CMP Technology's VARBusiness 500 Salutes North America's Top Technology Integrators and Executives2007 VARBusiness 500 Incorporates New Methodology; Vendor Services Arms Separated from VARBusiness 500PRNewswire-FirstCall MANHASSET, N.Y., June 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Last night at the VARBusiness 500 awards event in New York City, CMP Technology's VARBusiness magazine, the biweekly business magazine that provides strategic insight for technology integrators, honored North America's top technology integrators and executives. The VARBusiness 500 is the definitive list of the biggest and best solution providers in the North American IT reseller channel. The list ranks companies that are the leading revenue producers among solution provider organizations in North America and plays a critical role in providing the proper IT strategies and systems to corporations and institutions to help drive business forward. "We welcome the solution providers on the 2007 VARBusiness 500 into the most elite club in the IT reseller industry," said Lawrence M. Walsh, VARBusiness Editor. "This is a very exciting year for the Channel and the VARBusiness 500. This year's list has a combined value of nearly $344 billion. The health of the channel is directly related to the strength of the VARBusiness 500 and this year's numbers show the VARBusiness 500 -- and the overall channel -- is getting stronger." This year's VARBusiness 500 has a combined value grew 18.7 percent over the 2006 list. The VARBusiness editorial team removed the vendor services arms from the list, allowing 113 new companies to join the list. The threshold for inclusion on the list rose to nearly $25 million, up from the 2006 threshold of $21 million. This year's list also brings more billion- dollar companies than in year's past. The top ten solution provider organizations, by 2006 revenue, include:
1. Electronic Data Systems (EDS)
2. Accenture
3. BT Global Services
4. Computer Sciences Corp (CSC)
5. Northrup Grumman
6. Lockheed Martin
7. Capgemini Group
8. General Dynamics (Advanced Information Systems)
9. Automatic Data Processing (ADP)
10. BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services
Top ten vendor services arms, by 2006 revenue, include:
1. IBM Global Services
2. Hewlett-Packard
3. Microsoft
4. Motorola Networks and Enterprise
5. Xerox
6. Dell
7. Sun Microsystems
8. Cisco
9. SunGuard Data Systems
10. EMC
Other awards include:
* Newcomer Award: Column Technologies
* Newcomer Award: FishNet Security
* Newcomer Award: BEAR Data Systems
* Best Partnership: SoftwareONE
* Top Technology Practices -- Security: Carahsoft
* Top Technology Practices -- Storage: Regan Technologies
* Top Technology Practices -- Business Intelligence Software: EPAM
Systems
* Top Revenue Generator (Small-Less than $100 Million): B2B Computer
Products
* Top Revenue Generator (Medium-- $100 Million -- $500 Million):
FusionStorm
* Top Revenue Generator (Large-- More than $500 Million): Presidio
Networked Solutions
* VARBusiness Editors' Choice: MICROS Systems
* Company of the Year: Incentra Solutions
* Executive of the Year: Arthur Rhein, Chairman, President & CEO,
Agilysys
* Lifetime Achievement Award: Jeskell
The two day conference, which took place at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, Times Square in New York City, included networking, educational sessions and an awards program for industry leaders, vendors and solution providers. Event highlights included the VARBusiness 500 Executive Panel moderated by VARBusiness' editor where attendees learned the secrets of success from fellow VARBusiness 500 companies; a panel session with customer executives from emerging enterprises as well as keynote presentations by Stephen J. Dubner, the best selling author of FREAKONOMICS and Jeffrey MA, Performance Metrics Specialist, Founder of PROTRADE and the MIT engineering student who was part of a team that defeated Las Vegas casinos in a Blackjack card-counting scheme. The VARBusiness 500 sponsors include AMD, IBM, HP and Symantec; platinum sponsors: Business Objects, CA and SonicWall; and gold sponsors: Avnet, Sun, Toshiba, ViewSonic and WebSense. The complete listing of the VARBusiness 500 and a comprehensive editorial package were published in the June 11 issue and can be found at http://www.varbusiness.com/var500. About VARBusiness (http://www.varbusiness.com/) For the past 20 years, VARBusiness' strategic resources have been the gateway to the commercial and public sector (or government) Solution Provider community. The VARBusiness integrated platform of media opportunities provides strategic insight for technology integrators 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 offerings lead vendors and distributors to unprecedented access to the most powerful strategic Solution Providers in the market. VARBusiness has been the recipient of numerous industry awards for both editorial content and design. About CMP Channel Group (http://www.cmpchannelgroup.com/) 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. Contact Laura Allen CMP Channel Group's VARBusiness lallen@cmp.com 516.562.7766 SOURCE: CMP Technology CONTACT: Laura Allen of CMP Channel Group's VARBusiness, Web site: http://www.cmp.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/181993.html |