Tagged With "Private and Public Cloud"
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Re: COVID-19 Impact on Dealers and the Channel?
I was on the MPSA call today. Here's some points of interest I was going to post on another thread but will put it here for everyone. One major MPS company reported 29% decline in pages or revenue Another major MPS company reported a 71% decline Healthcare for one of those clients saw a 40% increase More inquires from clients in respect to file sharing and content Expecting continuing decline for another 30 days in revenue and prints First week of April they hit bottom and has stayed that...
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Re: Will outside Sales Rep's go away?
Monte I don't believe you are paranoid! The ecommerce is a real threat for sales peeps. In order to over come that we as sales peeps will need to wear additional hats to better serve out clients. Those as a trusted adviser, become more knowledgeable with cloud services, IT services, MSP, MSSP. It's my belief that we will evolve from just print to be able to consult on all aspects of business office. I would love to hear from others on this as well, this is a great subject for discussion.
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Re: The Death Of The B2B Salesperson [Infographic]
Art, I call Bull ****! At least for our industry, the copier industry! This may be true of a commodity (like envelopes, or coffee, or even a PC) but copiers, really MFDs require a lot of attention, both before and after a customer buys it. This article seems to be written by an old brick & mortar company that successfully transitioned to internet sales. This will work for any company that drop ships their products. And I agree that the MFD manufacturers would LOVE for this to be, or...
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Re: Around the World with Ricoh
Ricoh Selects Juniper Networks to Modernize its Group-Wide Network Infrastructure TOKYO, Aug. 09, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR ), an industry leader in automated, scalable and secure networks, today announced that Ricoh Group has successfully implemented Juniper Networks' high-performing solutions to modernize and simplify the operations of its core networking and security infrastructure that supports approximately 500 locations and 34,000 users in Japan. Ricoh Group...
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Re: MPS and Linux HELP!
So some clarification first. PaperCut absolutely does support Mac. In fact, it is the only cost recovery/print control solution that I know of that actually installs in an all Mac environment. (Server and Client) It also is the only solution I know of that installs in a Linux environment. So both of your issues are solved with PaperCut. I included the install guides for Mac and Linux to get you started.
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Re: Ricoh brings enterprise-class workflow solutions to small and medium-sized businesses, via the cloud
Broken link- This is a neat new way to integrate workflow with cloud storage. Subscription based-
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Re: Marco expands client base in Iowa
I had to read this a second time, I thought I read a "cloud based provider of copiers". I think that would work also!
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Re: P4P member: Allegheny County signs 5 year contract with Amcon Office Systems
Gman - Your absolutely right...Green Initiatives have always interested me and from a financial perspective they are great investments right now for stocks. Art - Thank you -- this was the most competitive and nail bighting 4 months in my career so far. Being government this bid had to go out to the public. The bid requirements were 50 pages long, and the time spent in dotting I's and crossing t's was insane. Every company who sells copiers bid in the Pittsburgh Market. Everyone body who...
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Re: Xerox 5675
John -- Government pricing is public knowledge...Depending on which state you are in, usually can see it under DGS - Department of General Services. If it is not the state contract awardee -- it will be under costar, etc.
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Re: Is selling at cost the future for print hardware?
Interesting approach to the sales process. Strikes me the next promo is for 10% below sticker price...of course unlike cars, manufacturers don't put a sticker price on MFP's to advise the public what the price is supposed to be. At this point we find the margin we are able to obtain on most sales of hardware barely covers the cost of sales for the product...any business profits come from services bundled around the hardware, either connectivity plans, support plans, supplies for colour etc.
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Re: Is selling at cost the future for print hardware?
You might find this interesting: When I sold cars I learned that the "sticker" on new cars is the maximum sales price allowable by law. (this did not apply to trucks, SUV's, or used cars). No industry needs that level of Gov't interference, especially ours.
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Re: Panasonic Canada discontinues A3 Copier Distribution March 2011
In mid-January Panasonic notified its major Chinese copier resellers and distributors that it will withdraw from the market following the 2010 Asian Olympic Games in November 2010. This is about as official as it gets without a public announcement.
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Re: Time in business requirements
JasonR, you are on a roll. We could then mix the "bad" leases in a little at a time with pools of "good" leases, buy insurance on them, and sell those. We'd try not to think about the fact that those would be further mixed with more "bad" and "good" leases... To make this REALLY roll though, we'd need Congress to step up. Follow the pattern of the 90s, and punish any leasing company that insists on only writing leases with customers who can repay. Block the merges of those leasing companies,...
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Re: Ricoh Ends Relationship with Ratio
OK - this is starting to smell like corporate finger pointing. If Ratio.de is closed, who is operating the US office (financially)? And who is providing plotbase PM? (Still available) There seems to be a cloud of secrecy around this mess. It's as if Ricoh's not satisfied with pricing themselves out of wide format. Now they have to prove what corporate moron clowns they are by playing 3 card monty with a key component. BTW, Graphic Enterprises says they can still order the plotbase controller...
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Re: Ikon Cost Per Page for Ricoh 1357 Pro
I sold (3) 1356 Pro back in July 2008 to a Public school system's print shop that the cpc was $0.0029 including staples and fixed for the entire 5 yr term
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Re: Another Ricoh Direct Give Away
Ford would LOVE to go with this model. Unfortunately, state franchise laws make it virtually impossible for auto manufacturers to eliminate dealers. That's why the domestics have two to three times as many dealers as they need, compared to the imports. This leads to lower average selling prices, lower dealership value, and a need to gather margin elsewhere. Such as muffler wax and windshield wiper protection plans. All in all, worsening the car buying experience. Some links...
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Re: Konica Minolta (US) Acquires IT Company
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced the company has acquired All Covered, Inc. (All Covered), a leading provider of Managed IT Services to the small- and medium-size business (SMB) market. A nationwide technology services organization, All Covered delivers a diverse range of services including proactive server management, remote monitoring, cloud...
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Re: Can you trust the Cloud?
I am learning about scanning to the cloud from any MFP via email by opening a free account at www.box.net A business class Box account costs $15.00 month.
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Re: Can you trust the Cloud?
Most of my customers do not trust the cloud, those who do already have something working.
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Re: Can you trust the Cloud?
You can even scan directly and securely to the cloud from your Ricoh MFP(to Microsoft Online, Office 365 BPOS, SharePoint). Just take a look at www.udocx.com or at our blog http://blog.udocx.com (you can find an articel about the security issue there as well). If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me.
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Re: Can you trust the Cloud?
I just watched a video from the investment website called Motley Fool. They are stating that Cloud Computing is the next big thing to invest in. http://www.fool.com/shop/newsl...rce=irbsitlnk0000141 and point out the big three "Top Dogs & First Movers" They compared the early days of independent electrical producers to the large utilities we have today to the independently owned PCs and Networks of today to the future of cloud computing. Consumers of computers will soon expect it to be...
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Re: Can you trust the Cloud?
And here's the rebuttal for my statement: http://www.govtech.com/securit...tch-Good-Idea-020711 However, I think the idea of an internet kill switch is rather silly as well. In order for the kill switch to be used, the country would have to already be in total rebellion. No politician is going to throw a switch that costs the U.S. GDP billions a day except in the face of armed uprising.
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Re: Canon iR2525 is Killer!
I'm sure there are some Canon dealers with more info, but this is what I know/have seen: * Cheap: Seen it sell in public sector for: $1,843, $935, $1,470, and $2,660 * higher speed, memory, paper capacity, and price than predecessor * Durability theme: clean sheet design, longer life consumables, "ease-of-maintenance" * Includes color scanning * No HDD - positioned as high security, but obviously a cost-cutting move
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Re: Cloud Printing
We haven't been asked for it yet, but boy you sure can see it coming. Even in our own office, we are increasingly using iPads and other mobile devices that lend themselves to cloud type usage. Also, cloud computing is making certain services more affordable to to smaller companies who can't afford their own IT personnel. They will eventually, and naturally, look to cloud solutions for their print needs as well. Here is a fresh story driving home this point. I suggest reading the comments...
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Re: Cloud Printing
I was in a small town last week at an six person Accountanting firm. They were using Cloud Computing for storage and document collaboration. They were concerned about the large amounts of paper documents that they had to store, retrieve and off site storage. They did not want to get a bigger office so they saw cloud computing as a way to get rid of filing cabinets. They liked the ability to be at a clients office and pull up their files at the customer's location. They liked the ability to...
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Re: Cloud Printing
Thanks guys, What other ways are you MFP seeing vendors supporting cloud printing and cloud services (beyond just the press release).
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Re: Invitation Webinar from UDOCX
To all P4P Members: Please set aside some time for this Webinar. The cloud and "smart" MFP's are the future! How often have you received kick back from IT when you've had to either install another server or have software installed on their server? UDOCX is not the case and a few of the IT people I've spoken to LOVE the concept, as a matter of fact, I'm inviting a few of them to the webinar! Seating is limited so sign up early, stay ahead of the competition with an advanced solutions talk...
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Re: The Death of the Fax Machine "Finally"
Just a note, the Cloud Fax solution has not been released yet, however it is in the works. In the above blog I'm referencing the new cloud fax service.
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Re: Invitation Webinar from UDOCX
The demo and product were great. I have some questions about latency with on-premise SharePoint and Exchange. I would think UDOCX would access to both from the Internet which means users would have to configure their sites for external access. Obviously with a complete cloud solution using Office 365/BPOS this is not an issue. I just attended a Microsoft event for Office 365 and it is quite an improvement over BPOS.
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Re: Google Cloud Print Opens Access to Printers Across the Globe
Basically your phone is sending the file to a PC or server that is running google chrome and is signed into your google account. You'd need to install and set up chrome on said PC/server as well as the cloud printing service and then download a. Cloud print app on your phone or tablet. You open the app and choose a file to print.
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Re: Google Cloud Print Opens Access to Printers Across the Globe
yes, but how do you get the mfp connected to the cloud?
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Re: Google Cloud Print Opens Access to Printers Across the Globe
The MFP is already connected to the internet. The Cloud Print client for the PC connected to the MFP identifies the printers that are connected to that PC. As long as that PC is online, running Chrome & you are logged in to your Google account, you can select the document you want to print from the Cloud Print app on your mobile device, select the settings (this is still in beta), and it will send the print job to the printer to which you choose to print. That PC is essentially acting as...
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Re: Ricoh Launches New Aficio MFPs With App2Me Solution
Long ago when digital was getting started and we didn't have a policy, we installed a machine similar to a 171 at a medium office. It was their first machine that could network fax, so they wanted us to install the fax driver on each workstation. I don't remember the exact number but it was around 40-50ish. As far as installing drivers on the server vs. the workstation, that's something the customer decides. If they decide they don't want the driver on the server (or perhaps their server if...
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Re: Cloud Poll
2011 is a transition year. It is no longer about Microsoft vs the World. It is about iPad and Android OS vs Microsoft. Remenber it was only two years ago that Laptops outsold desktops. It was only this year that Smartphones outsold laptops. The MFP Manufacturers have not quite yet identified who the Business Consumer will put their money down on yet for Cloud Services. New Cloud providers are offering free 2GB-5GB Storage space for consumers, in the hopes that they will learn and like their...
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Re: Cloud Poll
Evernote is another example of an appealing consumer presence but will DM's ever buy their service in the developing Corporate business space regardless of price structure. Not that EverNote/ Box.net/ Udocx prvides great levels of service, they are just not familiar and how long will they be in business before someone else bigger buys them? The above players, based in the internet do not have the street boots on the ground to make the original B2B (Belly Button 2 Belly Button) sales solution...
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Re: Cloud Poll
Microsoft's "Sky Drive", a free cloud based storage solution is now a player in the "freemium" space?
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Re: Cloud Poll
Mircosoft Office 365 goes live today. http://www.cnbc.com/id/43557789 It does have the superior appealing feature over GoogleDocs of allowing business to store their data on local servers. With Google, it appears your data must be 100% in the cloud.
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Re: Tidbits 8/22/2011
Yeah, I looked for confirmation of the Docuware info yesterday and could only find the announcement that Docuware will soon be offering a cloud-based version in addition to their existing versions. Moved it to the "rumor" category in my mind.
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Re: A Day That Will Never Be Forgotten
I had gone surfing 60 miles south of NYC before work that morning. It was one of the clearest mornings of that fall with perfect waves. Just a perfect after cold front morning. Not a cloud in the sky. I was a technician at the time and on my way to the first call of the day I heard on the radio of the first plane. I got to my first call and the office TV was directly over the copier. I was watching live when the second plane hit. I was at my second call of the day watching on their TV when...
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Re: Cloud Poll
Art...do you know if the 4 & 5 you mentioned will be a paid option or will that be offered free out of the box? On the Ricoh what do you need to have in place to print from the cloud? Or are these options just for scan2cloud?
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Re: Cloud Poll
I believe it's an SAS model, but I could be wrong there may be something in place similar to PPDM. With the Ricoh's as long as you have the PSIII module you can forward email attachments to the device and the device will print the attachment, there are a few limitations with this. Not sure about the other cloud print except for HOT SPOT
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Re: Cloud Poll
Canon's Cloud Portal - MEAP App allows you to connect a Canon ImageRUNNER-Advance to either GoogleDocs or MS Sharepoint Online. The MEAP App is free from Canon, and GoogleDocs will give you a free 1Gig of storage when you open a gmail account. The last time I checked a Terabyte of storage was ~ $250/year, which is pretty darn cheap. This allows you to Scan directly to GoogleDocs and Print Directly from GoogleDocs. You can even print MS Word, Excel, & Powerpoint docs that are stored on...
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Re: Cloud Poll
Vince thanks for the description. You are absolutely correct. This is a very hot topic out there right now. I have used this several times and it works like a charm. Customers love it and it's FREE. Here is an interesting point to keep in mind as you know Google Docs is FREE however have you ever read the EULA? Did you know whatever you send to the cloud when using the free google docs that google owns the rights to your documents? They can do whatever they wish with your information. That...
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Re: MOM Sues OSU for $1M over COMDOC Secret...
Two outside entities are claiming Ohio State University .Ohio State University Latest from The Business Journals Leading the List: Highest-paid Ohio State officialsHarley-Davidson CEO aims to ‘wow’ riders to keep turnaround in gearSlideshow: Most expensive college football programs Follow this company .employees have had improper contact with companies going through public bidding for university business, Columbus Business First reports. Cincinnati office equipment supplier Modern Office...
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Re: Can you trust the Cloud?
Buy an LG phone and get 50 GB of free Cloud storage on www.box.net . http://storagenewsletter.com/n...l/lg-box-partnership
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Re: Can you trust the Cloud?
Is 2012 the begining of the end for File Servers as more companies move to Cloud Storage? http://storagenewsletter.com/n...-egnyte-file-servers "Forrester found that 41 percent of information workers surveyed were using various unapproved online file storage and data services for work purposes." "it poses a huge threat to data/file integrity and security, as unapproved tools store and share proprietary corporate data through the cloud without any IT oversight."
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Re: New Ricoh SP5200 Series
Thats interesting I wonder how this works? Are these print jobs in the cloud?
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Re: Integrated cloud environment
The first two are the UDOCX Cloud solution, the LAST two are the features of Ricoh ICE. http://p4photel.com/eve/forums...67/showpollresults/Y
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Re: Proximity Card Reader
Meeting went well. Decided to propose IRC5030 since we could add cloud printing as an additional value to the proposal. Not at the proposal stage yet. We're still fact finding. The room keys are a magnetic strip card not a proximity card. Looking into the software that Hilton Hotels use.