HoundDog Technology, provider of easy and affordable Remote Monitoring and Management tools for IT support companies, has been shortlisted for CRN Channel Awards 2008 Software Vendor of the Year after demonstrating strong growth and positive customer testimonials over the last 12 months.

The lesser known of the RMM vendors, HoundDog is a quiet achiever having celebrated its fifth birthday, expanded in five countries across Benelux and Scandinavia, doubled revenues and grown its customer base from 850 to 1,500 all in the first six months of 2008.

Company Chief Executive Doug Wilson believes the growing popularity of HoundDog is the combination of an effective and easy to use system, a low cost pay-as-you go pricing model, and a lot of happy customers referring HoundDog to their peers.

“HoundDog’s strategy has been to simplify the whole remote monitoring and management space, making it easier and more affordable for IT support companies to cut costs, deliver better service and grow their revenues.”

“Our affordable RMM solution is going down well during these turbulent, credit-crunch times when support companies are looking to keep things simple and safe. We’re finding our ten minutes to get going, no training required and no money upfront model has certainly resonated with a large number of support guys in a short period of time – the ones who don’t want the hard-sell and big investment upfront involved with the more ‘bloated’  toolsets that are currently on offer,” he added.

“HoundDog customers love the product and love talking about it with their peers. We’ve found that word-of-mouth has generated a huge volume of business for us, based on the features of the product and the ease with which companies can get going,” Wilson said.

This is the third consecutive year HoundDog has been nominated for CRN’s Software Vendor of the Year, a coveted award that recognises the overall contribution of a vendor to business development in the channel. Product range and development, channel and marketing programmes, and service and support are key selection criteria.

“We’re really pleased to be shortlisted for Software Vendor of the Year again in 2008,” Wilson said. “To win the award would be the icing on the cake following a really successful year for the company and our customers.”

Winners are chosen as a result of an online voting process, open to customer and partners, which is available http://www.channelawards.net/ShortlistSoftwareV.asp.

About HoundDog Technology

HoundDog Technology delivers an award-winning suite of products to over 1,500 IT Support Companies and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) looking to take better care of their clients at less cost. By focusing on the essentials, HoundDog delivers key functionality like real time systems monitoring, automated daily health checks, asset tracking, patch management and own brand client reporting in just ten minutes at a fraction of the cost  of other more complicated and expensive systems.

The HoundDog system is deployed at over 20,000 small businesses world-wide. Company headquarters are located in Dundee, Scotland with additional offices across Europe and North America. HoundDog Technology was recently selected as Best MSP solution at Gartner Group's IT Channel Vision Awards, received 5 out of 5 Tech Stars from Channel Reseller News’ and was short listed by CRN for their Software Vendor of the Year award along with Microsoft, VMware and Oracle.

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