Two-Minute Drill: Industry Manufacturers Assess the Evolving Mix of A3 and A4 Amid Hybrid/Remote Environments

This month’s State of the Industry spotlight on the continuously surging role A4 devices play in the success and growth aspirations of the dealer/reseller community includes an OEM overview of the many platforms, which you can read here. The main article outlines the 2021-2022
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Industry Manufacturers Chart Respective A4 Journeys, Future Hardware Rollouts

The last two years have witnessed a significant emphasis on, and uptick in demand for, the A4 offerings of most industry manufacturers. In conjunction with this month’s State of the Industry report on A4 devices, we’ve assembled a snapshot of OEM unveilings for the coming year,
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Riding the Wave: Brother Capitalizes on Work-from-Anywhere Environment

Who knew that a market long described as mature could become so dynamic in a relatively short time? But Bob Burnett believes that’s exactly what happened in the office realm, and the director of B2B solutions deployment and planning for Brother International is more than willing
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Acquisition-Fueled Growth Buoys All Copy Products as it Battles Toughest Challenges

It’s been 28 years since he entered the office technology industry, but Brad Knepper loves the business as much now as he did when he was just starting out. He still gets a charge out of talking to clients, closing deals, locking horns with the competition and, of course, besting
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Chart Topper: A4’s Vital Role in Managed Print Services Accelerates Its Ascendance

Spoiler alert: This month’s State of the Industry report on A4 printing devices won’t be a tale-of-the-tape breakdown of how A4 stacks up against its A3 counterpart. We won’t deluge you with a mound of statistics to paint a picture of doom and gloom for A3. Certainly, we’ve seen
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Sound Advice: Unified Communications Dealers Offer Words of Wisdom

As we close the books on our State of the Industry overview of unified communications, our dealer panel provides a bit of free advice to dealers just embarking down the road of phones and all the value-added features that make the offering much, much more than just handsets and
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Epson Rolls Out New DS-790WN Wireless Scanner for Paper-Intensive Environments

The migration to work-from-home environments may have unseated the traditional office setting, but it has also underscored the need for networking technologies to expedite collaborative productivity. As such, Epson America has provided the displaced office another tool in the
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Nominate 2022 Difference Makers: Celebrate Individuals Who Embrace the Team Concept

Just when we thought we had this whole reimagined reality down cold, along comes another movement spurred on by the pandemic: the mass exodus of employees seeking greener pastures. There’s not a single person among us who begrudges anyone’s opportunity to improve their lot in
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Support Level Critical in Selecting a Unified Communications Tech Partner

Any dealer that is a newcomer in the unified communications space will quickly recognize the cornucopia of technology provider options at their disposal during the due diligence phase of their platform planning. For those dealers that find comfort in the familiarity aspec
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Key to Success in Unified Communications Lies in Value Selling

One of the truisms in business is that providing a product or service that lends itself to commoditization presents a challenge for the dealer/reseller. Commoditized products frequently see a large pool of providers, many of which are driven by price. Thus, it can be said that
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Two-Minute Drill: Centric’s Rick Bastinelli Believes UBEO Checked Off All the Right Boxes

When he was exploring the ideal M&A partnership to help execute the long-term growth initiatives of Centric Business Systems, Rick Bastinelli wasn’t merely considering his own future. But in UBEO Business Services, the president of the Owings Mills, Maryland-based dealer saw
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Dealers Discuss Necessary Investments to Thrive in Unified Communications

Many observers believe that success for dealers in the post-pandemic era all comes down to diversification. It didn’t take COVID-19 to make that notion clear, but the world’s most unwanted guest certainly drove that notion home. In the case of unified communications, it’s all
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A Final Look at Office Technology Trends to Watch in 2022

Yes, we can see the date on the calendar. It’s no longer January and all of the holiday decorations have been put away. But we collected so much input from January’s trends and predictions issue, it would be a waste not to share the unused notes. We’ll say it falls under the
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Bay Copy, Quincy Chamber of Commerce Form Strategic Alliance to Provide Members with Significant Discounts on Equipment and Technology Services

Quincy and Rockland, MA (Jan. 28, 2022) — Bay Copy, a leading provider of digital document solutions now in its 50th year of operation, today announced a partnership with the Quincy Chamber of Commerce where Quincy Chamber members will be eligible for significant discounts on
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Just Around the Corner: Industry Heavyweights Ponder Sleeper Trends

Suffice to say, 2021 rumbled through the office technology industry with its share of the unpredictable, from the supply chain chaos to the Great Resignation. Obviously, neither development was relegated to our industry, but both rose to the surface of the pandemic’s wake in a
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