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Customer Newsletter - Q3/2024 Quarterly Newsletter 

Product Updates

Interactive Data Inquiry (IDI)

Multiple product videos have been added to the CGC Portal. Check them out on the CGC Portal under the Web2/3 (CM + W, IDI, Forms) page and under the Interactive Data Inquiry (IDI) section, and see how these features can help you streamline your daily tasks and dynamic reports! 

  • Advanced Analytics - Job Costing
  • Advanced Analytics - Lines and Highlighting
  • Advanced Analytics - Accounts Receivables Aging 
  • Financial Reporting Overview 
  • Financial Reporting - Income Statement
  • Financial Reporting - Balance Sheet 

eCMS Product Update

2024 Year End Update (Q44)

We are in the process of determining the changes needed for the (Q44) update.

We will let you know of its availability as soon as it has been determined.

eCMS v.4.2 Fix Pack 3 – Hot Fix 308

  • Hot Fix 308 (HF308) will most likely be the minimum release level needed for the 2024 Year-End Update (Q44).
  • HF308 will be available for Test Environments the week of September 30th.
  • Availability for Production Environments follows about a week later.
  • Release notes for HF308 and additional communication will be provided next week.

HF308 contains significant changes to:

  • Calculations of Earned Revenue values on multiple Job Cost reports.
  • Recognition of cut-off dates for change orders has also been changed.

Payroll Tax Tables

CGC offers a Payroll Tax Table Subscription Program where clients can access the most up-to-date tax table download files and instructions/support to upload them in their eCMS systems for an annual fee. The electronic PTT import files are cumulative for all federal and state/province tables and CGC notifies the PTT Program Subscribers when new tax table changes are available. 

If you are interested in enrolling into the program, please visit the CGC Knowledge Center and the Payroll Tax Table webpage and fill out the form. 

CGC Communications

Do you think that you may have missed a communication or two? Do our email communications sometimes end up in your spam folder? 

In order to ensure that you receive all communications (marketing and technical), we have created a What's New page that you can reference and view any time. This link is also available on the New Support Site. Please take a look and add it to your Favorites or Bookmarks.

https://computerguidance.com/whatsnew/

CGC New Mailing Address

Computer Guidance Corporation
P.O. Box 28097
Scottsdale, AZ 85255

Product Advisory Groups

We are excited to introduce the Product Advisory Groups (PAGs) and our newly enhanced Forum, where our users can collaborate, share, discuss and vote on product development items per specific eCMS application. 

We have established a set of PAGs (see the list below) and enhanced our CGC Portal Forum tool to allow for advanced collaboration among our customers and CGC employees.

  • Accounting (AP/AR/GL)                                                
  • Payroll                                                                             
  • HR / HRSS                                                                       
  • Job Costing                                                                  
  • Equipment (EA, EM)                                                  
  • Plant Sales / Order Processing                                               
  • Bill of Materials / Purchasing                                      
  • Time & Material Billing                                               
  • PC2                                                                                  
  • IDI Reporting/Analytics                                               
  • Cognos BI                                                                       
  • Content Mgmt. & Workflow                                       
  • Forms                                                                             
  • eCMS Field                                                                     
  • Third-Party Integrations/eCMS Connect                

CGC customers with access to the CGC Portal can now subscribe to one, multiple or all PAGs and start collaborating with one another. You can also subscribe or unsubscribe at any time from any PAG. You have the ability to start a conversation, comment, upload/download files (PDF, Word, Excel, images), add URLs, and more. You can like or dislike a comment and get notifications of those PAG forum activities you have subscribed to. 

We have assigned CGC experts to each PAG and will be monitoring the activity. 

2024 CGC University Schedule

The 2024 Monthly CGC University Live Webinar Program Schedule is below.

The detailed schedule and links to join the CGCU webinars are on the CGC University Portal. 

Date Topic
10/17/2024 Advanced Analytics On-Demand Job Costing Report
11/21/2024 Advanced Analytics On-Demand Job Costing Report Deep-Dive/Q&A
12/19/2024 Advanced Analytics Project Income Statement

For access to the CGC University Members webpage or about the CGC University program, please contact Jennifer Spragg. 

2024 Upcoming Hosted Maintenance Schedule

  • October— Saturday, October 19, 2024, 12:00 PM MST-AZ until 8:00 AM MST-AZ on Sunday, October 20, 2024
  • November— Saturday, November 16, 2024, 12:00 PM MST-AZ until 8:00 AM MST-AZ on Sunday, November 17, 2024
  • December— Saturday, December 21, 2024, 12:00 PM MST-AZ until 8:00 AM MST-AZ on Sunday, December 22, 2024

If you would like to view schedule as a webpage and download/add each calendar event to your calendar, please click here.

2025 Hosted Maintenance Schedule

If you would like to view schedule as a webpage and download/add each calendar event to your calendar, please click here.

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