Chip Miceli

What is the common thread between actor Kevin Bacon and Pulse Technology CEO Chip Miceli? Both gentlemen are ideal candidates for the Six Degrees of Separation game. One can link any actor with Bacon inside of six steps—for example: Dustin Hoffman starred with Donald Sutherland Read More

For a man who has quite the storied past in the office technology industry, Chip Miceli remains extremely busy contemplating the future. The president of Des Plaines, IL-based Des Plaines Office Equipment (DPOE) isn’t one to rest on his laurels; in fact, he’s determined to make Read More

The box is dead, the solution lives. That’s sort of become the mantra of today’s document imaging reseller and we do mean sort of because box selling hasn’t completely disappeared from the document imaging dealer’s playbook. It’s still a necessary evil. What isn’t evil, but Read More

There’s a lot of chatter in certain segments of the document imaging industry about MWA FORZA with SAP Business One. The chatter is poised to become even more intense as more dealers implement this emerging database management platform for the document imaging channel. One dealer Read More

I interview hundreds of professionals from all segments of the document imaging industry every year. Some days I do as many as three or four interviews a day. Sometimes it’s only one. Rarely is it none. More often than not, these interviews are informative and insightful. An Read More

This month in ENX magazine the main feature is “Diversification: A Necessary Business Strategy in a Changing Document Imaging Marketplace.” The article identifies a handful of diversification strategies that various dealers around the country are pursuing. Because of space Read More

Last month I wrote about the various trends sweeping the document imaging industry, many of those underscoring the need for the traditional office technology dealer to diversify. Yes indeed, diversification is the name of the game as printed output declines and dealers look for Read More

Continuing with the theme from my Between the Lines column in the January issue of ENX magazine, I asked office technology dealers from across the country to share with us their New Year’s Resolutions for 2015. Here’s what they shared. I’ll bet you can identify with some of those Read More

Elk Grove Village, IL, Nov. 3, 2014 – Des Plaines Office Equipment (www.dpoe.com), the Chicago area’s leading provider of office and technology solutions 1955, has named Keith Davies of Elk Grove Village to the position of Technology Consultant. In this role, he will work Read More

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL, OCTOBER 29, 2014 – Des Plaines Office Equipment (www.dpoe.com), the Chicago area’s leading provider of managed print services, managed network services, and related technology, will host a LinkedIn “Lunch ‘N Learn” on November 5th, from 11:30 a.m. to Read More

SCOTTSDALE, AZ —October 1, 2014 — MWA Intelligence (MWAi), an SAP Gold Partner and leader in enterprise resource planning (ERP), continues to expand our FORZA and SAP Business One client base by adding Des Plaines Office Equipment (DPOE). DPOE, established by Vince Miceli in Read More

I just finished interviewing Chip Miceli, president of DPOE in Elk Grove, IL for a couple of articles I’m writing for ENX and The Cannata Report. As I was preparing for my interview, I got to thinking about how Chip is a familiar face at industry events, not just dealer meetings. Read More

SurgeX Launches Defender Series MultiPak Nov. 6, 2013 – ESP/SurgeX has announced the Defender Series MultiPak, a Multi-Stage surge protector and power conditioner specifically designed to safeguard digital signage arrays. Available in four (SX-DS-154) and six (SX-DS-156) outlet Read More

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, Read More

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 Read More