Konica Minolta

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. has announced the purchase of the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) business segment from ThoughtTrace, Inc., a Houston, Texas…

CIT has joined the No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R family as the exclusive banking sponsor, it was announced at the annual Roar Before the 24 Test Days at Daytona…

This was a wild and crazy year in the imaging industry. We can’t remember a year when there were as many acquisitions not only of dealers and IT services companies, but software companies with a distinctive footprint…

Don’t you just love the imaging industry? It’s always evolving, always innovating, and from time to time, does a nice job of shaking up the status quo. Going forward,…

If you want to understand the nature of change and what you can expect for the future, you must understand the challenges participants are facing today. For the…

Anyone in this industry interested in learning how to market their dealership and build strong, long-lasting customer and employee relationships could take a…

Another month, another top 10 stories. And we had some big ones in the month of November. There were also some less prominent stories competing for a spot on our monthly list. As…

Winners of the Frank Awards were announced at The Cannata Report’s 33rd Annual Awards & Charities Dinner at The Madison Hotel in Morristown, N.J. on…

A new survey by Konica Minolta, Inc. into small and medium-sized businesses has revealed that the vast number of IT challenges experienced daily are actively hampering…

Atlantic celebrates the grand openning of its new greater Philadelphia area Technology Center, Square 9 hosts a high-engergy music-infused Encompass 2018…

IGAS (International Graphic Arts Show) 2018 was held in Japan July 26″“31 at Tokyo Big Sight, officially known as the Tokyo International Exhibition Center. On display…

If we had to identify the one thing we appreciate most about the dealers who respond to our survey, it’s their honesty. That’s especially true when we ask them to…

The three biggest dealer concerns, as ranked by all of our Survey respondents, continue to be competing with manufacturer’s direct branches, declining…

One of the more intriguing findings from our Survey is dealer concerns. Each year we ask dealers to identify their greatest concerns from a list of 10 options, as…

Each year we ask dealers to rate their primary A3 MFP suppliers as “Excellent,” “Very Good,” “Good,” “Fair,” or “Poor.” Occasionally, there are dealers that prefer not…

Remember the days of the old NOMDA show before NOMDA became BTA and before the OEMs began having their own individual dealer meetings? This…

In addition to asking dealers to rate their A3 manufacturers, we asked them to rate their primary A4 manufacturers. With companies such as HP, Lexmark,…

As we did last year for the first time, we continue to gauge dealer optimism and pessimism in three areas””A3, A4, and production print. Not every dealer offered…

We continue our efforts to reach out to dealers, sharing with them what we learned during our May visit to Japan. This time CJ and I traveled to Phoenix to present to CDA…

Jeff Gau Ties the Knot; Marco Rocks Technology Tradeshow; Seton Hall Honors Frank Cannata; and SDG and BTA Take a Bite out of the Big Apple…

If there’s one thing you can count on at The Cannata Report is that every year””at least the last 33″”we conduct our annual Survey of independent dealers. It’s a…

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…