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| Sophos named to Everything Channel’s 2009 Annual Report Card | |
| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 01:28:00 PM | |
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IT Security and Control firm Sophos today announced it has been named to Everything Channel’s 2009 Annual Report Card (ARC), with wins in two categories – Product Innovation and Support. For 24 years, the ARC Awards have recognized outstanding partner programs and superb vendor service. The ARC awards were held at an awards ceremony on Wednesday, August 19 during the XChange ‘09 conference at the Gaylord National Hotel in Washington, DC. Sophos has been recognized by both the channel community and the media for its Partner Program commitment and for its feature-rich, simple to manage security and data protection solutions. The success of the co-selling program is attributed to effectively collaborating on initial customer engagements and evaluations through to post-sales support and services. The program offers competitive margins – with an emphasis on ensuring bottom-line margin preservation – deal protection programs, customized marketing campaigns, personalized online training and certification programs , streamlined sales processes via an automated online pricing, quoting, and ordering system from a single portal and provides technical support assistance. "For years, we’ve asked Solution Providers to rate vendors to determine their level of commitment to the partner community. Being named an Annual Report Card Company of the Year is one of the most prestigious honors in the IT industry. We congratulate Sophos on being named to this year's list," said Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel. Matt Fogelgren (left), Sophos director of channel sales, accepts the award from Everything Channel News Editor Steve Burke. Based on the 2009 ARC survey responses, Sophos partners are very satisfied with the Sophos Partner Program. The most prized attributes of the program are innovative, integrated, and simplified security solutions and unparalleled vendor support that they receive from Sophos. Winners in 18 major product categories were selected by Everything Channel’s editorial team, based on the survey results of more than 5,000 systems integrators, IT consulting organizations, value-added resellers (VARs), solution providers and software developers. "We are thrilled to have been selected in two categories for this year’s ARC as it reinforces that we are exceeding our partners’ expectations in the most critical areas of our program,” said Matt Fogelgren, director of North American channel sales at Sophos. “The cornerstone of the Sophos Partner Program is providing a superior level of support throughout the sales cycle so partners can focus on identifying their customers’ challenges and how Sophos’s integrated security solutions can address those specific needs. Our high-touch channel team makes selling Sophos easier and more profitable for partners - partner revenues have soared as a result of our co-selling approach and many partner revenues well exceeded industry averages last year." "Partnering with Sophos has been a very rewarding experience. The Sophos philosophy, as I see it, has long been to develop solutions that protect the enterprise from both external and internal threats without over complicating the day to day management or slowing the security process with cumbersome and infrequent updates,” said David Tomkins, president of Galaxy Tech. “I believe that the Sophos partner program mirrors this philosophy. The channel team is highly responsive and reliable, and provides partners with the personalized tools and training necessary to succeed. Sophos simplifies the business process, which allows us to sell more." |