TUG 2026 Recap — Thank You, New Partnerships, and What's Coming Next

Thanks for stopping by Booth #32

To every customer, future customer, partner, and friendly face that swung by the DataXcel booth at TUG 2026 — thank you. The conversations were the best part of the week.

A few words I owe in writing.

Welcome to the new DataXcel customers

We're genuinely excited to have you. The 48-hour build clock starts the moment we connect to your Sage 100 data, so most of you are about to see your own dashboards on your own jobs faster than you expected. The whole team is ready.

Thanks to our new partners

Several real partnerships came together at TUG — folks who work alongside Sage 100 contractors every day and saw the same fit we did. More on each of these in the coming weeks as we lock the details, but the short version: there are now more on-ramps to DataXcel than there were before TUG, and the people running them are good operators.

Thanks to the TUG Users Group committee

A great show takes a great committee. Thank you for putting it on. The sessions, the floor layout, the energy — it all worked. The Sage 100 Contractor community is lucky to have you.

What I'm building next based on what I learned at TUG

The single biggest thing I took home from the conference is that you all want more proactive alerting — your system should tell you about money on the table before you have to go hunt for it. Here's what's coming to DataXcel in the near future:

Change-order alerting based on the average number of change orders per job

We'll learn the pattern of your real jobs — how many change orders the average $500K job has by the time it hits 80% complete, how many your $2M jobs have, by PM, by customer, by project type. Then we'll alert when a job is 80% complete and is missing the change orders the data says it should have. That's the moment you can still recover the money.

Estimator trend reports

A whole new set of reports built specifically for your estimating desk:

• Estimation accuracy trends — over time, by estimator, by project type. Are bids tightening or drifting?
• Margins per job type and per vendor — which work types and which vendors actually deliver the margin you bid?
• Most under-estimated and most over-estimated cost codes — the specific line items that quietly bend your bids out of shape, ranked.

These are the reports that protect bid quality across hundreds of jobs without needing the estimator to remember every lesson learned.

One ask

If you went to TUG, let me know what you learned at the show. Reply to any DataXcel email or drop me a line at mhagberg@xcel.software. The best feedback we get always comes from customers, not consultants, and I want to fold what your team brought home into what we build next.

Talk soon —

Mike Hagberg Xcel Software · DataXcel · Sage Marketplace Partner mhagberg@xcel.software · (801) 436-4298