2023 Annual Report Card Winners: Solution Providers Give Top Grades To Key Vendors

August 20, 2023, 12:00 PM EDT

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.

Security—Cloud: (Tie): SentinelOne

Channel Executive: Ken Marks, VP, Global Channels

This competitive technology category produced the only tie on this year’s Annual Report Card with both SentinelOne and Sophos receiving an overall score of 89.3.

SentinelOne received the highest average scores insupport (87.7) and managed and cloud services (87.3). It also had the highest scores in a number of subcategory criteria, including 95.7 for richness of product features/functionality, 96.2 for product technical innovation, 93.1 for revenue and profit potential, and 96.3 for ease of doing business.

Tenable, which received an overall score of 87.8 in this product category, received the highest score (91.6) for managing channel conflict.

Proofpoint received an overall score of 83.6 in this technology category while Mimecast received an overall score of 82.5.

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Rick Whiting

Rick Whiting has been with CRN since 2006 and is currently a feature/special projects editor. Whiting manages a number of CRN’s signature annual editorial projects including Channel Chiefs, Partner Program Guide, Big Data 100, Emerging Vendors, Tech Innovators and Products of the Year. He also covers the Big Data beat for CRN. He can be reached at rwhiting@thechannelcompany.com.