Vignette Announces Organizational Compliance and Governance Solutions

Vignette today announced a series of technology solutions to help companies meet organizational compliance challenges, including records and document management, process controls and business productivity applications. Building on the strong records and document management technologies acquired with TOWER Technology Pty Ltd., Vignette now provides a series of solutions that, together or individually, can help organizations more efficiently meet the rigorous audit and reporting requirements of regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Financial Services Authority and the Securities and Exchange Commission, while providing the data security and accessibility required by regulations and guidelines such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

With compliance widely acknowledged as a top priority for organizations across the globe, Vignette enables customers to implement solutions that easily capture and manage high volumes of documents, online transactions, records and media assets, scaling to the needs of even the largest organizations. Vignette capabilities also allow organizations to automate verification of employee attestation of business processes, and to generate reporting dashboards to give officers and executives compliance information and peace of mind.

Although the compliance focus is internal control, companies should recognize the significant opportunity to make the financial business processes and systems both more consistent across the enterprise and more efficient. By adopting a broader view that encompasses consistency and efficiency in addition to compliance, companies can realize a significant business benefit that will, in many cases, offset the cost of compliance, noted Forrester Research Inc. in a Sept. 25, 2003, report titled “Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Look Internally for IT Building Blocks.”

Vignette(R) Compliance and Corporate Governance solutions are designed to help organizations meet government regulations to avoid sanctions or penalties while enhancing overall business efficiency. Vignette's long-standing leadership position in its support for industry standards makes Vignette Compliance and Corporate Governance solutions well suited for deploying and expanding initiatives in both homogeneous and heterogeneous IT environments.

Vignette will join with partners to offer six compliance and corporate governance solutions that are optimized to help organizations worldwide meet a variety of needs, including these:

— Attestation for Sarbanes Oxley. Event-driven communication helps ensure consistency and reliability that enables organizations to quickly implement processes and controls. The solution manages and stores individual guarantees of adherence to business processes for audit purposes.

— E-Mail Capture for Compliance and Risk Management. This solution enables organizations to capture, retain and dispose of records of e-mail communications automatically. The technology includes the ability to trigger business processes to follow up on potential policy violations.

— Comprehensive, Enterprise-Grade Records Management. Vignette provides a comprehensive framework for managing and securing documents from creation and capture through management, delivery and ultimate disposition. Vignette's records management capabilities also provide audit trails so organizations can reproduce records and access histories on demand.

— Capture Solution for Risk Management and Auditability of Web Transactions. Organizations can capture and store records of Web transactions and communications and can automatically enforce rules for document retention and disposition.

— Collaboration for Structured Filing Requirements and SEC Reporting. This Vignette solution offers flexible, secure workspaces for collaboration on filing and reporting documents. The workspace captures audit trails and records of collaborations for long-term retention and retrieval.

— Dashboard for Managing Content and Compliance Processes. Organizations can aggregate and manage cross-application and cross-functional content and business processes that route information for review and approval. This solution captures audit trails and publishes information as required by law.

Vignette Announces Organizational Compliance and Governance Solutions

Vignette today announced a series of technology solutions to help companies meet organizational compliance challenges, including records and document management, process controls and business productivity applications. Building on the strong records and document management technologies acquired with TOWER Technology Pty Ltd., Vignette now provides a series of solutions that, together or individually, can help organizations more efficiently meet the rigorous audit and reporting requirements of regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Financial Services Authority and the Securities and Exchange Commission, while providing the data security and accessibility required by regulations and guidelines such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). \n\n

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