Veteran CEO to Lead Enterprise Software Company PISCATAWAY, N.J., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Bluenog, an enterprise software and solutions company, has announced the appointment of Joe Valley as chief executive officer. He succeeds Suresh Kuppusamy, Bluenog's co-founder, who will resume his post as chief technology officer. Prior to his current post, Mr. Valley served as chairman and CEO of NCT, Inc., a networking connectivity services provider, which he sold to Black Box Corporation (BBOX:NASDAQ) in 2008. Mr. Valley also served as CEO of Seranin Software Corporation, a privately held company based in Dallas; president and COO for QueryObject Systems Corporation, an Amex-traded global business intelligence software company; CEO of MIS USA, the first company to introduce collaborative analytical processing and one of the most successful IPOs on the German market; and CEO of Momentum Software Corporation, a middleware company, which he successfully sold to Level 8 Systems. "Joe's deep experience in the enterprise software market, outstanding leadership qualities and focus on building profitable companies will enable us to expand and extend our Bluenog ICE(TM) product suite," said Sastry Taruvai, co-founder and chief information officer. "We are excited to have Joe leading the Bluenog team towards its next phase of growth and success." "The co-founders have built a great product and a great team," said Mr. Valley. "Now with the tremendous acceptance Bluenog ICE has received in the higher education market, we are poised to take the company into the burgeoning healthcare market as well." Bluenog ICE 4.5, the latest version of Bluenog's Integrated Collaborative Environment, was launched at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in June, 2009. ICE pre-integrates open source software, combining BI, portal, CMS and collaboration. Clients include New York University Langone Medical Center, Columbia University and MultiPlan. About Bluenog Bluenog is an enterprise software and solutions company. Its award winning flagship product, Bluenog ICE(TM), is the only Enterprise 2.0 application development platform built on pre-integrated open source content management, collaboration, presentation and reporting projects. It is an Integrated Collaborative Environment that leverages the latest Web 2.0 technologies, unifies security and administration and readily integrates with existing systems. Leading organizations rely on ICE to manage dynamic website content, and to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications (RIA) such as self-service portals faster at a lower cost. Bluenog Solutions Group meets its customers' unique challenges by combining commercial and open source software into pragmatic solutions. Headquartered in Piscataway, N.J., Bluenog is also a Red Hat, Oracle and Actuate partner. For more information, visit http://www.bluenog.com/. Bluenog ICE is a trademark of Bluenog. All other trade names are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Pablo Andreu / Steph Johnson Feintuch Communications 212.808.4903 / 212.808.4904 / DATASOURCE: Bluenog CONTACT: Pablo Andreu, +1-212-808-4903, , or Steph Johnson, +1-212-808-4904, , both of Feintuch Communications for Bluenog Web Site: http://www.bluenog.com/

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