CMP's GovernmentVAR Magazine Announces the Winners of the GovernmentVAR Awards

WASHINGTON, April 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Last evening, CMP's GovernmentVAR magazine announced the winners of the GovernmentVAR awards. The awards honored excellence in IT solutions creation and delivery in the federal, state and local sectors, as well as in education. The awards ceremony took place during the XChange Government Integrator conference, a government focused channel event, in Washington D.C.

"We are pleased to honor the public sector's vendors, solution providers and leaders who have made significant contributions toward government and education having access to the latest and greatest IT solutions," said GovernmentVAR Editor Lawrence M. Walsh. "We applaud them on their accomplishments."

  The GovernmentVAR vendors award winners:
  -- SLED Program of the Year:  SAS
  -- Top Federal Program of the Year:  Juniper Networks
  -- Government Channel Program of the Year:  IBM
  -- Government Satisfaction Award:  Intel and Microsoft

  The GovernmentVAR solution provider award winners:
  -- State and Local Solution Provider of the Year:  ASAP Software
  -- Education Solution Provider of the Year:  Sarcom
  -- Federal Solution Provider of the Year:  ITT Defense Electronics &
     Services
  -- Woman Owned Business of the Year:  Wildflower International
  -- Small Business Solution Provider of the Year:  Thomas & Herbert
     Consulting
  -- Integrator of the Year:  Northrop Grumman
  -- Government Solution Provider of the Year:  Capgemini
  -- Government Channel Executive of the Year:  Bob Laclede, Vice President
     and General Manager of Government and Education Sales, Ingram Micro

Solution providers and vendor company winners were recognized for revenue and income growth, business expansion, contract wins, technical prowess and service excellence. The editors of GovernmentVAR determined the winners based on information culled from the recent GovernmentVAR 100 listing of the nation's leading integrators in the public sector.

XChange Government Integrator conference brings more than 110 Solution Providers together for two days of face-to-face meetings with top technology vendors, distributors and leading editors to focus on the latest and greatest opportunities in the public sector. The event is dedicated to the unique dynamics of the government integrator market and is focused on state, local, federal, and education channels.

  Event sponsors include: Cisco Systems, OKI Data, Oracle and Symantec.

  About GovernmentVAR

GovernmentVAR - a focused editorial initiative of CMP Technology's VARBusiness, the biweekly magazine that covers the business of technology integration - informs, educates and enlightens solution providers and integrators about IT product and service opportunities in the federal, state, local, education and health-care branches of the government sector. GovernmentVAR is published 12 times yearly with a reach to 71,103* qualified recipients who sell into vertical government markets. (* Publisher's data, December 2006)

About The Channel Group

CMP Channel Group is the one stop shop customers turn to in order to meet their global sales channel objectives from access to execution. Through use of its family of channel solutions which include CRN and VARBusiness, the ChannelWeb network, the Group's XChange worldwide face-to-face conferences and the Institute for Partner Education & Development (IPED), vendors are able to accelerate sales through the channel. CMP Channel Group provides a worldwide answer to advertising, branding and marketing services, lead generation, market intelligence, branded and custom events, education of solution providers and best practices for vendors.

About CMP Technology (http://www.cmp.com/)

CMP Technology is a marketing solutions company serving the technology industry. Through its market-leading portfolio of trusted information brands, CMP has earned the confidence of more technology professionals than any other media company. As a result, CMP is the premier provider of access, insight and actionable programs designed to connect sellers and buyers in ways that yield superior return on investment. CMP Technology is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion.

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  Laura Allen
  CMP's Channel Group
  516.562.7766
  lallen@cmp.com

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