Vignette Portal
Organizations that deploy Vignette Portal can satisfy the end-user's expectations of Web 2.0 and social networking functionality, while also meeting the demands of their particular online strategies:
- Improve revenue growth
- Drive traffic to the Web site
- Improve the brand across all customer touch points
- Attract new visitors
- Retain and delight repeat visitors
Behind the scenes, Vignette Portal also helps organizations realize internal efficiencies. The product is designed to make the people who manage content and Web sites less reliant on IT, and its collaborative features can improve connections among the people – partners, suppliers, sales and internal teams – who run the business:
- Consolidate and manage duplicative or non-standard Web sites and other resources
- Reduce reliance on IT for Web and brand management
- Incorporate compelling 3rd-party content and applications
- Create and deploy mashups and composite applications
- Improve employee access to information
- Improve collaboration among cross-functional teams
Easily implement the most common and useful business applications using dynamic menus and drag-and-drop portlets.
Access information that is personalized, social and relevant
Vignette Portal's pre-defined portlets, and its integration with Vignette Collaboration, Vignette Community and other applications and data, make possible the creation of highly personalized online experiences for individuals, groups and project teams. And adding analytics from Omniture's SiteCatalyst reveals how users are actually interacting with the site and its content. This intelligence makes it easier for organizations to optimize their Web experience.
Create and customize portals
Vignette Portal's point-and-click wizards simplify the task of customizing one or many portals. With these wizards, business users can configure multiple portals with individualized views. Vignette Portal puts 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 Vignette provides reusable components and rapid integration portlets that can reduce the time and effort needed to customize multiple portals.
Deliver the most responsive sites on the Web
Implementing Vignette Portal and Vignette 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.
Launch sites quickly
Vignette's portal network capabilities help organizations build and manage any number of virtual portals from a single Vignette Portal installation. Multilevel delegated administration is provided by Vignette's patented portal user administration technology.
Features and Benefits
The latest release of Vignette Portal provides the following features and benefits. Please refer to the Vignette Portal datasheet for a complete list of product features and benefits.
| Integration with Vignette High Performance Delivery (HPD) | With this integration, HPD caching parameters can be set in the Vignette Portal console. HPD can help organizations with high-traffic, high-content sites improve their sites' dynamic performance and scalability, while helping them control costs. Note: Vignette High Performance Delivery is sold separately. |
| Integration with the Vignette Community product line | With this integration, organizations can incorporate popular social computing capabilities – including ratings, rankings, tagging, blogging and more – into a larger modular and extensible platform solution. The result is an improved and more interactive user experience. Note: Vignette Community is sold separately. |
| Web analytics integration | This integration delivers portal page views to Omniture SiteCatalyst. Omniture's sophisticated analytics helps organizations to better understand how visitors behave, which in turn helps them to optimize content structure and delivery. Note: Omniture SiteCatalyst is sold separately. |
| One of the first portals to implement new portlet standards JSR 286 and WSRP 2.0 | These standards support inter-portlet communications, Web services integration and integrated contextual display of 3rd party portlets, all of which contribute to a richer, more dynamic user experience. Note: JSR 286 is currently pending approval as a JCP Standard. Vignette Portal has been designed in accordance with the draft specification but does not formally claim compliance at this time. |
| New audit log and activity reporting | Enhanced security and site activity auditing via a native reporting interface that logs 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 combinations | Provides greater deployment flexibility, stability and availability. Offers comprehensive caching capabilities, application fail-over, and load balancing for mission-critical portal initiatives. |
| Navigation item import/export | Enables incremental item changes, which improves on the speed of live site updates over traditional import and export of the entire navigation tree. |
| Command line import/export | Unified tool enables batch import and export of components, categories of components or versions of components. |
