CCAS Financial & Project Cost Accounting Software & Services

Light3™ - Available Now!

Light3, our successor to Light2 - a free upgrade for many of our user - delivers enhanced functionality and significant user-customization potential. Additionally, a new database engine and server software will provide users will all the functionality of Light2 while delivering improved performance. What has been easy to administer and maintain now becomes easier still. And with our new software delivery options, "plug and play" takes on new meaning.

With Light3's introduction Light2 continues to be fully supported and remains available for purchase. In active use across the United States since 1998, Light2 is a field-proven workhorse. At no time in its 10 year history has Light2 failed one of its users: system crashes of all kinds and causes have not resulted in any loss of data for any user. And this designed-in stability is carries forward into Light3.

The Light family of software will continue to expand when in late 2008 a new remote transaction entry, access and communication solution, Harvest™, will be released. Check back for updates on this breakthrough application!

Light2 is now offered in an aggressively priced single-user package that allows start-up and smaller government contractors to "get it done" (the right way) from the beginning. Contact us for details.

New Delivery Options

Did someone say that you needed a $5K server to run our software? It wasn't us. A price tag of around $1,000 is more of what we have in mind. Your own computers can certainly "work". And we now offer new users some powerful, affordable, options.

Our software can be "served" by a humble - yet sublimely powerful and fast - group of affordable computers. For example, we can ship our Light™ software to you preloaded and pre-configured on Apple, Inc.'s Mac mini. Equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor running at 2.0Ghz (or greater) and a fast hard drive, your Light data will be "served" over your LAN and the Internet at blazing speed. And then there's the latest Mac OS, Leopard, that brings automatic file backups, remote access and the Mac's legendary ease of use. You'll also enjoy the sense of freedom that operating in a virtually virus-free environment brings.

As a true cross-platform solution, users can access Light from both PC's and Mac's - without regard to whether the "server" is PC or Mac hardware. And there are, of course, other options as well. Dell's Inspiron 530 series and Apple's iMac are also offered - both being very capable machines. Contact us for full details.

Updated Web Site

Our Web site has been updated to include both new content and new ways of viewing our content. The CCAS Web site been singularly strong in providing valuable, free, information to its users and any who need to know more about accounting for contracts issued by the Federal government. We hope that the updates to our site will more clearly present this information, as well as information about our Light™ software.

This page utilizes a new technology that allows users to view different content without navigating to another page, or pages. Simply click on an icon in the shaded area (the "Carousel") and that item's content will be presented in the area below (this area, that is). If more content is available than is immediately visible, clicking on the arrow buttons will allow you to scroll through the available content.

Another new technology employed (an "Accordion") presents information that is accessed by clicking on a Heading ("Keep it SIMPLE!", in the example below). When clicked, the heading expands and its content is displayed. Clicking on the heading again closes the heading, as does clicking on another heading. In short, considerable information is communicated on one page in a clean, uncluttered way.

Our new Web site is best viewed with Firefox or Safari on both PC and Mac platforms. Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are very good as well.