Note 1. Description of Business

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure [Text Block]

1.   Description of Business

Overview

Bridgeline Digital is a developer of an award-winning Web Experience Management (WEM) product suite named iAPPS® and award-winning 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 knowledge, and reducing operational costs by leveraging web based technologies.

Bridgeline Digital’s iAPPS product suite provides solutions that deeply integrate Web Content Management, eCommerce, eMarketing, and web Analytics capabilities within the mission critical website, on-line stores, intranets, extranets, or portals in which they reside; enabling 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.

The iAPPSproduct suite is delivered through a Cloud-based SaaS (“Software as a Service”) 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 iAPPS one of the 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management and also selected iAPPS as a Trend Setting Product in both 2010 and 2011. iAPPS Content Manager and iAPPS Commerce were selected as finalists for the 2012 Codie Awards for Best Content Management Solution and Best Electronic Commerce Solution, globally. iAPPS Content Manager won the 2010 Codie Award for Best Content Management Solution globally, and was a finalist for the same award in 2011. iAPPS Commerce was also selected as a finalist for the 2011 Codie Award for Best Electronic Commerce Solution, globally. B2B Interactive has selected Bridgeline Digital as one of the Top Interactive Technology companies in the United States in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

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

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 offices serving the following geographical locations: Atlanta, GA; Baltimore, MD; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Denver, CO; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; and Tampa, FL.  The Company has two wholly-owned subsidiaries, Bridgeline Intelligence Group Inc., located in Maryland and Bridgeline Digital Pvt. Ltd. located in Bangalore, India.