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This year’s survey garnered the greatest number of responses in the history of the survey””338 with 330 of those representing the Big Six manufacturers…

We started separating the A3 and A4 MFP lines with our 2014 Survey and continue to do so today. Prior to 2014, the number of lines per dealer was influenced by…

The days of the dealer dedicated to a single A3 manufacturer may be waning, but as we’ve seen during the past three years of the Survey, that figure has…

This year, we saw a modest increase in the number of dedicated dealers compared with 2017, which we attribute to the greater number of Survey respondents…

When analyzing our Survey results, we do not base our findings on profitability and choose to examine revenue. This year, the total dealer revenue of our entire…

Up until our 32nd Annual Dealer Survey in 2017, we tracked the numbers for the $5 Million-Plus Club, dealers with revenues of $5 million or greater. During the…

The emergence of MPS has given desktop printers credibility within the dealer channel. Regardless of how dealers define their MPS offerings, printers remain an…

Since we began tracking dealers’ engagement in MPS, it’s been fascinating to watch the evolution of this offering. As much as MPS has become seemingly…

Providing managed IT or managed network services continues to be the most golden of opportunities for the dealer channel. (We’ll refrain from using “managed…

If service is core to a dealership’s business, then there is great value in examining the makeup of a dealership’s technical operations with an emphasis on…

Since we began conducting this Survey, there hasn’t been a single year where acquisitions were not shaping the dealer landscape in one way or another. The days…

Even before we started asking dealers to identify their greatest opportunities for growth, the dealer channel has been constantly on the lookout for the next…

There may not have been many blockbuster news stories in September, but that doesn’t mean it was a light news month. We’ve culled our September archives to narrow down what we consider the top 10 stories…

From September 30 through October 3, The Cannata Report is set to attend PRINT 18 in Chicago. Ever since we began covering this show in 2001, the conference has…

Based on research BLI conducted on the enterprise market and testing in the Keypoint Intelligence ““ Buyers Lab (BLI) lab, Canon U.S.A., Inc., has won the BLI Pacesetter Award for…

We are so pleased to be publishing our first-ever SIP (special-interest publication) as a Special Bonus Issue, exclusively sponsored by GreatAmerica Financial…

During our trip to Japan in 2018, we observed several common threads among the Big Six regarding their future global strategies. Despite these similarities each is forging its own path in accordance with its respective strengths, R&D, and business perspectives.

As experience often reminds us, things don’t always go as planned. A case in point would be our visit with Canon, Inc. Candidly, we were expecting to spend a little…

It was our pleasure to host our third annual elite partner dinner at Tiro A Segno of New York, a private club and the oldest Italian American heritage organization in the U.S….

Taking a look back on our four previous Women Influencers issues, The Cannata Report has featured 12 senior women executives in this editorial franchise’s…

If there’s such a thing as warp speed, Doug Pitassi, president of Pacific Office Automation (POA), is cruising at it. Recently,…