Vignette Garners Extensive Industry Praise In 2004; Customers, Products and Corporate Strategy Success Acclaimed.AUSTIN, Texas -- Vignette Corp. (Nasdaq:VIGN VIGN Vignette Corporation (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) closes the year with a look back at the significant endorsements it has received from industry leaders throughout 2004. Vignette was recognized with at least eight industry awards for its product and corporate leadership and was consistently ranked as a leader in numerous industry analyst reports. In addition, several Vignette customers were recognized for successes achieved through leveraging Vignette solutions. Award highlights include the Codie Award for Best Content Management Solution, B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business Magazine's B2B Quality Standard Award for portal solutions in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. and Transform Magazine's Product of the Year Award. Vignette also scored high rankings in Software Magazine's Software 500, KMWorld's 100 Companies that Matter, DM Review's 100 and EContent Magazine's EContent 100. Analysts consistently positioned Vignette as a leader in industry reports including two META Group METAspectrum rankings and Vignette was positioned as one of six leaders in a 2004 Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
"As a company, Vignette measures its success by the success realized by our customers, and 2004 was extremely gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. for helping our customers achieve business efficiencies with Vignette solutions," said Thomas E. Hogan, president and chief executive officer at Vignette. "On behalf of all Vignette employees, I am pleased that our endeavors have been recognized by industry leaders. We look forward to helping organizations deliver measurable business efficiencies in 2005 and beyond." 2004 Awards and Achievements --Vignette received awards for product performance and company achievements. Awards included Software Magazine's Software 500, a comprehensive ranking of software vendors; KMWorld's 100 Companies that Matter; EContent Magazine's EContent 100, "Intranets & Portals" category; DM Review's 100, a listing of the top 100 companies in the business intelligence space; B2B Magazine's B2B Quality Standard Award, "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.). " category; Transform Magazine's Product of the Year Award; and the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association, Washington, DC, www.siia.net) A trade organization devoted to the health and welfare of the software and digital content industry by providing support in government relations, business development, education and intellectual property ) 2004 Codie Award for Best Content Management Solution. --Industry analysts consistently recognized Vignette. Analyst rankings included Vignette's ranking in the leaders quadrant in Gartner's 2004 Enterprise Content Management,(a) Smart Enterprise Suite(b) and Portal Magic Quadrants.(c) According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Gartner, leaders have the highest combined measures of ability to execute and completeness of vision. In addition, Vignette achieved leader status in META Group's 2004 Web Content Management (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. ) and Web Content Management (North America) METAspectrum reports and was positioned as one of six leaders in a 2004 Forrester Research, trend report titled "Portal Vendor Landscape Shifting." Vignette also was named portal market share leader in Mexico with 18.6 percent of installed market by IDC. --Customers received recognition for their successes with Vignette solutions. Recognitions include these: Vignette customer Geisinger Health System The Geisinger Health System (GHS) is a physician-led health care system of northeastern and central Pennsylvania with headquarters located in Danville, Pennsylvania. was recognized by the Association for Information and Image Management The Association for Information and Image Management or AIIM (pronounced aim) is an international industry association focused on enterprise content management (ECM). (AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management International, Silver Spring, MD, www.aiim.org) A membership organization founded in 1943 devoted to creating industry standards and disseminating information about the document management industry. ) with the 2004 Best Practices Award for its use of Vignette(R) Integrated Document Management solutions to create a comprehensive HIPAA-compliant system. Customers Hill and Knowlton and McKesson were profiled in analyst reports by Forrester. Customer InterMountain Health Care was profiled in a 2004 Gartner report.(d) The Athens 2004 Olympics Web site was praised, including CRN CRN Computer Reseller News CRN Crown CRN Council for Responsible Nutrition CRN Crane CRN Community Recycling Network CRN Course Reference Number CRN Center for Responsible Nanotechnology CRN Cornish (SIL code, UK) noting that Vignette partner Greek Geeks may have "scored a perfect 10" in "the contest for building high-availability Web sites," utilizing Vignette products to manage the more than 51 million daily page views and thousands of score tables, files and athletic biographies on the http://www.athens2004.com site. --The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded two patents to Vignette. Vignette received two patents: Method and System for Optimizing Resources for Cache Management, which provides an improved cache management system that enables Vignette customers to gain more efficient use of their existing technology investment and enhanced performance as a result of the patented technology; and Method and System for Managing Message Pacing, which permits Vignette customers to manage interactions on multiple communication channels with both internal and external audiences. In addition, Vignette received positive coverage in influential trade media. Commenting on the Vignette Application Portal in a May story, InfoWorld noted, "Vignette Application Portal 7.0 is based on open standards, which allow standardized custom portlet A small window on a portal page. Portlet technology allows a portal page to be customized more quickly either internally by the development team or by the end user. Portlet technology can come as an adjunct to a portal server or as optional interfaces to ERP applications. development as well as portals that run across heterogeneous technology platforms. Yet the product doesn't require an expert technology background to perform most administration tasks, reducing the time required to launch portals and saving ongoing maintenance costs," adding, "Portal administration with Vignette is superb." In April, Network Computing noted, "Vignette Application Portal includes an impressive set of preintegrated portlets. The company's experience as a stand-alone portal vendor and as a document-management vendor has helped it create a product that lets you deploy and create a functional portal with full collaboration, productivity and content-management features in a matter of hours." Most recently, Vignette Business Collaboration Server was included in Network Computing's comprehensive review of software for Web-based collaborative workspaces. The article notes that Vignette Business Collaboration Server "provides full-featured workspaces at a good price," noting that its "tight integration with e-mail and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) A protocol used to access a directory listing. LDAP support is implemented in Web browsers and e-mail programs, which can query an LDAP-compliant directory. and support for WebDAV make it an easy fit in any enterprise." Reviewers also found that the product provided users with the "best use of e-mail of any product in our roundup." About Vignette Corp. Vignette's software and expertise help organizations harness the power of information and the Web for measurable improvements in business efficiency. As the efficiency experts, Vignette (Nasdaq:VIGN) helps organizations increase productivity, reduce costs, improve user experiences and manage risk. Vignette's intranet, extranet and Internet solutions incorporate portal, integration, enterprise content management and collaboration capabilities that can rapidly deliver unique advantages through an open, scalable and adaptable architecture that integrates with legacy systems. Vignette is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with local operations worldwide. Visit http://www.vignette.com to see how Vignette customers achieve measurable improvements in business efficiency and to find out why more companies prefer Vignette. (a) "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, 2004," K. Shegda, et al., October 2004 (b) "Magic Quadrant for the Smart Enterprise Suite, 2004," G. Phifer, et al., May 17, 2004 (c) "Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products, 2004," G. Phifer, et al., March 30, 2004 (d) "IHC IHC Immunohistochemistry IHC Intermountain Health Care IHC Inner Hair Cells IHC International Harvester Company IHC Internet Healthcare Coalition IHC Indian Head Cent IHC Interactive Health Communication IHC International Hurricane Center Uses an SES to Bring Order to a Chaotic Intranet," G. Phifer, May 13, 2004 The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2004 by Gartner Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability mer·chant·a·ble adj. Suitable for buying and selling; marketable. mer  chant·a·bil or fitness for a particular purpose. According to Gartner, leaders have the highest combined measures of ability to execute and completeness of vision. FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS This release may contain forward-looking statements, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. 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