Convergent Group, Vignette Corp. Join Forces to Offer Utility, Government eBusiness Solutions; Partnership Adds Web Content Management to Business Transformation Solutions.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 2000 Convergent Group, a leader in business transformation for utilities and local government, and Vignette Vignette A symbol or pictorial representation of the corporation on a stock certificate. Usually a complicated and artistic design, it is meant to make the counterfeiting of stock certificates as difficult as possible. Corporation (Nasdaq:VIGN VIGN Vignette Corporation (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), a leading supplier of eBusiness applications for building online businesses, today announced an alliance to integrate the Vignette(TM) V/Series(TM) E-business Platform into Convergent Group's Digital Utility(SM) and Government Gateway(SM) solutions. Vignette's products enable businesses to create and extend relationships with prospects and customers via the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the , and ease high-volume transaction exchanges with suppliers and partners, all of which enhance customer satisfaction and profitability. The Government Gateway is Convergent Group's blueprint blueprint, white-on-blue photographic print, commonly of a working drawing used during building or manufacturing. The plan is first drawn to scale on a special paper or tracing cloth through which light can penetrate. for eGovernment solutions, while the Digital Utility provides the framework, technology tools and services for transforming utilities into digital enterprises. They combine leading edge technology for front- and back-office applications with "best-in-class" utility energy delivery solutions and government technology solutions encompassing land development, land records management, public works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. , civic affairs, education and public safety. Vignette software will enable Convergent Group to deploy a scalable, personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. information portal experience for its utility and government clients. The Vignette V/5 E-business Platform provides an enterprise-ready architectural foundation that powers many of the largest and most successful eBusiness applications today. It provides a modular and reusable re·use tr.v. re·used, re·us·ing, re·us·es To use again, especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing. re·us eBusiness applications framework that helps enterprises respond and adapt quickly to changing market demands, leveraging existing IT investment in open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced , component models, technical skills, and best practices. The V/5 E-business Platform provides a scalable, reliable, and high-performance foundation for delivering content, profiling, and managing interactions across multiple communication channels such as the Web, pagers, mobile phones, and email. This, in turn, enables personalization Custom tailoring information to the individual. On the Web, personalization means returning a page that has been customized for the user, taking into consideration that person's habits and preferences. and other dynamic content applications. "Vignette's software products have tremendous appeal to organizations who want to transform from business as usual to businesses that will thrive and excel in the digital economy. Key to our selection of Vignette was the ability of the company's product set to integrate to the critical back-end systems, existing e-commerce applications, as well as other third-party best-of-breed tools," said Greg Courniotes, Convergent Group executive vice president. About Convergent Group Convergent Group Corporation is a provider of consulting, software engineering, systems integration and project management services that enable its utility and local government clients to implement Internet-based business solutions, also known as eBusiness solutions. These solutions enable Convergent Group's clients to transform their organizations into digital business environments that integrate data from various isolated sources to create a single, Web-based point of entry through which internal decision-makers, business partners, suppliers, customers and constituents can access business information on a real-time basis. By combining its use of existing and emerging digital technologies with Convergent Group's expertise in the utility and local government sectors, the firm is able to help its clients increase revenues, reduce costs, improve customer services, ensure service reliability, improve resource management and exploit their information assets. The company headquarters are located at 6399 South Fiddler's Green For other uses, see . Fiddler's Green is the happy land imagined by sailors where there is perpetual mirth, a fiddle that never stops playing and dancers who never tire. Circle, Suite 600, Englewood, Colorado Englewood is a city in Arapahoe County, Colorado, USA. As of 2005, the city is estimated to have a total population of 32,350.[5] It is part of the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area. 80111. The company has offices in Denver, Boston, Brisbane and London (www.convergentgroup.com). About Vignette Corporation Vignette Corporation (Nasdaq:VIGN) is the leading supplier of eBusiness applications for building online businesses. Vignette's products enable Internet businesses to create and extend relationships with prospects and customers and ease high-volume transaction exchanges with suppliers and partners, all of which enhances customer satisfaction. Vignette powers more than 600 leading eBusinesses. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Vignette Corporation has offices located throughout Europe, Asia, and in Australia and can be found on the Web at http://www.vignette.com. This release may contain forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995, which involve risks and uncertainties. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are economic, competitive and technological factors affecting the company's operations, markets, products, services and prices, as well as other factors detailed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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