Vignette Corp. announced that it has released a comprehensive set of tools to help organizations measure and improve business efficiency. Organizations interested in the Vignette Efficiency Audit will work with experienced third-party consultants to gather their business requirements, review overall vision and justification, conduct a gap analysis, monitor use of existing investments, and develop best practices. Upon completion of the audit, Vignette and the respective partner will provide a customized report that provides a detailed picture of areas throughout the organization where efficiencies can be increased, along with customized recommendations on how to improve overall information technology performance. Organizations will have an opportunity to see potential return on investment and total cost of ownership estimates for each option based on individual definitions. Vignette partners Acquity Group and Rapidigm are the first to offer the Vignette Efficiency Audit. In addition, Vignette has developed the Vignette Efficiency Assessment and the Vignette Efficiency Evaluation. Both programs are available at no additional charge upon completing the registration requirements. www.vignette.com
Day: May 10, 2004
Documentum announced the availability of a new portlet development toolset, new Documentum web content management portlets and enhancements to Documentum’s existing portlets. The new Documentum portlets are a set of embeddable application components that deliver out-of-box content management capabilities to any portal that supports Java Specification Request 168 (JSR 168). The new Documentum web content management portlets add to Documentum’s existing family of portlets for enterprise document management and collaboration. All of the portlets provide single sign-on functionality. The new WDK for Portlets, Documentum portlets and new Documentum web content management portlets are immediately available for use with portal servers from BEA, SUN and IBM. A set of developer and customization documentation is provided and additional materials, customization code and sample portlets are available through the Documentum Developer website’s Component Exchange. www.documentum.com
TRADOS Inc. announced that its TRADOS Language Server for Documentum has received the “Designed for Documentum” logo designation. The Designed for Documentum accreditation can be earned by offerings developed on the Documentum ECM platform, as part of the new Application Logo Program. TRADOS Language Server for Documentum is an integration that adds multilingual and localization capabilities into the Documentum ECM platform. The system integrates with Documentum repositories and workflows to enable companies to manage their localization processes from inside the Documentum system. www.trados.com, www.documentum.com
Documentum announced its Application Logo Program that provides Documentum partners with resources and guidance for developing offerings based on the Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform and helps customers easily identify Documentum-accredited solutions for extending their use of the platform. The Application Logo Program provides partners with design standards, architectural support and development best practices for developing out-of-the-box applications, integrations and solutions based on the Documentum ECM platform. Partners in the Application Logo Program earn a “Designed for Documentum” designation for a specific offering by conforming to a stringent set of design specifications and other criteria established by Documentum in collaboration with its partners and customers. Currently, 12 offerings that have earned the Designed for Documentum designation are available with additional offerings currently being evaluated. www.documentum.com
