Vignette acquires Tower Technology
Vignette acquires Tower Technology
Vignette has bought Tower Technology for US$80 million to bring together their expertise in content management, collaboration and portal solutions with Tower Technology's integrated enterprise document and records management solutions.
Once the transaction is complete, Vignette, will be able to offer the industry's most comprehensive set of solutions with which organisations can efficiently build and manage enterprise web initiatives, including web content management, best-of-breed collaboration technologies and now integrated enterprise document and records management functionality.
Vignette will also be positioned to help organisations worldwide address risk and compliance management related initiatives such as Sarbanes-Oxley 302 and 404, HIPAA, SEC 17a4, DoD 5015.2, GLB and Basel II.
Bryce Johnson is very excited about this acquisition: "The most exciting aspect of this transaction is that we will be creating the first ever Complete Enterprise Content Management solution in the world on which to base and manage enterprise web initiatives.
"We have set about to find solutions to complete our offering to enterprises over the last year. This acquisition. Together with our past acquisitions of Epicentric, Revenio and Intraspect will transform Vignette from the recognised leader in web content management to the industry's only combined suite for ECM services."
Businesses will benefit from the acquisition quickly, because Vignette will be able to manage the complete content lifecycle of an organisation's content enterprise content. Vignette will combine its core strengths in web content management, information interaction, collaboration and delivery with Tower Technology's acknowledge leadership in document and records management, imaging, report management and workflow.
This could lead to faster, more accurate business decisions, reduced costs, improved customer self-service and support, and the effective management of risk for overall business efficiency.
The Co Founder of Tower Technology, Pat Hume, is very excited about joining up with Vignette too: "Our staff are looking forward to working with the Vignette staff in our Sydney base. We have made a significant foothold in Australia and the U.K., but this will give us a chance to expand wider into the rest of the world, especially America.
"Our offerings combined with Vignette's will create a completely streamlined service for all of our customers now and will safe them costs significantly."
Enterprise content management, and particularly document and records management, is viewed as a top priority in government, financial services, pharmaceutical and chemical and other regulated industries that manage massive amounts of information.
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