Vignette Portal 7.

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Reinvent Your Portal with Vignette
Vignette Portal provides a high-performance solution allowing you
to create a Web presence with rich content, as well as applications
enabling personalized interactions with customers, employees,
suppliers and partners. It is uniquely able to serve WWW sites with
high performance and scalability requirements in addition to classic
intranet implementations.
• Empowerment of business users to drive their strategic goals
without the intervention of IT
— Intuitive user interfaces, wizards, drag-and-drop layout
management, and pre-defined application integration enable
users to rapidly create, populate and manage portal sites.
— A central command console allows simplified oversight for
multiple portals.

A cornerstone of the Vignette Web Experience Platform, Vignette • Cost containment and management solutions that leverage
Portal is designed to provide a fast, powerful and cost effective way existing technology investments
to help its customers efficiently create, deploy and manage one or
— Vignette Portal 7.4, which supports a broad selection of
more portals using a single integrated solution. Now, with Vignette
Operating System and Application Server combinations,
Portal 7.4, customers can benefit from updated standards support and
maintains the flexibility to create and manage multiple new
new solution integrations that can dramatically improve site
portal sites for any constituent as the needs of the Enterprise
performance, deliver new interactive social computing capabilities,
evolve beyond the first portal site.
along with enhanced analytics and security capabilities.
— Control and accountability on mission critical sites via new
Vignette Portal 7.4 has been enhanced for organizations looking
audit logs and activity reporting.
to grow online channel value and ROI via:

• Improved user experiences through numerous speed, standards

and scalability enhancements

— Integration of Vignette’s High Performance Delivery* solution

provides a unique, integrated combination of real-time
caching and intelligent cache management capabilities to
help improve dynamic Web site performance.

— Vignette Portal 7.4 is one of the industry’s first portal solutions

to offer fully-certified JSR 2861 and WSRP 2.0 specification
compliance to enable rendering of native and 3rd party
portlets in an integrated and contextual fashion. Developers
building portlets intended for Vignette Portal can be confident
Inter-portlet Communication Support enables Portlets to Respond with
of code reusability across other compliant portals.
Relevant, Contextual Content. On this site, clicking on a new city
• Personalized and engaging environment via social computing automatically updates the map and weather portlets.
and advanced analytics

— Integration with the Vignette Community2* product line

enables the creation of engaging and participative Web
experiences leveraging user generated content to help
organizations increase revenue, improve customer retention
and facilitate product innovation.

— Integration with Omniture Web Analytics* provides

actionable, real-time intelligence regarding online
strategies and marketing initiatives.

New Audit Log for Enhanced Security enables you to track Who, What,
Where & When.
Features & Benefits for Vignette Portal 7.4

Vignette High Performance Set caching parameters for HPD within the Vignette Portal console to help organizations with high-
Delivery (HPD) Integration* traffic, high-content sites to improve dynamic performance, make sites more scalable and control costs.

Vignette Community Product Leverage common social computing capabilities, like rating, ranking, tagging, blogging and more as
Line Integration2* part of a modular and extensible platform solution for an improved and interactive experience.

Communicate portal page views to Omniture which can display sophisticated analytics allowing
Web Analytics Integration*
organizations to better understand site interaction and optimize content delivery.

Multi-device delivery Deliver content to a PDA, cell phone, or other device of choice for a pervasive Web experience.

Support for New Portlet Enables inter-portlet communications, Web services integration and display of 3rd party portlets in an
Standards: JSR 2861
integrated, contextual way.
& WSRP 2.0

New Audit Log & Activity Enhanced security and auditing of site activity via a native reporting interface that reports on
Reporting site modifications.

Parallel Portlet Rendering Render portlets dynamically as they become available to help reduce page load times.

A significant increase in the number of supported Operating System and Application Server
Superior Platform Support, combinations enhances Portal’s broad platform support for even greater deployment flexibility.
Stability and Availability Includes comprehensive caching capabilities, application fail-over, and load balancing for the
most mission critical portal initiatives.

Navigation Item Import/ Update live sites faster via incremental changes instead of import/export of the entire
Export navigation tree.

Unified tool to enable import/export of components, categories of components or versions of

Command Line Import/Export
components using batch processes.

End User Portlet End users, when authorized, can administer and deploy portlets, helping to speed portlet updates and
Administration keep content fresh.

Personalized Portal Intuitive and configurable roles and permissions-based management console supports diverse,
Command Center multi-dialect administrators with a common console to manage virtually all of their portal objectives.

Enables the creation of portals that are compliant with the Congressional Rehabilitation Act, Section
Comprehensive Support
508 (self-assessed using the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template supplied by the Federal
for Accessibility
Government).

Extensive Localization Extensive localization for end-users and administrators supports diverse audiences and work groups.

Dynamic Personalized Create a more engaging experience by letting business users target content from numerous repositories
Content & Services based on dynamic user segments.

Productivity Application Pre-defined portlets allow rapid site creation of portals with common functionality that are integrated
Portlets with existing applications and data.

Content Access Management Packaged application portlets that enable teams to share, permission (read/write) and publish portal
Portlets documents as part of any business process.
 Vignette’s out-of-the-box integration of IDOL for federated search and taxonomy management deliver
Autonomy’s IDOL Search relevant and secure search results. Support for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Lotus Notes,
Engine & Fetch Modules Oracle, and eRoom, as well as existing search technologies within your organization. Separate
Autonomy installer enables rapid software download.

Multiple Web Site & Centrally manage all portals from a unified roles-based management console, while allowing delegated
Portal Management administration for the individual portals.

Site and Application Package entire Web sites, portals, applications and their components, to facilitate delivery between
Portability development, staging and testing.

*V
 ignette High Performance Delivery, the Vignette Community Product Line and Omniture Analytics integration are sold separately. Please contact your sales
representative to discuss purchasing these solutions for final integration with your Vignette Portal 7.4 implementation.
1
JSR 286 is currently pending approval as a JCP Standard. Vignette Portal 7.4 does not support any draft of the JSR 286 specification until it is approved.
2
 ignette Community Services featuring ratings, rankings, tagging and comments is currently available. Vignette Community Applications featuring blogs, wikis and
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forums is scheduled for General Availability later in the 1H’08.

About Vignette
Vignette helps organizations improve the way they connect online
with their key audiences by providing software for building great
online experiences and managing the content that fuels those
experiences. Vignette pioneered the Web Content Management
space more than a decade ago, and today our customers include
some of the world’s most prominent brands in virtually every industry.
To learn more about this offering or about Vignette’s Web
Experience Platform, please visit www.vignette.com.
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