{"id":6537,"date":"2014-01-22T14:40:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T19:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theweekinimaging.com\/?p=6537"},"modified":"2014-01-22T14:40:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T19:40:09","slug":"between-the-lines-follow-the-services-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/the-week-in-imaging-twii\/editors-blog\/2014\/01\/between-the-lines-follow-the-services-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Between the Lines: Follow the Services Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/follow-the-leader.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6538\" alt=\"follow the leader\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/follow-the-leader-300x181.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a>This week\u2019s news that Ricoh will acquire mindSHIFT Technologies, a Managed Services provider, from Best Buy Co., once again underscores how important services are to the imaging technology space. \u00a0Or at least how important services are to their long-term survival in the space.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not that services are something new to Ricoh, but this acquisition gives them a much broader offering and extends their reach in the services space. You\u2019ve seen what services have done for Konica Minolta after its acquisition of All Covered.\u00a0 And let\u2019s not forget Xerox and HP, two other leaders who are bullish on services.<\/p>\n<p>Love it, hate it, or indifferent to it, if you\u2019re an imaging technology dealer, how much more validation do you need to start thinking seriously about Managed Services?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s news that Ricoh will acquire mindSHIFT Technologies, a Managed Services provider, from Best Buy Co., once again underscores how important services are to the imaging technology space. \u00a0Or at least how important services are to their long-term survival in the space. It\u2019s not that services are something new to Ricoh, but this acquisition gives them a much broader offering and extends their reach in the services space. You\u2019ve seen what services have done for Konica Minolta after its acquisition of All Covered.\u00a0 And let\u2019s not forget Xerox and HP, two other leaders who are bullish on services. Love it, hate it, or indifferent to it, if you\u2019re an imaging technology dealer, how much more validation do you need to start thinking seriously about Managed Services? Thanks for reading. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80],"tags":[2411,1135,276,312,328,343],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6539,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6537\/revisions\/6539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}