All politics aside, I’ll focus on the positives of the ACA. Here’s a brief look at how we ended up in 2012 with the ACA. Back in the early 90’s President Clinton proposed a health care reform bill as did Republican Senator John Chafee – both plans failed. …
Wiki Definition: Project accounting (sometimes referred to as job cost accounting) is the practice of creating financial reports specifically designed to track the financial progress of projects, which can then be used by managers to aid project management. Other famously used BUZZ words for project accounting are: Construction In Progress accounting (CIP), CAR, Planning, etc. Typically, people…
Hot, hot, hot – yes it was quite warm in Anaheim, CA during the annual California HR Conference but even hotter were the session topics – Affordable Care Act (ACA), Millennial’s (the new generation that will soon comprise over 50% of the workforce), social media, recruiting, employee recognition are a…
DSD Business Systems hosted its 2013 Software Conference on September 19th, and it was by our attendees’ account a huge success. I would like to offer an immense thank you to our sponsors Sage North America, Website Pipeline, Altec and Terms on Time. The location, the Hilton Torrey Pines, was…
DSD Business Systems will be hosting its 2013 Software Conference at the beautiful Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines on September 19th. This user conference has been designed to be of great value to all Sage 100, Sage 300 and Sage 500 ERP end-users. Being a Hero One of my favorite…
Sage Advisor is a cloud product that will be available to all Sage ERP and CRM customers in the near future, and it is available to many now. The purpose of this exciting new product is: To provide personalized, proactive guidance to Sage customers that encourages optimum system usage via…
Many business factors drive ERP software adoption, not the least of which are the desire to control costs, to make better and more up-to-date information available to decision-makers, and to provide world-class customer service. But a new and important driver has surfaced in the past decade – the necessity to be in compliance with increased…
Part of my job as a front line sales person is to answer questions regarding DSD Business Systems. I take multiple calls a week from potential customers “interviewing” DSD Business Systems and evaluating us for software and consulting services. In response to these customer inquiries, I’ve compiled the top three…
An important takeaway from Sage Summit 2013 was learning more about the Sage Data Cloud (SDC). The SDC is a cloud database that will store a portion of every Sage user’s data so that it can be accessed quickly by a variety of useful connected services, such as Sage Mobile…
I have been performing many data conversions lately. Mainly, it has been data that was in the Sage Fixed Assets Depreciation (formerly Sage FAS) and was outsourced. The biggest problems we are running into during our analysis and process is that those ‘outsourced’ professionals who are using the Sage Fixed Asset…
