Revealed! The 2013 CRN Fast50

Melbourne reseller NGage Technology Group has topped this year's list of the fastest-growing channel players in Australia.

The 2013 CRN Fast50 was revealed on Friday night at a gala event at top Sydney hotel, The Westin.

More than 200 people packed the hotel ballroom for the awards presentation, which followed an afternoon of insightful panel discussions looking at the future of channel business.

[Gallery: Meet the top 10 in the 2013 Fast50]

NGage took to the stage to receive the night's top honour – having grown revenue 265 percent in the 2012-13 financial year.

The company said that a razor-sharp focus on customer service was to thank for the incredible surge in revenue.

Co-founder Jarrod Bloomfield told CRN that NGage focused on product – not just services – to achieve the phenomenal growth.

"The way we won business was around supply of hardware. A lot of businesses got out of supplying hardware and went down the services route – like every integrator. Instead, we concentrated on supplying hardware. [We said] let's do it and do it well."

Bloomfield said Lenovo and IBM drove much of the growth while it expects big things following its recent signing with flash firm Pure Storage.

Last year's first place, Adelaide-based LeetGeek, made another respectable showing, this time landing on 27th place in the Fast50.

Two-time winner Anittel didn't enter the Fast50, one of a number of major integrators who no doubt saw 2012-13 as a consolidation year after periods of high growth.

Past Fast50 companies such as UXC Connect, Bridge Point and Southern Cross Computer Systems did not enter the competition, however, they were admitted to CRN's new alumni group, the Channel Elite. This group recognises the achievements of past Fast50 entrants of signficant size and scale. 

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This year, NGage was joined in the top three by a pair of impressive IT firms of remarkably different make-up.

Second place in the CRN Fast50 went to Katana1, a Sydney-based infrastructure integrator focused on enterprise storage and service rollouts.

Director Nick Russell said the company achieved its staggering 211 percent growth rate thanks to complex implementations with major vendor NetApp and challenger brands like Splunk and AWS.

Rounding out the top three was development house Outware Mobile. The Melbourne company hit growth of 201 percent thanks in part to the surge in Android and Samsung, while it is bridging mobile development and enterprise IT via integrations leveraging the likes of IBM and Accenture.

More details about the 2013 CRN Fast50 will be revealed over the coming week, including analysis on all the players – who they are, what they sold and how they did it.

Exclusive profile of every single company in the CRN Fast50 are available right now on the CRN Express app, which has recently been updated with Android support.

Download the app then look for 'CRN Express app gallery' under the Photo Gallery tab.

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