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BluePoint wins 4th place in CRN Fast50

CRN Fast50 is the channel's No.1 awards list and a who's who of Australia's 50 smartest IT resellers, recognising IT reseller Growth in the Australian Channel.

CRN Fast50: BluePoint’s wise Partnership with Google

By Nate Cochrane on Nov 8, 2010 10:37 AM

Founders drive the business to No.4.

Craig McLaughlin loves Google for more than its ability to index and find the world's information; the BluePoint founder says the search giant saved his business.

McLaughlin started BluePoint in 1999 with a former IBM worker to deploy Lotus Notes and document management solutions to businesses. He sold the business a few years ago to its new owners but stayed on as operations manager to provide a familiar face to customers.

Around the same time hard questions were asked of BluePoint's future. But betting on an upstart search engine that was breaking into the enterprise and government proved one of the wisest decisions he has made.

"It was a turning point for business," McLaughlin says. "With the old guard it was a shrinking market and a shrinking business and now we're in almost uncontrollable growth.

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