Open Text accelerates enterprise portal deployments, reduces management costs with Vignette Portal 8.0

Issued by Global Research Partners for Open Text

Johannesburg, 03 Nov 2009

Open Text Corporation, a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), today announced a new release of its leading enterprise portal solution, Vignette Portal version 8.0.

The solution allows organisations to provide customers, employees and partners with a rich Internet experience where they can find relevant and personalised information aggregated from multiple business and consumer-based systems.

As the volume of enterprise content continues to grow, IT professionals and business users are faced with the challenge of controlling costs and reducing time spent on administrative work, all while connecting with their constituents across multiple channels. Vignette Portal 8.0 simplifies the administration and creation of dynamic, content-rich Web sites with the ability to rapidly syndicate portal applications across Web properties powered by multiple systems.

"Our customers are realising that it is becoming much more complex to manage their numerous Web properties - whether internal or external," commented John Petersen, CEO of Sutro Software, an Open Text partner specialising in portal software and integrations. "Vignette Portal 8 from Open Text expands on the versatility and rich interoperability afforded a pioneer in the enterprise portal space. It helps businesses unify their Web software portfolios into sleek, easy-to-use Web sites and allows those same businesses to engage customers and partners with rich and socially-enabled Web experiences."

The release of Portal 8.0 not only demonstrates Open Text's continued commitment to Vignette customers and technology, but also enables additional social media capabilities that align with the company s strategic development of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. Open Text recently announced that it plans to enhance its ECM Suite with next-generation Web solutions powered by technology from its existing Web Solutions and Vignette. By offering a variety of solutions, the company will allow organisations - regardless of size and industry - to successfully address their business needs.

"In this digital world, content comprises the heart of business innovation, efficiency and profit," added Scott Bowen, Senior Vice-President of Open Text. "Our solutions help organisations drive value from content through the delivery of personal and relevant experiences that support revenue generation and efficiency throughout the enterprise. These proven and vital presentation services deliver substantial ROI for literally hundreds of critical business applications."

Features:

Built on proven architecture, Vignette Portal 8.0 consolidates site creation tasks while enabling high-performance content and application re-use.

With Vignette Portal 8.0, users have the ability to:
Quickly create sites
* Rapidly and easily create or clone micro-sites with accelerated Web site creation from a template or existing site.
* Streamline asset management with WebDAV support that empowers Web designers to use a native design tool, like Adobe Dreamweaver, to model sites and target assets without logging into the portal.
Dynamically syndicate content and applications
* Easily syndicate portlets or Web applications based on Vignette Portal 8.0 and drop them onto virtually any Web site for sophisticated syndication.
* Improve end-user Web experiences via AJAX-powered portlets that enable users to interact in real-time with applications and content with fewer page refreshes and improving perceived performance.

Vignette Portal 8.0, together with the user experience foundation of Vignette Community Applications, provides organisations with more than 100 social portlets that add capabilities such as wikis, blogs, idea sharing and event calendars to any portal site. Additionally, Vignette Portal 8.0 provides robust user presentation services to Vignette Content Management version 8.0 that will shortly be released. The result is an ECM solution that combines enterprise assets and social content, further integrating valuable information and resources for Web site visitors.

For further information, please contact Rob Shaw: tel +27 83 626-3811, fax +27 86 646-4178, e-mail rshaw@opentext.com.

Open Text

Open Text, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management, helps organisations manage and gain the true value of their business content. Open Text brings two decades of expertise supporting 50 million users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading content experts to help organisations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness.

In southern Africa, Open Text's business partners are Accenture, Business Connexion, Datacentrix, Lava Systems, IA Systems and SAP Africa; and, its customer base includes organisations from across both the private and public sectors such as Alexander Forbes, Anglo Platinum, BMW, Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Distell, Engen, Exxaro Resources, Mittal Steel, Office of the President, Provincial Government of the Western Cape, SABMiller, Sasol, Telkom SA and Toyota.

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