IBT ranks Bridgeline Digital 21st Fastest Growing Internet Software & Services Company Globally

IBT ranks Bridgeline Digital 21st Fastest Growing Internet Software & Services Company Globally

Continued explosive growth in iAPPS license sales and revenue earns Bridgeline prestigious ranking

Woburn, MA| January 26th, 2012

web experience management (WEM) platform and interactive technology solutions, today announced that it was ranked #21 on the , the IBT1000 celebrates companies that have outperformed others in the global marketplace and are innovators in their specific industries. Major companies such as Apple, Amazon.com, Priceline.com, Netflix and others joined Bridgeline Digital, Inc. on this significant and revealing ranking.

The 2011 IBT 1000 Fastest Growing Companies list ranks companies using their 3-Year Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). To be eligible, companies must have had minimum revenue of $2,000,000 in 2011 and be an independent, for profit, public company (not a subsidiary or division of another company). "We hope the IBT1000 list will inspire entrepreneurs and company leaders to successfully contribute to the global economy in the 21st century", said IBTimes' Executive Editor Johnathan Davis.

Energizing Bridgeline's impressive growth over the past three years has been the continued success of the . Overall iAPPS license sales in FY2011 were 47% higher than in FY2010nearly 500 licenses have been sold since the first iAPPS product module was launched in Bridgeline's first quarter of FY2008. iAPPS' fully integrated WEM suite of sophisticated eCommerce, content management, eMail marketingweb analytics capabilities empower marketers to better control their multi-channel campaigns and more effectively engage, nurture, understand and convert site visitors. The iAPPS Product Suite was recently selected as a finalist for two 2011 CODiE Awards and iAPPS Content Manager is the 2010 CODiE Award Winner for Best Content Management Solution, globally.

"Bridgeline is extremely honored to be recognized by the International Business Times," said Thomas Massie, Bridgeline's Chairman and CEO. "We're proud that our team's extraordinary efforts have culminated in this impressive honorwe're looking forward to the positive impact that our ongoing iAPPS' development will have on our customers' marketing optimization initiatives and our overall company growth."

About the International Business Times

The International Business Times is a global online business newspaper, comprising 17 editions, published in 10 languages. The publication, sometimes called IBTimes, offers news, analysis and opinion on geo-politics, global economy, markets, large and small cap companies, technologybusiness life and culture. As of December 2011, IBTimes.com reached over 9 million unique users worldwide.

The company launched its website in 2005 with the vision of serving all the countries in the world with comprehensive business coverage. It is a privately-held company. Its global headquarters are in the Financial District of New York City.

About Bridgeline Digital

Bridgeline Digital is developer of the award-winning (WEM) product suite and interactive technology solutions that help organizations optimize business processes. Bridgeline's iAPPS product suite, combined with its interactive development capabilities, assists customers in maximizing revenue, improving customer service and loyalty, enhancing employee knowledgereducing operational costs by leveraging web-based technologies.

The iAPPS product suite provides solutions that deeply integrate , , capabilities within the mission critical websites, on-line stores, intranets, extranets, or portals in which they resideenable business users to enhance and optimize the value of their web properties. Combined with award-winning interactive development capabilities, Bridgeline helps customers cost-effectively accommodate the changing needs of today's rapidly evolving web properties.

business model, whose flexible architecture provides customers with state-of-the-art deployments that provide maintenance and daily technical operation and support; or via a traditional 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.

Bridgeline Digital is headquartered near Boston with additional locations in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, New York, Philadelphia, TampaBangalore, India. Bridgeline has hundreds of customers ranging from middle market organizations to divisions within Fortune 1,000 companies that include: L'Oreal, Sun Chemical, Honeywell, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Novartis, Shaw Flooring, Marriott International, Berkshire Life, Tosoh, Dover, ViaWest, PODS, Budget Rent-a-Car, AARP, Cadaret, Grant & Co., CFO Magazinethe American Academy of Pediatrics.  To learn more about Bridgeline Digital, please visit .

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For More Information:

Brian Bolton
Sr. Vice President of Marketing
Bridgeline Digital, Inc.
781.497.3013
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