| Rank | Brand | Top of Mind | Top of Model | Composite Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft | 40.3 | 80.0 | 60.2 |
| 2 | Accenture | 48.0 | 60.0 | 54.0 |
| 3 | Amazon | 25.4 | 75.0 | 50.2 |
| 4 | CDW | 32.1 | 68.3 | 50.2 |
| 5 | IBM | 39.7 | 60.0 | 49.9 |
| 6 | Insight | 32.4 | 63.3 | 47.9 |
| 7 | SHI | 26.6 | 68.3 | 47.5 |
| 8 | Cisco | 26.1 | 68.3 | 47.2 |
| 9 | WWT | 15.1 | 78.3 | 46.7 |
| 10 | Gartner | 1.7 | 91.7 | 46.7 |
| 11 | Red Hat | 9.4 | 83.3 | 46.4 |
| 12 | Deloitte | 33.7 | 58.3 | 46.0 |
| 13 | Flexera | 16.9 | 75.0 | 46.0 |
| 14 | ServiceNow | 18.4 | 73.3 | 45.9 |
| 15 | Capgemini | 29.2 | 61.7 | 45.4 |
| 16 | Equinix | 6.8 | 83.3 | 45.1 |
| 17 | NVIDIA | 10.6 | 78.3 | 44.5 |
| 18 | NIST | 1.0 | 86.7 | 43.8 |
| 19 | Salesforce | 17.8 | 68.3 | 43.1 |
| 20 | Fortinet | 6.2 | 80.0 | 43.1 |
| 21 | Infosys | 29.4 | 56.7 | 43.0 |
| 22 | Nutanix | 10.0 | 75.0 | 42.5 |
| 23 | HPE | 16.1 | 68.3 | 42.2 |
| 24 | McKinsey | 13.9 | 68.3 | 41.1 |
| 25 | Dell | 17.2 | 65.0 | 41.1 |
| 26 | CyberArk | 0.5 | 81.7 | 41.1 |
| 27 | Palo Alto | 7.1 | 75.0 | 41.0 |
| 28 | Jamf | 1.7 | 80.0 | 40.9 |
| 29 | VMware | 19.9 | 61.7 | 40.8 |
| 30 | 21.5 | 60.0 | 40.8 | |
| 31 | Pure | 2.0 | 78.3 | 40.1 |
| 32 | Zscaler | 5.1 | 75.0 | 40.0 |
| 33 | Kyndryl | 19.5 | 60.0 | 39.7 |
| 34 | Slack | 4.1 | 75.0 | 39.5 |
| 35 | Avanade | 5.0 | 73.3 | 39.2 |
| 36 | Oracle | 11.6 | 66.7 | 39.1 |
| 37 | Jabra | 1.1 | 76.7 | 38.9 |
| 38 | Arista | 0.6 | 76.7 | 38.7 |
| 39 | IGEL | 0.6 | 76.7 | 38.7 |
| 40 | CrowdStrike | 5.6 | 71.7 | 38.6 |
| 41 | NTT | 15.2 | 61.7 | 38.4 |
| 42 | Computacenter | 8.5 | 68.3 | 38.4 |
| 43 | NetApp | 3.4 | 73.3 | 38.4 |
| 44 | Adobe | 1.7 | 75.0 | 38.3 |
| 45 | Illumio | 3.3 | 73.3 | 38.3 |
| 46 | Digital Realty | 4.8 | 71.7 | 38.2 |
| 47 | Lenovo | 6.1 | 70.0 | 38.1 |
| 48 | CISA | 1.1 | 75.0 | 38.0 |
| 49 | Zoom | 9.0 | 66.7 | 37.8 |
| 50 | Harvard Business School | 0.6 | 75.0 | 37.8 |
| 51 | S&P Global | 0.5 | 75.0 | 37.8 |
| 52 | Datadog | 0.4 | 75.0 | 37.7 |
| 53 | Logitech | 2.0 | 73.3 | 37.7 |
| 54 | Workday | 1.6 | 73.3 | 37.5 |
| 55 | Snow | 9.9 | 65.0 | 37.5 |
| 56 | Carahsoft | 8.3 | 66.7 | 37.5 |
| 57 | Okta | 4.8 | 70.0 | 37.4 |
| 58 | Snowflake | 1.5 | 73.3 | 37.4 |
| 59 | HCLTech | 19.6 | 55.0 | 37.3 |
| 60 | PwC | 11.3 | 63.3 | 37.3 |
| 61 | BCG | 5.8 | 68.3 | 37.1 |
| 62 | SailPoint | 0.8 | 73.3 | 37.0 |
| 63 | Iron Mountain | 5.7 | 68.3 | 37.0 |
| 64 | ePlus | 7.4 | 66.7 | 37.0 |
| 65 | Cloudflare | 0.6 | 73.3 | 37.0 |
| 66 | SADA | 0.4 | 73.3 | 36.9 |
| 67 | AMD | 1.8 | 71.7 | 36.7 |
| 68 | DocuSign | 1.3 | 71.7 | 36.5 |
| 69 | Schneider Electric | 1.1 | 71.7 | 36.4 |
| 70 | Infoblox | 1.0 | 71.7 | 36.3 |
| 71 | Manhattan Associates | 1.0 | 71.7 | 36.3 |
| 72 | FinOps Foundation | 2.5 | 70.0 | 36.2 |
| 73 | AHEAD | 5.7 | 66.7 | 36.2 |
| 74 | Claroty | 0.6 | 71.7 | 36.1 |
| 75 | TCS | 20.4 | 51.7 | 36.1 |
| 76 | Extron | 0.4 | 71.7 | 36.1 |
| 77 | Softcat | 3.7 | 68.3 | 36.0 |
| 78 | Akamai | 0.3 | 71.7 | 36.0 |
| 79 | PagerDuty | 0.3 | 71.7 | 36.0 |
| 80 | Juniper | 1.9 | 70.0 | 36.0 |
| 81 | Slalom | 6.9 | 65.0 | 35.9 |
| 82 | Tanium | 1.8 | 70.0 | 35.9 |
| 83 | SAS | 1.5 | 70.0 | 35.7 |
| 84 | PTC | 1.4 | 70.0 | 35.7 |
| 85 | Options Technology | 1.3 | 70.0 | 35.7 |
| 86 | CoreSite | 2.8 | 68.3 | 35.6 |
| 87 | Mission Cloud | 7.7 | 63.3 | 35.5 |
| 88 | Presidio | 14.3 | 56.7 | 35.5 |
| 89 | SAP | 2.6 | 68.3 | 35.5 |
| 90 | Splunk | 0.9 | 70.0 | 35.4 |
| 91 | Cognizant | 22.5 | 48.3 | 35.4 |
| 92 | Booz Allen Hamilton | 5.7 | 65.0 | 35.4 |
| 93 | Esri | 0.6 | 70.0 | 35.3 |
| 94 | Wiz | 0.5 | 70.0 | 35.3 |
| 95 | Databricks | 0.4 | 70.0 | 35.2 |
| 96 | NetSuite | 0.4 | 70.0 | 35.2 |
| 97 | Terraform | 0.4 | 70.0 | 35.2 |
| 98 | Vertiv | 0.4 | 70.0 | 35.2 |
| 99 | Nozomi Networks | 0.4 | 70.0 | 35.2 |
| 100 | Info-Tech Research Group | 0.3 | 70.0 | 35.2 |
Solutions Providers category definition
The TOM Index defines Solutions Providers as brands that deliver multi-vendor technology solutions: integrators, resellers, distributors, managed service providers, and consultancies that assemble products, services, and expertise from multiple sources into a single outcome for the buyer.
We score brands here on how clearly they are discovered and trusted as the partner who designs, assembles, and delivers the solution, distinct from the manufacturers whose products they carry. This is a delivery and advisory identity, so a brand is scored here when its primary value is integration, guidance, and delivery rather than a single owned product line.
Category reality
In the Solutions Providers category, visibility is shaped by trust, role specificity, and proof of operational delivery. Buyers are not choosing a product, they are choosing a partner to bet their implementation on.
The market is crowded with brands carrying similar OEM badges, similar capability claims, and the same "we do it all" positioning. Buying committees, spanning IT leadership, procurement, finance, and increasingly line-of-business stakeholders, use fast, imprecise heuristics to build their shortlists. They ask: Who feels safe? Who has done this before? Who will not surprise me at go-live?
Brands that cannot answer those questions clearly in early research, whether through AI-mediated discovery, peer references, or digital presence, are filtered out before a single sales conversation begins.
How your brand gets evaluated
Buying committees and AI systems are both forming opinions about your brand before sales is ever involved. Here's what's shaping those impressions:
Subcategory Placement: Can AI and buyers quickly identify what kind of partner you actually are? Integrator, reseller, managed services. Ambiguity here causes omission, not evaluation.
Persona Recognition: Do the right stakeholders, CIO, IT, procurement, security, line-of-business, find themselves in your story? Or does your message talk to everyone and land with no one?
Shortlist Surfacing: When AI summarizes top technology solutions providers in a buying context, are you named as a distinct option, or collapsed into other regional partners?
Side-by-Side Evaluation: When a buying committee compares you against category leaders, does your story hold up on your terms?
Leadership Visibility: Are your leaders visible as operators and advisors, people who have solved this before, or only as salespeople?
Narrative Consistency: Is your brand story distinct, consistent, and easy to repeat, or does it shift by practice, by region, by rep?
Proof That Travels: Can a buyer remember and repeat what makes you different after the meeting ends? Can a procurement lead defend the choice internally?
Emotional Trust: Do you feel like a low-risk choice, or like a vendor that requires internal justification?

