Founded in 1993, the IT consulting company Paragon Consulting has built an impressive client list that includes Cleveland Clinic, Charles Scwab and Heinen's. Paragon recently announced a partnership that will make it the Northeast Ohio distributor of iAPPS Product Suite, a web engagement platform developed by Bridgeline Digital that integrates e-commerce, e-marketing, SEO and web analysis with content management. Paragon also has partnerships with Microsoft and Site Core.

With all of this opportunity knocking on its door, Paragon is answering by expanding its workforce over the next few months.

"We will double the size of the company in May," says Frank McGee, Paragon business development executive. "We're hiring as fast as we can, mostly developers and QA people." Once the hirings are complete, Paragon will have 60 employees, McGee says.

Paragon has built relationships with businesses like Bridgeline Digital by strengthening its content management systems and e-commerce expertise. "Bridgeline went through a search process" for a Northeast Ohio distributor of iAPPS, McGee says. "They vetted us and saw we knew what we were doing."

McGee says Paragon concentrates on large, local clients, such as Forest City and major law firms, although from time to time the company ventures outside the regional boundaries to form relationships with clients. Bridgeline purchased Tenth Floor, a Cleveland-based web application company, in 2008.

You can learn more about Paragon's new partnership with Bridgeline by visiting http://www.paragon-inc.com/index.php/partners.

SOURCE: Frank McGee
WRITER: Diane DiPiero