Bridgeline Digital, The Digital Engagement Company™, helps customers
maximize the performance of their full digital experience from websites and
intranets to online stores. Bridgeline’s Unbound (iAPPS®) platform
deeply integrates Web Content Management, eCommerce, eMarketing, Social Media
management, and Web Analytics to help marketers deliver digital experiences
that attract, engage and convert their customers across all 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. Our iAPPSds (“distributed subscription”),
is a platform that empowers large franchise and multi-unit organizations with
state-of-the-art web engagement management while providing superior oversight
of corporate branding. iAPPSds deeply integrates content management, eCommerce,
eMarketing and web analytics and is a self-service web platform that is offered
to each authorized franchise or dealer for a monthly subscription fee.
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 hosted by Bridgeline via a cloud-based hosted services
model.
The iAPPS Platform is an award-winning application recognized around the globe.
Our teams of Microsoft Gold© certified developers have won over 100 industry
related awards. In 2017, our Marketing Automation platform was named a 2017
SIIA CODiE Award finalist in the Best Marketing Solution category. In 2016,
CIO Review selected iAPPS as one of the 20 Most Promising Digital Marketing
Solution Providers. This followed accolades from the SIIA (Software and Information
Industry Association), which recognized iAPPS Content Manager with the 2015
SIIA CODiE Award for Best Web Content Management Platform. Also in 2015, EContent
magazine named iAPPS Digital Engagement Platform to its Trendsetting Products
list. The list of 75 products and platforms was compiled by EContent’s
editorial staff, and selections were based on each offering’s uniqueness
and importance to digital publishing, media, and marketing. We were also recognized
in 2015 as a strong performer by Forrester Research, Inc in its independence
report, “The Forrester Wave ™: Through-Channel Marketing Automation
Platforms, Q3 2015.” Also, in recent years, our iAPPS Content Manager
and iAPPS Commerce products were selected as finalists for the 2014, 2013, and
2012 CODiE Awards for Best Content Management Solution and Best Electronic Commerce
Solution, globally. In 2014 and 2013, Bridgeline Digital won twenty-five Horizon
Interactive Awards for outstanding development of web applications and websites.
Also in 2013, the Web Marketing Association sponsored Internet Advertising Competition
honored Bridgeline Digital with three awards for iAPPS customer websites and
B2B Magazine selected Bridgeline Digital as one of the Top Interactive Technology
companies in the United States. KMWorld Magazine Editors selected Bridgeline
Digital as one of the 100 Companies
Locations
The Company’s corporate office is located in Burlington, Massachusetts.
The Company maintains regional field offices serving the following geographical
locations: Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Denver, CO; and Tampa, FL. The Company has
one wholly-owned subsidiary, Bridgeline Digital Pvt. Ltd. located in Bangalore,
India.
Products and Services
Products
iAPPS Platform
Subscription and Perpetual Licenses
iAPPS is available as either a SaaS or perpetual license and is reported as
subscription and perpetual licenses in the accompanying consolidated financial
statements.
The iAPPS platform provides a unified common set of shared software modules
that are critical to today’s mission critical websites, on-line stores,
intranets, extranets, and portals. The iAPPS platform empowers companies and
developers to create websites, web applications and online stores with advanced
business logic, state-of-the-art graphical user interfaces, and improved quality.
The iAPPS platform is a Web Engagement Management (WEM) platform that unifies
Content Management, eCommerce, eMarketing, and Analytic capabilities deep within
the websites, intranets or online stores in which they reside, enabling customers
to enhance and optimize the value of their web properties and better engage
their website users. The iAPPS platform significantly enhances WEM and Customer
Experience Management (CXM) capabilities.
The iAPPSds platform was built specifically to support the needs of multi-unit
organizations and franchises. Bridgelines cloud-based platform allows companies
to execute local marketing plans, follow SEO best practices, drive eCommerce
initiatives, and measure results with actionable analytics.
The iAPPS suite of products includes:
iAPPS Experience Manager is a marketing automation engine and content management
system in one – delivering the digital experiences consumers demand. Centered
on robust audience segmentation and list management, the tool allows marketers
to easily create personalized customer journeys. Each iAPPS implementation incorporates
a set of flexible templates and modules to get you started quickly in building
your full digital experience with iAPPS Pro. From there, you can opt to further
customize these templates and incorporate any necessary custom application integrations
with iAPPS Enterprise to meet an organizations unique business needs.
iAPPS Content Manager allows non-technical users to create, edit, and publish
content via a browser-based interface. The advanced, easy-to-use interface allows
businesses to keep content and promotions fresh - whether for a public commercial
site or a company intranet. iAPPS Content Manager handles the presentation of
content based on a sophisticated indexing and security scheme that includes
management of front-end access to online applications. The system provides a
robust library functionality to manage permissions, versions and organization
of different content types, including multimedia files and images. Administrators
are able to easily configure a simple or advanced workflow. The system can accommodate
the complexity of larger companies with strict regulatory policies. iAPPS Content
Manager is uniquely integrated and unified with iAPPS Insights, iAPPS Commerce,
and iAPPS Marketier; providing our customers with precise information, accurate
results, expansion options, and stronger user adoption.
iAPPS Commerce is an online B2B and B2C eCommerce solution that allows users
to maximize and manage all aspects of their domestic and international Commerce
initiatives. The customizable dashboard provides customers with a real-time
overview of the performance of their online stores, including sales trends,
demographics, profit margins, inventory levels, inventory alerts, fulfillment
deficiencies, average check out times, potential production issues, and delivery
times. iAPPS Commerce also provides backend access to payment and shipping gateways.
In combining iAPPS Commerce with iAPPS Insights and iAPPS Marketier, our customers
can take their Commerce initiatives to an advanced level by personalizing their
product offerings, improving their marketing effectiveness, providing value-added
services and cross selling additional products. iAPPS Commerce is uniquely integrated
and unified with iAPPS Insights, iAPPS Content Manager, and iAPPS Marketier;
providing our customers with precise information, more accurate results, expansion
options, and stronger user adoption.
iAPPS Marketier is a powerful online marketing management solution that helps
marketers drive more qualified traffic to their sites through personalized and
highly targeted marketing automation flows. Marketiers powerful feature set
includes end-to-end campaign administration - from drag-and-drop landing pages
with our flexible form builder to behavior-based drip email campaigns, add-on
dynamic contact and distribution list management, event-based response marketing,
wizard-driven email campaign creation, as well as built-in goal tracking tools
to measure campaign effectiveness and ROI.
iAPPS Insights provides the ability to manage, measure and optimize web properties
by recording detailed events and subsequently mine data within a web application
for statistical analysis. Our customers have access to information regarding
where their visitors are coming from, what content and products their viewers
are most interested in, and how they navigate through a particular web application.
Through user-definable web reports, iAPPS Insights provides deep insight into
areas like visitor usage, content access, age of content, actions taken, event
triggers, and reports on both client and server-side events. iAPPS Insight’s
smart recommendation engine uses this data and identifies actionable solutions
enabling our customers to optimize site content and reach their digital campaign
goals. There are over 20 standard web reports that come with iAPPS Insight.
iAPPS Insight is uniquely integrated and unified with iAPPS Content Manager,
iAPPS Commerce, and iAPPS Marketier; providing our customers with precise information,
accurate results, expansion options, and stronger user adoption.
iAPPS Social is a social media management solution that empowers customers
to easily set up customized watch lists tailored by social network, topic, or
author to monitor relevant conversations happening on social media, popular
websites and blogs. Customers can also prioritize and engage in conversations
across the web and leverage the power of publishing content to department, dealer,
franchise or other social media accounts.
iAPPSds is a web content management and eCommerce platform built specifically
to support the needs of multi-unit organizations and franchises. iAPPSds deeply
integrates content management, eCommerce, eMarketing, and web analytics and
is a self-service web platform that is offered to each authorized franchise
or multi-unit organization for a monthly subscription fee. iAPPSds acts as a
control center for a large organization’s distributed websites enabling
local content publishing that is managed through a workflow approval process
that gives corporate marketing control of the brand and message. iAPPSds also
supports responsive design that adapts to specific device screen sizes access
a website, driving more positive user experiences and engagement. iAPPSds is
a cloud based SaaS solution.
Services
Revenue from Digital Engagement Services
Revenue from all digital engagement services is reported as digital engagement
services in the accompanying consolidated financial statements.
Digital Engagement Services
Digital engagement services address specific customer needs such as digital
strategy, web design and web development, usability engineering, information
architecture, and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for their mission critical
web site, intranet or online store. Application development engagements are
often sold as part of a multiple element arrangement that includes our software
products, hosting arrangements (i.e. Managed Service Hosting) that provide for
the use of certain hardware and infrastructure at one of our co-managed network
operating centers, or retained professional services subsequent to completion
of the application development.
Digital Strategy Services
Bridgeline helps customers maximize the effectiveness of their online marketing
activities to ensure that their web applications can be exposed to the potential
customers that use search engines to locate products and services. Bridgeline’s
SEO services include competitive analysis, website review, keyword generation,
proprietary leading page technology, ongoing registration, monthly reports,
and monitoring. Bridgeline’s web analytics experts offer consulting and
assistance in implementing iAPPS Insights or any other type of web analytics
package.
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