AUSTIN, Texas - June 10, 2003 - Vignette Corp. today announced a continuation of its long-standing support of industry standards by delivering support for J2EE, Web Services and XML technologies across its content management and portal product lines. A leading proponent of open standards, Vignette is the first content management and portal vendor to drive innovation and usage of Web services within enterprise Web applications, helping customers reduce the complexity and cost of sharing information and content across and between organizations.
"Vignette's support for industry standards is based on real customer needs to integrate information and processes across the enterprise. By embracing industry standards organizations can significantly lower total cost of ownership and make an immediate impact on today's business challenges," says Michael Maziarka, director at business communications analyst firm CAP Ventures, Inc. "Organizations today want to competitively differentiate themselves through faster, more accurate delivery of information to customers, partners and employees. Efficient and effective enterprise business communication requires an application architecture based on defined and adopted industry standards. Vignette has kept these requirements in mind and is delivering solutions that can help organizations realize the true benefits of a standards-based infrastructure."
The Vignette V7 family of products includes comprehensive support for industry standards today, including:
a.. Use of XML throughout the entire content management, portal and integration product lines, as well as in the extensible Vignette V7 architecture of
b.. Use of Web Services for information and application integration, including support for Web Services Description Language (WSDL). Web Services are also leveraged as a service for the development and delivery of composite applications.
c.. Native support of J2EE throughout the Vignette V7 portfolio of content management, portal and integration products, including JMS for messaging and guarantied delivery- a capability unique in the industry today.
d.. Vignette continues to work with others in the development of industry standards, including:
e.. Vignette collaborates with other industry leaders such as IBM and within the standards organization OASIS to drive the definition of Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP). Due to be formalized in 2003, this industry standard will define a set of XML vocabularies and Web services interfaces that allow third party application vendors to deliver Web applications though multiple channels, including enterprise portals.
f.. Vignette is providing its technical expertise to the Java Specification Requirements (JSR) process, in a concerted effort to define a Java-based standard of portlet interoperability, known as JSR-168 and bi-directional access for content through JSR 170.
g.. Vignette continues its longstanding commitment to support established industry standards including .NET, SOAP, Java, XML, JDBC, WML, LDAP and JNDI.
"Vignette is the one of the few of content management and portal vendors to deliver comprehensive support for industry standards. Our impressive track record of collaborating with industry leaders to support and define important new technologies has resulted in our ability to bring real value to customers," said Conleth O'Connell, chief technology officer at Vignette. "By enabling organizations to build Web applications leveraging published industry standards, Vignette is further driving down customer risk and promoting the inherent flexibility and value offered by standards such as Java, .NET, XML and the Web Services protocols. Looking forward we are working on adding support for JSR 168, JSR 170, and WSRP to the Vignette product line."
About Vignette Corp.
Vignette (Nasdaq: VIGN) enables enterprises to achieve real-time advantage by rapidly building, deploying and optimizing enterprise Web applications. Vignette powers the Web applications of more than 1,600 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/.