To provide its members with a dynamic online experience, ChainDrugStore.net selected Vignette technology because it offers strong personalization capabilities, an infrastructure for integrating with external data sources, and support of multiple delivery channels. Eventually, ChainDrugStore.net will evolve and grow its member services by using analytic and trend analysis capabilities provided by the Vignette platform.
The core business of ChainDrugStore.net is to streamline communication between suppliers and retailers through the Internet, said Brad Mitchell, president and CEO of ChainDrugStore.net in a press statement. In choosing a technology partner to help us build ChainDrugStore.net, we hosted an open competition and chose Vignette over other software companies because they provide the most comprehensive platform and have a long-range vision for the evolution of the site, which will help us better serve our member suppliers and retailers.
A team from ChainDrugStore.net, Vignette and PricewaterhouseCoopers joined together as implementation partners on the project and are working together to build the portal site, which will launch in January 2001.
The PricewaterhouseCoopers and Vignette team transformed NACD’s vision into a model B2B information exchange for the retail drug industry – all on time and under budget. Vignette’s world-class functionality fostered an information rich, personalized portal targeted to the retail drug store industry, said Bruce Roberts, partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers. The overwhelmingly positive reaction and high adoption rate by manufacturers and retailers alike, proves that we effectively captured the needs of the industry. Our partnership with Vignette was key to the success of ChainDrugStore.net.
