Vignette Portal

Companies constantly have to provide interactive and useful access to information from diverse sources in a unified way. Vignette Portal, now rebranded to Open Text Portal provides a highly scalable and efficient means of aggregating this content for use across a variety of initiatives inside and outside the firewall.

Public Facing Portals that Drive a more Engaging Customer Experience

The Open Text Portal applied to a customer centric Web experience can help to improve your organization’s ability to predict and respond to market dynamics. Presenting your face to the Web, Open Text Portal delivers highly personalized Web sites with rich content and applications, enabling you to meet your unique online business goals:

• Improve revenue growth
• Attract new visitor and drive Web site traffic
• Retain and delight repeat visitors
• Ensure brand consistency

Open Text Portal serves as QAD's presentation framework and flexible content front-end, aggregating content from Open Text Content Management, or any other database, and presenting it to users in whatever format is best for them. Content can be updated automatically across all channels; customer Internet, partner and customer extranet, and employee intranet. Additionally, content is translated and presented in 27 different languages, allowing QAD to serve their diverse, global customer base.

Portals help Drive Business Efficiency

Behind the scenes, Open Text Portal also helps realize internal efficiencies. The Open Text Portal applied to an enterprise content centric experience can enhance your organization’s productivity by simplifying your information technology environment, while enabling you to take advantage of your existing investments:

• Consolidate and manage duplicative or non-standard Web sites
• Incorporate compelling 3rd-party content and applications
• Reduce reliance on IT for Web and brand management
• Create and deploy mashups and composite applications
• Improve employee access to information
• Improve collaboration among cross-functional teams

Access information that is personalized, social and relevant

Open Text Portal, applied to a social centric experience enables the creation of highly interactive, personalized online experiences that meet the demands of today’s empowered users. Open Text Portal offers pre-defined portlets and  integration with Open Text Social Communities.

Making your user experience more social draws users back to your site again and again. It provides two-way interaction between your customers and knowledge workers via social media networks to increase customer satisfaction and lower help desk costs.

Create and customize portals

Open Text Portal's point-and-click wizards simplify the task of customizing one or many portals, putting layout and brand management in the hands of marketing, not IT. Business users can simply select and assemble portal components and then assign appropriate access rights. And only Open Text provides reusable components with rapid integration portlets that can reduce the time and effort needed to customize multiple portals.

Launch sites quickly

Open Text Portal’s out of the box templating capability lets users rapidly and easily create microsites or clone Web sites with one-click Web site creation from a template or existing site, reducing the time to create a microsite or launch a new online initiative.

Empower Business Users to Create Meaningful Applications

Open Text Portal’s composite application builder empowers business via a GUI-driven development tool that lets site administrators combine data in meaningful ways to create valuable business applications without IT intervention.

Deliver the most responsive sites on the Web

Implementing Open Text Portal and Open Text High Performance Delivery together provides a unique, integrated combination of real-time caching and intelligent cache management capabilities. The result can be substantially improved dynamic Web site performance.

New in Open Text Portal 8.0 | Features and Benefits

The latest release, Open Text Portal 8.0, provides the following new features and benefits. Please refer to the Open Text Portal datasheet for a complete overview of product features and benefits.