Vignette and Deloitte Consulting Form Alliance to Deliver Joint e-Business Solutions.Business Editors/Interactive & Multimedia Writers NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of & AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2001 Leading Global Consulting Firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a and Internet Applications Provider Team to Offer Customers Comprehensive E-Business Solutions and Services; Deloitte & Touche becomes 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. Customer Vignette Corp. (Nasdaq: VIGN VIGN Vignette Corporation (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), the leading supplier of customer-driven Internet applications, and Deloitte Consulting, one of the world's leading e-Business consulting firms, today announced an alliance to jointly implement solutions based on Vignette's suite of content, integration and analysis applications. As one of their first customers under the new alliance, Deloitte & Touche, one of the world's leading professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. firms, has selected Vignette to power several of its global Web sites, including www.deloitte.com. "Our collaboration with Vignette will enable us to offer clients adaptable, modular Internet solutions that enhance the online experience for customers and partners," said Steve Pratt Steve Pratt spent most of the last decade working for the foreign aid organisation CARE Australia. Steve has worked in dangerous front-line locations like Rwanda, Cambodia, Zaire, Iraq and the former Yugoslavia, as well as in Yemen, Jordon and Kenya, managing up to 32 international , Deloitte Consulting's global leader for customer relationship management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ). "This alliance plays a key role in Deloitte Consulting's expansion of its e-Business services and underscores our goal is to provide clients with the leading technologies on the market." Details of the Deloitte Consulting and Vignette Relationship Through the alliance, e-Business professionals from Deloitte Consulting will collaborate with Vignette to deploy customer-focused Internet applications. By developing solutions based on Vignette's content, integration and analysis applications, Deloitte Consulting will help e-Business organizations manage and deliver online content, integrate e-business applications with other business systems and measure the success of e-business initiatives. "Vignette and Deloitte Consulting share a common vision of providing e-business solutions that help companies continuously innovate in·no·vate v. in·no·vat·ed, in·no·vat·ing, in·no·vates v.tr. To begin or introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time. v.intr. To begin or introduce something new. and sustain long-term relationships with customers," said Thomas E. Hogan, president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. at Vignette. "By combining the world-class professional services of Deloitte Consulting consultants with Vignette's industry-leading Internet applications, our customers will be able to quickly deploy powerful e-business solutions and begin to immediately accelerate a return on their investment." Deloitte Consulting will initially train 25 of its practitioners on Vignette(R) applications and will provide access to Vignette's software suite in Deloitte Consulting's e-Studios and Solution Centers in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Minneapolis, Toronto, Canada; Bath, U.K.; Sydney, Australia; and Auckland, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. . The consulting firm's e-Studios are an Internet-centric suite of design and development studios that can accelerate e-Business structure design and development for clients, offering services such as Website creation, interactive media content, production, copy editing Noun 1. copy editing - putting something into a form suitable for a printer editing, redaction - putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form , usability testing Usability testing is a means for measuring how well people can use some human-made object (such as a web page, a computer interface, a document, or a device) for its intended purpose, i.e. usability testing measures the usability of the object. , and site layout and architecture. Deloitte Consulting's worldwide Solution Centers provide hardware and software infrastructure for the development, testing, and deployment of e-Business solutions, so that virtual project teams that can span multiple client, solution center, and business partner sites. "We are confident that Vignette will be a vital element of the portfolio of technologies that we offer clients. By placing Vignette's applications in our e-Studios and Solution Centers we create rapid development and demonstration capabilities for clients around the world," said Jeff Farin, managing director of Deloitte Consulting's e-Business Services. Deloitte & Touche Becomes Vignette Customer Deloitte & Touche, one of the world's leading professional services firms, has already started a major project using the Vignette V/Series. The firm is rebuilding two public Web sites, www.deloitte.com and www.us.deloitte.com using Vignette's application suite, and will incorporate a content management and delivery system that will offer 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 enhanced recruiting capabilities as part of its Vignette-enhanced solution. Deloitte & Touche selected the Vignette Content Management Server because it offers premier content management and personalization capabilities in one solution from a single vendor. After launching its North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Web site, Deloitte & Touche will roll out additional Web sites around the world that incorporate Vignette applications. "Vignette's technology is so compelling that we have chosen it for our own Web sites," said Frank Friedman, Deloitte & Touche's National Managing Partner of e-Transformation. "We believe our sites will benefit from the Vignette platform and through its use can extend into other areas of the firm." About Deloitte Consulting and Deloitte & Touche Deloitte Consulting is one of the world's leading consulting firms, providing services in all aspects of enterprise transformation, from strategy and processes to information technology and human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. . The firm's professionals help our clients, from new economy start-ups to Fortune 1000 global organizations, to create, reinvent re·in·vent tr.v. re·in·vent·ed, re·in·vent·ing, re·in·vents 1. To make over completely: "She reinvented Indian cooking to fit a Western kitchen and a Western larder" and defend their business models by guiding them through the complexities of the evolving digital economy. Deloitte & Touche, one of the nation's leading professional services firms, provides assurance and advisory, tax, and management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects services through 30,000 people in more than 100 U.S. cities. The firm is dedicated to helping our clients and our people excel. Known as an employer of choice for its innovative human resources programs, Deloitte & Touche has been recognized as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" by Fortune magazine for four consecutive years. Deloitte & Touche and Deloitte Consulting are part of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Deloitte & Touche (also referred to as Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and branded as Deloitte.) is the second largest professional services firm in the world, and one of the Big Four auditors, along with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young and KPMG. , one of the world's leading professional services firms, providing world-class consulting, assurance and advisory, and tax services through nearly 90,000 people in over 130 countries to nearly one-fifth of the world's largest companies, public institutions and successful fast-growing companies. For more information, please visit Deloitte Consulting's Web site at www.dc.com and Deloitte & Touche's Web site at www.us.deloitte.com. "Deloitte Consulting" and the "Deloitte Consulting logo" are trademarks or registered trademarks of Deloitte Consulting or its affiliates. "Vignette Corporation," "Vignette," and "Vignette(R) e-Business Application Suite" are trademarks or registered trademarks of Vignette Corporation. All other product and company names and marks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only. About Vignette Corp. Vignette Corp. (Nasdaq: VIGN) is the leading provider of customer-driven Internet applications used by the most demanding and successful organizations in the world. Vignette's products allow businesses to create and extend relationships with prospects and customers, and to facilitate high-volume transaction exchanges with suppliers and partners, all of which enhances customer satisfaction. Vignette powers more than 1,250 leading e-businesses. 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 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 registered trademark of Vignette Corp. All other names are the trademarks of their respective companies. |
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