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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.
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Make Your Customers' Loss Prevention Systems Smarter
This electronic article surveillance (EAS) provider is taking its business to the cloud and giving retailers a lot more actionable data to help them thwart theft.
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ISVs Drive Retail, Restaurant Innovations5/1/2017
Three experts explain how ISVs continue to shape the retail and restaurant verticals. Are VARs ready?
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Product Comparison: Backup And Recovery Software3/1/2017
We compare the certifications, pricing structures, and support of 10 business continuity solutions.
PREMIUM RETAIL CONTENT
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![Doctor's Using Search Engines For Decision Support]( "Why We Must Leave Windows 7 Behind")
Why We Must Leave Windows 7 BehindIgnoring 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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Point-of-Sale Resellers Can Thrive By Driving Merchants To Become Omni-channel
In this digital age, it is important for merchants and resellers to not only market their services with a brick and mortar operation, but online as well and across a multitude of platforms. This is called omni-channel. According to a survey by Aspect Software, businesses that adopt omni-channel strategies achieve 91% greater year-over-year customer retention rates compared to businesses that don’t. With this in mind, it’s vital to gain an understanding of what omni-channel can do for your merchants and how best to implement it for long-term success.
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![Establishing A Security Policy]( "10 Tips for Adding Security And Compliance To Your Services Stack")
10 Tips for Adding Security And Compliance To Your Services StackManaging 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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![Cybersecurity]( "Tech Leaders Talk National Cybersecurity Awareness Month")
Tech Leaders Talk National Cybersecurity Awareness MonthIn 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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![Communications]( "What's Driving The UC Market?")
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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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.
FEATURED RETAIL PRODUCTS
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Life is hard. But ordering products is easy.
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CounterPoint Retail Point of Sale Software by Radiant Systems is a graphical point of sale (POS) and inventory management system that gives you complete data access and control over all areas of your business. A leader in Retail Management Software, CounterPoint is highly customizable, allowing you to configure every aspect of the system to fit your needs and requirements.
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Highest-Rated Protection Thanks to a Layered Security Approach.
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With simple access to connectivity for peripherals and built-in open architecture to install any software application, the PT-5700 helps lower your total cost of ownership and increases sales efficiency.
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SkyTab is a powerful mobile solution that is a true game-changer for the hospitality and foodservice industries. It combines state-of-the-art hardware with simple and intuitive software to deliver an exceptional experience for businesses and their guests.
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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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![Retail IT Providers]( "The IT That Retailers Want, Versus What They Need")
Omni-channel is all the rage in retail, but is it something small retailers want or even need? And what did you miss at NRF last week that could make you more successful in 2016? We’re talking retail technology with Matt Pillar, retail guru, on this episode of the Trusted IT Advisor.
