SmartBear Celebrates Top Partners Around the World in First Annual Awards

At partner kickoff event, SmartBear recognizes 9 partners for high business volume and profitability while launching Partner Learning Academy

SOMERVILLE, Mass. - March 16, 2023 - SmartBear, a leading provider of software development and visibility tools, presented its first annual partner awards to nine partners in various regions around the world at its partner kickoff event earlier this month. Four partners were recognized with APAC Partner Awards and five were recognized with EMEA/North America/India Partner Awards. SmartBear also launched its new Partner Learning Academy, a self-learning platform dedicated to educating and enabling partners’ success. 

“Congratulations to our top partners who earned an award for outstanding success, a tremendous accomplishment among our large and growing partner ecosystem,” said Darin Welfare, Senior Vice President International Sales & Channel at SmartBear. “SmartBear partners play a critical role in helping software development teams see problems ahead of time and shorten the path to delivering great software. We look forward to extending our program designed to support both seasoned and new worldwide partners in uncovering new possibilities while growing their businesses and increasing profitability.” 

The APAC Partner Award winners for 2022 are: 

  • APAC Partner of the Year 2022: Aquion (Australia) 
  • Enterprise Business Hunter: SLEXN (Korea) 
  • Most Driven Marketer: DragonSoft (China) 
  • Best Newcomer: BnK Solution (Vietnam) 

The EMEA/North America/India Partner Award winners for 2022 are: 

“We have valued our partnership with SmartBear for more than 14 years now,” said Dale Foster, CEO of Climb Channel Solutions. “We are honored to have received a 2022 partner award, and we look forward to our joint success in 2023 and beyond.” 

SmartBear has several free dedicated resources to ensure partner success. The new Partner Learning Academy training is delivered in a self-paced, video format. Partners receive certification upon completion of each course. 

The SmartBear Partner Program is designed to assist partners with low touch, high volume business with significant cross-sell opportunities, shorter sales cycles, and faster time to revenue. SmartBear strategic partners are part of a globally growing network of solution providers, including distributors, consultants, systems integrators (SI), technology deployment consultancies, and value-added resellers (VARs). 

To learn more about the SmartBear Partner Program, visit: https://smartbear.com/partners/overview/ 

About SmartBear

SmartBear delivers application integrity for modern tech stacks, ensuring continuous, measurable assurance that software just works as intended – with governance to operate at AI speed and scale. SmartBear offers deep test automation, API lifecycle management, and observability capabilities. With integrations across the SDLC, it sets a new quality standard for application delivery teams.

SmartBear is trusted by more than 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers across 32,000 organizations, including 75% of the largest financial institutions and industry leaders such as Adobe, JetBlue, and Microsoft. SmartBear's best-loved brands include Swagger, TestComplete, Reflect, QMetry, Zephyr, and more. As stewards of a collaborative open source community, SmartBear meets customers where they are to make our technology-driven world a better place. Learn more at smartbear.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, X, and Reddit.

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