CRN Introduces Best In Show Awards Series; Magazine Honors Innovative Approaches by Solution ProvidersPRNewswire-FirstCall CMP Media's CRN, the newsweekly for builders of technology, today announced the CRN Best In Show awards series. The program is being presented for the first time this year at partner conferences of vendors that have led the way in creating cooperative partnerships with their indirect sales channels. CRN partners with leading vendors to present the Best in Show awards at partner conferences. The first Best in Show recipient was AnswerThink. AnswerThink was honored last month at IBM's PartnerWorld in San Francisco. The second Best in Show recipients were honored at the Intel partner conference in Phoenix, AZ earlier this month. Recipients were American CompuSystems and Proactive Technologies. The next series of awards will be presented in April 2002 at the Sun iForce partner conference. All of the Best in Show award winners will be featured in CRN's The Best of the Best supplement. The Best of the Best will be published in the fall of 2002. "We are excited to work closely with many of the leading vendors in the technology industry and to have the opportunity to honor the innovative approaches solution providers are taking with their customers," stated Kelley Damore, editor-in-chief, CRN. "The Best in Show awards series awards the best of the best companies that are working with small, medium and large companies." About CRN CRN is the nation's leading trade newsweekly that provides timely industry news and analysis for solution providers, integrators and e-businesses building technology solutions. It is the most trusted source of news for 117,500 channel professionals. A media leader in the high-tech industry, CRN provides the most comprehensive suite of online resources: http://www.crn.com/, the site where industry news breaks first; CRN Direct, a daily newsletter that brings personalized news to solution providers' desktops; and CRN News Radio, a daily news broadcast covering the solution provider channel and the industry. 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: Nanci Oehrlein CRN 516-562-5858 noehrlei@cmp.com SOURCE: CRN and CMP Contact: Nanci Oehrlein of CRN, +1-516-562-5858, noehrlei@cmp.com Website: http://www.crn.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/181993.html |