Vignette Lights up Athens 2004 Olympic Games; Olympic Committee Selects Vignette to Power the Official Site of the Next Summer Games.

Sports Editors/Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 22, 2004

Vignette Corp. (Nasdaq:VIGN) today announced that the committee organizing the Athens 2004 Olympic Games has chosen Vignette's content management and portal solution to power the event's official site, http://www.athens2004.com/. The site, which went live in less than three months, already attracts more than 12 million page views per day.

The Athens 2004 Olympic Games Web site contains a great deal of information about the schedule of events, the various athletic disciplines and the list of attending countries, as well as useful details regarding transport and accommodation facilities and a guide to the historical monuments of the city. The site also features a section devoted to children, offering games and an overview of the sports personalities and history of the Olympics. When the official inauguration of the games occurs, the site will become an indispensable information tool, containing the latest details about the events taking place or recently completed, as well as sections for recent news as well as interesting facts.

Vignette's robust and scalable platform enables the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Web site to handle a large amount of content and information and to effectively support intense peaks of traffic. This was a key requirement from the Olympic Committee because site traffic is expected to rise to 100 million page views per day while the games are being held.

Vignette's easy-to-use platform enables nontechnical personnel at the Web Division of the Athens 2004 Communications Office to quickly, efficiently and easily update the site with various types of content such as video, images and XML files. The content management, distribution and publication processes are fully automated, resulting in a more cost-efficient operating model.

"Vignette's content management solution, supporting open standards such as J2EE(tm), XML and Web services, perfectly fills the need for the kind of accessible, high-performance system required for the Olympic Games," said Gonzalo Usandizaga, vice president and general manager of Vignette EMEA.

"We are very pleased that we were able to rapidly complete this important project, which involved the Vignette(R) Professional Services' Italian and French teams collaborating with the Greek Geeks (FDS), the Greek system integrator," said Rosagrazia Bombini, regional director for Italy and Greece at Vignette. "We believe that this is only the first of several new opportunities in this region."

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