PricewaterhouseCoopers and Vignette Form Strategic Global E-Business and Customer Relationship Management Alliance to Help Clients Build Dynamic Online Businesses.

About PricewaterhouseCoopers

The Management Consulting Services practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers helps clients maximize their business performance by integrating strategic change, performance improvement and technology solutions. Through a worldwide network of skills and resources, consultants manage complex projects with global capabilities and local knowledge, from strategy through implementation. PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwcglobal.com) is the world's leading professional services organization. Drawing on the knowledge and skills of 150,000 people in 150 countries, we help our clients solve complex business problems and measurably enhance their abi solutions for companies that are building businesses online. More than 290 global companies, including First Union National Bank, U S West, National Semiconductor, DaimlerChrysler, Nokia, Qualcomm, CNET, Bertelsmann and Ziff-Davis' ZDNet, use Vignette solutions as part of their online strategy. Vignette has won numerous industry awards includgnette spearheaded the Information & Content Exchange (ICE) initiative with more than 80 other member companies including Microsoft, National Semiconductor and Sun Microsystems. Based on the Extensible Markup Language (XML), ICE 1.0 is the world's first protocol to enable content syndication. Vignette's product line includes Vignette StoryServer(TM) 4, Vignette Development Center(TM) (VDC(TM)), Multi-Channel Server and Vignette Syndication Server(TM) (VSS(TM)), the world's first ICE-compatible product. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Vignette Corporation also has offices located throughout Europe and in Australia and can be found on the Web at http://www.vignette.com.

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