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Frank G. Cannata shares his perspective on inflation and interest rates in the latest Frankly Speaking and how those two segments of our economy will impact the office technology industry and office technology dealers in 2023. He also emphasizes the need for dealers to participate in our 38th Annual Survey in order to gauge just how accurate his predictions were about interest rates, inflation, and a potential recession.

The Cannata Report’s February issue presents a comprehensive look at digital transformation (DX), from the perspective of dealers digitally transforming their businesses through new technologies and e-commerce to helping customers digitally transform their organizations.

The Cannata Report’s Manic Monday presents condensed document imaging industry news highlights from Canon, ConnectWise, Ricoh, Pulse Technology, Konica Minolta, Stramaglio Consulting and more from the week of February 6-10, 2023.

Pulse Technology announced that Stephen Sheridan of Bartlett, IL has been promoted to the position of service director. Sheridan was most recently in the role of Service Manager and is a 42-year employee of the company.

Mike Dudek and Rich Wisniewski of Zygoquest Group served as the advisor to Copy Duplicating Systems, Inc., d.b.a. Connected Document Solutions, and its owners Richard and Bonnie Reese, on the sale of assets to Dataflow Business Systems Inc. Terms of the transaction are confidential.

Ricoh announced its latest production workflow technology, TotalFlow Producer, a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that empowers printers to automate their job production processes from a centralized operational control point. Set to unveil globally at Hunkeler Innovationdays 2023, February 27 to March 2 at the Messe Lucerne Exhibition Center in Lucerne, Switzerland.

According to the specialist advisory firm Ciesco, mergers and acquisitions activity in the technology, digital, media, and marketing spaces remained strong in 2022 despite global volatility. Though the last year involved the war in Ukraine, supply chain issues linked to Covid and China’s shutdown, and a massive economic downturn, there were 2,095 transactions within tech, digital, media, and marketing – a year-on-year increase of 20%.

Konica Minolta announced Sam Errigo has joined more than 2,400 CEOs and presidents in signing the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion pledge. CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion is the largest U.S. CEO-driven business commitment to advance diversity and inclusion within the workplace.

In the latest episode of Fridays with Frank, Frank revisits his 2023 forecast published in our December/January issue and takes a deeper dive into declining dealer revenues and what that means for the future of the dealer channel.  

After attending POA’s Annual Meeting, it was clear this leading office technology provider is giving the document imaging industry a lesson in developing a successful strategy for diversification.

PRINTING United Alliance announced the promotion and expanded role of apparel industry veteran Josh Carruth to senior vice president – Association.

Fiery LLC has released new and updated vehicle templates for 2023 for its Pro Vehicle Outlines (PVO) product offering. PVO provides more than 19,500 precise vehicle templates hand-measured to within a quarter-inch accuracy.

Arna Marketing Group, a provider of print products and data analytics services to Fortune 500 companies, has installed eight Canon inkjet printers at its New Jersey plant. The Canon ProStream 1800 web-fed and varioPRINT iX3200 sheet-fed inkjet presses deliver high speed, high quality output, with the ProStream capable of 1,200 dots per inch and 1,900 impressions per minute, while the varioPRINT offers a wide range of media.

Frank G. Cannata spoke to Pacific Office Automation’s Doug Pitassi on how he and his colleagues strategized an agenda for their recent annual meeting themed “Grit.” Pitassi shares his goals for the meeting, his passion for the document imaging channel, and the importance of strong business leadership.

Konica Minolta has partnered with NTS Communications to expand its Unified Communications offering to include Microsoft Teams, with a cloud-based platform to support the entire Teams calling lifecycle.

Kyocera Document Solutions America has been certified as a Great Place to Work for the second year in a row, with 79% of employees surveyed stating it’s a great place to work.

The POA annual sales meeting was an opportunity for the company to share its 2022 successes, strategic initiatives for 2023, and recognize top sales performers.

The Cannata Report announced the final tally of its 2022 Annual Awards & Charities Gala fundraiser that will create an endowed scholarship at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine.

Epson America is hosting InkBoldly, a conference for its North American office-equipment channel partners. One of the highlights of the conference was the introduction of WorkForce Enterprise AM Series, including the WorkForce Enterprise AM-C6000, AM-C5000 and AM-C4000 A3 MFPs.

FUJIFILM Imaging Colorants, Ltd., announced global commercial availability of an expanded range of colors to its series of high performance RxD pigment dispersions for water-based inkjet ink formulation.

The Cannata Report’s Manic Monday presents rapid recap of the previous week’s office technology industry news from the week of January 30-February 3.