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Note 1. Description of Business
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1.   Description of Business

Overview

Bridgeline Digital, The Digital Engagement Company™, enables its customers to maximize the performance of their mission critical websites, intranets, and online stores. Bridgeline is the developer of the award-winning iAPPS Web Engagement Management (WEM) product platform and related digital solutions. The iAPPS platform deeply integrates Web Content Management, eCommerce, eMarketing, and web Analytics capabilities within the heart of websites or eCommerce web stores to help marketers deliver online experiences that attract, engage, and convert their customers across all digital channels. Bridgeline’s iAPPS platform combined with its digital services assists customers in maximizing on-line revenue, improving customer service and loyalty, enhancing employee knowledge, and reducing operational costs.

The iAPPS platform is delivered through a Cloud-based SaaS (“Software as a Service”) multi-tenant business model, whose flexible architecture provides customers with state of the art deployment providing maintenance, daily technical operation and support; or via a traditional perpetual licensing business model, in which the iAPPS software resides on a dedicated server in either the customer’s facility or Bridgeline’s co-managed hosting facility.

In 2012, KMWorld Magazine Editors selected Bridgeline Digital as one of the 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management and also selected iAPPS as a Trend Setting Product in 2010, 2011 and 2012. iAPPS Content Manager and iAPPS Commerce were selected as finalists for the 2011 and 2012 CODiE Awards for Best Content Management Solution and Best Electronic Commerce Solution, globally. iAPPS Content Manager was the winner of the 2010 CODiE Award for Best Content Management Solution, globally. B2B Interactive has selected Bridgeline Digital as one of the Top Interactive Technology companies in the United States for the past four consecutive years.

Bridgeline’s team of Microsoft© Gold Certified developers specialize in end-to-end interactive technology solutions which include digital strategy, user-centered design, rich media development, .NET development, and search engine optimization.

Bridgeline Digital was incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware on August 28, 2000.

Locations

The Company’s corporate office is located north of Boston, Massachusetts.  The Company maintains regional field offices serving the following geographical locations: Atlanta, GA; Baltimore, MD; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Denver, CO; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Dallas, TX; and Tampa, FL.  The Company has one wholly-owned subsidiary, Bridgeline Digital Pvt. Ltd. located in Bangalore, India.