The Business Solutions Retail IT VAR Of The Future conference on April 4-5 at the DoubleTree Orlando at SeaWorld featured 21 solutions provider executives, consultants, and channel thought leaders sharing insights on sales best practices, security trends, preparing your business for a successful exit, scaling to nationwide growth, KPIs for solutions providers, and the transition to managed services.
HOSPITALITY MAGAZINE ARTICLES
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ISVs Drive Retail, Restaurant Innovations
Three experts explain how ISVs continue to shape the retail and restaurant verticals. Are VARs ready?
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What’s Your Cloud POS Strategy?5/1/2017
As customer demand and expectations have shifted to subscription-based solutions, so must your line card.
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SaaS, Security Drive POS Sales3/1/2017
With deep ties to foodservice giants and a focus on SaaS and security, 6-year-old POS software provider Bypass is shaking up food and beverage.
PREMIUM HOSPITALITY CONTENT
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Why We Must Leave Windows 7 Behind
Ignoring the Windows 7 end of support is easy right now, but no savings gained in the short term outweighs the risk to yourself and your business in the long term. A few thousand dollars spent now is better than tens or hundreds of thousands demanded by ransomware and the loss of confidence your clients in the future. Don’t let the deadline pass you by. The time to upgrade is now.
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10 Tips for Adding Security And Compliance To Your Services Stack
Managing data privacy and protection, storage and transfer — as well as compliance with state, federal and international laws and guidelines — is too complex for clients of all sizes to manage internally. It's natural that they look to their IT partners to help them solve this issue. It's your opportunity to be ready with a plan when they do. Even better, bring the solution to them before they even start searching. Here’s how.
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Tech Leaders Talk National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
In honor of celebrating the 16th annual National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, leading tech industry experts have provided the comments below showcasing the importance of this holiday.
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What's Driving The UC Market?
We're more than halfway through the year, and 2019 has been an incredibly exciting year for unified communications. With even more innovation on the horizon in the form of things like natural language processing, AR and VR, and even Edge computing, it's safe to say that 2020 is sure to have a lot of incredible opportunities to offer too.
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Black Hat 2019 — A Value Added Reseller’s Playground
Forget for a moment the chatter about Black Hat becoming commercialized or selling out to the security market and venture capitalists. Instead, let us take an inside view of the benefits that Black Hat provides for VARs that focus on security solutions.
HOSPITALITY HEADLINES
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Epson And PnP Loyalty Collaborate To Benefit Merchants In The Convenience, Retail And Restaurant Space4/3/2017
Epson America, Inc., a leading supplier of value-added Point of Sale (POS) solutions, recently announced that PnP Loyalty, a loyalty, CRM and digital rewards solution provider for convenience stores and chain restaurants, will leverage Epson’s OmniLink Merchant Services (OMS) platform for its new restaurant customer engagement platform.
- MobileBytes Certifies Epson TM-m30 POS Receipt Printer
- Zapper Certifies Epson POS Printers
- Epson And Cirra Systems Enable Easy Food Ordering At University Of Utah New Lassonde Studios
- Lans Holdings And Creditcall Partner To Speed Up Chip Card Adoption For Restaurants And Retailers
- Pax8 Named Distributor Of The Year By The ASCII Group
FEATURED HOSPITALITY PRODUCTS
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Bemacash is an innovative Point-of-Sale solution that runs on an Android tablet or Bematech’s SB8010A Android All-in-One. Secure cloud based system - access your business data from anywhere!
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SB9015F delivers the perfect blend of quality, performance, durability, and economy that make it the Best-in-Class hardware for Point-of-Sale All in One touch screen systems. The SB9015F is equipped with an industrial computer core and can support a wide range of operating systems. It is a perfect choice when an All In One solution is needed. Just one thumb-screw located at the back panel of the monitor allow an easy access to the computer core for service and maintenance.
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The LS8000 is an advanced compact kitchen display system controller with Android operating system. The Android controller is designed and manufactured for reliable uninterrupted operations in harsh kitchen environments.
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The SB8015A is a cost effective All-in-One Point-of-Sale terminal with bezel free, true-flat touch monitor and fanless design. The unit runs on an Android operating system eliminating the need for other more costly operating systems. Integration of VFD customer display and magnetic stripe reader eliminates potential issues with device connectivity, mounting, compatibility and cable management.
HOSPITALITY MULTIMEDIA
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In addition to being recognized worldwide as a small business guru, Michael Gerber is known for his straight talk. And he’s eager for solution provider owners to be candid with themselves and embrace their reality as well. In a recent interview with Business Solutions President Jim Roddy, Gerber said, “Until the straight talk happens, until somebody pulls the chain, until somebody says something that strikes (VARs and MSPs) so deeply that they can't avoid it or ignore it any longer, nothing's going to change for them.
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If you were not able to attend the ISV IQ Live! conference on February 24 in Santa Ana, CA, you missed out on a day of outstanding education on partnering, raising capital, and marketing. Business Solutions invited a panel of channel thought leaders who spoke at the event to participate in this webinar so more of our ISV subscribers can learn about partnering best practices.
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At RetailNOW 2015, APG Cash Drawer hosted a panel of retail industry thought leaders who shared their insights on tablet point of sale (POS).
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POSable demonstrated its Big Data platform at Retail Solutions Providers Association (RSPA) RetailNOW 2015, Aug. 2 through 5 at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, FL.