13 Emerging SMB Software Vendors

CRN's 2008 Emerging Vendors list turned up some interesting, up-and-coming SMB software vendors who may have just the right product for needy solution providers.

Adaptive Planning

Product Line: Provides a Web-based, on-demand budgeting, forecasting and reporting solution that's an alternative to Excel-based processes.

Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 partner to 250 partners

Ideal Partner: Midmarket Focused Solution Provider

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AdvancedEMedia

Product Line: WebJaguar is Software-as-a-Service to build fully-featured, dynamic Websites and eCommerce solutions for the SMB market.

Featured Product (pictured): WebJaguar

Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 partner to 250 partners

Ideal Partner: Midmarket Focused Solution Provider

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American PrintWare

Product Line: Product line focuses on printer and document management.

Featured Product (pictured): RX 5to1

Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 partner to 250 partners

Ideal Partner: Midmarket Focused Solution Provider

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BRIDGEHEAD SOFTWARE

Product Line: Develops enterpise data management software for managing the backup and archiving of data and storage infrastructures.

Featured Product (pictured): FileScan Backup

Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or less

Ideal Partner: Midmarket Focused Solution Provider

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Computhink, Inc.

Product Line: Enterprise Content/Document Management (ECM) and E-mail Archival (EAS) solutions for the SMB.

Featured Product (pictured): ViewWise Enterprise

Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or less

Ideal Partner: Midmarket Focused Solution Provider

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Gordano, Ltd.

Product Line: Provides messaging software with full groupware capabilities.

Featured Product (pictured): Gordano Messaging Suite

Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or less

Ideal Partner: Midmarket Focused Solution Provider

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Marathon Technologies

Product Line: Marathon's everRun is fault-tolerant, high availability and disaster recovery software for physical and virtual servers.

Featured Product (pictured): everRun VM

Channel Recruitment Goal: 250 partners to 500 partners

Ideal Partner: Midmarket Focused Solution Provider

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Maximizer Software

Product Line: Maximizer CRM 10 sales, marketing and customer service and support products are available in four editions.

Featured Product (pictured): CRM10

Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or less

Ideal Partner: Small Business Focused Solution Provider

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MuleSource

Product Line: MuleSource open source SOA infrastructure software offers an enterprise service bus for creating, architecting and managing services, as well as a registry/repository for SOA governance.

Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or less

Ideal Partner: Midmarket Focused Solution Provider

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Objectworld Communications

Product Line: Objectworld UC Server software provides unified communications, VoIP and communications-enabled business process solutions.

Featured Product (pictured): Objectworld UC Server

Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 partner to 250 partners

Ideal Partner: Midmarket Focused Solution Provider

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Open-E, Inc.

Product Line: The Open-E Data Storage Server is an all-in-one IP-Storage OS offering NAS and iSCSI functionality in a single operating system.

Featured Product (pictured): Open-E Data Storage Server

Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 partner to 250 partners

Ideal Partner: Midmarket Focused Solution Provider

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SpectorSoft Corporation

Product Line: Spector 360 is SpectorSoft's flagship solution for monitoring employees even when they are not connected to the company network.

Featured Product (pictured): Spector 360

Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 partner to 250 partners

Ideal Partner: Small Business Focused Solution Provider

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Wasp Barcode Technologies

Product Line: Provides complete hardware and software solutions including inventory software, asset tracking, time and attendance, and POS for SMBs.

Featured Product (pictured): Wasp Barcode Maker

Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 partner to 250 partners

Ideal Partner: Small Business Focused Solution Provider

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