Op-Ed & Commentary

Here we are in May, and to get us started in what will be a busy month, Frank and I are headed…

Have you been following the stories we’ve been covering and tracking at The Cannata Report in April? There were a few big stories, including the acquisition of EFI and our interview with…

Kyocera Document Solutions America held its annual dealer meeting April 16-18 in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand.
As the meeting took place shortly after the end of the company’s…

Have you ever thought about the ink? Between our visits to PRINT and EFI Connect, we continue to see increasing numbers of inkjet devices, primarily designed for…

Show me a dealer who isn’t aligned with one of the many software providers servicing the dealer channel and I’ll show you a dealer who isn’t long for this world. Those…

Frank G. Cannata ponders the future of print in his first-ever Frankly Speaking column.

Canon U.S.A.’s annual media and analyst event last month provided an update on Canon Solutions America. The tight agenda provided valuable information as Canon executives presented…

If you are a traditional office technology dealer selling print technology and nothing else, your days are numbered. Would you like to know how much…

Our Virtual Panel series continues this month with comments from the Big Six OEMs, as well as HP and Xerox. The panel responded to numerous…

So, who wants to bet they’ve logged more cross-country flights than me this year? As I write this, I’m cruising at an altitude of 35,000 feet somewhere over…

February was an active news month, particularly for dealer acquisitions. But one acquisition stood out above and beyond all others””Staples acquisition of DEX. At the same time, we continued…

I don’t have much time to write this before the next acquisition announcement arrives in my email inbox so here goes. It’s almost a cliché to say that January and February…

Each year we ask a different group of dealers to weigh in on a host of topics relevant to dealers. The intent is to provide different and diverse perspectives from across the country…

Each year we ask a different group of dealers to weigh in on a host of topics relevant to dealers. The intent is to provide different and diverse perspectives from across the country and different…

Our esteemed editor-in-chief suggested we might have made a mistake in our previous installments in this series on Xerox when theorizing that current Xerox management has on ojbective…

After the first three articles in our Xerox series with comments from off the record sources presenting their perspectives, as well as our speculation as to the fate of the company…

No one saw this coming. And when it did the press and analyst community covering the imaging industry found themselves dizzy with delight and salivating like rabid dogs over an opportunity to wax…

On February 8, 2019 the word came out that Staples had signed an agreement to acquire DEX Imaging. As the news broke it shook up the industry and organizations, including manufacturers and vendors…

It’s my pleasure to write this letter in our February 2019 issue for several reasons, some of which are “firsts” for The Cannata Report. This month, we are excited to…

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Marketing Research Consultants (MRC), the market research company, that would start publishing what would eventually…

We are officially in overdrive! Later this month, we’ll launch our 34th Annual Dealer Survey, sponsored by TIAA Bank for the sixth consecutive year and we…

A few years ago, a dealer in any city U.S.A. (the name of the city has been omitted to protect the dealer) to Global Imaging Systems (GIS). After the sale, he and his employees remained…

Our lead article, in the Xerox series, clearly defines the question of what is going to happen to Xerox. We all know Carl Icahn’s history of buying and then selling companies in…

Is Xerox on the verge of a Kodak moment? That is one of several questions underlying the comments from an array of industry professionals on the heels of the mid-December round of layoffs…

Another year in the office imaging industry is in the books. It was a year of acquisitions, new product introductions, dealer meetings, drama and intrigue (think Xerox),…