March 22, 2016

OverUnder Billing – WIP

Mention ‘Work in Progress’ in a construction setting, and you’ll get different definitions and explanations about what this means. For our Subcontractors, it is a way to measure the expenses against the budget, determine the percent complete, and therefore, measure revenue earned compared to revenue booked on a job. Many years ago (more than we […]

March 11, 2016

Sage 100 Contractor

There’s been a lot of hype about this long-awaited release. Sage 100 Contractor has been updated to a SQL backend, and we are very excited about this change. However, this is a major change. In May/June 2016, Sage has a significant number of clients targeted to run a beta copy of the version 20 release […]

March 07, 2016

Business Ledger Syscon’s 30th Anniversary

March 07, 2016

When You Need To Reach Us

We made a commitment several years ago to have our phones answered by our staff during regular work hours, rather than going to an automated phone system. In our 31st year of business, we know this is still the right way to handle your calls. We also have a staff person monitoring our Customer Support […]

March 01, 2016

March 17 F.I.T. (Field Integrated Time System) Demo

Syscon F.I.T. System (Field Integrated Time System) Syscon has created an amazing new system that integrates with Sage 100 Contractor to collect data from the field including time, equipment, customer signatures, and more. In this webinar we will go over the capabilities of the system works and how it can save you time and ensure […]

February 11, 2016

Video Update: Syscon’s 30th Anniversary!

Syscon is celebrating 30 years in business. We have a personal Thank You from our President, about 1 1/2 minutes – take a look and learn how you can help us celebrate.

February 01, 2016

Backup versus Redundancy!

We’ve watched businesses get burned many times on this issue. A backup is a separate ‘copy’ from which to restore. A RAID array or other redundant systems are important, but if they fail, there is nothing to restore. We recommend having a RAID array, especially on a server. This allows drives to ‘mirror’ data across […]

January 30, 2016

Sage 100 Contractor software tip

I often get questions about managing old Jobs and old Vendors in the look up screen. It’s annoying to have so many on the list that are not used right now. We put a specific bracket in front of the name and short name to move these out of the regular look up list without […]

January 15, 2016

Password Security – There has to be an easier way!

And there is… I’d like to introduce you to the Pass- word Vault, but before I start, let me clarify some password Best Practices. Recently, a friend was tricked; they got an email from what looked like a known vendor asking to confirm their password; so they clicked the link, typed the user name and […]

January 07, 2016

Anti-Spam— Can’t Live with it, Can’t Live without it!

  Anti-Spam services are absolutely necessary. We have clients whose filters capture 99.98% of the mail that comes into their firewall, allowing the rest to go through to their staff. Imagine the chaos if all this junk actually got through! We also have clients who feel a little annoyed when they have to check their […]