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Bridgeline Digital, Inc. (NASDAQ:BLIN), a provider in cloud-based Web Content Management, eCommerce and Marketing Automation services, today announced that Bridgeline’s Marketing Automation platform was named a 2017 SIIA CODiE Awards finalist in the Best Marketing Solution category. Finalists represent the best products, technologies, and services in software, information and business technology.

Bridgeline’s Marketing Automation 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. It’s powerful feature set includes end-to-end campaign administration - from drag-and-drop landing pages with flexible form builder to behavior-based drip email campaigns. Customers use 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.

SIIA judges commented on Bridgeline:

“The Bridgeline platform is a very deep and comprehensive solution. Their solution provides great expertise and capabilities.”

“The platform is very scalable and comprehensive. There is a breadth of services from marketing to commerce and a very flexible set of templates for ease of setup.”

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information industries, and have been recognizing product excellence for over 30 years. The awards offer 93 categories that are organized by industry with a focus of education technology and business technology. Bridgeline’s Marketing Automation was honored as one of 205 finalists across the 59 business technology categories.

“I am impressed by the level of innovation and creativity of the products that have been selected as this year's CODiE Award finalists. We are happy to recognize these products and the power they have to transform the future of how we do business,” said Ken Wasch, President of SIIA.

“We are very proud to be recognized by the SIIA as a CODiE award finalist. This reinforces our commitment to continuously strive for innovation of our product suite to achieve a best-in-class experience that enables marketers to attract, engage, nurture and convert their customers online – and ultimately create loyal brand advocates,” said Carl Prizzi, SVP of Product Management.

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry's only peer-recognized awards program. Business technology leaders including senior executives, analysts, media, consultants and investors evaluate assigned products during the first-round review which determines the finalists. SIIA members then vote on the finalist products and the scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners. Winners will be announced during the CODiE Award Business Technology Winner Announcement & Celebration, July 25 in San Francisco.

Details about each finalist are listed at http://www.siia.net/codie/Finalists

About the SIIA CODiE™ AwardsThe SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology’s finest products and services. Since 1986, thousands of products, services and solutions have been recognized for achieving excellence.  For more information, visit siia.net/CODiE.

About Bridgeline DigitalBridgeline Digital, The Digital Engagement Company™, helps customers maximize the performance of their complete digital experience – from websites and intranets to online stores and marketing campaigns. Bridgeline’s iAPPS platform deeply integrates Web Content Management, eCommerce, eMarketing, Social Media management, and Web Analytics to ensure marketers deliver digital experiences that attract, engage and convert their customers across all channels. Headquartered in Burlington, Mass., Bridgeline has thousands of quality customers that range from small- and medium-sized organizations to Fortune 1000 companies. To learn more, please visit www.bridgeline.com or call (800) 603-9936.

Bridgeline Digital Contact: Alex Kombos, SVP of Marketing & Growth, press@bridgeline.com
SIIA Communications Contact: Allison Bostrom, (202) 289-7442, abostrom@siia.net