Allies – The Power of Partnership At Friendly Systems, we decided to call the companies and people we provide goods and services to, our ALLIES Why not just call them customers or even clients? We see the people whose business information systems we support and care for as people whose survival depends on us. When […]

Learn to embrace change. No business is perfect. You can make it better by letting go of old attachments so that you can pursue more desirable goals. When something doesn’t work the way you want it to and you can’t change it, concentrate on replacing it with something new. Think of what you want in […]

Controlling Inventory: a Distributor’s largest investment! Building Material suppliers (and other distributors, too) have to stock and keep track of thousands and thousands of products. Keeping track of all that stuff is hard work. It’s not just knowing what’s back there, it’s knowing who wants it, and when. It’s knowing whom to buy it from […]

Competition heats up in the professional builder market: Atlanta based Home Depot has decided to be the No.1 diversified wholesaler with plans to grow the supply division to between $23 billion and $27 billion in the next 5 years. “The strategy of Home Depot is to repeat in the professional space the same type of […]

This month’s National Geographic magazine (October 2006) focuses on a topic that is of interest to most business owner.. Asset Preservation. National Geographic doesn’t call it that. They talk about “Places we Must Save”. The assets they are writing about include Arizona’s Glen Canyon National Recreation area, Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida and even […]

Friendly adds Sage ACCPAC ERP to its product line. Friendly Systems now offers a robust business ERP software product to our allies who wanted built in features like mulitple currencies, multiple languages and multi company consoldations “out of the box”. Friendly can now offer software that runs on muliple platforms, (Windows and LINUX) and that […]

Why did I choose the name “Friendly Systems” for our company? As a high school and junior high and pre-school teacher, I discovered that people learn better from you if they like you. I learned that my job was to know my stuff and also to present it in a way that made my students […]