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2023 Annual Report Card Winners: Solution Providers Give Top Grades To Key Vendors
Rick Whiting
For the 38th year, solution providers scored vendors across 25 technology categories based on their performance in product innovation, support, partnership, and managed and cloud services. Here’s a roundup of the companies with the highest overall scores.

SD-WAN: HPE Aruba Networking
Channel Executive: Jim Harold, VP, Channels
SD-WAN has been a hot area for the channel and HPE Aruba Networking swept the scoring in this technology category—the third of the company’s four wins on this year’s Annual Report Card
HPE Aruba received an overall score of 90.0 for this technology category and garnered the highest average scores in all four criteria: 92.3 in product innovation, 89.6 in support, 92.3 in partnership, and 85.2 in managed and cloud services.
Fortinet received an overall score of 85.8 in this technology category and Comcast received an overall score of 79.4.