Cargas Systems, an employee-owned business software and consulting company with 90 employees, was recently ranked as the #14 Best Place to Work in PA for 2016 in the small-to-medium sized company category. Cargas’ 2016 placement is a 17 spot improvement over their 2015 #31 placement, making them the highest ranked company home-based in Lancaster County. [...]
Cargas Systems, an employee-owned business software and consulting company with 90 employees, was recently named 2016 Business of the Year by the Central Penn Business Journal. Central Penn Business Journal’s Business of the Year award is an elite annual recognition reserved for companies that demonstrate success through growth in revenues or profits, commitment to the [...]
To provide a more versatile and robust suite of offerings to businesses of all sizes, Microsoft has announced its November 1, 2016 launch of “Dynamics 365.” A 100 percent cloud-based business solution, Dynamics 365 combines some of Microsoft’s most effective existing software services along with new technology. According to Microsoft, “These applications unify CRM and [...]
Cargas Systems, an employee-owned business software and consulting company with 90 employees, was recently recognized as the recipient of the Samaritan Counseling Center’s 2016 Ethics in Business Award in the medium-to-large size business category. The Ethics in Business Award is based on five key principles: integrity, fairness & justice, stewardship, life-enhancing and transparency. Award applicants [...]
Nexonia provides the deepest Intacct integrations on the market. Watch a 5-minute demo of Nexonia Expenses for Intacct. Nexonia And Intacct Integration Benefits Over 300 integration settings available, [...]
Conventional Wisdom, Software, and Your Business By Jon Clemens, Vice President of Cargas Systems We use this phrase to refer to commonly held ideas and beliefs that seem like they should be true. It’s - well - conventional. According to Wikipedia (and what better place to find a definition for the term “conventional wisdom”), it [...]
Learn how to setup a basic workflow process in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016. In this tutorial we will walk you through the workflow process to create an email notification when an opportunity is reassigned. This can be used for new leads, opportunities or cases. A workflow enables you to create and manage your [...]
MarketSphere Reduces Operating Costs with Sage Intacct Accounting Software Customer: MarketSphere Location: Omaha, NE Solution: Sage Intacct Accounting Software Based in Omaha, Nebraska and with offices in five other states, MarketSphere® started as a consulting business in 2002 specializing in enterprise system advisory and implementation services. As the company grew, [...]
Since CRM 2015 UR1 you have the option to customize the look and feel of your Microsoft CRM system to include your company colors and logos by creating a Theme. To create a new Theme go to SETTINGS > CUSTOMIZATIONS > THEMES. Click on NEW: Give the Theme a name and add the Hex Code [...]
By Joe Campagna with Cargas Systems As a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Consultant, I am frequently getting questions from our CRM customer base on whether current versions of their other Microsoft products are compatible with their current version of Dynamics CRM. It then popped into my head to make it easier on the Cargas CRM customer [...]
Cargas Systems ranked #31 on the 2015 Best Places To Work in PA list for small/medium companies by joint public/private effort of Team Pennsylvania Foundation, the Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development (DCED), the Pennsylvania State Council of SHRM and the Central Penn Business Journal. Companies from across the state entered the two-part process [...]
On Monday, November 2nd, the Central Penn Business Journal honored Chip Cargas as the Entrepreneur of the Year at the 12th annual Business of the Year Awards. The event honors top companies and individual leaders for their outstanding contributions to Central Pennsylvania's business community. Chip Cargas, Founder & CEO Cargas Systems Business Software & Consulting [...]
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016, which will be released in the fourth quarter of this year, continues on the journey to deliver Intelligent Customer Engagment to the market – helping companies deliver customer experiences that are personalized, proactive and predictive. The Dynamics CRM 2016 update includes all of the CRM services – CRM, Parature, form Microsoft, [...]
By Dave Packard with Cargas Systems Last night our CRM 2015 Online instance was updated to UR1. When I came in this morning and opened Outlook I had an issue—the CRM buttons were greyed out. I restarted Outlook and still had the same issue, so I checked Windows Update to see if the CRM 2015 [...]
By Dave Packard with Cargas Systems If you use custom security roles in CRM (and who doesn’t) then you may run into this issue when you update to CRM 2015 UR1. One of our users brought this to my attention after our upgrade last night. The user was hitting this permissions error when using Quick [...]
This webinar is presented by Greg Lowe (COO/Partner) of McKonly & Asbury and Mike Yeager (President) of Cargas Systems. The webinar provides an overview of cloud accounting applications as well as a discussion on how a cloud accounting system can lower your total cost of ownership of accounting software. During the webinar, Greg and Mike talk about [...]
CSG Maintains Regulatory Compliance with an Integration Between Microsoft Dynamics GP and an Electronic Health Record Application Customer: Community Services Group Location: Mountville, PA Solution: Microsoft Dynamics GP integrated with an Electric Health Record Application Community Services Group (CSG) provides a spectrum of specialized programs to help the individuals it [...]
Nonprofit organizations of all types face opportunities, challenges, and tough decisions every day. Not-for-profits in all sectors (education, faith-based, health, business and commerce, the arts, community service, etc.) find that growth amplifies all of those things. As your nonprofit organization increases in size and faces added complexity in its administration and operations, you may find [...]
By Dave Packard with Cargas Systems One of the many new features in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 is the introduction of the rollup field. This allows a single field to sum the combination of related records such as the total revenue for opportunities or the total number of quotes created for an account. This had [...]
At the Intacct Advantage conference last November they were talking about Accountants as Superheroes. The premise was that Intacct made Accountants Superheroes. I found this very amusing at the time and didn’t think much more of it after that. As an Accountant myself I always felt our knowledge and skills were under appreciated, but Superhero? [...]
Dressing Up Lulu's Outdated Accounting System Customer: Lulu's Location: Lulu’s Chico, California Solution: Sage Intacct Founded in 1996 as a mother-daughter dream, Lulu*s started as a single brick and mortar store in Chico, California. Their vision: to meet the needs of customers looking for high quality, fashionably hip—yet affordable—clothes [...]
Keystone Novelties Increases Sales Sites by 47% and Eliminates Excel Spreadsheets with Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM Customer: Keystone Novelties Location: Lancaster, PA Solution: Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM In 2012, Jack May (Managing Director) and his partner acquired Keystone Novelties, LLC, a leading Pennsylvania seller of fireworks. Formerly a division of [...]
Scrooge called. He wants his general ledger back. Accountants, rejoice! Cloud accounting has finally arrived. And the trusty old general ledger is finally evolving. True, most businesses computerized their general ledgers years ago. But those early versions were not much more than a digital adaptation of Scrooge’s manual ledger. Sure, you [...]
1. Is your software publisher taking too long to release new versions of your business software? There’s a difference in economics between purchased software and software as a service. With software in the cloud, the publisher needs to earn your business every day because you can always decide not to renew your subscription. So cloud [...]
By Dave Packard with Cargas Systems With the release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 at the end of November 2014 all online users can choose a date, within a timeframe, when they want to have their system upgraded. If you haven’t done so already I encourage you to schedule your date or at least confirm the [...]