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.

Cloud Storage: Wasabi Technologies

Channel Executive: Laurie Mitchell, SVP, Global Marketing

Wasabi Technologies was uncontested in this technology category, earning an overall score of 81.9.

Wasabi’s scores were especially strong in product innovation with an 88.0 average. The company earned an impressive 104.7 grade in product quality and reliability—one of the highest criteria subcategory scores in this year’s Annual Report Card—as well as 95.3 in product compatibility and ease of integration, and 90.3 in product technical innovation.

In other criteria Wasabi earned average scores of 73.7 in support, 82.5 in partnership, and 82.2 in managed and cloud services.

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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.