Houston Community College Selects Caspio Enterprise for Cloud Apps

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Caspio, Inc. (www.caspio.com), the leading online database platform, today announced an enterprise agreement with Houston Community College, the nation's fourth-largest community college with six campuses across Texas. Caspio's wizard-driven application creation eliminates programming, enabling HCC to create web-based solutions much more inexpensively and drastically faster than traditional development methods.

HCC began using Caspio to publish massive class schedules in a user-friendly searchable web interface. Initially launching the application on a limited budget in just a just a few short weeks, the college saw an immediate boost in website traffic and registration revenues.  HCC has since rolled out a variety of applications for its 70,000 students and 4,400 faculty to easily access information and services online, including course registration, meeting requests and mobile student directories.

Caspio's unique step-by-step wizards make it easy for non-technical educators to create searchable databases and customized web applications that instantly deploy to any website in just a few clicks.

"With Caspio, we can publish information online in a way that makes it easy for both students and faculty to use," said Joe Conway, Director of Print and E-Media at HCC. "As a public college, we have a lot of responsibility on a tight budget, and Caspio simply helps us do more for less."

"Educational institutions are truly the incubators for innovation, and the enterprise agreement with the HCC demonstrates how colleges and universities can leverage Caspio's cloud computing platform for cutting-edge advances in the industry," said David A. Milliron, Vice President of Education Services at Caspio. "We are excited to be a part of HCC's efforts as it shapes the future of cloud technology adoption in higher education."

Caspio pioneered the cloud computing industry in 2000 and currently powers over 400,000 web applications for Fortune 500 companies, university and K-12 educational institutions, government agencies, and over 80 percent of the largest newspaper websites in North America.

For more information about Caspio's Education Services, visit http://www.caspio.com/education or call David A. Milliron at 650-691-0900, extension 741.

About HCC

Houston Community College is one of the country's largest singularly-accredited, open-admission, community colleges offering associate degrees, certificates, workforce training and lifelong learning opportunities for more than 70,000 students each semester. HCC is composed of six colleges that serve the greater Houston area's diverse communities by preparing individuals to live and work in today's increasingly international and technological society.

About Caspio, Inc.

Caspio, Inc. (www.caspio.com) is the world's leading on-demand do-it-yourself web application creation platform. The company's philosophy is to empower business users to create and deploy web databases, forms, and applications easily and without programming. Caspio's platform-as-a-service replaces coding with intuitive point-and-click wizards, enabling users to rapidly produce web database components for capturing, publishing, and managing data online. Caspio shrinks development time from weeks to hours, and from thousands of dollars to a small monthly fee. Caspio's customers range from one-person entrepreneurs to Fortune-500 corporations, digital media giants, government agencies, and educational institutions.

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