Open Text outlines Vignette strategy

September 18, 2009:Open Text has announced it will continue to develop both Vignette Content Management and Open Text Web Solutions as complementary offerings, as it evolves its strategy to integrate social media and collaboration into its enterprise content management (ECM) offerings.

Vignette will form the basis of its Web content management platform, while providing personalised and multi-channel capabilities integrated with the Open Text ECM Suite.

Vignette Content Management version 8.0 and Vignette Portal version 8.0 will be released later this year.

Open Text claims that the strategy involves offering two different "flavours" of social media product.

"Both community applications and community services are built on top of the Vignette Collaboration product, which we will continue to ship as we continue to develop this product and the underlying technology components to build out our social media marketplace applications," said a spokesperson.

The two offerings are Vignette Community Applications and Vignette Community Services which are build on the same "engine."

The recently released Web Solutions 10.0 will be followed by the release of Web Solutions 10.1 in the first half of 2010.