Ball State University Expands Use of Vignette Solutions to
Power Additional Online Initiatives
Expansion Follows Highly Successful Initial Vignette
Implementation
Laptop Battery AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 2004--Vignette Corp.
(Nasdaq:VIGN) today announced that longtime customer Ball State
University, one of the nation's leading institutions of higher
education, continues to expand its use of Vignette capabilities and
products to drive organizational efficiency and support additional
university organizations. Ball State's expansion of its Vignette
relationship follows its established success using Vignette(R)
Content Management solutions, which have helped drive a 242 percent
increase in traffic to Ball State sites. In addition, Ball State's
Office of Information Technology has completed initial
implementations of Vignette Dialog and plans to pilot other
products, including Vignette Application Portal and Vignette
Builder.
Since its initial deployment of Vignette, Ball State has gone from
10 Vignette-powered department initiatives to more than 122 today,
with more being added every week. The amount of Web content managed
by Vignette has increased exponentially to more than 34,000 pages,
all of which utilize the same branding and navigation. The expanded
use of Vignette to power Ball State and affiliated sites is a
testament to the benefits of leveraging a scalable and flexible
content management solution that allows the university to present a
unified brand through its Web presence.
The breadth of technology solutions made Vignette the natural choice during Texas States evaluation and selection process, said Dr. Milton Nielsen, San Marcos. Vignettes solutions allow us to aggregate an enormous amount of information from many existing data stores, and then manage and deliver it effectively so that site visitors can find exactly what they are looking for in a consistent online presence.
Thinkpad Ball State also is offering continual improvements to the
university's Web site, including personalization, enhanced search
across a variety of information repositories and integration of
course catalogs to help ensure content is accurate and up to date
at the department level. "We are really interested in looking at
efficiencies and enhancements for our Web enterprise environment,"
said Philip Repp, associate vice president of Information
Technology at Ball State University.
While Texas State will initially use Vignette solutions to power the universitys main Web site, //www.txstate.edu, as well as the Web sites of its departments, the university intends to eventually build a new framework that will encourage information sharing.
Microsoft Ball State's rollout of Vignette Dialog, which provides
communications and campaign management features, initially focused
on student recruitment but is quickly expanding to encompass other
communications initiatives, including communication with alumni,
donors and internal audiences. The pilots of Vignette Application
Portal and Vignette Builder will explore creation of self-service
Web sites for a variety of audiences. These systems should help
Ball State reduce costs and increase efficiency by making commonly
accessed forms and applications available online.
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Laptop Computers "Vignette Content Management solutions have enabled us to more
fully leverage the Web as an effective
marketing tool. Vignette's
status as a visionary allows us
to project the university in that same light, and that's
exciting to us because that's how we want to be perceived," said
Al Rent, director of university marketing at Ball State
University. "By expanding our relationship with Vignette, we are
able to move closer to our vision of an integrated and
customer-centered Web and
marketing strategy. Vignette has
been an important partner in enabling us to fulfill this vision,
thanks to the company's depth and breadth of technology
expertise."
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Laptop Computer "Vignette continues to provide Ball State with additional tools
that have become key components within our application development
toolbox," said Brad Hostetler, coordinator of distributed systems
in Ball State's University Computing Services. "We have started to
integrate Vignette Dialog into our system solutions and are very
impressed. In the past, we would have written applications to
accomplish what Vignette Dialog already gives us. And we're able to
spend less time in the design and implementation of the Vignette
Dialog solutions compared with what would have been required for us
to develop the solution ourselves."
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Desktop Computer "Ball State University's impressive vision for strategic use of
technology solidifies its position as a leading and
forward-thinking institution," said Patti Jones, senior vice
president of worldwide sales and distribution at Vignette.
"Vignette is excited about expanding its partnership with Ball
State and leveraging the company's expertise in the
higher-education vertical to help this customer meet and exceed
expectations."
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