ComponentSource Announces 2011-2012 Award Winners

The world's largest marketplace for components and development tools announces their latest global awards for 2011-12.

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• Publisher Awards 2011-12
• Product Awards 2011-12

Atlanta, GA, April 30^th, 2012 – ComponentSource®, the world's largest marketplace and community for reusable software components and development tools today announced their latest Awards for 2011-2012 for both leading publishers and their individual products. 

The awards will be given to the Top 100 Bestselling Publishers and the Top 100 Bestselling Products, based on the total sales dollar value of orders placed by customers during the year (2011) through ComponentSource.

The awards will be for the:

• Top 100 ComponentSource Bestselling Publisher Awards – 2011-2012
• Top 100 ComponentSource Bestselling Product Awards – 2011-2012

“ComponentSource’s software development product sales continued to grow in 2011 despite the tough global economic conditions. Our customers recognize that being able to buy pre-built components help save on their development costs and time-to-market. We have sold software product licenses to over 130,000 different customer organizations globally, with sales in over 180 countries worldwide. This continued growth shows the importance of the ComponentSource Website as the world’s best source of commercial quality software components and development tools for programmers and IT pros. We are pleased to announce the sixth annual winners of our Awards and, based on our customer feedback, we know these Awards help our customers to differentiate and select the best products for their needs.” explained ComponentSource CEO, Sam Patterson.

“As in past years, these awards on based on real orders from our customers world-wide, as such they represent a real global market snap-shot for commercial software component and development tools in 2011.” added Sam Patterson, CEO of ComponentSource. “We believe the awards represent accurate real-world data on how our customers are using these components and development tools in their latest projects.”

ComponentSource Bestselling Publisher Award Winners for 2011-2012

ComponentSource is delighted to announce the following awards to our leading publishers for sales made to our customers during 2011:

Top 5 Bestselling Publisher Awards for 2011-2012

1. DevExpress (Developer Express) - Top 5 Publisher Award & # 1 Publisher Award
2. Infragistics (including Infragistics Japan) - Top 5 Publisher Award & # 2 Publisher Award
3. GrapeCity (including GrapeCity Japan) - Top 5 Publisher Award & # 3 Publisher Award
4. Flexera Software - Top 5 Publisher Award & # 4 Publisher Award
5. ComponentOne - Top 5 Publisher Award & # 5 Publisher Award

Top 10 Bestselling Publisher Awards for 2011-2012 (sorted alphabetically)

• Altova - Top 10 Publisher Award
• Aspose - Top 10 Publisher Award
• Janus Systems - Top 10 Publisher Award
• JetBrains - Top 10 Publisher Award
• Red Gate Software - Top 10 Publisher Award

Top 25 Bestselling Publisher Awards for 2011-2012 (sorted alphabetically)

• /n software - Top 25 Publisher Award
• Change Vision (including Change Vision Japan) - Top 25 Publisher Award
• Codejock Software - Top 25 Publisher Award
• Devart - Top 25 Publisher Award
• Embarcadero (Japan) - Top 25 Publisher Award
• GdPicture - Top 25 Publisher Award
• IBM ILOG - Top 25 Publisher Award
• InfoSoft Global - Top 25 Publisher Award
• LEAD Technologies - Top 25 Publisher Award
• Micro Focus - Top 25 Publisher Award
• Progress Software (DataDirect Tech/Stylus Studio) - Top 25 Publisher Award
• Software FX - Top 25 Publisher Award
• Syncfusion - Top 25 Publisher Award
• SyncRO Soft - Top 25 Publisher Award
• Text Control - Top 25 Publisher Award

See the Full Top 100 Publisher Award List:
http://www.componentsource.com/services/publisher/awards-2011-2012-publisher.html

ComponentSource Bestselling Product Award Winners for 2011-2012

ComponentSource is delighted to announce the following awards for our leading products for sales made to our customers during 2011:

Top 5 Bestselling Product Awards for 2011-20112

• 1. DXperience DXv2 by DevExpress - Top 5 Product Award & # 1 Product Award
• 2. NetAdvantage for .NET by Infragistics - Top 5 Product Award & # 2 Product Award
• 3. DXperience DXv2 WinForms by DevExpress - Top 5 Product Award & # 3 Product Award
• 4. InstallShield Professional by Flexera Software - Top 5 Product Award & # 4 Product Award
• 5. ComponentOne Studio Enterprise by ComponentOne - Top 5 Product Award & # 5 Product Award

Top 10 Bestselling Product Awards for 2011-2012

• 6. Spread.NET by GrapeCity - Top 10 Product Award
• 7. NetAdvantage Ultimate by Infragistics - Top 10 Product Award
• 8. Aspose.Total for .NET by Aspose - Top 10 Product Award
• 9. ReSharper by JetBrains - Top 10 Product Award
• 10. InstallShield Premier by Flexera Software - Top 10 Product Award

Top 25 Bestselling Product Awards for 2011-2012

• 11. ActiveReports 6 by GrapeCity - Top 25 Product Award
• 12. Janus WinForms Controls Suite by Janus Systems - Top 25 Product Award
• 13. DXperience DXv2 ASP.NET by DevExpress - Top 25 Product Award
• 14. NetAdvantage for Windows Forms by Infragistics - Top 25 Product Award
• 15. XMLSpy Professional by Altova - Top 25 Product Award
• 16. XMLSpy Enterprise by Altova - Top 25 Product Award
• 17. ComponentOne Studio for WinForms by ComponentOne - Top 25 Product Award
• 18. ActiveReports for .NET by GrapeCity - Top 25 Product Award
• 19. DevPartner for Visual C++ BoundsChecker Suite by Micro Focus - Top 25 Product Award
• 20. Developer Express VCL Subscription by DevExpress - Top 25 Product Award
• 21. astah* professional by Change Vision - Top 25 Product Award
• 22. AdminStudio Enterprise by Flexera Software - Top 25 Product Award
• 23. AdminStudio Professional by Flexera Software - Top 25 Product Award
• 24. GdPicture.NET by GdPicture - Top 25 Product Award
• 25. IBM ILOG Elixir Standard by IBM ILOG - Top 25 Product Award

See the Full Top 100 Product Award List:
http://www.componentsource.com/services/publisher/awards-2011-2012-product.html

Download the press release for the ComponentSource 2011-2012 Awards: Letter size or A4 size.

Note to Editors:

Bestselling Products Awards

The products have each been allocated a Top 5, Top 10, Top 25, Top 50 or Top 100 Bestselling Product Award for 2010 based on the following ranking criteria:

• total sales in US Dollars (USD) order value for the individual product
• less any refunds made to customers due to issues with the product
• for sales made to our customers in over 180 countries worldwide
• between the dates 1st Jan 2011 to 31st Dec 2011 inclusive
• sales made in non-USD currencies have been converted into USD to get a total value
• the list has then been sorted and the awards made based on the ranking achieved
• the awards were announced in April 2012, based on sales made in 2011, hence the name 2011-2012

Bestselling Publisher Awards

The publishers have each been allocated a Top 5, Top 10, Top 25, Top 50 or Top 100 Bestselling Publisher Award for 2011 based on the following ranking criteria:

• total sales USD order value for all the individual products in their range aggregated together
• less any refunds made to customers due to issues with their products
• for sales made to our customers in over 180 countries worldwide
• between the dates 1st Jan 2011 to 31st Dec 2011 inclusive
• sales made in non-USD currencies have been converted into USD to get a total value
• the list has then been sorted and the awards made based on the publisher ranking achieved
• the awards were announced in April 2012, based on sales made in 2011, hence the name 2011-2012

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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 180 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

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