Provider of the leading on-demand platform for web applications, Caspio, Inc. (www.caspio.com ), announced today a customer relationship with a publisher of daily and community newspapers in 15 markets, the E.W. Scripps Company (www.scripps.com ). The newspapers will use Caspio's no-programming platform-as-a-service to produce localized and interactive experiences across their news sites, including the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, the Commercial Appeal in Memphis, the Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentinel and the Ventura County (Calif.) Star.

    Jay Small, general manager of Scripps' Newspapers Interactive Group said: "Scripps' journalists and website leaders want the best tools and methods to make public records and other community databases easily available on our newspaper and niche sites". "We believe Caspio Bridge gives us a fast, efficient way to move that data online in searchable formats our web visitors can use with ease."

    Small said: "I can think of more than a few local data sets that would be interesting to deploy: crime statistics, nursing home inspections, school test scores". "But we are most excited to put Caspio Bridge tools in the hands of our news organizations to see what new ideas they bring into service."

    Caspio founder and CEO, Frank Zamani said: "We are very excited about our relationship with Scripps and look forward to working closely with their teams". "Caspio continues to gain the trust of leading companies and thousands of new Caspio-powered applications go online every week."

    Caspio Bridge helps media companies easily deploy scalable online database applications fast and without any programming or software to install. Leading publishers including Lee Enterprises, Cox Newspapers, The New York Times Regional Media Group, and Media General have all standardized on Caspio Bridge to dramatically boost page views and advertising revenue by implementing interactive databases on their web sites. Caspio powers today web applications for hundreds of media sites and over half of the top 100 American newspapers.