This VAR and ISO’s (independent sales office’s) ability to bundle point of sale (POS) solutions and full-disclosure payment services is critical to its continued double-digit growth.
Survey data reveals the hottest verticals and technologies in 2016, and what solutions providers are focusing on for 2017.
Honeywell has released new models of its MP Series compact industrial label printers. The MP Series printers are among the smallest industrial label printers on the market, featuring all-metal casings for improved durability. The MP Series printers can be used in almost any orientation and can be mounted on walls, manufacturing lines, or fork trucks. In short, Honeywell has designed these printers for industrial work environments where space is an issue.
The following is an edited transcript of Business Solutions’ Editor in Chief Mike Monocello’ s Q&A with Jason Firment, Director of Point of Sale and Director of VARCOM for BlueStar which took place at ISV IQ Live! held October 6 in Philadelphia.
The following is an edited transcript of Business Solutions’ Editor in Chief Mike Monocello’ s Q&A with Jason Firment, Director of Point of Sale and Director of VARCOM for BlueStar which took place at ISV IQ Live! held October 6 in Philadelphia.
I have to admit that after attending Epson’s inaugural ISV conference in San Diego last year, I was skeptical the company was going to be able to meet its projected deadlines — especially launching an ISV partner portal by the end of 2015 with 10 hand-selected ISVs. Sure enough, however, their OmniLink Merchant Services (OMS) announcement at the National Retail Federation (NRF) convention in mid-January removed much of that skepticism. OMS is a suite of cloud-based software solutions for the retail and hospitality markets. Powered by hand-selected Epson ISV partners, OMS provides hospitality and retail VARs with a global network of cloud and mobile based tools, best practices, business data, and expertise.
This ISV is building its business on the premise that today end-to-end retail platforms are better accessed than developed.
Payments experts highlight areas where VARs should focus for high processing residuals.
Migrating its software to Android freed this ISV from Windows-based restrictions and gave its Little Caesars franchisee a better overall solution.
Business Solutions’ Best Channel Vendors survey is now open — let your voice be heard. By Christine Kern, contributing writer