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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.

Enterprise Network Storage Hardware: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Channel Executive: Phil Soper, North America Head of Channel Sales
Hewlett Packard Enterprise was the winner in this highly competitive technology category, the first of two wins for HPE. The company had an overall score of 81.6, including top scores for product innovation (86.1), partnership (82.8), and managed and cloud services (79.8).
Pure Storage put up a fight here, winning the top score for all support criteria (76.7) and in several specific partnership criteria including revenue and profit potential (88.5) and ease of doing business (88.2).
And Dell Technologies scored highest for solution provider program (78.7) within the broader partnership criteria category.