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Bull’s Eye Awards: Solution Provider Marketing Program of the Year
The Solution Provider Marketing Program of the Year award goes to the solution or service provider that produced a marketing program that produced measurable results in raising brand awareness, net-new customers and business opportunities. Awards are given for the following: CHALLENGER recognizes a vendor or individual that isn’t in a leadership position today, but exhibits…
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Bull’s Eye Award: MSP of the Year
The Managed Services Provider of the Year award goes to a solution provider whose primary business (at least 35 percent of total annual revenues) comes from managed services. The MSP of the year exemplifies itself with a mastery of process automation and repeatability, diversity in the services it offers, demonstrated consultative/services-based sales and profitability. Awards…
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Bull’s Eye Awards: In-House Public Relations Specialist of the Year
The Channel Insider Bull’s Eye Award for In-House Public Relations Specialist of the Year goes to the channel public relations or media specialist that best represents the strength and value of a vendor’s, solution provider’s, integrator’s or service provider’s business or channel program. The award recipients demonstrate a track record for problem solving, media management…
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Bull’s Eye Awards: Vertical Practice of the Year
The Vertical Practice of the Year award goes to the solution provider, value-added reseller, integrator or service provider that best exhibits deep domain expertise in one or more vertical markets resulting in differentiation that has driven revenue increases and profitability. Awards are given for the following: CHALLENGER recognizes a vendor or individual that isn’t in…
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Bull’s Eye Award: Innovator of the Year
The Innovator of the Year award goes to the solution provider, value-added reseller, integrator or service provider that has demonstrated the highest-level of creativity, either via a new product or technology or a sales/operational strategy that benefited the organization. Awards are given for the following: CHALLENGER recognizes a vendor or individual that isn’t in a…
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Are Microsoft’s Best Days Behind It?
It’s strange and almost silly to think of putting Microsoft on a death watch, but chatter is increasingly rising about the steady decline and dimming future for the world’s largest and most successful software company. Just a couple of years ago Microsoft seemed an invincible force, yet an increasing number of pundits and solution providers…
