Consco

{{Short description|US software development firm}} {{Infobox company | name = Consco Enterprises Inc. | logo = | type = Public | traded_as = {{NASDAQ was|CNSO}} | products = Software }}

'''Consco Enterprises Inc.''' was a software development firm headquartered in Edison, New Jersey, United States, in the early to late 1980s.

==Products== Consco's primary product dubbed ''Consolidation'', was based on pegboard accounting principles and designed to generate complex quarterly and annual tax reports for large multi-national corporations. Pegboard systems were and are still sold nationwide by "Control o fax" in Waterloo, Iowa.

The main ''Consolidation'' product was later packaged with other Consco financial applications, such as ''Currency Conversion'', which added functionality. The package was named Accounting Information System, or AIS.{{cn|date=April 2026}}

==Clients== Some AIS clients included the Ford Motor Company,<ref>{{cite journal |date=14 June 1982 |title=Major Car Maker Opts for Flexibility of General Ledger System as Standard Equipment |journal=Computerworld |volume=16 |issue=24 |page=108 |issn=0010-4841 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ucRgVedP1QYC&dq=Consco+Enterprises&pg=RA1-PA108 |accessdate=24 March 2013}}</ref> Campbell Soup Company,<ref>''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' Financial Section Apr 26, 1984</ref> Miles Laboratories,<ref>PR Newswire July 18, 1984</ref> LTV Corporation,<ref>PR Newswire July 16, 1984</ref> Owens-Illinois,<ref>PR Newswire May 31, 1984</ref> Texaco,<ref>PR Newswire November 14, 1984</ref> Pennzoil,<ref>PR Newswire May 13, 1986</ref> The Tennessee Valley Authority and Cummins Engine Company.

Consco's shares were traded on NASDAQ under the symbol CNSO. An unrelated company, CNS Response, now uses that symbol. In 1988, the company sold its product line to Computer Associates.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-6375772.html |title= Consco sells product line to Computer Associates. (Consco Enterprises Inc., Computer Associates International Inc.) |date= May 26, 1988 |work=press release |accessdate=27 December 2009}}{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> In May 1984, Seymour Altucher was the company's chairman.

==See also== * Atria Software

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[https://www.os-monitor.com/ On-Premise Employee Monitoring Software]

Category:Defunct companies based in New Jersey Category:Software companies based in New Jersey Category:Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq Category:Defunct software companies of the United States Category:Companies based in Middlesex County, New Jersey