represents all specialties within the U.S. construction industry and is comprised primarily of firms that perform work in the industrial and commercial sectors of the industry. ABC was founded in 1950 when seven contractors gathered in Baltimore, Md. to create an association based on the shared belief that construction projects should be awarded on merit to the most qualified and responsible low bidders. Their courage and dedication to the merit shop philosophy spread rapidly, and within time, ABC became the fastest-growing association in the United States. Today, ABC is recognized as one of the leading organizations representing America’s business community and the U.S. construction industry.

Located in the Metropolitan Washington, DC area, The Associated General Contractors of America is the largest and oldest national construction trade association in the United States. Operating in partnership with its nationwide network of Chapters, AGC provides a full range of services satisfying the needs and concerns of its members, thereby improving the quality of construction and protecting the public interest.

profession since 1887. Find out more about the AICPA.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants is the national, professional organization for all Certified Public Accountants. Its mission is to provide members with the resources, information, and leadership that enable them to provide valuable services in the highest professional manner to benefit the public as well as employers and clients.

In fulfilling its mission, the AICPA works with state CPA organizations and gives priority to those areas where public reliance on CPA skills is most significant.

For over 60 years, AIIM has been the leading non-profit organization focused on helping users to understand the challenges associated with managing documents, content, records, and business processes. AIIM was founded in 1943 as the National Microfilm Association and later became the Association for Information and Image Management. AIIM is also known as the enterprise content management (ECM) association.

Today, AIIM is international in scope, independent, and implementation-focused. As the industry's intermediary, AIIM represents the entire industry - including users, suppliers, and the channel.

As a neutral and unbiased source of information, AIIM serves the needs of its members and the industry through the following activities.

The association was established in 1955. Its approximately 11,000 members include records managers, archivists, corporate librarians, imaging specialists, legal professionals, IT managers, consultants, and educators, all of whom work in a wide variety of industries, including government, legal, healthcare, financial services, and petroleum in the United States, Canada, and 30-plus other countries.

ARMA International publishes Information Management (IM) magazine, the only professional journal specifically for professionals who manage records and information on a daily basis. The award-winning IM journal is published bi-monthly and features top-drawer articles on the hottest topics in records and information management today, as well as marketplace news and analysis.

The association also develops and publishes standards and guidelines related to records management. It was a key contributor to the international records management standard, ISO-15489.

contractors and suppliers in the construction industry. ASA is governed by a Board of Directors in accordance with the ASA Bylaws.

flooring systems, insulation, and stucco contractors, suppliers and manufacturers and those in allied trades. Our mission is to provide services and undertake activities that enhance the members' ability to operate a successful business.

opportunities to associate with one another for the exchange of information and to nourish business relationships.

Chicago Building Congress hosts monthly membership luncheon meetings from September through June each year. These meetings most often feature guest speakers on topics of current interest to the Chicago Building Industry...the projects, plans, and pressing topics of the day that everyone in the industry needs to know about.

Two of the monthly meetings, the Merit Awards Program and the Award of Honor Program, are devoted to recognizing the projects and people who make the Chicago Building Industry great.

By fulfilling these roles, Chicago Building Congress is truly the cornerstone of Chicago's building industry, for it brings together a dynamic membership and timely programming.

in 1981, CFMA’s General Members represent all types of contractors - including generals and subs - as well as developers, construction managers, architects, engineers, principals, and material and equipment suppliers. Associate Members include the accounting, insurance, surety, software, legal, and banking specialists who serve the construction industry. CFMA chapters in major cities from Maine to Hawaii offer local workshops, seminars, and programs that complement the extensive member services provided by CFMA Headquarters in Princeton, NJ. CFMA currently has more than 7,000 members in 88 chapters throughout the U.S.

expanding catalog of resources to help them manage and grow their businesses, periodicals and a website to keep them informed and connected, and business services to save them money.

concentrates on the following goals: Balanced national legislative, regulatory, and judicial public policy, Public appreciation for the importance of housing and those who provide it, The premier resource for industry information, education, research, and technical expertise, Improved business performance of its members and affiliates, Effective management of staff, financial, and physical resources to satisfy the association’s needs. NAHB strives to create an environment in which: All Americans have access to the housing of their choice and the opportunity to realize the American dream of homeownership, Builders have the freedom to operate as entrepreneurs in an open and competitive environment, Housing and those who provide it are recognized as the strength of the nation.

government agencies, and other national trade and business organizations. NAPA supports an active research program designed to answer questions about environmental issues and to improve the quality of HMA pavements and paving techniques used in the construction of roads, streets, highways, parking lots, airports, and environmental and recreational facilities. The Association provides technical, educational, and marketing materials and information to its members, and supplies technical information to users and specifiers of paving materials. The Association, which counts more than 1,100 companies as its members, was founded in 1955.

national office in Bethesda, Md., four regional offices, and 119 local chapters across the country support the electrical contracting industry through advocacy, education, research, and standards development. NECA chapters are independently chartered organizations who work with national field representatives to develop effective labor agreements and market initiatives.

their projects’ lifecycles. The guiding purpose of TUG is to help our Members be more productive, accurate and knowledgeable with the greatest possible camaraderie. TUG’s motto is "Power to the User." We believe that by providing our Members with the elevated support, it allows them to sustain a greater level of productivity in their respective industries. After all, the overall positive outcome achieved is not only beneficial to our strong Membership base, but also to new users. Membership in TUG has countless benefits - from networking opportunities to resource centers designed to guide users to productive solutions.

needs allows us to always have an uncanny ability to predict the next trend in construction software. Our product, STRUCTURE, is a dynamic, comprehensive contractor management system designed to service a variety of contractors. Please visit our website http://www.cfdatasystems.com/ to learn about how STRUCTURE will benefit your company.

construction reports such as Certified Payroll, New Hire, EEO Minority Compliance, Job Labor, Job Variance, Proofing and Fringe/Benefit Management reporting not available from traditional payroll service providers. Our standard construction payroll package includes payroll processing, tax deposits and basic construction reports. Request a FREE quote by calling 800.246.0800 or email

sizes analyze progress and performance.

Contractors benefit from construction features like automated certified payroll, powerful job costing, payroll for union and merit shops, AIA / progress billing, Job Overhead allocation, standard reporting like cash flow by job, job hour variance, over/under billing, EEO minority compliance and the ability to create unlimited custom reports with our built-in DataGenie designer. Equally impressive is the program's award-winning Executive Dashboard, giving owners and executives a real-time snapshot of their company's overall financial performance, with the ability to drill-down in detail.

See why FOUNDATION is America's #1 construction accounting software by visiting us online at www.foundationsoft.com or call 800.246.0800 to schedule a demonstration.

industries. With over forty years of experience, Libra offers a full array of products and services to help materials producers improve quality, streamline operations, access valuable management information and achieve greater profits.

variety of sizes and industries in more than 145 countries around the globe.

use, off-the-shelf, reliable report generation products. Since that time, SyTech has developed several solutions that solve the complex reporting requirements of both production and management.

Today, SyTech enjoys the status of being the number one supplier of automated reporting products with thousands of installations, worldwide. Products are supplied through representative and distributor channels for end user purchase and implementation.

of your information. We can help you design, build, and manage flexible, scalable, and secure information infrastructures. And with these infrastructures, you'll be able to intelligently and efficiently store, protect, and manage your information so that it can be made accessible, searchable, shareable, and, ultimately, actionable.

You can also use EMC information infrastructure as the foundation for implementing your information lifecycle management strategies, securing your critical information assets, leveraging your content for competitive advantage, automating your data center operations, reducing power and cooling costs, and more.

In short, with an information infrastructure, you can avoid the potentially serious risks and reduce the significant costs associated with managing information, while fully exploiting its value for business advantage.

government, business, non-profit and education markets. Formatta’s forms-driven business process optimization and data integration solution is used in a number of federal, state and local government agencies and departments allowing thousands of users to design, access, sign, submit and capture electronic forms data critical to a wide array of business processes and to connect with critical business systems used to run organizations.

More than just an electronic version of a paper form, Formatta’s solution quickly captures, verifies, approves and integrates data used in enterprise processes with the critical enterprise systems used to run organizations. While other solutions solve document/record management and business process management problems, they do not efficiently capture data from paper and paper equivalents and easily integrate it to business applications that require it. Formatta provides the most affordable, scalable, and easiest to implement, use, and maintain e-forms data capture and integration solution.

Formatta is headquartered in the greater Washington, DC area.

combines a worldwide corps of systems and services experts with highly reliable computing and communications products and advanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.6 trillion yen (US$47 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009.

problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities, aspirations and dreams. We apply new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology, continuously improving the way our customers live and work.

No other company offers as complete a technology product portfolio as HP. We provide infrastructure and business offerings that span from handheld devices to some of the world's most powerful supercomputer installations. We offer consumers a wide range of products and services from digital photography to digital entertainment and from computing to home printing. This comprehensive portfolio helps us match the right products, services and solutions to our customers' specific needs.

reproduction shop takes the guesswork out of all of your scanning, indexing, raster editing, color-management, and printing needs. Our electronic document management services provide secure web browser access to help you search and view your large format drawings and small format documents from the convenience of your computer. Whatever your imaging needs, our experts can provide you with the best possible service at the best possible price.

capture products, software, capture-based solutions, and service and support to provide the most easy to use, accessible, scaleable, and affordable solutions for its customers to better capture, manage, archive and deliver critical business information.

Kodak Service and Support enables businesses to maximize technology investments by protecting and extending their lifespan through reliable products, comprehensive service and support through "one-call-does-it-all" capabilities to give customers a single source for all of their service needs on a global basis.

that streamline the flow of information throughout an organization by managing the capture, transformation and exchange of business critical information arising in paper, fax and electronic formats in a more accurate, timely and cost effective manner.

Kofax offers an unmatched range of capabilities, including support for both centralized and distributed operations; individual desktops and enterprise infrastructures; basic archival scanning and powerful data extraction; sophisticated document classification and separation; process management and reporting; and a wide variety of input devices and line of business applications.

Kofax solutions provide a rapid return on investment to thousands of customers in financial services, government, business process outsourcing, healthcare, supply chain and other markets. Kofax delivers these solutions through its own worldwide sales and service organizations, and a global network of more than 1,000 authorized partners in more than 60 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific.

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