Sun Microsystems and Vignette leverage joint technologies
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Sun Microsystems Inc. and Vignette Corp. today announced plans to bring to market a joint collaboration solution to address the specialized needs of medium-sized to large organizations. This initiative is based on Sun's internal implementation of the Vignette® Business Workspaces collaboration solution, known internally as the SunWeb® Collaboration Suite.
SunWeb Collaboration Suite has revolutionized the way Sun's global work force of 35,000 employees share information across project teams, business lines and geographies. In fact, SunWeb Collaboration Suite is playing a critical role in driving workgroup efficiencies globally. For example, account teams and marketing professionals can access presentations, project plans and budgets and work collaboratively to modify and maintain critical documents. Sun user-defined virtual communities have exploded over the past 18 months with more than 200,000 documents categorized, loaded and shared across 2,300 communities.
A collaboration-oriented solution squares neatly with market demand. According to Delphi Group's "Enterprise Portals: Total Market Perspective," published in December 2002, "While for many the term 'collaboration' remains loosely defined, the importance of various aspects of collaboration is apparent throughout the reported uses and requirements of deployed portals." Delphi Group's research notes that the single-most frequently cited reason for deploying a portal is to have a "mechanism to share information and work methods."
Together, Sun and Vignette plan to jump-start similar successes for customers by bringing to market a packaged, pretested, integrated combination of products that leverage the Sun Java® Enterprise System, the Java® Desktop System and Vignette Business Workspaces collaboration solution.
"SunWeb's Collaboration Suite is a central component to our enterprise knowledge management architecture and is really driving SunWeb as the place where work gets done - particularly given the distributed nature of our work force. For Sun this is not just a repository to store and manage documents, it's a virtual meeting place that brings people and ideas together," said Ian Gover, global director of Internal Portal Services at Sun. "With the over 1 million objects and more than 2,300 established communities, the combination of Sun and Vignette enterprise solutions have continued to show their might as the number of registered users, communities of practice and system entries have skyrocketed. And we're just getting started."
"Customers gain high-impact efficiencies and hone their competitive edge with the kind of improved account coordination, product launch and customer and partner service that a joint Sun and Vignette collaboration solution provides," said David Shirk, senior vice president of product strategy and worldwide marketing for Vignette. "The combination of Vignette's pure J2EE-based solution set and Sun's Java Desktop System offers the most comprehensive, scalable, open-architecture business solutions available."
The planned joint collaboration solution delivers on the promise of an expanded relationship between Sun and Vignette announced in November 2003. Vignette and Sun have deepened their alliance to help deliver more rapid and sustained business value and efficiencies to customers, including faster time to implementation and increased ROI for Vignette solutions on Sun Java Enterprise System software.
24.03.2004, Vignette
