Everything Channel Honors Leading Vendors at the Annual CRN Channel Champions Awards CeremonyStudy is Premier Resource to Evaluate Channel Vendors, Products and ServicesPRNewswire Last night at an awards ceremony during the XChange Solution Provider conference, Everything Channel honored the CRN Channel Champions award winners. The CRN Channel Champions study measures overall Solution Provider perceptions of vendor products and services. The result is a premier resource used by VARs and technology integrators throughout the industry to evaluate vendors and their programs. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090311/NY81415LOGO ) The CRN Channel Champions survey is the largest and broadest-based technology integrator market study in the industry. CRN received more than 100 vendor ratings across 24 product and service categories. The survey was conducted between January 2009 and February 2009. Solution Providers were chosen at random from CRN's subscriber list and were pre-qualified to ensure that they worked in the category, were familiar with the products and had a significant relationship with the vendor(s) being rated. Many respondents were qualified to rate more than one vendor. CRN specified that VARs and technology integrators rate only those vendors with whom they had either a strategic partner type of business relationship, when possible. Vendors rated in each category were chosen on the basis of market share data provided by major research firms. In the case where market share data was not available, vendors were chosen by CRN senior editorial staff recommendations. VARs and technology integrators were asked to rate the relative importance of the individual evaluation criteria. To derive the overall score for each vendor, the raw satisfaction scores were weighted according to the relative importance of the evaluation criteria. The 2009 CRN Channel Champions winners are as follows:
Technical Support Financial
Satisfaction Satisfaction Factors Overall
Channel Channel Channel Channel
Categories Champion Champion Champion Champion
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Client Security
Software (Firewall,
Anti-Spam, Anti-
Virus) Symantec Symantec Symantec Symantec
Collaboration
Software IBM/Lotus IBM/Lotus Microsoft IBM/Lotus
Data & Information
Management IBM Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft
Enterprise
Networking HW
(includes wireless) Cisco Cisco HP ProCurve Cisco
SMB External Western Western Western
Storage Digital Hitachi GST Digital Digital
Flat Panel Displays Tie: Samsung/
19"-30" Samsung Viewsonic Samsung Samsung
High Capacity Hard Western
Drives (300GB+) Seagate Seagate Digital Seagate
Middleware IBM Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft
Midrange Servers
(more than $25,000 Tie:
in price) HP/IBM IBM Dell IBM
Multifunction
Printers HP Xerox Lexmark HP
Network Security
Appliances Juniper Juniper Juniper Juniper
Network Security
Software Checkpoint IBM Checkpoint Checkpoint
Network Storage
(Enterprise/Midrange
SAN or NAS) HP HP NetApp HP
Notebooks/Mobile
Computers Lenovo Panasonic Acer Lenovo
SMB (Small and
Midsize) Wireless
LANs Cisco Cisco SonicWALL Cisco
SMB (Small and
Midsize) Business
Software Suites Oracle Oracle Oracle Oracle
SMB (Small and
Midsize) Networking
Hardware (excluding
wireless LANs and
Voice) Cisco Cisco HP ProCurve HP ProCurve
SMB Volume Servers
(less than $25,000
in price) HP HP HP HP
Storage Management
Software/Data Symantec/
Protection Software HP IBM/Tivoli Veritas HP
Systems and Network
Management Software IBM/Tivoli Microsoft Microsoft HP
Power Protection and
Management APC Liebert APC APC
Unified
Communications/
Voice-over-IP
Technology Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco
Workgroup Color
Printers Xerox Xerox Xerox Xerox
Server/Application
Virtualization VMware VMware VMware VMware
"The Channel Champions survey is an essential resource for the Channel community. Each year we survey Solution Providers to learn their satisfaction with the vendors they work closely with to deliver solutions to their customers. We commend these leading vendors -- they represent the 'best of the best'," said Robert C. DeMarzo, SVP/Editorial Director, Everything Channel. The CRN Channel Champions awards are generously supported by Cisco and Toshiba. For additional information on Channel Champions, visit www.channelweb.com. Channel Champions award winners and related study will be published in the April 27, 2009 print issue of CRN Magazine, which for 26 years has been the technology channel's paper of record, and the source for channel analysis and technology insight. Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com) Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for accessing, enabling, managing and accelerating technology sales channels. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results. About United Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com) United Business Media Limited (UBM) is a global media and marketing services company that informs markets and brings the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print, and with the information they need to do business successfully. UBM serves professional and commercial communities, from IT professionals to doctors, from journalists to jewelry dealers, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. UBM employs more than 6,500 people in more than 30 countries. UBM's businesses operating in the US include CMPMedica, Commonwealth Business Media, Everything Channel, PR Newswire, RISI, TechInsights, TechWeb and Think Services. UBM is listed on the London Stock Exchange (UBM.L) and has a market capitalization of $1.6 billion. Contact Maureen Park Everything Channel mpark@everythingchannel.com 516.562.5942 First Call Analyst: PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.com SOURCE: Everything Channel CONTACT: Maureen Park of Everything Channel, Web Site: http://www.everythingchannel.com/ |