VARBusiness Hosts 16th Annual Report Card Awards GalaPRNewswire VARBusiness, a property of CMP Media's, announced today that it will release the results of its 16th Annual Report Card Awards -- the definitive industry research study that identifies the channel's top-rated vendors as selected by their Solution Provider partners -- at a special dinner on August 28 at the CMP Breakaway XChange Conference in Orlando. Breakaway XChange brings together executives and leaders in the Solution Provider community. The 2001 VARBusiness Annual Report Card Awards recognize the outstanding VAR programs in 15 product categories, including desktops, midrange servers, voice and data networking, internet application server software and business class IP services. Solution Providers rate their vendor partners on product criteria, such as quality and functionality, along with relationship criteria like revenue and profit potential, pre-sales support and post-sales support/service, channel management, administration of VAR program and ease of doing business. The research was conducted by Bernett Research, an independent research firm. In order to compile this year's list of Report Card winners, VARBusiness surveyed more than 5,000 systems integrators, IT consulting organizations, value-added resellers, solution providers and software developers/ISVs about their relationships in more than 70 programs maintained by the leading technology vendors. "The VARBusiness Annual Report Card is the most significant annual benchmark of the Solution Provider/vendor relationship in the industry," said Robert C. DeMarzo, Vice President/VARBusiness Editorial Director. Event sponsors include Avaya Inc., FrontRange Solutions, Lexmark International, Novell Inc., PTC, Qwest Communications International, and Seagate Technology. Serving as hosts for the awards ceremony will be President of CMP's Technology Solutions Group Robert Faletra, Vice President and Editorial Director Robert C. DeMarzo and VARBusiness Publisher Michael R. Uliss. The evening's entertainment will be provided by comedian Jeff Foxworthy, star of the HBO Special "Totally Committed." About VARBusiness magazine For the past 14 years, VARBusiness' strategic resources have been the gateway to the Solution Provider community. VARBusiness provides unique strategic business and technology insight for Solution Providers through editorial, research, events, and Web services, enabling these IT professionals to make educated decisions for their businesses, partnerships, and customers. VARBusiness has been the recipient of numerous industry awards including six 2001 Annual Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX). For additional information about VARBusiness products, events, and services, please visit our Web site at http://www.varbusiness.com/ About CMP Media LLC CMP Media LLC is the leading high-tech media company providing essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum-the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide. With its portfolio of newspapers, magazines, custom publishing, Internet products, research, consulting and conferences, CMP is uniquely positioned to offer marketers comprehensive, integrated solutions tailored to meet their individual needs. Online editions of the company's print publications, along with products and services created exclusively for the Internet, can be found on CMPnet at http://www.cmpnet.com/. Contact: Dawn Walton VARBusiness (516) 733-6949 dwalton@cmp.com SOURCE: CMP Media Inc. Contact: Dawn Walton of VARBusiness, +1-516-733-6949, dwalton@cmp.com Website: http://www.varbusiness.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/181993.html |