April 14, 2016

The Hinsdalean Business Profile: Syscon Inc.

March 22, 2016

Apple Isn’t Virus-Proof After All

We’ve seen virus attacks on Apple products, but most of the time we hear ‘Apples don’t get virus attacks’ which we know isn’t true. Hackers have dabbled in attacks against this product line, but it’s a much smaller target, so we haven’t seen as many attacks…until now. Recently, Apple acknowledged it had to shut down […]

March 22, 2016

Do You Have a Plan?

We all have key staff members with unique knowledge, deep knowledge, of our business and its internal processes— I have several! What if one of those key people had a life-changing event and became unavailable? Sound like I’m trying to be dramatic? Keep reading… Five years ago I was one of those people, and I […]

March 22, 2016

Updates and Tips from Syscon

Did You Know? Sage 100 Contractor I’ve watched a lot of users click the Save icon to leave a screen. You may not have thought about it, but if you had accidentally changed a field, you just saved the change! I recently had three different clients with odd changes for someone’s Federal withholding. They had […]

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.