This year’s top systems integrators are largely in agreement on how they fared in 2022. Unlike their security dealer counterparts on the 2023 SDM 100 the security integration companies — and sometimes even the integration side of the same company ranked on both lists — had no trouble coming to a consensus that the market was mostly strong, especially in verticals such as healthcare, financial, utilities and education, among others.

But all was not perfectly rosy in 2022 and going into 2023. There were plenty of challenges, not least of which are continuing supply chain headaches, along with the added pressures of rising inflation rates, a critical workforce shortage and the possibility of a looming recession.