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Vignette Corporation
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Company type	Public;
Industry	content management, portal, collaboration, document management, and records management
Founded	1995, Sigma Partners
Headquarters	Austin, Texas (registered)
Key people	Mike Aviles , Chief Executive Officer
Number of employees	about 670 (2008)
Website	www.vignette.com

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Vignette is a suite of content management, portal, collaboration, document management, and records management software developed by the Vignette Corporation, headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Vignette's Web Experience Platform consists of several suites of products allowing non-technical business users to create, edit and track content through workflows and publish this content through Web or portal sites.

Many large, content-rich sites on the World Wide Web run Vignette, including Disney, Marriot, Wachovia, Martha Stewart, Fox News Digital and BSkyB. Vignette provided the technical platform for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Web site.

Recently, NASA credited Vignette Portal as a "key tool the team uses in-house to keep the content organized."^[1] Vignette is widely recognized for its ability to handle large, highly customized Web sites. Vignette also provides integration solutions for ERP, CRM and legacy systems. The company holds more than 40 U.S. patents.^[2]

The Vignette platforms provide support for Java EE and .NET. For the former, the JSR 168 specification is implemented. Sites running versions of Vignette software prior to V7 are generally easy to identify by the format of their story URLs, which are mostly numeric strings with several commas as separators.

History

In 1995 Ross Garber and Neil Webber started Vignette with the goal of making web publishing easier and more personalized. The company was funded by Bob Davoli at Sigma Partners (an early-stage venture capital firm). Davoli had worked with founders Ross Garber and Neil Webber when he was CEO of Epoch Systems (another Sigma company) in the early 1990s.

Early in its history, Vignette had problems coming up with working technology. CNET had a similar technology called Prism that it used on its site. CNET, which wanted a third-party to commercialize the product, decided to spin the technology off to Vignette, which merged Prism with its existing product and released Story Server. CNET also invested $500,000, for a 33% stake in Vignette, and helped the company raise $27.8 million from VC firms that included Austin Ventures, Charles River Ventures and Adobe Ventures. ^[3]

In the 1990's Vignette's IDE and API were superior to traditional CGI/vi/Perl web development and gained much popularity and customer base because of its convenience and usability. In 1998, after barely three years of being in business, Vignette had already signed up 130 customers.

The company made several key acquisitions over the years including the acquisition of e-business application vendor OnDisplay for $1.4B in 2000^[4], enterprise portal software vendor Epicentric for $32M in 2003^[5], CMS vendor Instraspect for $20M in 2003^[6], Tower Technology, an Australian-based provider of enterprise document and records management solutions, in 2004 for $125M^[7] and Vidavee, a SaaS-based Web video publishing company in 2008.^[8]

Products

Vignette Content Management

Vignette Content Management helps organizations create and manage content for enterprise Internet, extranet or intranet applications. It is designed for Web content creators, contributors and administrators in IT and marketing departments. Vignette Content Management's predecessor, StoryServer is widely considered the very first Web content management system.

Vignette Portal

Vignette Portal enables organizations to quickly build and deliver highly customizable Web applications that support customers, employees and partners. Vignette Portal is integrated tightly with Vignette Content Management. The Portal is built primarily upon the Epicentric Foundation Server, which Vignette acquired in 2003.

Vignette Collaboration

Vignette Collaboration provides organizations the ability to improve productivity and more efficiently direct business processes that require interaction across disparate geographic and organizational boundaries.

Vignette Community

Released in 2008, Vignette Community helps organizations add social computing applications such as blogs, wikis, ratings and forums to their Web sites.

Vignette Video

Released in 2008 following the acquisition and integration of Vidavee, Vignette Video is a hosted video management solution that provides capabilities to upload, transcode, manage and deliver video. The new product also includes a Flash-based media player that allows users to tag and share any segment of a video.

Acquisitions

OnDisplay (2000)
Intraspect (2002)
Epicentric (2003)
Tower Technology (2004)
Vidavee (2008)

References

External links

[1] CIO Magazine article

[2] U.S. Patent Office

[3] Forbes Article

[4] Infoworld Article

[5] Internet News Article

[6] ZDNet Article

[7] CRMToday Article

[8] CMSWire article

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-'''Vignette''' is a suite of [[Content management]], [[web portal|portal]], [[collaboration]], [[document management]], and [[records management]] software developed by the Vignette Corporation, headquartered in [[Austin, Texas]].
+'''Vignette''' is a suite of [[content management]], [[web portal|portal]], [[collaboration]], [[document management]], and [[records management]] software developed by the Vignette Corporation, headquartered in [[Austin, Texas]].
 Vignette's Web Experience Platform consists of several suites of products allowing non-technical business users to create, edit and track content through workflows and publish this content through Web or portal sites.
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 ==Products==
-===Vignette Content Management===
+== Vignette Content Management ==
-Vignette Content Management helps organizations create and manage content for enterprise Internet, extranet or intranet applications. It is designed for Web content creators, contributors and administrators in IT and marketing departments. VCM's predecessor, [[StoryServer]] is widely considered the very first Web content management system.
+Vignette Content Management helps organizations create and manage content for enterprise Internet, extranet or intranet applications. It is designed for Web content creators, contributors and administrators in IT and marketing departments. Vignette Content Management's predecessor, [[StoryServer]] is widely considered the very first Web content management system.
-===Vignette Application Portal===
+== Vignette Portal ==
+Vignette Portal enables organizations to quickly build and deliver highly customizable Web applications that support customers, employees and partners. Vignette Portal is integrated tightly with Vignette Content Management. The Portal is built primarily upon the Epicentric Foundation Server, which Vignette acquired in 2003.
-It's well-established that portals are effective vehicles for personalizing Web content and directing applications and application outputs to target groups and individuals. In their most active form, portals can also be used to build mashups, encourage communities of interests, share team projects and foster collaboration inside and outside the organization. Vignette Application Portal can be easily integrated with Vignette Content Management System as well as other content management systems.
-===Vignette Collaboration===
+== Vignette Collaboration ==
+Vignette Collaboration provides organizations the ability to improve productivity and more efficiently direct business processes that require interaction across disparate geographic and organizational boundaries.
-First-generation end-user collaboration technologies like blogs, wikis and forums, for all of their crudeness and limitations, have demonstrated the appetite the public has for online community and participation. As organizations evolve their responses to these appetites, the limitations of first-generation technologies become obvious very quickly.
+== Vignette Community ==
-===Records and Document Management===
+Released in 2008, Vignette Community helps organizations add social computing applications such as [[blogs]], [[wikis]], [[ratings]] and [[forums]] to their Web sites.
-* Vignette Images and Documents Management (IDM)
-* Vignette Records and Document (VRD)
-===Vignette Portal Solutions===
+== Vignette Video ==
-The software enables businesses to build numerous Web sites and applications, all with the same set of tools. Combined with Vignette's Web site authoring tools, the software is designed to help companies set up Web pages and create information delivered through them. The Vignette Portal Suite is build primarily upon the [[Epicentric]] Foundation Server, which they acquired in 2003.
+Released in 2008 following the acquisition and integration of Vidavee, Vignette Video is a hosted video management solution that provides capabilities to upload, transcode, manage and deliver video. The new product also includes a [[Flash]]-based media player that allows users to tag and share any segment of a video.
 ==Acquisitions==