Vignette is pleased to announce the latest release of Vignette Portal and Vignette Builder versions 7.4 . Vignette Portal 7.4 provides a high-performance, standards-compliant, WWW-ready solution that enables organizations to control costs, engage with constituents and understand site activity. Vignette Builder 7.4, also available at this time, enables quick creation, assembly and customization of applications, empowering organizations to respond rapidly to changing business needs.

About Vignette Portal 7.4

Vignette Portal 7.4 includes a number of new functionalities, advanced integrations and enhancements to existing features:

New Integration Capabilities*

• High Performance Delivery (HPD) Integration allows setting of caching parameters within the Vignette Portal console to improve dynamic website performance, make sites more scalable and help control costs.
• Integration with Vignette Community Services enables an improved, interactive and participative user experience by leveraging common social computing capabilities like rating, tagging, comments and more.
• Via an integration effort enabled by the Vignette provided Omniture integration guide, Vignette Portal can communicate page views to Omniture which can display sophisticated analytics on to allow organizations to better understand user interaction on their site(s) and quickly optimize content delivery.

Standards Support and Deployment Flexibility

• More Supported Platforms so that customers can deploy Portal with even greater flexibility while maintaining existing IT investments.
• Early adoption of JSR 286** and WSRP 2.0 to deliver enhanced inter-portlet communications, Web services integration and display of 3rd party portlets in an integrated, contextual way.

Enhanced Security Capabilities

• New Audit Log & Activity Reporting

Improved Speed Capabilities

• Parallel Portlet Rendering to help decrease page load times
• Navigation Item Import/Export improvements that provide the ability to update incremental items to the live site much faster
• Command Line Import/Export provides a single tool to import/export components, categories of components or versions of components using batch processes.
• Separation of the Autonomy installer for faster download of the Portal installer
• End User Administration of Portlets

About Vignette Builder 7.4

Vignette Builder 7.4 includes updated platform & portlet standards support, including WSRP 2.0, and has been certified to work with Vignette Portal 7.4.

For More Information on Vignette Portal or Vignette Builder

Additional details are provided in the release notes for Vignette Portal 7.4, including supported environments. You are encouraged to review the release notes before installing the product. You are encouraged to read the Vignette Builder 7.4 Release Notes before use. Both are available from the Vignette On-Line Support System (VOLSS).

Notice to Vignette Portal 7.0.1 & Portal 7.1 Customers

Termination of Vignette Application Portal 7.0.1 Support. In accordance with the general maintenance policy, Vignette will discontinue support for Vignette Application Portal, release 7.0.1 as of July 1st, 2008.

Termination of Vignette Application Portal 7.1 Support.In accordance with the general maintenance policy, Vignette will discontinue support for Vignette Application Portal, release 7.1 as of July 1st, 2009.

For more details, see the Updated Vignette Portal and Builder Support Calendar on VOLSS.

This notification supersedes all other communications from Vignette and Epicentric, regarding Vignette Application Portal and upgrades to subsequent versions of Vignette's products. To gain a full understanding of your options for upgrading to the current version of Vignette Portal, our professional services organization is available to assist you and offers a complete set of upgrade and migration capabilities.

* Vignette High Performance Delivery, the Vignette Community Product Line and Omniture Analytics integration are sold separately. Please contact your sales representative to discuss purchasing these solutions for final integration with your Vignette Portal 7.4 implementation.

** JSR 286 is currently pending approval as a JCP Standard. Vignette Portal 7.4 does not support any draft of the JSR 286 specification until it is approved.

For additional information regarding Vignette Portal or Vingette Builder versions 7.4, go to http://www.vignette.com/ , call +1-888-608-9900 or use our online Sales Information Request form.

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