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  Microsoft Tech-Ed North America 2008, June 16 -19, Orlando, Florida

 


VendorRate at Tech-Ed '08

Technology professionals rated hundreds of vendors during Microsoft’s Tech-Ed 2008 for IT Professionals in Orlando, FL
in June*.

The highest customer satisfaction ranking went to Hewlett Packard for their Desktop/Notebook group. HP and VMWare tied for Best in Category rankings with four top spots each. Companies receiving VendorRate overall scores of Excellent and Poor are listed at right.


*Results are limited to scores entered at this conference.

 

Hewlett-Packard nabbed the top spot in customer satisfaction among show attendees with an 87.3. Click on a vendor name below to see all that vendor ratings.

Company Score
Hewlett-Packard Desktop/Notebook 87.3
Dell Storage-Networking 84.5
VMware 83.8
CDW 83.4
Dell Server 83.2
Microsoft Server/Infrastructure 81.5
Network Appliance 81.5

Company Score
EMC Corporation
51.2
Symantec Enterprise Storage/Backup 48.6

Vendors with the highest Customer Satisfaction rating in each VendorRate category are listed below.

Category Company Score
Recommend VMware
8.9
Integrity (tie) VMware
HP Desktop/Notebook
8.5
8.5
Communication CDW 8.4
Timeliness HP Desktop/Notebook 9.5
Usability (tie) HP Desktop/Notebook
Dell Storage/Networking
8.8
8.8
Reliability Dell Storage/Networking 9.0
Budget HP Desktop/Notebook 9.3
Customer Service Dell Server 8.3
Expertise VMware 8.8
Effectiveness VMware 9.0
 

Poor Scores
The category receiving the most Poor scores (<5):
Budget

Most Excellent
Category receiving the most Excellent scores (>9):
Reliability

Best Job
Vendors do the best job in the following categories

— ratio Excellent/Poor (>2:0):
Recommend
Reliability
Expertise
Effectiveness

Average
Vendors do an average job in the following categories

— ratio Excellent/Poor (2:1-1.5):
Integrity
Usability

Need to improve
Vendors need to improve in the following categories

ratio /Poor (<1.5:1):
Communication
Timeliness
Budget

Really need to improve
Vendors need to vastly improve in
following categories — ratio Excellent/Poor (<=1:1):
Customer Service





 

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