Blue Shoe Technologies Inc. Honored with a Fast 50 Award

November 4, 2005, Raleigh, N.C. – Blue Shoe Technologies Inc, a dynamic IT professional services company specializing in Communications Triage™ solutions, was recognized as one of the fastest growing private companies in the Triangle at Triangle Business Journal’s annual Fast 50 Awards ceremony on November 3, 2005.

The Durham-based Blue Shoe ranked 27th overall on the list of 50, and was within the top five IT professional services and software development companies. The rankings were determined by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, who evaluated and ranked locally headquartered private companies based on a formula that takes into account both dollar growth and percentage rate of growth over a three-year period.

“The information explosion we are experiencing today creates business challenges that Blue Shoe is uniquely qualified to address in the areas of multilingual and unstructured data processing and management,” says Blue Shoe’s President Andrew Schwab. “Our growth reflects our customers’ confidence in our ability to address those needs effectively.”

Blue Shoe Technologies Inc. is an innovative IT professional services company, specializing in Communications Triage™ solutions to information and knowledge discovery, classification and transformation problems. Communications Triage™ solutions assist organizations with managing and allocating limited resources for optimum communications efficiency, and address multiple issues, including information overload, language and cultural barriers, logistics and deployment costs, dynamic content creation, and content reuse, to name a few.

All 50 winning companies are profiled in an in-depth special Fast 50 Awards section in Triangle Business Journal’s 11/4/2005 edition.

Media contact: Diane Currier
(919) 403-7463 ext. 1106
diane@blueshoe.com

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