We’ve all seen the question floating around – is advertising dead? It’s not a surprising thought given how much white noise exists in the oversaturated world of advertising. Advertisements are everywhere and consumers are getting better at avoiding them, whether they are skipping through video ads on YouTube or paying to turn off advertisements altogether. Given these trends, there’s a growing need for companies to find new ways to effectively engage people. While traditional advertising might appear to be fading into its final days, advertising is actually far from dead! It simply needs to be smarter, and drive lasting connections and impressions with end customers. (more…)

When you read the word ‘solutions’, what comes to mind? Software?  It’s much more than that; solutions are fixes, a means of solving a problem. In chemistry, a solution is known as a mixture of two or more substances that result in an interaction. For Konica Minolta, solutions are a combination of software, hardware and services, all looking for a chemist to deliver the potion. We are your chemists! (more…)

As human beings who must learn to live, love, work and connect with each other in a modern technological society, we all seek a natural framework of reference to structure our thoughts and feelings. The physical, biological vehicle of our bodies (including our eyes, hands, skin and brains) provides the field of gravity that grounds the sensory perception that fuels our minds. This element of subjective material existence is paralleled by the awareness and influence of our environmental settings, such as homes, offices or stores. (more…)

Residential real estate is a large industry which generates billions of dollars in revenue per year. Last year, there were approximately 210,000 companies operating in the residential brokerage field, which generated $200 billion in revenue. Not bad for an industry that was teetering on the brink of disaster just ten years ago. (more…)

As the frequency of cyberattacks keeps rising, organizations need to be better prepared to mitigate such events. Cybercriminals are increasingly gaining access to tools such as ransomware, making it easier for them to launch attacks, and consequently, organizations must have a defined cyber risk management strategy to deal with these attacks. (more…)

After 135 years in business, fourth-generation owner John Hummel had seen numerous advances in technology benefit his family’s company, Hummel Integrated Marketing Solutions. But he never could have predicted how revolutionary the Konica Minolta AccurioJet KM-1 UV inkjet press would be. “I had been operating my digital shop with toner-based digital presses from another vendor,” Hummel told us, “but became increasingly dissatisfied with both performance and pricing model. I’ve had my eye on the AccurioJet KM-1 since it first came to market and felt that the time was now right to make the switch to UV-curable inkjet.”

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You hear them all the time, something “as a service,” but what do these terms mean and how are they significant to your business? Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) are merely a few of the innumerable cloud computing offerings available today. Thoroughly understanding their unique benefits, purpose, and ways they can be used [together or independent of one other] can grant insight into optimally implementing them for business success and longevity. According to a recent Forbes study, 30% of all IT budgets were allocated to cloud computing over the past year, where 48% was spent on SaaS, 30% on IaaS and 21% on PaaS. (more…)

When you envision migrating workloads to the cloud, it can seem overwhelming. One of the primary reasons it’s usually done is to reduce in-house operational overhead. In today’s workplace, SMB’s have stringent requirements (think compliance such as HIPAA, or PCI) that often require dedicated system administrators, network engineers and other IT staff but typically don’t have abundant budget dollars to bring in an internal team to manage them. Enter All Covered. We provide a Single Source Solution for leveraging cloud services, while delivering a comprehensive suite of Managed IT services. (more…)

“Necessity is the mother of invention” is an old saying based on the Greek philosophy of Plato.  And the saying is just as relevant today as it was all those years ago. (more…)

Implementing cloud solutions in your business can have significant short and long-term benefits including cost savings, flexibility, increased productivity and more. Here, we’ll look at several benefits of migrating services to All Covered’s Cloud environment that may be important considerations to optimizing your business processes. (more…)