Everything Channel Announces the 2011 CRN Magazine Annual Report Card Winners

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Aug. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Everything Channel, a UBM company, congratulates the 26th Annual Report Card (ARC) award winners, announced last week at an awards ceremony at the XChange Americas conference. These annual awards recognize technology vendors that received the highest grades from their top partners in three categories: Product Innovation, Support and Partnership, with the combined scores leading to an Overall Winner.

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"When it comes to the strength of relationships, quality of products and return on partner programs, solution providers want to hear from their fellow VARs about the IT vendors that consistently exceed expectations," said Kelley Damore, vice president, editorial director, Everything Channel. "The Annual Report Card gives solution providers the opportunity to share feedback and recognize the vendors who truly demonstrate channel excellence. We congratulate the winners for being recognized as the best of the best."

For 26 years, CRN's Annual Report Card (ARC) has served as the definitive benchmark of vendor/partner relationships and an industry standard for measuring excellence in the channel community. In the 2011 ARC survey, Everything Channel's research team received responses from more than 3,600 solution providers in 21 product/service categories and asked them to evaluate the importance and satisfaction with their vendors' products, support and channel programs. Winners are then selected to the Annual Report Card and presented with awards at the annual XChange Americas conference.

In total, 69 vendor programs were rated for 2011. Each technology received awards in 4 categories, including:

    --  Product Innovation Winner
    --  Support Winner
    --  Partnership Winner
    --  Overall Technology Winner

A special report on the ARC award winners will be featured in the October issue of CRN Magazine and online at www.crn.com.

Everything Channel

Everything Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With over 30 years of experience and engagement, Everything Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. Everything Channel is a UBM company. To learn more about Everything Channel, visit us at http://www.everythingchannel.com. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/everythingchnl.

About UBM plc

UBM plc is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,000 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

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