone saying they were monitoring the company’s computers and saw something odd. Can they log in and take a look? The office person says ‘sure’ and the hacker was in the network causing havoc within minutes. With a few questions, the office person could have confirmed […]

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  • May 02, 2016

    Hacking – not a game anymore; it’s Business

    Hackers and Social Science Engineering When we think of hackers, many of us think of geeks sitting in front of a bank of monitors trying to break into things. There’s some truth here, but there’s a whole new generation of very sophisticated hackers, and they’re learning all about your habits. Most of us are aware […]

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  • May 02, 2016

    Congratulations!

    Ladybug Campaign Our Ladybug campaign received the Hermes Gold Creative Award – great job, Renee Montgomery, Message Maestro at Syscon. Perhaps you’ve noticed our ladybug on the website, or our Contact postcard, or maybe you even have one of our mousepads! Sage Sage has given Brian Bruns an Amazon Echo for selling the most Sage […]

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  • May 02, 2016

    Sage 100 Contractor tip: Paygroups

    When the new Union rates and benefits come out, and you update the Paygroup information, the next check will have the correct hourly rate, but the default hourly amount on the check stub shows the prior hourly rate. As soon as the first check is cut, the default is updated, but it can cause confusion […]

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  • May 02, 2016

    Security – Protecting Your Network

    Monitoring, Watching for Attacks Recently, Evan noticed a high CPU usage alert for one of our client’s servers. When we took a look, we found that a port was being scanned in an attempt to hack the server. Within minutes, we were able to block the IP address and shut down the attack. What just […]

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