Roundtable Transcript: What’s Next in Business Technology? – Business Journal Daily

This edition launches our 2023 Quarterly Roundtable Series, which will appear in print, online and on video. The series is sponsored by iSynergy, a digital marketing agency based in Canfield that provides branding, web design, content marketing and search engine marketing services.

Participants in the Business Technology Roundtable, held Feb. 7 at the Courtyard by Marriott in Canfield, were Steve Cross, president and CEO of iSynergy, Canfield; Tim Petrey, managing partner of HD Davis CPAs, Liberty Township; Robert Merva, owner, president and CEO of Avrem Technologies LLC, Canfield; Jim Rosenberg, president and CEO of NEO3, New Middletown; Dave Galioto, chief information officer of Executive Computer Management Solutions Inc., Struthers; Chris Wheatley, director of IT services at Peak I.T., Boardman; and Ralph Zerbonia, president and CEO of Universe Central Corp., Youngstown.


The Business Journal: Briefly describe your area of expertise as it relates to business technology and applications for business. What services or products does your company provide that incorporates the latest business technology?

Steve Cross, CEO, iSynergy Digital Marketing Agency: When you do marketing well, you integrate. And in today’s world, you have to integrate with a lot of different platforms.

Steve Cross

You’ve got to use APIs [Automation Programming Interfaces]. You’ve got to deal with their ERP [Enterprise Resource Planning software]. You’ve got to deal with some custom software. You’ve got to pipe all that information together.

So how we use technology … it’s data-centric, keeping that data flowing from one silo to another within a company, and making sure on the forefront, when it comes to sales and marketing, that we’re putting all that data together and we’re utilizing it and being able to act on that data.

Tim Petrey

Tim Petrey, CEO, HD Davis CPAs: Our firm utilizes technology everywhere from bookkeeping to our advisory practice. We’re also very data-centric. So we’re working with our clients to help them collect the right kind of information so that they can monitor their financial successes and/or failures and learn and improve from that.

Robert Merva, CEO, Avrem Technologies: Our primary office is in Canfield. We have offices in Cleveland and Columbus as well.

Robert Merva

We’re an IT managed-services provider. So the companies that hire us, hire us to handle 100% usually of their IT, although we have clients where we do co-managed IT services – where they have an internal IT department and we work with them. It stretches across everything.

We do help-desk support. We manage their networks, their computers, their servers, their governance and compliance risks, web development and design, web hosting. We call it “one throat to choke.” So one phone call to make to get everything that you need done.

Jim Rosenberg

Jim Rosenberg, CEO, NEO3: We sell, service, and support Oracle NetSuite ERP cloud solution exclusively. We’re very specialized that way. Oracle NetSuite is pretty much the leader in the industry in cloud ERP. We help our clients become more efficient by using ERP in

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Amazon provides initial glance at Task Kuiper satellite web antennas

The company’s “regular” buyer terminal, the center of the trio of Venture Kuiper satellite antennas at less than 11 inches sq. and weighing underneath 5 kilos.

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WASHINGTON — Amazon disclosed a trio of satellite antennas on Tuesday, as the business prepares to acquire on SpaceX’s Starlink with its have Venture Kuiper internet network.

The tech large mentioned the “typical” variation of the satellite antenna, also recognized as a shopper terminal, is predicted to price tag Amazon much less than $400 just about every to develop.

“Each know-how and small business selection we’ve experienced has centered on what will produce the very best encounter for various consumers close to the environment, and our range of client terminals reflect these selections,” Rajeev Badyal, Amazon vice president of technological innovation for Venture Kuiper, reported in a statement.

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Venture Kuiper is Amazon’s prepare to establish a network of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit, to deliver significant-velocity web to everywhere in the entire world. The Federal Communications Commission in 2020 authorized Amazon’s procedure, in which the business has reported it will “commit more than $10 billion” to build.

The Kuiper antennas

The “ultra-compact” model of the Undertaking Kuiper

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The “conventional” design and style actions less than 11 inches sq. and 1 inch thick, and weighs beneath 5 lbs .. Amazon claims the system will deliver speeds to shoppers of “up to 400 megabits for every 2nd (Mbps).”

An “ultra-compact” model, which Amazon claims is its smallest and most economical, is a 7-inch square design that weighs about 1 pound and will give speeds up to 100 Mbps. In additional to residential consumers, Amazon strategies to supply the antenna to govt and enterprise consumers for services like “ground mobility and net of issues.”

Amazon Senior Vice President of Gadgets and Expert services Dave Limp declined to say how substantially it costs to make each and every extremely-compact antenna, but instructed CNBC that it is “materially significantly less” pricey to make than the normal design.

Its biggest “pro” model, at 19 inches by 30 inches, represents a superior-bandwidth edition for much more demanding prospects. Amazon claims this antenna will be capable to “supply speeds up to 1 gigabit per 2nd (Gbps)” by way of room. Badyal advised CNBC there are a variety of organization and government applications for the pro collection, this sort of as “oil rigs in the center of the ocean” or “ships that want lots of bandwidth,” these as military vessels.

The firm’s “Pro” customer terminal, the largest of the trio of Undertaking Kuiper satellite antennas at 19 inches by 30 inches.

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Amazon has nonetheless to say what it expects the monthly support price tag for Venture Kuiper consumers will be.

In demonstrating early clients its antennas, Limp said he’s viewed them get “psyched” about the lineup.

“They are stunned by the cost points, stunned at the efficiency for the sizing, and [the antennas] are stable

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