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Dexter + Chaney Clients Learn About Spectrum Construction Software's New Features at 14th Annual Users' Conference

Conference-goers attend more than 40 individual sessions devoted to Spectrum

W-Industries Selects PENTA Software for Unified Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management

Leading Provider of Energy Industry Instrumentation and Controls EPC Services selects PENTA to unify Engineering, Procurement, Project Management, Field Service and Construction Accounting processes in a single database

Dexter + Chaney Makes 'Top 10' in Annual Ranking of Puget Sound Software Developers

Only construction-software developer to make the ranking of software companies based in one of America’s technology hotbeds

Lorneville Mechanical Contractors Select PENTA Software for Integrated Construction Accounting, Project Management and Canadian Union Payroll

Eastern Canada’s Premier Provider of Mechanical Construction and Maintenance Services to Unify Financial Reporting, Project Management and Union Payroll Processing with PENTA

Dexter + Chaney Opens Registration for its 14th Annual Users Conference

April 22-23 Event will focus on new features in Version 13 of Spectrum Construction Software.

Dexter + Chaney Will Exhibit Spectrum’s New Service Request Center At Ahr Expo 2010

Dexter + Chaneywill exhibit the new Service Request center in its Spectrum® Construction Software at AHR Expo 2010 January 25-27 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando FL (booth #2188).

Meridian Systems Announces Prolog Converge, a New Web-Based Construction Project Management Software Application

Pre-recorded Webinar previews how construction project teams can gain efficient collaboration and flexible choice in accessing project data by using Prolog Converge.

Wall Street Journal Names Construction Software Developer HCSS Among 15 Top Small Workplaces in America

Chosen for teamwork, flexibility, employee benefits.

Syspro Honored for Business Excellence

BABC-OC Awards Also Go to Sage, Allergan and Ceradyne

Syspro to Showcase Green-Enabling ERP

Company to Outline Green Benefits of ERP for Manufacturers, Distributors

CB Richard Ellis Renews Contract with Meridian Systems for Capital Project Management Software through April 2012

CBRE has extended its Proliance software license agreement as its comprehensive project management software engine

Syspro Software Foundation of Confectioner's Recall Plan

Chocolate Potpourri Product Recall Plan Leverages SYSPRO Software Functionalities

Meridian Systems Awarded Additional Contract by GSA Public Buildings Service to Implement Proliance Software Across the U.S.

Rapid Deployment Teams accelerate implementation and training of GSA's ePM system on both large and small Recovery Act Projects

General Informatics Makes 2009 Inc. 500|5000 List of the Fastest-growing Private Companies in America

Authorized Meridian Systems Reseller joins elite group

Accordant Company Joins the Meridian Systems Value Added Reseller Partner Network

New VAR provides construction project management software solutions in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania

Dexter + Chaney Introduces Spectrum Equipment Service System That Collects Data For Heavy Equipment

Provides cost-effective asset management by tracking equipment hours, fuel usage, maintenance and other data

Alliance Solutions Group Joins the Meridian Systems Value Added Reseller Partner Network

New VAR provides construction project management software solutions in Florida, California, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Islands

SYSPRO Wins ERP Contract with Electrical Products Supplier

Engineered Products Company Selects SYSPRO to Boost Sales, Productivity; SYSPRO Chosen Over Epicor, Infor, SAP

Project Team Solutions, Inc. announces Prologtraining.com, a new Video-On-Demand Training Site for Prolog Construction Management Software

Authorized Meridian Platinum Reseller provides subscribers access to hundreds of training videos for Prolog Software

Meridian Systems Announces New Independent Software Vendor Relationship with CubisOne

Prolog software users can leverage sophisticated integration of ERP data with CubisOne's ProIntegrator Solution

Dexter + Chaney Names Reich Vice President Of Business Development

Leads company’s efforts to create new market and product development opportunities for its Spectrum Construction Software

Syspro to Participate in ERP Vendor Shootout™

SYSPRO, a provider of visionary ERP for the manufacturing pragmatist, has today announced that the company will be presenting at the Fifth Annual ERP Vendor Shootout, September 23 – 25 in Baltimore, MD

Syspro Offers Comprehensive Support for Key Food Safety Bill Provisions

SYSPRO announced today that the company welcomes the proposed US Food Safety Bill, noting that functionality within SYSPRO ERP is fully supportive of the bill’s key provisions.

Syspro Wins ERP Contract with Custom Sign Manufacturer

Completeness/Vision Bests Epicor, Microsoft Dynamics for Design Team Sign Contract

Dexter + Chaney Chooses T. Daniels Consulting To Market Spectrum Construction Software In Four Midwest States

Business partner will target heavy/highway, general, electrical, mechanical
and specialty contractors in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana

Dexter + Chaney Announces Strategic Alliance With HardHat Technologies

HardHat to market Dexter + Chaney’s Spectrum Construction Software in five Southeastern states

City of Seattle Department of Transportation Expands Use of Construction Project Management Software from Meridian

Meridian partners P7 Integration and Kelar Pacific provide Prolog software implementation services across new transportation capital projects.

Meridian Systems Named One of the Constructech 50 Hottest Seven Years Running

Constructech Magazine ranks Meridian as innovative technology provider for construction project management

Meridian Systems Named One of the Constructech 50 Hottest Seven Years Running
Constructech Magazine ranks Meridian as innovative technology provider for construction project management

PCI Group Announces New On-demand eTraining Courses for Prolog Construction Project Management Software

Authorized Meridian Platinum Reseller offers free trial for Hill Academy, on demand training for Prolog customers

Meridian Systems Announces New Prolog Developer Network Program

Customers and partners can leverage technical resources to extend Prolog, the leading construction project management software

Syspro Inventory Optimization Key to Recession Survival

Superior Inventory Management Helping Manufacturers Level Downward Cycle

Dexter + Chaney Announces Dates For 14th Annual Users’ Conference

More than 500 Spectrum users expected at April 22-23, 2010 event in Seattle.

Something Completely Different: Software Vendor Hcss Travels To Customer Cities To Offer Free Help Sessions

Instead of the customer traveling to the software vendor’s city, the vendor in effect comes to the customer—at no charge to the construction company.

Dexter + Chaney Will Exhibit Spectrum’s New Service Management Capabilities at NECA Show 2009

Dexter + Chaney will display the new service management capabilities in its Spectrum® Construction Software at the NECA (National Electrical Contractors Association) Show September 13-15 at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in downtown Seattle (booth #715).

Aloha! Dexter + Chaney Names Winner Of Its Customer-Referral Contest

For Tina Wagner, the upbeat accounting manager at Jack L. Massie Contractor, Inc., a heavy highway, sitework, utility and design-build contractor in Williamsburg VA, almost every day is a good day. But Wagner recently experienced an exceptional day when she got a call from Jack L. Massie’s construction-management software vendor, Seattle-based Dexter + Chaney (www.dexterchaney.com).

Visitors To Dexter + Chaney Booth Will ‘Test-Drive’ Spectrum’s New Features At Cfma’s 2009 Annual Exhibition

Visitors to Dexter + Chaney’s booth (#221-223) will “test-drive” new features and modules in its Spectrum® Construction Software at CFMA’s (Construction Financial Management Association) Annual Exhibition May 18-19 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Those include Spectrum’s new Resource Scheduling module and updated service management capabilities.

Spectrum Helps Dexter + Chaney Rise Five Places in Annual Ranking for Company Size

Dexter + Chaney (www.dexterchaney.com) has continued its march up the Puget Sound Business Journal’s annual ranking of Puget Sound software developers based on gross revenues.

IRS Audit A ‘Breeze’ For Electrical Contractor, Thanks to Document Imaging

Charleston-based electrical contractor Metro Electric Co., Inc. (www.metroelec.net) can characterize its unexpected IRS audit in two words: no sweat. Gobel credits the document imaging component of Metro Electric’s construction management software, which enabled Gobel and her staff to easily locate and give to the IRS auditor the myriad documents she was seeking—saving time and aggravation in the process.

Dexter + Chaney To Exhibit New Features, Modules In Its Spectrum
Construction Software At AGC CONSTRUCTOR Expo 2009

Dexter + Chaney will exhibit new features and modules in its Spectrum® Construction Software at AGC CONSTRUCTOR Expo 2009 March 4-6 at the San Diego Convention Center

‘Helping Construction Companies Grow’ Fuels Dexter + Chaney’s Growth

Developer of Spectrum Construction Software named to ‘Software 500’ ranking of world’s largest software, service providers

Dexter + Chaney To Exhibit New Features, Modules In Its Spectrum
Construction Software At Technology For Construction

Dexter + Chaney will exhibit new features and modules in its Spectrum® Construction Software at World of Concrete/Technology for Construction February 3-6 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Dexter + Chaney Launches Resource Scheduling Module For Its Spectrum Construction Software

Helps construction companies efficiently utilize equipment and employees

Dexter + Chaney’s 13th Annual Users’ Conference To Highlight New Features In Its Spectrum Software

April 23-24 event also offers executive management series with FMI

Dexter + Chaney Makes Deloitte’s ‘Washington State Technology Fast 50’ Ranking For 10th Time In 12 Years

Dexter + Chaney has made another ranking for the company’s growth rate. Dexter + Chaney placed 42nd in Deloitte’s annual “Washington State Technology Fast 50”.

Dexter + Chaney Enhances Spectrum’s Popular Service Management Capabilities

Updated Work Order, Service Contract Modules Give Contractors Fully Integrated Construction and Service Management Systems

Dexter + Chaney Climbs Two Places in Washington CEO Magazine Ranking of Washington’s High-Tech Companies

Dexter + Chaney has climbed two places in Washington CEO Magazine’s annual “Top 50” ranking of high-technology and bio-technology firms in the state of Washington.

Dexter + Chaney Doubles Its Office Space With Completion Of Second Building

Classroom facilities will allow company to conduct client training onsite

Penta wins 2008 Constructech Top Products award for Commercial Contractors

Penta Recognized in New Product Category for Business Intelligence solution, PENTA Business Analytics

Holloman Selects PENTA Construction ERP Software

Industrial EPC Contractor Holloman Corporation chooses PENTA Construction ERP Software for Unified Management of Engineering, Procurement and Construction Operations

Dexter + Chaney To Exhibit New Features, Modules In Its Spectrum
Construction Software At AGC CONSTRUCTOR Expo 2009

Company signs co-branded MasterCard® agreement with Comdata®

Alterman Electric Saves Time, Increases Revenues With Electronic Substantiated Billing

Customer invoices are much more than a revenue generator for Alterman Electric of San Antonio TX. They’re also a marketing tool, efficiency enhancer and cost-saver for the 85-year-old electrical contracting firm that serves commercial and industrial clients in San Antonio and surrounding areas.

Meridian Systems Announces New Consulting Partner Relationship with DMJM H&N AECOM

Top ENR ranked firm successfully deploys Proliance software across several large scale building programs

Dexter + Chaney's Spectrum Construction Software Receives Five-Star Rating

Dexter + Chaney wins 5 star rating in the annual review of contractor/construction accounting systems by CPA Technology Advisor magazine (April/May issue).

Meridian Systems Enhances Online Customer Support Services on SupportLink

Technical support website features better navigation and global search

Dexter + Chaney Promotes Long-time Employees Westberg, Neel to Vice President

Promotions underscore growth in company’s sales, development departments

Dexter + Chaney, Developer of Spectrum™ Construction Software, Makes Another Ranking For Its Size

Places 15th in listing of Puget Sound area software developer.

Dexter + Chaney Introduces Specturm Mobile Module For Its Spectrum Construction Software

Enables field supervisors to submit daily field reporting to the main office quickly, easily, accurately

Dexter + Chaney Wins Award For Spectrum's Online Help System

Enables field supervisors to submit daily field reporting to the main office quickly, easily and accurately.

HCSS to Demonstrate HeavyJob, The Dispacher, HeavyBid Software at ConExpo-Con/Agg 2008

HCSS will demonstrate its HeavyJob® Field Management Software, The Dispatcher™ Resource Management Software and HeavyBid® Estimating Software at ConExpo-Con/Agg 2008 March 11-15 at the Las Vegas Convention Center (booths S-10323, C-4263).

Stantec Consulting Ltd. Standardizes on Construction Project Management Software from Meridian Systems
Potentio Consulting delivers Prolog software and implementation services

Dexter + Chaney to Exhibit Specturm's Equipment Management Modules at ConExpo-Con/Agg 2008

Dexter + Chaney will exhibit the equipment management modules in its Spectrum™ Construction Software at ConExpo-Con/Agg 2008 March 11-15 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Dexter + Chaney Named to 'Software 500' Ranking of World's Largest Software and Service Providers

Latest In Series Of Rankings For Company’s Size

Foundation Software Clients Receive Pyramid Awards for Excellence

Five Contractors Recognized for Innovative & Efficient Technology Use

Dexter+Chaney Launches Query and Dashboards Module For Its Spectrum™ Construction Software

Dexter + Chaney (www.dexterchaney.com) has launched a Query and Dashboards module for its Spectrum™ Construction Software that provides graphic displays (or “dashboards”) of a construction company’s key performance indicators.

Dexter + Chaney Named A Finalist in Electrical Contracting
Products’ INNOVATION Awards Competition

Dexter + Chaney, developer of Spectrum™ Construction Software, has been named a finalist in the annual INNOVATION Awards competition sponsored by Electrical Contracting Products.  The program recognizes “outstanding companies whose products or services have best responded to electrical contractors’ market challenges by offering creative and innovative ideas,” according to the magazine. 

Dexter + Chaney To Exhibit Spectrum’s New Functions At NECA Show 2007

Also will unveil new trade-show booth emphasizing Spectrum theme, “Many Tasks/One Goal”

The Illinois Tollway Earns Constructech Vision Award for Employing Construction Program Management Software from Meridian Systems

Meridian, HNTB, and KFA acknowledged as technology enablers.

The Weitz Company Receives Constructech Vision Award for Employing Construction Program Management Software from Meridian Systems

Meridian Systems and Data Builder acknowledged as technology enablers.

Spectrum Earns ‘Contractor’s Choice’ Award From Roads & Bridges Readers

Dexter + Chaney’s Spectrum™ Construction Software has won a Silver Award in Roads & Bridges magazine’s second annual Contractor’s Choice Awards competition.

Dexter + Chaney Climbs in Ranking of Puget Sound Software Developers for Fourth Straight Year

Places 15th in annual listing prepared by Puget Sound Business Journal.

New Small-Tools Feature From HCSS Saves Contractors Time, Money

HCSS has launched a Small Tools feature for The Dispatcher™ Resource Management Software that enables construction companies to track the entire inventory of small tools assigned to its employees. 

Construction Companies Use Dexter + Chaney’s Spectrum Construction Software to Manage Projects Totaling More Than $21.6 Billion

Construction companies throughout the United States use Dexter + Chaney’s Spectrum™ Construction Software to manage more than $21.6 billion in construction projects annually

Dexter + Chaney To Double Its Office Space With New Building

Second facility on 2.3-acre campus will accommodate growing work force for developer of Spectrum Construction Software

Cupertino Electric Selects PENTA for Integrated Management of Electrical Construction and Service Operations

Functional Depth and Industry-Leading Technology best meets Cupertino’s Specialty Contracting needs

Dexter + Chaney Changes Name of Forefront to Spectrum Construction Software

Name change denotes evolving features, benefits of software formerly known as Forefront

Penta Names New Vice President of Professional Services

Appointment of Chris Slabach, a Leader in providing Customer Service Excellence to the Enterprise, Strengthens Penta’s Professional Services Team

Dexter + Chaney, Quote Software Integrate Their Construction Management, Estimating Software Products

Contractors import estimate information from Quote Software’s QuoteExpress to Dexter + Chaney’s Forefront™ Construction Suite.

How to Maintain Profitability in Good Times and Bad - 5 Ingredients for Success

Fred Ode, President of Foundationsoft write in January's edition of Construction Executive about how to stay profitable during the peaks and valleys of business cycles.

Dexter + Chaney to Showcase Latest Version of Forefront™ Construction Suite at Technology for Construction 2007

Dexter + Chaney will showcase the latest version of its Forefront™ Construction Suite at Technology for Construction 2007 (January 23-26 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, booth #S13139).

Company climbs 40 places over previous year.

Trimble Engineering and Construction Conference a Succes

Trimble Dimensions 2006—Building Your Connected Site.

Trimble announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Meridian Project Systems, Inc., of Folsom, Calif., in an all-cash transaction.

Penta Vice President to Chair Construction Financial Management Association’s New Information Technology Council

Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA), the only professional association for construction financial executives, has appointed Kurt Koenig to the Chairmanship of its newly formed Information Technology (IT Council.)

Dexter + Chaney to Showcase Newest Version of Its Forefront ® Construction Suite at NECA 2006

Dexter + Chaney will showcase the newest version of its Forefront ® Construction Suite at NECA 2006, October 8-10 at the John B. Hynes Convention Center in Boston (booth #731)

Dexter + Chaney Named a Finalist in Electrical Contracting Products' 'INNOVATION Awards' Competition

Dexter + Chaney has been chosen as a finalist in the 2006 INNOVATION Awards competition sponsored by Electrical Contracting Products.

Dexter + Chaney Announces Dates, Location For Its 11th Annual Users' Conference

Conference-goers will enjoy learning, networking, food, fun in one of America 's favorite cities

Relationship will enable Foundation Software to offer CICPAC member firms and their construction clients special services focused toward business improvement.

Chinese Companies Adopt Prolog Software for Construction Project Management

Joint localization effort between Meridian Systems and ProjectAIMS yields successful results, as Chinese firms embrace the industry standard for successful construction project delivery.

Dexter + Chaney Climbs in Ranking of Puget Sound Software Developers for Third Straight Year

Dexter + Chaney ranked the 19th largest software company in the Seattle area.

Search Capability in Dexter + Chaney's Forefront ® Document Imaging Helps Contractors Find Documents Instantly

Contractors can find documents instantly in Dexter + Chaney's Forefront ® Construction Suite construction management and accounting software, using a search capability in its Document Imaging module.

FOUNDATION For Windows Earns 'Top 5' Construction Accounting Software Rating from CPA Magazine, for 2nd Consecutive Year

Unique features and construction-specific functionality earn high marks for helping contractors increase productivity and profitability.

Sage Software Launches Sage Timberline Office 9.3 To Provide Improved User Flexibility And Easier, Streamlined Implementation

Sage Software announced the availability of Sage Timberline Office 9.3, the newest version of its integrated financial and operations software for the construction and real estate industries.

Foundation Software Offers "Something for Everyone" at Annual User Conference

2006 User Conference to include beginner through advanced-level courses, and bonus Pre-Session for F OUNDATION For Windows software customers