Vignette Application Portal, part of Vignette’s V7 family of content management products, now offers what the company called out-of-the-box team collaboration capabilities to create interactive workspaces, or Workrooms according to Vignette, in their portals for information sharing.
The company’s portal is based on technology inherited from its acquisition of Epicentric Inc, with the foundation built on Epicentric’s former Foundation Server.
The new collaborative functions we’re announcing today are built on Foundation Server’s Content Access Manager [CAM] module, Leif Pedersen, vice president at Vignette told Computerwire.
We’ve established an entire collaboration environment around CAM, providing a portfolio of applications that sit on top of it.
Collaboration services available include task management, threaded discussion groups, team-based work spaces, document sharing, search and retrieval, and productivity portlets that integrate with e-mail messaging systems and calendaring services.
The collaboration functions we’ve released are a redefinition of stuff that’s been inherent in portal architectures for some time. But this functionality – even the basic ability to share documents and ideas – is now being seen in a much bigger context related to the needs of ad hoc collaboration, Pedersen said.
Vignette sees increasing demand for real-time collaboration, and hopes to find a niche for its collaborative portal in knowledge-intensive applications such as product development/engineering, sales automation, healthcare compliance, and e-learning.
The company was recently named as the third-most implemented portal product in a July Morgan Stanley CIO survey – bettered only by IBM Corp and in-house developed portals.
Pricing for Vignette Application Portal starts at $50,000.
Source: Computerwire
