SOLUTIONS FOR EVERY PART OF YOUR BUSINESS
SALES
Empower your sales force, with tools and training.
Tools
bliQ is the industry’s leading data-driven web platform, which automates tedious daily workflows, and prepares sales teams with the resources they need to win.
- 50,000+ Products
- Robust Searching
- Side by Side Compare
- Configure, Price, Quote
- Calculators (including TCO)
- Test Reports & Awards
Sales Training
Our customized training programs help your sales team develop unique value propositions for the markets you want to target. We offer sales training, leadership groups, webinars, customer events and more.
Learn moreANALYSIS
The best decisions are informed decisions.
We provide our clients with timely and informative insight on current and market trends and developments. We turn analysis into advantage.
Forecast & Trends
- Market sizing analytics & modeling
- Detailed methodology & assumptions
- Competitive environments
- Product & market life cycles
Surveys & Focus Groups
- Exploratory & conclusive research
- Survey design
- Customer demographics
- Brand awareness
Multi-Client Studies
- In-depth primary research
- Critical decision-making information
- Subject matter expertise
Quarterly Tracker Programs
- Market statistics & objective analysis
- Data tracking
- Product placements
STRATEGY
Turn insights to action.
Effective strategic decisions bring high levels of reward. Keypoint Intelligence helps clients raise the quality of their decisions—and their decision-making processes.
Keypoint helps your business with:
- Custom research & consulting
- Business development strategy "how-to" resources
- Extensive profiling for assessing & expanding channel presence
- Customer personas & segmentation with qualitative research
MARKETING
Build credibility with customers.
CERTIFIED RELIABLE
A seal of approval from Buyers Lab testing helps give your customers confidence they’re making the right decision. Enhance marketing materials with recognition from BLI’s test reports and awards, or take advantage of BLI’s other testing-related services.
COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE
Find reports, awards and tools to help you do competitive research, create custom brochures, print award files and more, only on bliQ.evaluation
Information for you, peace of mind for your customers.
Buyers Lab helps companies improve their products on a daily basis through custom testing. From pre-launch product suggestions to intensive competitive testing, our services extend outside of the “box”—including consumables, paper and software.
Our public test reports are the result of months of hands-on evaluations performed by our expert team of analysts and lab technicians.
Buyers Lab’s awards give special recognition to manufacturers and outstanding hardware and software products that performed above their peers in our exhaustive lab tests.
InfoBlog
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Mimaki’s Mantras at Virtual FESPA Press Launch: Bigger is Better, Collaboration is Key, and Flexibility is Favourable
In light of the postponement of FESPA 2020, Mimaki Europe responded quickly by announcing its planned product launches via a webinar. Ronald van den Broek (General Sales Manager, EMEA) provided an overview of the product announcements, Bert Benckhuysen (Senior Product Manager, EMEA) went into more detail on the products, and Danna Drion (Senior Marketing Manager) […] Read
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Canon Launches varioPRINT iX-Series of Sheetfed Presses
On April 1, 2020, Canon announced the latest update to its varioPRINT series of digital printers. Designed with commercial printers in mind, the varioPRINT iX-Series offers a wide variety of capabilities to improve automation, productivity, and media handling. Following on the success of the original varioPRINT platform that was introduced in 2015, this announcement demonstrates […] Read
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Modeling COVID-19’s Impact on Office Print Volume
Keypoint Intelligence is actively measuring the potential impact of COVID-19 on US office print volume. By looking at the various vertical industry sectors and their contribution to office printing, we have estimated best case and worst-case impacts on print. The two main variables which we regard as critical to estimating print reductions are: job losses […] Read
Editors' Desk
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LISTEN: Podcast with Impact Networking’s Patrick Layton
With over 20 years of IT experience, Layton has seen it all. He started with Novell to Windows NT upgrades and segued into the dot-com bubble, after which he entered the consulting space. Read
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China Ramp-Up, Facility Diversity Easing Manufacturing Impact in Office Hardware Market
The virus known as COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc in the United States and drag the economy to a screeching halt. I talked with several of the major OEMs in the office hardware space about the impact the coronavirus has had on their manufacturing to this point. Read
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Modeling COVID-19’s Impact on Office Print Volume
By looking at the various vertical industry sectors and their contribution to office printing, we have estimated the best- and worst-case effects on print. Read
Industry News
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Xerox Withdraws Offer for HP, Ends Takeover Bid
The current global health crisis and resulting macroeconomic and market turmoil caused by COVID-19 have created an environment that is not conducive to Xerox continuing to pursue an acquisition of HP Inc. Read
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HP Issues Statement Following Xerox Withdrawal of Offer
HP Inc. today issued the following statement following Xerox Holding Corporation’s withdrawal of its unsolicited exchange offer and director nominations. Read
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New Compensation Program Helps Purchasers Combat Toxic e-Waste
E-waste is an enormous human health and environmental problem. When it’s not handled in a responsible manner, hazardous substances may be released into the environment and potentially end up in the food we eat and the water we drink. Read