Larry Weiss will try to sell the notion that he’s a boring guy, but don’t buy into that line of thinking. He’s a closet comedy writer with a fondness for Larry David of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Seinfeld” fame (you can actually spot a brief cameo of Weiss in season eight, Read More

We’ve tried everything at our disposal to accurately gauge what the future will hold for the office technology ecosystem—crystal ball, Magic 8 Ball, tarot cards, palm reading, fortune tellers—and nothing seems to work. Sadly, we must resort to facts, data and the opinions of Read More

As the sands continue to slip through the hourglass, we’re often reminded that the things we could once count on as givens have become fewer and less reliable—a not-so-gentle reminder that change, no matter how welcome (or even frightening) it may be, is perhaps the lone Read More

We continue our year-end look at the Best of 2021 with a Top 5 of the most surprising developments in the industry. Feel free to send along your own Top 5 list, and if we have enough responses, we’ll include them in a future piece for our newsletter. We’d certainly be interested Read More

When the editors of ENX Magazine were making minor adjustments to the Elite Dealer nomination form at the onset of the year, one of the annual questions we pose, “What was the most significant challenge you endured during the past year,” was tweaked with the preface “Aside from Read More

Paul Hanna loves sales, and what’s more, he’s good at it. In fact, the Purdue University product—who played football for the Boilermakers and did a two-year stint in the United States Football League—spent nine years with Ohio Business Machines, graduating to vice president of Read More

It is a bit unusual for office dealers to announce acquisitions just prior to year’s end; they generally wait until after Jan. 1 to trumpet any deals made in December. But a trio of dealers—Offix, Visual Edge and Americom—decided to beat the holiday rush. Offix, a premier Read More

Just in time for the holidays is a new, major cybersecurity threat that has tech companies mobilizing to remediate a software vulnerability. The Log4shell vulnerability was identified in Apache’s Log4J software library. The library enables developers to track changes in the Read More

Last week, we led off our Elite Dealer challenges overview with a focus on how they have dealt with the evolved needs of their clients. But the one obstacle that was impossible to overcome was the rash of end-users who went out of business, and our dealer panel had its share of Read More

If there was ever a time and circumstance when Mark Petrie wouldn’t mind being considered boring, it would definitely be in the eyes of his kidney transplant doctor. In that case, boring is good; great, in fact. It’s been 18 years since Petrie endured a kidney transplant, and the Read More

In this week’s installment of the challenges facing our panel of Elite Dealers, we kick off with insight into serving the evolving needs of clients. Clearly, the pandemic has caused all dealers to mobilize and assess their own processes and structure. But by the same token, Read More

It’s really hard to believe that 2021 is drawing to a close, but it’s true. Only three-plus weeks remain until the champagne corks pop and we usher in a bold and exciting New Year. We can only hope 2022 will offer a fresh start, free of political and pandemic turmoil. Well, that Read More

Ramsey, NJ (Dec. 9, 2021) — Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc. (Konica Minolta), a leader in industrial and commercial printing and packaging solutions, is pleased to announce its AccurioJet KM-1e LED UV Inkjet Press has earned Idealliance Master Elite ISO/PAS 15339 Read More

The Great Resignation has been one of the most cited repercussions from the trail of destruction COVID-19 continues to leave across the global business network. The term is largely attributed to Texas A&M University Professor Anthony Klotz, who predicted that a large wave of Read More

Chris Taylor is suffering from an acute case of imposter syndrome. Or perhaps the president and CEO of Boise, Idaho-based Fisher’s Technology is a bit tongue in cheek when suggesting he knows nothing about the industry. While the notion is wholly unfounded, it’s a shining example Read More