The End Of The Day With Ray! Kyocera FY 26 - Looking At The #s & Thoughts To Shake Things Up!

The End Of The Day With Ray! Kyocera FY 26 - Looking At The #s & Thoughts To Shake Things Up!

May 12, 2026

Kyocera must look at their great successes and do more around those successes! The marketplace needs OEMs to shake things up! In the U.S. marketplace dealers of at least one OEM are looking for a more dealer friendly OEM Kyocera and others should be aggressively going after that distribution. The dealers need a strong differentiator and Kyocera is one of the OEMs who can deliver that differentiation.

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The End Of The Day With Ray! REMEMBER The Retired BTA Lawyer BLESSING The Konica Dealer Contract?

The End Of The Day With Ray! REMEMBER The Retired BTA Lawyer BLESSING The Konica Dealer Contract?

May 11, 2026

n this episode I recall my outrage over the Old Retired BTA Lawyer blessing the Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S. dealer contract. WELL Apparently I was correct in being outraged! Let's go back in time to last year and listen to what the retired BTA Lawyer and the host of Friday's with Frank had to say in their two part interview. I believe they both were too focused on blessing an OEM contract instead of focusing on the dealers.

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The End Of The Day With Ray! Keypoint Intelligence Sold Off To TSS Is It The End Of BLI Awards?

The End Of The Day With Ray! Keypoint Intelligence Sold Off To TSS Is It The End Of BLI Awards?

May 08, 2026

Big changes are coming to to the industry’s media and analyst firms. In today’s episode I share thoughts on Keypoint Intelligence as they exit from Atar Capital. I have never been a fan of Keypoint Intelligence as I don't buy their claims as an unbiased analytics firm. I also believe that Keypoint Intelligence would collapse without their OEM BLI Award platform. The world of software is going through a massive restructuring and I see this Keypoint Intelligence acquisition as more about financial engineering that some value add play.

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The End Of The Day With Ray! Konica Minolta U.S. Gets New CEO of IT Services, Here's My Thinking!

The End Of The Day With Ray! Konica Minolta U.S. Gets New CEO of IT Services, Here's My Thinking!

May 07, 2026

Konica Minolta Business U.S. brings in CEO to head up the U.S. Managed IT Services business! After reading the press release I thought It necessary to share my thinking. As I believe Konica Minolta Business U.S. is not addressing what I see as the realities of their 15 year journey into IT Services.

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The End Of The Day With Ray! Xerox Part Two - The Reinvention Progress Through My Eyes!

The End Of The Day With Ray! Xerox Part Two - The Reinvention Progress Through My Eyes!

May 05, 2026

In this second part to yesterday's episode I discuss the reinvention regarding the print portfolio and a focus on the IT services component. The recent alignment with ServiceNow is very interesting!

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The End Of The Day With Ray! Xerox 1st Qtr. 26 - I Discuss New Leadership & The Numbers!

The End Of The Day With Ray! Xerox 1st Qtr. 26 - I Discuss New Leadership & The Numbers!

May 04, 2026

Today's episode is part one of a two part series where I discuss Xerox 1st Qtr. Numbers & Thoughts on leadership changes. In part two I will discuss details as I see them regarding the progress in the Xerox reinvention. #xerox #xeroxcopy

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