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ActiveReports .NET Reporting Tool, GrapeCity, and Data Dynamics Receive Multiple ComponentSource Awards
ComponentSource’s 2008 Top 100 Awards Name ActiveReports #2 Product;GrapeCity and Data Dynamics Among Top 5 Software Publishers
Kirkland, WA—March 16, 2009—GrapeCity, the world’s largest component developer, today announced that both GrapeCity and Data Dynamics, now a part of GrapeCity, have won multiple awards from ComponentSource®, the world's largest marketplace for reusable software components and development tools. ComponentSource’s Top 100 Awards for 2008 rate leading software publishers and their individual products according to the total dollar value of orders placed globally by its customers during the year.
The awards won by GrapeCity and Data Dynamics are:
2008 Bestselling Products Awards
ActiveReports for .NET—Ranked # 2 in Top 5 Products
ActiveReports COM/ActiveX—Ranked #26 in Top 50 Products
Data Dynamics Reports—Ranked #100 in Top 100 Products
2008 Bestselling Publisher Awards
GrapeCity-Data Dynamics—Ranked #4 in Top 5 Publishers
GrapeCity (Japan)—Ranked #5 in Top 5 Publishers
Commenting on the Grape City-Data Dynamics awards, Sam Patterson, ComponentSource CEO, said, “ComponentSource is pleased to announce that Data Dynamics, acquired on Jan 1, 2009 by GrapeCity and now named GrapeCity-Data Dynamics…is our #4 Bestselling Publisher for the 2008…. [They] also…have a total of three products in our Top 100 Bestselling Products Awards….and are to be congratulated on this great achievement.”
Patterson also praised GrapeCity Japan for winning its # 5 Bestselling Publisher award. “The commitment of GrapeCity to creating and finishing products to a very high standard of quality [is] reflected in the customer demand that we see every day for their products,” he said.
Commenting on GrapeCity’s success, Naoyuki Baba, GrapeCity President, said, “We would like to thank ComponentSource for acknowledging our contributions. As the world’s largest component vendor, we recognize that we have a responsibility to continually innovate and provide the best possible value to our customers, and also to work with other leading vendors and global marketplaces such as ComponentSource to help grow the component and developer tools industry worldwide.”
About GrapeCity
GrapeCity is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, an international award-winning software firm, and the world’s largest component vendor, employing more than 850 worldwide. The company’s corporate headquarters are in Japan, with US headquarters in Kirkland, WA. For over 25 years, the company has provided enterprises around the world with state-of-the-art software tools, solutions and services to help them turn ideas into marketable products. For more information, visit www.grapecity.com and www.datadynamics.com
About ComponentSource
ComponentSource is the world's largest marketplace and community for reusable software components for all platforms. The respected barometer for the component industry, ComponentSource pioneered the open market for reusable software components in 1995, and continues to drive the market through its award-winning e-business model and groundbreaking work to establish the first widely accepted reusable component standard. A global e-business with customers in over 110 countries, ComponentSource is headquartered in Atlanta, GA, United States, and has offices in Reading, England and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, please visit http://www.componentsource.com or http://www.componentsource.co.jp
Sanjeev Jagtap
Director of Product Management, GrapeCity
(425) 285-2346
sanjeev.jagtap@grapecity.com