IBM and Vignette Alliance Sees Enterprise Customer Success

📅 June 14, 2001 - Vignette Corp. (vignette.com), a provider of customer-driven Internet applications, and IBM Corp. announced Thursday that as part of their global strategic alliance they are implementing solutions for more than 25 Fortune 1,000 customers, including New York Life; Bank of Montreal; Nationwide Retirement Solutions, a Nationwide Financial Company; Fidelity Investments; Avnet Inc.; Caterpillar Inc.; and UBS PaineWebber Inc.

IBM also announced it has chosen Vignette applications to manage Web content for several of IBM's branded Web sites. The Web sites, for IBM PartnerWorld, PartnerWorld for Developers, developerWorks and AlphaWorks receive more than 10 million page views per month, placing them among the most highly visited IBM sites for partners and developers.
These Web sites will showcase Vignette and IBM technologies working together, including WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Site Analyzer, WebSphere Studio and DB2 Universal Database running on AIX on eServer pSeries.
?Vignette is pleased that IBM selected Vignette applications to power its Web operations,? said Thomas E. Hogan, president and chief operating officer at Vignette. ?With Vignette's innovative applications and IBM's industry-leading e-infrastructure, we now can jointly offer customers the best and most complete management and business applications for building successful and lasting customer relationships through the Internet.?
In addition, Vignette is optimizing its support for the Java 2 Enterprise Edition standard in its content management, integration and analysis applications for IBM's WebSphere e-infrastructure software, including the industry-leading WebSphere Application Server. Vignette's flagship software will be available on IBM's industry leading AIX platform and will support IBM DB2 version 7.X.
By providing support for the J2EE platform, Vignette and IBM are enabling customers to further decrease difficulty associated with developing e-business Web sites. Vignette's new applications also provide customers with cross-platform capabilities and access to more than 2 million corporate IT developers trained on Java technologies.
IBM Global Services will further expand its worldwide knowledge management and content management services practice of more than 500 IT professionals and will focus on Vignette applications training. Prospective customers can visit IBM's Business Innovation Centers that support Vignette's content, integration and analysis applications. IBM experts on Vignette products will help customers identify, build, integrate and deploy solutions that meet their specific business needs.

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