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2022 Annual Report Card Winners: Solution Providers Give Top Grades To Key Vendors
Rick Whiting
For the 37th 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.

SMB Networking: Aruba, an HPE Company
Channel Executive: Jim Harold, VP, North America Channel Sales
Aruba, for its third win in this year’s Annual Report Card, came out on top in this technology category with an overall score of 86.2.
Across all criteria categories the company received top scores of 93.0 in product innovation, 84.0 for support, 86.0 in partnership, and 80.7 for managed and cloud services.
Extreme Networks garnered top scores for quality of field management (82.7) and consumption-based/subscription pricing (73.3). Cisco Systems scored an impressive 101.5 for product quality and reliability.