In addition, IBM today announced it has chosen Vignette® applications to manage Web content for several of IBM’s branded Web sites. These 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 trafficked 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 mission-critical 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(tm) 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 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 — the world’s fastest growing database software — demonstrating the companies’ commitment to offering a broad and deep solution for enterprise customers.
The alliance between IBM and Vignette has proven successful for both companies, said Bob Timpson, general manager for Developer Relations at IBM. Vignette’s support for IBM’s WebSphere, DB2 and HTTP Server on AIX will allow us to serve a new range of customers and showcases the growing synergies between Vignette and IBM technology.
By providing support for the J2EE platform, Vignette and IBM are enabling customers to further decrease the cost, risk and time 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.
Vignette’s technology offers deep support for the J2EE standard. Combined with WebSphere’s JSP servlet engine technology and J2EE-compliant platform running on IBM AIX on the pSeries and xSeries eServers, these powerful solutions will offer companies an unrivaled foundation on which to build all their online business needs. Together, IBM and Vignette supply leading companies with e-business solutions that increase market share, reduce deployment times and provide the infrastructure for each stage of e-business development.
Vignette will continue to extensively leverage the WebSphere family, adding the necessary applications that enable businesses to create and extend relationships with prospects and customers and ease high-volume transaction exchanges with suppliers and partners on the Web, which ultimately increases customer satisfaction.
In addition, 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.
