Bluenog is an

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company. The company's flagship product is Bluenog ICE, an

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application development platform built on pre-integrated

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collaboration Collaboration (from Latin ''com-'' "with" + ''laborare'' "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. Collaboration is similar to cooperation. Most ...

enterprise portal An enterprise portal, also known as an enterprise information portal (EIP), is a framework for integrating information, people and processes across organizational boundaries in a manner similar to the more general web portals. Enterprise portals p ...

and

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projects. Headquartered in Piscataway Township, N.J., Bluenog is also a Red Hat,

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and Actuate partner.

History

Bluenog was formed in 2006 to address the growing needs of companies looking to leverage Web 2.0 functionality using both open source and

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. The company secured $4 million in venture capital from NewSpring Capital in 2008 in order to expand the company's products and services offering. Bluenog received an additional $1 million through New Jersey's Edison Innovation Fund in April 2009

Products

Following the venture capital funding, Bluenog released ICE 4.0. The latest version of the product, ICE 4.5, was released in June 2009 at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, which added among other features increased collaboration functionality, including a secure enterprise wiki maker.

Awards

In 2009, Bluenog won two technology awards: InformationWeek Startup 50 and RedHerring 100.

References

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