Vignette News & Articles

Looking for a platform solution to deliver a superior online experience for your customers? Well aren’t we all?? Enterprise Content Management Provider Vignette has announced their new Web Experience Platform designed just for this purpose.

Let’s take a peek and see what’s in their solution offering…

There are now three different versions of the Movable Type Publishing Platform: Commercial, Open Source and Personal. And with the newest version of Movable Type in Beta, release v4.1, there’s and interesting change of orientation deep down in the product’s core.

Vignette has secured three US patents for core elements of its Web CMS and collaboration suite.

The news caps a busy twelve months for its developers, which launched a marquee new product in Vignette Digital Services Hub, before posting disappointing Q3 financial results, then bounced back with the launch of a well-received new version of Vignette Content Management.

Programming and software development is a thankless task, and you need all the help you can get, right?

Rubbish. You get paid a fortune and can stroll in at midday in a ZZ Top beard and pyjamas, and nobody in a suit ever talks to you because they have no idea what you actually do.

What the suits should do, of course, is ship you all off to a military barber for a #1, and then off to Qatar for six weeks of basic military training. That’d take the wind out of your sails. And while you’re at it, stop off in Hong Kong on the way back for some tailored suits. It wouldn’t kill you to look respectable once in a while.

Life is far too easy for you developers. Unfortunately, if you are in the business of coding for the Vignette suite of Enterprise CMS (and other) products, it’s just gotten even easier.

Once the domain of niche players and home grown applications, established CMS vendors are moving into the realm of rich media asset management. One such well-known provider, Vignette, makes a play with the announcement of its Rich Media Services add-on module.

Vignette has seen better days. This period the company’s Q3 revenues are expected to fall 10 percent (between US$ 42 million and US$ 44 million), a significant disparity from the US$ 46 million to US$ 50 million it forecast in July.

But life was good over the summer. Vignette had just built a hub of multimedia services. Tides are notably quick to turn.

CEO Mike Aviles explains part of Vignette’s current problem can be attributed to sub-par licensing revenue this quarter.

But a tough Q3 hasn’t stopped Vignette from powering forward. The company just announced the availability of a fresh version of Vignette Content Management.

This is the third and final article in our series on migrating content from a previous version of Vignette to Vignette V7. The first article in the series painted the broad overview and in the last article we talked in detail about the Content Analysis part of the process. Now, we continue by digging into the final planning phase: Defining the Migration Approach.

When we left off from part one in this series, we mentioned that there are four steps involved in the content life cycle migration process — analyzing the content, deciding on a migration approach, the actual migration and post-migration processing. Here in part two, we go into detail on the Content Analysis step.

Vignette revamped its Web Content Management technology with version V7 to adopt industry standards J2EE, XML and Web Services. While this move helped customers lower total cost of ownership by leveraging open standards and application server services, it posed new challenges in migrating existing sites running on earlier versions V5/V6.

V7 introduced an entirely new architecture, making V6 implementations almost obsolete. Customers going for the V7 platform have to model, design and rebuild the site.

Along with re-engineering the site, one of the most critical tasks in V7 migration is to rebuild the content into new V7 server from an old story server. As re-creating the whole site content is quite a tedious task, customers might wonder if there is any way out.

As we previously covered this past April Google’s been working away on a PowerPoint killer, which as of today has been launched.

Even if its not actually much of a PowerPoint killer yet, there are some spiffy aspects to it — namely the Audience feature, Revisions and Sharing for starters. And as the feature set builds-out to cover for things like the total absence of any drawing capabilities, it will surely and incrementally sport away some of the MS Office faithful.

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Vignette, the firm responsible for refining Web Content Management for some of the world’s largest organizations, has announced the availability of the Vignette Digital Services Hub, a new technology aimed to tame the management and distribution of rich multimedia.

In response to the twin concerns of business process efficiency and business records compliance, HP is teaming up with Vignette to deliver what they are calling the most complete Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solution available today.

As the desire to use Web 2.0 technologies moves inside the enterprise, content management system providers are scrambling to build solutions to meet the new demand.

Vignette is the latest to fall in line, with the release of a new version of their collaboration platform. Creatively dubbed Vignette Collaboration, the latest release promises everything that people think of when they think of Web 2.0 — online communities, simple knowledge management, user generated content and social networking.

Vignette, another yet un-acquired provider of Enterprise CMS solutions, has announced a strategic relationship with Microsoft to deliver media solutions on the Microsoft platform. They’re delivering rich media — video, audio, flash, VOIP, and more — to any Internet-enabled device including Windows-based PCs, Windows Mobile, set-top boxes and the XBox 360 console. Right to your home, here comes Microsoft rich media via Vignette.