by Tom LeBlanc | Jan 23, 2017 | Insights, News
Did the malls seem a little less crowded this past holiday season? They did to me, and it doesn’t take an industry analyst to identify why. The brick-and-mortar-crushing reality is that online shopping: 1. Is easy 2. Keeps getting easier 3. Let’s you avoid crowded...
by Tom LeBlanc | Jan 23, 2017 | News
It’s not every day that an AV integration market manufacturer strikes a deal to partner with one of the largest IT providers in the world. That’s why QSC’s partnership with Dell to run its 4th generation Q-SYS software on standard off-the-shelf PowerEdge R730 Rack...
by Tom LeBlanc | Jan 23, 2017 | News
QSC, an audio, video and control manufacturer for the AV integration industry, has partnered with IT giant Dell. QSC’s Q-SYS software will be run on off-the-shelf Dell server hardware, creating a shift that allows customers and integrators to decouple existing Q-SYS...
by Tom LeBlanc | Jan 21, 2017 | Insights, News
There is much optimism and enthusiasm in the integration industry as we enter 2017. And there should be. Many integration firms began 2017 fueled by great momentum, according to Commercial Integrator’s State of the Industry survey conducted annually in cooperation...
by Tom LeBlanc | Jan 17, 2017 | News
When Sensory Technologies acquired AV Solutions, a division of Toshiba America Business Solutions, on March 1, 2016, Commercial Integrator posted one article about it. Conversely, when Diversified acquired Technical Innovations to become ostensibly the industry’s...