CHANNEL INSIGHTS
The cannabis market is expanding rapidly and is creating substantial opportunities to sell cannabis cash management, cash drawers, and cannabis dispensary POS solutions.
- How To Run A Great Mobile Help Desk While Keeping Costs Down
- Shining A Light On The Dark Web
- Messy Retail Counters Chase Away Customers
- Why Cyber Resilience Is An Essential Component Of Business Resilience
- What The Pandemic Taught Us About Strengthening Our Partner Relationships
- Cybersecurity Myths That Are Compromising Your Data And How To Address Them
- Improving Restaurant Order Accuracy With Interactive Touchscreens
LEADERSHIP LESSONS
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Can M&A strategies be the new tech industry IPO? As we settle into the second quarter of 2022, it is becoming apparent that fluctuations in the markets are having a significant impact on the tech industry, especially related to plans for cybersecurity IPOs. For many companies, the exit strategy of the moment appears to fall more in line with mergers and acquisitions (M&A) than buyouts or private investments.
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Organizations today have two big problems: they have a petabyte-scale amount of file and object storage data known as unstructured data and no one to help manage it.
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In our ongoing quest to provide you with the best business advice possible, we’ve partnered with The ASCII Group and their members who are going to share their thoughts on timely topics or best business practices. In this article, the following ASCII member answered our questions about servicing clients outside of their geographic area.
- Marketing Pollution: The New Reality For Sellers
- Considerations For Refreshing Your Data Center
- Redefining Collaboration For The Modern Workforce
- Cybersecurity Notes For Developers: 5 Tips
- 5 Questions To Help Organizations Prepare For Best Outcomes When Labor Resources Are Scarce
- 4 Steps For Impactful Data Visualizations That Can Increase Engagement, Show Meaningful Correlations, And Produce Actionable Insights
- Innovation Is Crucial For Modern Enterprises To Adapt And Survive
WHITE PAPERS
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IT Industry Outlook 2021: Rebuilding For The Future
It didn’t take long for the optimism of a new decade to wear off. By the end of Q1 2020, companies everywhere were reeling as they reckoned with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sadly, the impact of the virus was too much for many firms, leaving millions of workers unemployed and driving thousands of businesses to close their doors. Those companies that stayed afloat had to act quickly in order to enable their remote workforce and maintain operations.
CASE STUDIES
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Free POS Helps Pad VAR's Wallet
You don't have to be a retail IT VAR to see that restaurants go in and out of business all the time. Many smart VARs use this to their advantage. Such was the case with Gary Hayes, owner of GH Computer Enterprises, who was driving through a section of Chicago when he noticed a new “coming soon” sign on the door of a restaurant that recently went out of business.
FEATURED SUPPLIERS
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Webroot delivers intelligent cybersecurity for endpoint, mobile and web to channel partners, consumers, businesses, and enterprises worldwide. Powered by its BrightCloud® collective threat intelligence network, Webroot protects the internet of everything. Our cloud-based threat detection, high performance, lightweight agents, and single, web-based point of control have changed the way businesses think about protecting mobile devices, PCs and servers. Named a ‘Visionary’ in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms, Webroot’s smarter approach to security is why companies including Cisco, F5 Networks, GateProtect, HP, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Proofpoint, RSA and others choose our solutions for advanced threat protection for their security products and services.
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Shift4 is a leading national provider of touch-screen point of sale (POS) systems and payment processing services. As pioneers of the “as a service” model, Shift4 offers an unprecedented “free” POS program that allows the company’s sales partners to offer a full-featured POS system with no up-front costs.
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Carbonite is a leading, single-source provider for comprehensive data protection for all the different types of data and systems in today’s IT environments. Carbonite’s complete Data Protection Platform includes advanced solutions for ensuring the integrity, survivability and accessibility of data for businesses of all sizes and in any industry.
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RSPA stands for Retail Solutions Providers Association. We are the only association dedicated to the retail technology industry. -
At apg® we believe that brick-and-mortar retail connects people to their community, to each other, and drives business success. For more than 40 years, we have been supplying your communities and their retail and hospitality businesses with cash drawers through various partner channels.
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CompTIA is the voice of the world's information technology (IT) industry.
POS & PAYMENT PROCESSING
ISV-SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
MULTI MEDIA
VAR INSIGHTS NEWSLETTERS
- 08.16.22 -- Marketing Can Do Things For You That A Great Product Cannot
- 08.09.22 -- 5 Questions To Help Organizations Prepare For Best Outcomes When Labor Resources Are Scarce
- 08.02.22 -- Messy Retail Counters Chase Away Customers
- 07.26.22 -- 4 Roadblocks To Increasing Employee Security Through User Training
- 07.19.22 -- 8 Key Tips For Mastering Migration
FEATURED PRODUCTS
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Exceeding customer and industry expectations, the Series 4000 is the ultimate heavy-duty cash drawer. Unmatched durability along with flexible storage space, and various sizing, color and customized options, these features make the Series 4000 another reason for APG’s reputation as the preferred choice.
EBOOKS
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Generating Profit And Advanced Threat Intelligence
To keep up, fighting fire with fire is the best defense. Businesses of all sizes must bring equally effective and intelligent security tools to the party. Fortunately, there are resources for tackling this constantly-evolving cyber war. Today, there are a variety of solutions that harness the power of AI and ML and protect businesses against today’s growing and advanced cyber threats.
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Cybersecurity Special Edition
We must continue to understand the importance of cybersecurity and ensure the channel has the resources needed to be safer and more secure online. We need to encourage individuals and organizations to protect their part of cyberspace and take proactive steps to enhance cybersecurity. To achieve these lofty goals, we've put together this special, cybersecurity-focused newsletter to help you do your part and be cybersmart.
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Delegate Or Die
When the RSPA team talks business challenges with our value-added reseller (VAR) and independent software developer (ISV) members, we hear most frequently about one obstacle. Not cloud point of sale, not mergers and acquisitions, not vendor relationships, not shrinking margins, not the economy. The most mentioned hindrance to VAR and ISV growth is delegation.
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What Every VAR Needs To Know About Security
Achieving success in the world of IT depends on understanding and managing security. So, the question is: Are you doing security right? If you're not sure, have no fear. We've put together this special, security-focused e-book to help guide you through all things security: from compliance to protecting remote workers and more.