Dinner and More Than a Show at The Cannata Dinner

Frank Cannata sure knows how to throw a party. Just ask anybody who attended The Cannata Report’s 28th Annual Awards and Charities Dinner at The Park Savoy in Florham Park, NJ Wednesday night. But this event isn’t for just anybody. This is the only industry event that brings
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2013 Elite Dealers Round 3

ATLANTIC, TOMORROW’S OFFICE www.tomorrowsoffice.com New York, NY President/Owner: Larry Weiss Year founded: 1959 Number of employees:  296 Primary hardware vendors: Ricoh/Savin, Konica Minolta, Toshiba, Kyocera, HP Primary solutions and services offerings: Docuware, NSI
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Between the Lines: Oh, Technology!

Sometimes you just want to pull your hair out. You think everything is working out fine then you discover it isn’t. For those of you who have noticed some formatting issues with The Week in Imaging newsletter, I believe that’s been fixed. I spent a good portion of last Friday
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The Week in Imaging’s Elite Dealers Round 2

IMPACT NETWORKING http://impactmybiz.com Waukegan, IL President/Owner: Frank Cucco Year founded: 1999 Number of employees: 170 Primary hardware vendors: Konica Minolta, Kyocera, Muratec, KIP, Bowe Bell+ Howell Primary solutions and services offerings: Docuware, Objectif Lune,
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Sharp’s Promotion Plus Pricing Yields Positive Results for Sharp and Its Dealers

Last year around this time Sharp introduced its Promotion Plus Pricing, a new pricing program that did away with the special monthly incentives so common to the industry by giving that pricing to their dealers every single day. If you want to shake up your dealer channel, just
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Between the Lines: More Than Just Copier Dealers

This week we present another group of 2013 Elite Dealers. When these awards were first presented by that other publication I worked for in 1988, the dealers honored as Elite Dealers that sold office technology could best be described as copier dealers. Today, most of our Elite
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What’s Hot & What’s Not?

This week Mike McGuirk, president of ProCopy Office Solutions in Tempe, AZ, identifies what’s hot and what’s not in his market. ProCopy is a Canon and Ricoh dealership with $12 million in annual revenues. They also offer MPS, MNS, and facilities management. What’s hot? McGuirk:
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The Week in Imaging’s 2013 Elite Dealers Round 1

The nominations are in, the judges have made their selections, and we’re proud to announce our 2013 Elite Dealers. This is an award that honors the best and the brightest in the imaging technology dealer community. The dealers we are honoring each week throughout the month of
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What’s Hot & What’s Not?

This week Dave McGeney, vice president and general manager for Business Copy Associates in Saugus, MA, discusses what’s hot and what’s not in his market. Business Copy Associates sells Konica Minolta, Muratec, and Copystar products and is also big in document management, MPS, and
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Between the Lines: Meet the Elite

This is always an exciting time of year at The Week in Imaging as we announce the year’s Elite Dealers. We’re going to unveil a new group each week throughout the month of October with the final group presented in the Nov. 1 edition. I’ve had a voice in selecting the Elite
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MaxxVault’s Bruce Malyon Presents the Back Story of MaxxVault Enterprise 6.0

  In September MaxxVault, LLC announced the release of MaxxVault Enterprise 6.0, the latest version of its document management solution. The new version has more than 200 new features and enhancements, including a completely re-designed MaxxCloud interface optimized for
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A Conversation with Jerry DiMartino of Quality Business Systems

When you’re a smaller office technology dealership at least in terms of revenues, you try harder. That’s the story of Jerry DiMartino, CEO of Quality Business Systems in Towson, MD. He founded his dealership in 2001 and has seen it grow to 35 employees. In addition to Kyocera and
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Embracing the Mobile Revolution

Any time, any place. That could very well be the mantra of the mobile workforce.  As growing numbers of businesses embrace mobility and the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend, this is having an impact across the office technology landscape, from the R&D centers of the OEMs to
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News Bytes

Preton and SYNNEX Corporation Sign Distribution Agreement Oct. 1, 2013 – Preton, a provider of printing cost reduction software, has announced that the company has signed a distribution agreement with SYNNEX Corporation, a distributor of IT products and services. As part of
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The Biggest Challenges Faced by Independent Dealers in 2013

With one week to go until we announce the first group of 2013 Elite Dealers, I thought it would be interesting to examine some of the challenges our 2013 nominees have been faced with during the past year. It’s a mixed bag of challenges that are representative of so much that is
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