Technology Trends

What can AI do to make a dealer’s organization’s workday, and their clients’ easier?

Frank travels to Datamax in Little Rock, Arkansas, to interview Barry Simon and key members of his team.

On May 23, Toshiba Tec’s President, Hironobu Nishikori, held a briefing on the company’s 2024 fiscal year management policy and announced the mid-term management plan for 2024–2026.

As the printing industry evolves, office technology dealerships are increasingly seeking to expand their offerings by selling production printers.

On Sunday, June 16, 2024, Katun Corporation held a grand opening for its new state-of-the-art Asia headquarters and research and development facility in Taiwan.

Rumors to the contrary, print is far from dead, and where there’s print, there’s an opportunity for managing that print with print management software.

The leasing companies have their finger on the pulse of the evolutionary changes sweeping the office technology industry, leading to new financing options.

Although lacking the glamour of many internet-enabled technologies, print remains a critical segment of technology that’s still happening in schools across America.

Canon Marketing Japan, which oversees the sales of Canon products in the Japanese market, launched on June 19 an option service that materializes Active Directory Integration for its cloud-based integrated ID management service, ID Entrance.

Highlights from the June PaperCut virtual Partner Summit.

Highlights, including notable production introductions from drupa 2024 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Konica Minolta and Fujifilm Business Innovation (Fujifilm BI) announced on April 15 that they have signed a basic agreement to begin discussing a business partnership for MFPs, office printers, and production printers.

During the past five years, we’ve noticed an interesting development in our Annual Dealer Survey—the increasing percentage of dealers who have identified Brother International as one of their top four providers of A4 products.

For the fourth consecutive year, U.S. Bank conducted a comprehensive survey, delving into the minds of finance leaders to uncover their top concerns, outlooks, and strategies.

The theme of Shaping Tomorrow at DocuWorld 2024 provided DocuWare partners with a roadmap for the future.

Does your dealership understand what it takes to catch the managed services wave?

If starting an IT business is not for the faint-hearted office technology dealer, launching a separate cybersecurity business is even more daunting.

It’s been four years since Predictive InSight first introduced its DCA to the U.S. dealer channel. To call the launch a success would be an understatement.

On February 6, Ricoh’s President and CEO, Akira Oyama, conducted a “Progress Report on the Corporate Value Enhancement Project” after the company’s third-quarter earnings announcement, aiming for the fiscal year 2025.

Today, we have three major AI models that drive how we use AI and what we can achieve with it: LLM (large language model), multimodal AI, and generative AI. All of them live on—you guessed right—data, good, structured data.

Artificial intelligence may not be new, but it’s poised to become even more prominent in the office technology industry.

There is so much to learn and so many concerns to address about AI.

The opportunities to leverage AI are waiting for dealers of all sizes.

AI technology possesses powers that make for a less chaotic next phase of our data-laden digital age.

Konica Minolta is currently part of a beta program testing out Copilot, a machine learning feature included in the popular recruiting and applicant management software iCIMS.