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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Seizing Market Opportunities, Prosource Swings Deal for PBSI Technology Solutions

When he looks at managed IT and managed cybersecurity, Prosource President and CEO Brad Cates sees markets that are massive, growing, fragmented and highly attractive for years to come. Herein lies the opportunity for a company such as Prosource, with a laser focus on the
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Masters of Synergy: ARLINGTON Celebrates 50 Years of Serving the Reseller’s Needs

Given the events of the past two years, it’s easy to see that we’re living in historical times, to put it politely. But if we were to travel back 50 years to 1972, we’d see that political and social turmoil was equally thick, from the war in Vietnam to the Watergate scandal. On a
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Meet the Players: A Reseller’s Guide to the Major Vendors in the Unified Communications Space

With such a wide-ranging field of technology providers serving the unified communications spectrum, we felt dealers and resellers would benefit from an overview of some of the most notable providers to the channel—RingByName, RingCentral, Konica Minolta and Intermedia. As a
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Young and Progressive, Pearson-Kelly Technology Carves Out Reputation for Excellence

It’s not often that an office technology dealership with less than 20 years under its belt has developed a reputation to the degree of Pearson-Kelly Technology (PKT). In fact, the Springfield, Missouri-based firm is celebrating just its 18th birthday this year. However, for
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Unified Communications as a Service: Dealers Making the Push into SMB Markets

Recurring revenues have quickly become the lifeblood of the office technology dealer universe. The concept of everything/anything-as-a-service is music to a dealer executive’s ears. That’s become heightened in a post-pandemic landscape that encapsulates supply cha
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Centric Business Systems Acquisition Marks UBEO’s Latest East Coast Foray

UBEO Business Services picked up right where it left off in 2021 with the announcement that it had acquired Centric Business Systems of Owings Mill, Maryland, a $55 million performer and longtime ENX Magazine Elite Dealer. The acquisition gives UBEO—which has holdings in New
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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Industry Experts Assess Teaching Moments

The majority of the glass-half-full crowd tends to take a critical view of performance and results when reflecting on the previous year. We sometimes tend to be our own biggest critics, focusing on the areas in which we came up short as a team, and that’s not necessarily a bad
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EFI Connect Conference Highlights New Digital Print Innovations Driving Analog-to-Digital Transformation

This week, during the 22nd annual Connect conference at the Wynn Las Vegas Resort, Electronics For Imaging Inc. is highlighting state-of-the-art digital print innovations that give print businesses more capability and profit potential in a range of market applications. Display
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M&A Parade Continues with Deals by DME, Novatech and The Network Pro

While the office technology space is certainly not a sport, the first two weeks of 2022 definitely give the appearance of a trading deadline fast approaching. Although there are no championships at stake, several more leading contenders in the office dealer “league”
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Lessons Learned, Volume Two: Dealers Talk Insights Courtesy of 2021 Teachings

When certainties are few, the office technology dealer network must rely on the most recent of trailing data, because 2019 (and even 2020) offered a short shelf life for actionable intelligence—those expiration dates became shorter and shorter. But some of the greatest challenges
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Industry Mourns Loss of Copier Fax BT President and Founder Al Scibetta

The dealer community is saddened by the loss of Al Scibetta, president and founder of Copier Fax Business Technologies, who passed away Jan. 2 at the age of 72 following a brief illness, the company revealed on its website. Mr. Scibetta and his wife, Andrea, founded Buffalo-based
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Doing Better Business, Eakes, Frontier and ACM Technologies Ring in 2022 with Deals

We could see it coming, but the first week of 2022 was greeted with the announcement of three acquisitions on the dealer side and another involving distributors. The M&A parade was so long, we’ve included separate announcements in our news section for a banking/leasing
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Applying Lessons Learned from 2021 to Forge Path to Brighter Year

We’ve all heard the adage about life being a cruel teacher that gives you the test first, then teaches you the lesson. In that sense, it probably doesn’t matter that the test administered by 2021 included several elements that weren’t covered in previous instruction. Regardless,
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