The IT industry is undergoing some major shifts and to keep up, solution providers are transforming themselves by becoming more savvy in business processes, developing expertise in new technology areas like cloud computing and business analytics, and moving into managed services. Amidst all this upheaval, what has your IT vendor done for you lately?

The 2013 Partner Program Guide offers solution providers the information they need to evaluate IT vendors they already work with or are considering working with. The guide is based on detailed applications vendors submitted outlining all aspects of their partner programs. As part of the Partner Program Guide, UBM Tech Channel Research designates some programs as 5-Star Partner Programs.

Here we present the 5-Star designees in the software space.