The Top 25
The IT industry was riding high as 2020 began. IT vendors and solution providers were enjoying the most robust business climate since before “The Great Recession” and market researcher Gartner was forecasting that the good times would continue with worldwide IT spending to grow 3.4 percent in the new year to $3.9 trillion.
And then everything changed.
As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, businesses went into lockdown, layoffs became widespread and what had been a booming economy ground to a near-halt. Gartner’s 2020 forecast, updated on May 13, now predicts that worldwide IT spending will decline 8 percent year-over-year to $3.4 trillion.
Solution providers are not sitting idle, however. Businesses and organizations suddenly shifted their operating model with so many of their employees working from home. Solution providers had to quickly pivot, providing their clients’ homebound employees with laptops, collaboration and video conferencing tools, access to cloud applications and security technology to protect it all.
Solution providers are being tested this year as never before and they have risen to the occasion.
Here we present the top 25 companies on the 2020 edition of the CRN Solution Provider 500, the annual ranking of the largest solution providers by revenue in North America.
This year’s Solution Provider 500 companies collectively generated $393 billion in 2019, up more than 3 percent from the $381 billion last year’s Solution Provider 500 generated in 2018.
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