CMP Media's Varbusiness Magazine Lauds Top Technology Integrator Companies And ExecutivesHonors Top 500 Solution Providers at New York GalaPRNewswire CMP Media's VARBusiness magazine lauded the top executives and companies among North America's technology integrators at the VARBusiness 500 Awards event held June 24 at the Rainbow Room in New York City. Fifteen individual awards were presented and the top 500 solutions providers were acclaimed. Dendy Young, CEO of GTSI, in Chantilly, Va., received the Lifetime Achievement Award. One of the most respected leaders in the government information technology (IT) arena, Young joined GTSI at the brink of disaster in 1996 and brought it to unprecedented profitability on 2002. VARBusiness Editorial Director Robert C. Demarzo, in bestowing the honor said that Young "has spent a career earning his reputation both among employees and peers. He is a professional who can boast a results-oriented track record and can be trusted." The Executive of the Year award was shared by two individuals. Robert Cagnazzi, CEO of Dimension Data Systems Group, in Reston, Va., was honored for growing his company by 23.5 percent during a time when many others struggled. Eva Losacco, president and CEO of Forsythe Technology, in Skokie, Ill., led her company to its 32nd consecutive year of profitability. Other individual awards went to the following companies: Level 3 Information Services, Broomfield, Colo. - Outstanding Revenue Performance SCS, DeWitt, N.Y. - Outstanding Revenue Performance, State Government Dynamic Systems, Los Angeles - Outstanding Revenue Performance, Federal Government Paranet Solutions, Plano, Texas - Outstanding Revenue Performance, Healthcare Wipro Technologies, Piscataway, N.J. - Transformer Award Witness Systems, Roswell, Ga. - Top Profit Performer Award IBM Global Services, Armonk, N.Y. - Merger of the Year Lockheed Martin IT, Bethesda, Md. - Editor's Choice Award HP Services, Palo Alto, Calif., - Editor's Choice Award Daly Computers, Clarksburg, Md. - Technology Leader Award Cognizant Technology Solutions, Teaneck, N.J. - Technology Leader Award Science Applications International Corp, San Diego - Vanguard Award VARBusiness 500 Ranking DeMarzo also hailed the 500 technology integrator firms ranked as the top 2002 revenue producers among approximately 90,000 solution-provider organizations in North America. They account for $313 billion in sales of information-technology (IT) services and products. The top 10 solution-provider organizations are: IBM Global Services, $36.4 billion EDS, $21.5 billion Lockheed Martin IT, $13.0 billion HP Services, $12.4 billion Accenture, $11.6 billion Computer Sciences Corp., $11.4 billion T-Systems North America, $9.9 billion Siemens Medical Solutions, $7.6 billion Automatic Data Processing, $7.0 billion Verizon Enterprise Solutions Group, $6.8 billion The complete listing of the VARBusiness 500 and a comprehensive editorial package were published in the June 23, 2003, issue and are posted to the magazine's Web site, www.varbusiness.com. The awards banquet featured CNN "Crossfire" host Tucker Carlson as guest speaker. The evening event was sponsored by Platinum Sponsors Hewlett-Packard Company, Oracle Corp., Sony Electronics, Symantec Corp., and Gold Sponsors American Power Conversion, MCI, Sybase Inc. and Veritas Software Corp. About VARBusiness Magazine For the past 16 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 industry-defining research, in-depth editorial, channel events and innovative 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 for both editorial content and design. Additional information about VARBusiness products, events and services, is available on the magazine's Web site at www.varbusiness.com. About CMP Media CMP Media LLC (www.cmp.com) is a leading integrated media company providing essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum - the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide. 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