CMP Media's VARBusiness Magazine Lauds Top Technology Integrator Companies and ExecutivesPresents First VARBusiness 500 Company of the Year Award to CIBER, Inc.PRNewswire CMP Media's VARBusiness magazine lauded the top executives and companies among North America's technology integrators at its fifth annual VARBusiness 500 Awards event, held June 14 at the Rainbow Room in New York City. Seventeen individual awards were presented and the top 500 solutions providers were acclaimed. CIBER, Inc., was named the debut VARBusiness 500 Company of the Year for demonstrating technical excellence, business savvy and market innovation. The Greenwood Village, Colo.-based firm is a leading international system- integration consultancy, catering to private- and government-sector clients. In recognizing CIBER, VARBusiness Publisher Robert C. Demarzo told the more than 600 attendees that the winner "has demonstrated market leadership in several ways, like pioneering a new take on low-cost outsourcing. It has opened low-cost development centers here in the U.S. that saves its customers money and gives jobs to communities in the throes of transitioning from old economies to the new ones." John Danieli, founder, president and CEO of The Computer Merchant in Norwell, Mass., received the Lifetime Achievement Award, for his long-term commitment to the industry through the creation of a preferred service provider to the world's leading IT integration firms, corporations and institutions. Executive of the Year honors went to Michael Cox, president and CEO of Logicalis, in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., for helping transform one of the industry's largest HP partners into a more complete, well-rounded, diversified powerhouse. Other individual awards went to the following companies: Innodata Isogen, Inc., Hackensack, N.J., Profit Maker Award Jeskell, Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., Ascension Award Cognizant Technology Solutions, Teaneck, N.J., Outstanding Revenue Growth Award - Large Company CyberCore Technologies, Timonium, Md., Outstanding Revenue Growth Award - Midsize Company Perficient, Austin, Texas, Outstanding Revenue Growth Award - Small Company Fiserv, Inc., Brookfield, Wisc., Editors' Choice Award: Excellence in Profits Kanbay International, Rosemont, Ill., Vertical Market Leader Award - Financial Services Optimus Solutions, Norcross, Ga., Vertical Market Leader Award - Manufacturing Telsource Corp., Fairfield, N.J., Vertical Market Leader Award - Communications IDX Systems Corp, Burlington, Vt., Vertical Market Leader Award - Healthcare Syspro, Inc., Costa Mesa, Calif., ISV of the Year Meridian IT Solutions, Deerfield, Ill., Technology Innovator Award - Network Infrastructure Presidio Corp., Greenbelt, Md., Technology Innovator Award - Security Sirius Computer Solutions, San Antonio, Texas, Technology Innovator Award - Servers VARBusiness 500 Ranking DeMarzo also hailed the 500 technology integrator firms ranked as the top 2004 revenue producers among approximately 90,000 solution-provider organizations in North America. They account for $334 billion in sales of information-technology (IT) services and products -- up $10 billion from the previous year. The top 10 solution-provider organizations are: 1. IBM Global Services, $46.2 billion 2. EDS, $20.6 billion 3. Accenture, $15.1 billion 4. Computer Sciences Corp., $14.8 billion 5. Hewlett-Packard Services, $13.8 billion 6. Lockheed Martin, $9 billion 7. Siemens Medical Solutions, $8.6 billion 8. Automatic Data Processing, $7.4 billion 9. Science Applications International, $6.7 billion 10. Siemens Business Services, $6.1 billion The complete listing of the VARBusiness 500 and a comprehensive editorial package were published in the June 13, 2005, issue and are posted to the magazine's Web site, http://www.varbusiness.com/ . The awards banquet featured former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as guest speaker. The evening's platinum sponsors were IBM, Samsung and Symantec. Gold sponsors were APC, Avnet, Business Objects, Novell, Oki Data, Seagate, Sonic Wall, Sun Microsystems and Toshiba. About VARBusiness Magazine For the past 18 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 http://www.varbusiness.com/ . About CMP Media CMP Media (http://www.cmp.com/) is the leading integrated media solutions company providing "broad and deep" access to the entire technology spectrum -- the builders, sellers and buyers of technology worldwide. The company's comprehensive database of technology decision makers enables marketers to reach targeted audiences throughout the purchase process with publications, web offerings, face-to-face events, consulting and other marketing services that deliver actionable results. Contact: Gordon Plutsky
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