Vignette (software)

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

It was originally funded by Bob Davoli at Sigma Partners (an early stage venture capital firm). Davoli had worked with founders Ross Garber and Neil Weber when he was CEO of Epoch Systems (another Sigma company) in the early 1990s.

Vignette V7 is the latest version of the Enterprise content management product. It consists of several suites of products allowing non-technical business users to rapidly create, edit and track content through workflows, and then publish this content through Web or portal sites. The appearance of delivery applications can be controlled via templates.

Many of the largest content-rich sites on the World Wide Web run Vignette. This includes Wachovia, Time-Warner, Fox News Online, XtraMSN, Stuff.co.nz, The Guardian and the OECD. Vignette provided the technical platform for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Web site.

Vignette also provides integration solutions for ERP, CRM and legacy systems.

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.

In 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 convenience and usability.