Shopzilla Chooses Bluespring’s BPM Suite

Shopzilla Chooses Bluespring’s BPM Suite as the Business Process Infrastructure in Support of its Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Rollout

Bluespring Software, the Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) software company that brings process agility to the enterprise, announces that Shopzilla has chosen Bluespring’s BPM Suite as the company’s business process infrastructure in support of its Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 rollout.

“Due to the nature of our business, our environment changes fast and frequently. We run our software development process under the agile umbrella to respond quickly to business needs and refine our processes every two weeks. Core to our vendor selection criteria was how easy it was to facilitate iterative changes to a process,” said Christophe Louvion, Vice President of Innovation at Shopzilla. “With process agility in mind, Bluespring was the hands down, obvious choice.”

Bluespring’s process agility differentiation stems from its interpretive XML approach to process execution instead of compiling code, the traditional approach taken by most BPMS vendors. Forrester Research, Gartner, IDC and Aberdeen all recognize the process agility advantages of Interpretive XML. They include:
The ability to make in-flight changes to a process or processes without having to re-start the process from the beginning or without having to re-boot or re-start the server
The ability to pause or re-start a process at any point
The ability to deploy new versions of a process without affecting existing running instances
The ability to specify the date and time a new version of a process should take effect without being dependent on staff to deploy the process at a specific date and time

Shopzilla’s Bluespring and SharePoint-based process infrastructure will support the automation of a variety of manual and paper based processes that tend to “slip through the cracks.”

“We’re honored to be Shopzilla’s BPMS vendor of choice and look forward to helping them achieve the benefits of becoming a more agile enterprise,” said Dave Noonan, President & CEO of Bluespring Software.

About Bluespring Software

Bluespring Software and its partner network deliver cost savings, operational visibility, compliance and internal controls to those processes involving work done by people. Bluespring Software is a Microsoft Gold Partner and is currently deployed in Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, Utilities, Investment Banking, Telecommunications, Corporate Housing and other vertical markets.

About Shopzilla

Shopzilla is the most comprehensive shopping search site on the Web. With an index of more than 30 million products from more than 92,000 stores, Shopzilla uses ShopRank, a proprietary patent-pending algorithm, to help shoppers instantly find virtually anything on sale from anyone, anywhere on the Web at the best price. Shopzilla also features powerful comparison tools and BizRate consumer reviews of stores and products, the Web’s largest and most trusted consumer feedback network. Every week Shopzilla prepares millions of shoppers to make smarter, more confident purchases and delivers them directly to the checkout page of thousands of online merchants. Shopzilla also operates the BizRate consumer feedback network which collects approximately 1 million fresh shopping reviews per month. Founded in 1996, the Los Angeles-based company also operates sites in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Shopzilla is owned by The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE:SSP – News), a diverse media concern with interests in national television networks, newspaper publishing, broadcast television stations, TV retailing and licensing and syndication. For more information, visit www.shopzilla.com
Contacts

Bluespring Software
Dan Dyer, 513-478-7818
dan.dyer {at} bluespringsoftware(.)com
http://www.bluespringsoftware.com