Generali Selects Vignette as Part of Global Content Management Strategy to Increase Customer Satisfaction and Productivity.Business Editors; High-Tech & Insurance Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 2002 Italy's Largest Insurance Company Uses 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. to Deliver More Effective Online Relationships With Customers and Employees Vignette Corp. (Nasdaq:VIGN VIGN Vignette Corporation (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) today announced that Assicurazioni Generali Assicurazioni Generali S.P.A. is the largest insurance company of Italy.[1] It is headquartered in Trieste. Under the name of Imperial Regia Privilegiata Compagnia di Assicurazioni Generali Austro-Italiche, the company was founded on December 26, 1831. Group has selected Vignette as the standard for its global content management requirements across the group. As part of the initial projects being deployed, the company will use Vignette(R) V6 Standard Edition and Vignette V6 Multisite Content Manager (VMCM VMCM Venous Malformations, Multiple Cutaneous and Mucosal VMCM Vector Measuring Current Meter ) to enable INA/ASSITALIA, a Generali Life division, to deliver personalized information to its customers. Vignette content management applications also will be used to support the Asset Management intranet for the Generali Group worldwide, allowing asset managers to deliver more accurate, real-time information to users internationally. "Vignette was selected by Generali as the standard for content management worldwide. No other content management solution offered us the amount of scalability, reliability and ease of use that is integrated into the Vignette solution. Thorough proofs of concept run in our two major IT centers, in Italy and Germany, allowed us to confirm Vignette's superior capabilities," said Marco Forneris, chief information officer at Generali Group. Vignette V6 will enable internal content owners at Generali to easily publish, manage and analyze financial information on the company's intranet, using familiar tools. This ensures a better user experience, so employees will have access to the most current and comprehensive data in a timely manner. "Vignette provides tremendous value in automating the creation and maintenance of content. Employees can directly publish information, without having to rely on IT professionals. This results in important productivity gains, with more accurate and timely delivery of crucial information to our customers," Forneris said. VMCM will be deployed as the portal framework across the group to lower costs and enable faster time to market and easier management across all the Generali Web initiatives including Internet, intranet and extranet sites worldwide. The integration capabilities of Vignette V6 decrease the number of standards needed to be managed and reduce operational costs. "Vignette V6 plays an instrumental role in aligning our Web initiatives with our business goals to federate fed·er·ate v. fed·er·at·ed, fed·er·at·ing, fed·er·ates v.tr. To cause to join into a league, federal union, or similar association. v.intr. To become united into a federal union. and standardize our IT systems worldwide, while reducing operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales and improving productivity," Forneris said. "We are able to partner with one leading vendor to manage the entire content lifecycle, lowering our total cost of ownership." Working closely with IBM Global Services IBM Global Services is the world's largest business and technology services provider. It is the fastest growing part of IBM, with over 190,000 professionals serving customers in more than 160 countries. , Vignette Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. teamed with Generali to develop a comprehensive content management strategy, aligning it with business and technology goals for the corporate and intranet site deployments. In addition to Vignette V6 Standard Edition, Generali is using 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) hardware and IBM software to power its Web sites. "Ranked No. 46 on the Fortune Global 500, Generali required a content management solution that could serve all of its internal and external audiences globally while allowing it to maintain a consistent brand presence," said Tim Wort wort 1 n. A plant. Often used in combination: liverwort; milkwort. [Middle English, from Old English wyrt; see , vice president and general manager of Europe, the Middle East and Africa Europe, the Middle East and Africa, usually abbreviated to EMEA, is a regional designation used for government, marketing and business purposes. It is particularly common amongst North American based companies, who often divide their international operations into the (EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. ) at Vignette. "Generali's vision for leveraging the Internet to increase efficiencies and improve profitability by personalizing the customer experience is one that Vignette's technology is uniquely capable of supporting." About Vignette Corp. Vignette (Nasdaq:VIGN) is the leading provider of integrated content management applications used by the most successful organizations in the world to interact online with their customers, employees and partners. By combining content management with integration and analysis applications, Vignette enables organizations to deliver personalized information wherever it is needed, integrate online and enterprise systems, and provide real-time analysis of the customer experience. Vignette powers more than 1,400 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 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. 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 Generali's success with Vignette software and 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, Competition, Dependence on a Small Number of Large Orders, Lengthy Sales Cycle and Product Implementation, Acquisition Integration, Market Awareness of Our Product, Rapid Changes in E-Relationships Technology and New Products, and other factors and risks discussed in the Company's 10K, as amended and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and any 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 United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and foreign countries. 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