CORRECTING and REPLACING Vignette Enhances Portal Functionality; Vignette Offers Key Portal Features to Enhance Enterprisewide Information Sharing and Productivity.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CORRECTION...by Vignette Corp. AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 2003 In BW5455 issued August 26, 2003, (TX-VIGNETTE) announces product enhancements, price listed under "Pricing, Packaging and Availability" subhead sub·head n. In both senses also called subheading. 1. The heading or title of a subdivision of a printed subject. 2. A subordinate heading or title. Noun 1. should read xxx $75,000 (sted $50,000). The corrected release reads: VIGNETTE ENHANCES PORTAL FUNCTIONALITY; VIGNETTE OFFERS KEY PORTAL FEATURES TO ENHANCE ENTERPRISEWIDE INFORMATION SHARING See data conferencing. AND PRODUCTIVITY Vignette Corp. (Nasdaq:VIGN VIGN Vignette Corporation (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) today announced significant enhancements to its flagship portal product, Vignette(R) Application Portal, including enhanced team collaboration functionality that enables customers to easily participate in information-sharing and persistent collaboration environments within their organizations. Part of the Vignette(R) V7 family of products, the Vignette Application Portal now includes out-of-the-box functionality that allows organizations to take advantage of interactive work spaces in portal environments for use within and between organizations. The success of Vignette's portal solutions is reflected in the July 2003 Morgan Stanley  To comply with Wikipedia's , the introduction of this article needs a complete rewrite. CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. Survey Series: Release 4.1. The report highlights Vignette as the third-most implemented portal product on the market. In the respected market overview, which includes the opinions of more than 220 CIOs at Fortune 1000 companies, Morgan Stanley places Vignette ahead of, in order of deployments, Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft Inc., SAP AG (company) SAP AG - (Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung - German for "Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing") A company from Germany that sells the leading suite of client-server business software. The US branch is called SAP America. , BEA Systems BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is one of the major companies developing enterprise infrastructure software. BEA makes middleware, products that help software run on top of databases. Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., Novell Inc., Plumtree Software Plumtree Software was founded in 1996 by product managers and engineers from Oracle and Informix. The company was headquartered in San Francisco, California. Plumtree was founded on the premise that the technology used to build the World Wide Web could support new kinds of Inc. and Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. Inc. Only IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corp. and internally developed solutions were ranked higher. The Morgan Stanley Report can be viewed at http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/ pdfs/ciosurvey0703.pdf. (Due to the length of this URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. , it may be necessary to copy and paste To copy files from one location to another or to copy text and images from one document to another. All modern operating systems and applications have a copy and paste capability that is typically selected from an Edit menu. See cut and paste and Win Copy between windows. this hyperlink into your Internet browser's URL address field.) The importance of virtual collaboration Virtual Collaboration - Two or more people collaborating together to accomplish a task without the use of face to face interaction. Examples of Virtual Collaboration include Audio Conferencing, Video Conferencing, or Computer mediated communication. continues to grow as information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. and work forces within companies become more distributed, from across the nation to around the world. Popular practices such as 24x7 product development and support make asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. , as well as real-time, collaboration all the more critical to help ensure that today's geographic realities do not create barriers to teamwork and efficiency. "Collaboration remains a priority for customers, especially as geographically dispersed work forces become the norm for many organizations," said Craig Roth, vice president at META Group. "The ability for organizations to leverage robust collaboration functionality within the portal environment is beneficial as it means fewer applications to deploy and maintain and reinforces the goal of the corporate portal An internal Web site (intranet) that provides proprietary, enterprise-wide information to company employees as well as access to selected public Web sites and vertical-market Web sites (suppliers, vendors, etc.). as the best source of information and interaction with the company." By leveraging the newest portal features in Vignette Application Portal, organizations can improve productivity and usage of portal applications through enhanced teamwork and information-sharing capabilities for employees. "The Vignette Application Portal is the technology foundation on which we have built our flagship Workrooms(tm) product, a solution that enables real-time collaboration between enterprises, and globally unites teams sharing knowledge and tools in a persistent environment," said Bud Strandquest, president at c-Solutions Group Inc. "By basing our product on Vignette Application Portal, c-Solutions Group is able to rapidly develop and implement collaborative solutions for business processes, project and program communities. The result for customers is compressed project cycle times, reduced operation and travel costs, and improved overall quality." Enhanced portal features found in the latest release of Vignette Application Portal include: -- Collaborative portal sites. Out-of-the-box capabilities, including task management and threaded discussion A running commentary of messages between two or more people in a discussion group. See message thread and discussion group. groups, help customers easily create collaborative portal sites that encourage teamwork and increased efficiency with team- and group-based work spaces. -- Document-sharing capabilities. Support for group-based document development and multiuser Two or more users. environments includes formalizing and automating check-in and checkout of documents, helping to avoid editing conflicts through file governance. -- Productivity portlets. Designed to take advantage of common workgroup solutions such as Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes, Vignette provides a variety of portlets that easily integrate with existing e-mail accounts, contact information and calendaring services. -- Enhanced searching. Real-time search results span multiple search indexes, including file systems and content uploaded to the Vignette Application Portal. -- Unified management of multiple portals and collaborative work spaces. Improved delegated administration includes an intuitive graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to that helps customers decrease ownership costs associated with multiple portal deployments. The Vignette Application Portal enables organizations to leverage content and metadata from anywhere across the organization, from file systems to content and document management systems. In addition, customers can combine the Vignette Application Portal with the Vignette(R) Application Builder and with Vignette(R) Content Management solutions to realize the benefits of an enterprise-class solution that extends the value of current IT investments and information assets. "The most recent release of the Vignette Application Portal represents Vignette's continued commitment to delivering the features and functionality to help make our customers successful," said Dave Shirk shirk In Islam, idolatry and polytheism, both of which are regarded as heretical. The Qu'ran stresses that God does not share his powers with any partner (sharik) and warns that those who believe in idols will be harshly dealt with on the Day of Judgment. , senior vice president of product strategy and marketing at Vignette. "Vignette's unique breadth of capability empowers organizations to break down barriers and deliver the most strategic use of information across the enterprise. The enhanced Vignette Application Portal functionality we announced today is another milestone for Vignette as we strive to continually improve the customer experience." Pricing, Packaging and Availability Vignette Application Portal 4.5 is available and shipping to customers. Pricing for Vignette Application Portal begins at $75,000. More information about Vignette's content management and portal solutions can be found by visiting http://www.vignette.com/ or calling 888-608-9900. About Vignette Corp. Vignette (Nasdaq:VIGN) enables enterprises to achieve real-time advantage by rapidly building, deploying and optimizing enterprise Web applications. Vignette powers the Web applications of more than 1,600 leading organizations and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. Vignette has offices located throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and in Australia, and can be found on the Web at http://www.vignette.com/. Forward-Looking Statements The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements including statements regarding the Company's expectations, beliefs, hopes, intentions or strategies regarding the future. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding Vignette's products, future sales, market growth and competition. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based upon information available to the Company as of the date hereof, and the Company assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement. Actual results could differ materially from the Company's current expectations. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, Future Losses, Limited Operating History, Fluctuation of Quarterly Revenues and Operating Results, Acquisition Integration, Competition, Dependence on a Small Number of Large Orders, Lengthy Sales Cycle and Product Implementation, Market Awareness of Our Product, Rapid Changes in Technology and New Products, and other factors and risks discussed in the Company's reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Vignette is a trademark or registered trademark of Vignette Corp. in the United States and other countries. All other names are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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