The List: Big Picture for the Little Guy

Here’s how technology executives at mid-market companies rate the performance of their vendors. The ranking is a breakout of responses from IT execs at small and medium-size businesses to CIO Insight’s most recent Vendor Value Survey.

View Slideshow



Rank Vendor Overall Value Reliability Loyalty Worked with during the past 12 months No. of Respondents
1 Trend Micro 82% 82% 82% 88% 14% 124
2
CDW
80 79 82 92 35 318
3
Cisco Systems
76 74 79 93 45 404
4
Dell
75 77 74 85 64 575
5
Red Hat
75 74 76 87 14 130
6
Hewlett-Packard
75 74 75 91 55 500
7
Apple Computer
74 74 75 86 18 158
8
Research In Motion
72 73 72 86 15 137
9
Palm
72 72 72 90 16 143
10
VeriSign
72 70 73 86 20 178
11
Citrix Systems
70 70 71 89 18 158
12
Motorola
69 69 70 89 12 107
13
Sun Microsystems
69 68 71 88 15 137
14
McAfee
68 67 69 82 24 213
15
Verizon Wireless
68 67 69 86 30 269
16
Intuit
67 66 69 84 15 138
17
Novell
67 69 65 66 11 102
18
IBM
67 65 70 89 29 262
19
Symantec
64 64 63 80 39 351
20
Microsoft
63 63 62 82 79 712
21
EMC
63 60 66 86 12 105
22
Nortel Networks
62 62 62 81 10 89
23
Oracle
61 59 62 74 22 197
24
BellSouth
58 58 59 71 10 89
25
Sprint Nextel
57 57 57 67 20 177
26
T-Mobile
57 57 56 69 11 99
27
Avaya
56 53 61 79 10 91
28
CA
56 56 57 70 16 147
29 Salesforce.com 54 54 55 67 7 65
30
AT&T
54 53 54 67 28 255
31
Qwest Communications
53 51 56 76 12 110
32
Cingular Wireless
51 54 47 68 23 206
33
Verizon Communications (including MCI)
49 50 48 67 20 182



CIO Insight Staff
CIO Insight Staff
CIO Insight offers thought leadership and best practices in the IT security and management industry while providing expert recommendations on software solutions for IT leaders. It is the trusted resource for security professionals who need network monitoring technology and solutions to maintain regulatory compliance for their teams and organizations.

Get the Free Newsletter!

Subscribe to Daily Tech Insider for top news, trends, and analysis.

Latest Articles