bizjournals, Inc. Selects Caspio Enterprise Platform-as-a-Service

PRLog (Press Release) - Nov. 10, 2009 - Caspio, Inc. (www.caspio.com), provider of the leading do-it-yourself database platform for creating web applications, today announced that the nation's leading online publisher of business newspapers, bizjournals Inc., has selected Caspio's enterprise solution for building and deploying database-driven cloud applications. For more information on Caspio's cloud computing platform, visit www.caspio.com/enterprisecloud.

"We're excited about the Caspio partnership, because it will help us leverage the vast array of proprietary data products we produce in print, as well as open new doors for our reporters to share more data and analysis with our readers online," said Huntley Paton, executive editor of bizjournals. "We're a national leader when it comes to producing local-business research, but up to now, we haven’t had the right tool to bring our research projects to life on the web. Now, with Caspio, we do."

bizjournals, Inc. is the online media division of American City Business Journals, the largest metropolitan business newspapers publisher in the United States. It operates the websites for each of the parent company's print business journals as well as a Web-only site with local business news and information catering to the Los Angeles area. Characterized as being among the "Best of the Web" by Forbes magazine, bizjournals' sites have nearly 9 million unique visitors per month. Their archives contain 1.8 million business news articles dating back to 1996.

"Looking at the level of creativity and success bizjournals has achieved in the industry, I can’t wait to see what they will do with Caspio," said Frank Zamani, founder and CEO of Caspio. "Our media clients continuously find innovative ways to use our cloud technology to engage with online readers, drilling down to the local level with interactive community applications."

A pioneer in Platform-as-a-Service since 2000, Caspio offers one of the most mature platforms available today; incorporating an enterprise-grade database, point-and-click tools for rapid application creation, and a scalable and reliable infrastructure for highly-trafficked web applications. Enterprise customers also have access to 24/7 professional support, private online training, free project consultations and service-level guarantees.

In addition to its extensive customer list of Fortune-500 companies, government agencies, universities, and small to medium sized businesses, Caspio works with hundreds of media companies and powers applications for over 80% of the nation's top 100 newspaper websites.

Learn more about Caspio's enterprise cloud application platform at www.caspio.com/enterprisecloud/, or call 650-691-0900 ext. 731.

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About Caspio, Inc.
Caspio, Inc. (www.caspio.com) is the world's leading on-demand do-it-yourself web application creation platform. The company's philosophy is to empower business users to create and deploy web databases, forms, and applications easily and without programming. Caspio's platform-as-a-service replaces coding with intuitive point-and-click wizards, enabling users to rapidly produce web database components for capturing, publishing, and managing data online. Caspio shrinks development time from weeks to hours, and from thousands of dollars to a small monthly fee. Caspio's customers range from one-person entrepreneurs to Fortune-500 corporations, digital media giants, government agencies, and educational institutions.