Second Annual List recognizes IT Solution Providers with deep technical expertise and premier certifications in North America

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina – February 22, 2012 – eGroup, Inc. announced today it has been named to CRN's annual list of the Tech Elite 250 for the second year in a row. Companies on the 2012 Tech Elite 250 list represent an elite group of IT Solution Providers that have invested in the training and education needed to earn the most technical certifications in the IT Channel.

In compiling the list, CRN editors worked with the UBM Channel research group and a team outside experts to define the most customer-beneficial technical certifications in the IT channel. These technical certifications have enabled solution providers to deliver the most premium products, service and support to their North American customers.

"The 2012 Tech Elite 250 list recognizes an exclusive group of Solution Providers that have shown a dedication to helping customers innovate while reducing costs," said Kelley Damore, Vice President, Editorial Director at UBM Channel. "By identifying and adapting to the skills and training needed to best serve today's customers, members of the Tech Elite 250 have proven their commitment to delivering the products and services that today's end-users value most."

A sample of CRN's 2012 "Tech Elite 250" list is featured in the February issue of CRN Magazine and online at www.crn.com.

"We're thrilled to be included in CRN's list of the Tech Elite 250 again this year," said Mike Carter, principal of eGroup. "Through our best-of-breed product and service offerings – complemented by our deep technical expertise – eGroup is able to reduce the complexity of our clients' IT environments, while dramatically lowering costs and enabling a flexible, agile IT service delivery model that supports both users and business needs."

About eGroup: (www.eGroup-us.com)
Providing customers across the southeast with a distinct competitive advantage since 1999, eGroup is a visionary technology solutions and services firm with the ability to execute swiftly in a rapidly changing information technology landscape. Our solutions drive customers' cost containment, revenue growth, and service objectives by addressing challenges associated with mobility, access to critical applications and data, and security. eGroup's expertise and core competence is focused in three distinct areas: Cloud Services (public and private), Application Services, and End-User Computing. To deliver these solutions, eGroup has strategic partnerships with industry leaders that include VMware, Cisco, and EMC, along with Citrix, Microsoft, and Trend Micro, and a highly-skilled workforce trained in all of the latest developments in information technology.

**About UBM Channel: **(www.ubmchannel.com)
UBM Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With over 30 years of experience and engagement, UBM Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. UBM Channel is a UBM company. To learn more about UBM Channel, visit us at www.ubmchannel.com.

**UBM plc **(www.ubm.com)
UBM plc is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,000 staff in more than 30 countries is organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to www.ubm.com.

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**Contacts
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Scott Regan
UBM Channel
508.416.1186
Scott.Regan@ubm.com

Liz Wilmes
eGroup, Inc.
1.877.eGROUP.1
info@eGroup-us.com