OutStart, the leading provider of software solutions for learning and knowledge sharing, today announced that it has signed a strategic partnership with Vignette Corp, a leading enterprise content management, collaboration and portal software company. Recognizing the strong demand for e-learning solutions provided through portals, OutStart and Vignette have forged an alliance to more tightly integrate their respective applications.
Vignette currently uses OutStart’s learning application to intelligently deliver native learning content in multiple forms of output across the entire global enterprise. As a result, Vignette has been able to:
§ Deliver learning and enablement of all employees, regardless of level or geographic location.
§ Recognize significant savings in travel costs and training room rentals.
§ Enable a completely new off-shore engineering division with real time training.
§ Realize ROI within weeks from the implementation.
“As travel budgets have become more constrained, and just in time training becoming more essential, the demand for online training has increased,” said Wayne McCulloch, vice president and general manager of Education Services at Vignette. “Online training is a natural extension for companies using portal technology. By using Vignette Portal technology, just in time, personalized, training can be delivered to all employees, anywhere, anytime. We’ve seen firsthand the value that OutStart’s solutions bring to a learning environment, and the combination of Vignette Portal and OutStart’s Learning applications allows all employees to benefit.”
“Vignette’s ability to help clients quickly configure and deploy highly functional portals and applications is impressive. For example, leveraging the Vignette Portal, we are able to make changes to our own Web site in seconds, rebuild entire Web sites in days and dynamically deliver the right content to the right audience with ease,” said Massood Zarrabian, president and chief executive officer for OutStart. “We look forward to collaborating with Vignette to better meet the needs of the marketplace.”
About Vignette
Vignette’s software and expertise help organizations harness the power of information and the Web for measurable improvements in business efficiency. As the efficiency experts, Vignette helps organizations increase productivity, reduce costs, improve user experiences and manage risk. Vignette’s intranet, extranet and Internet solutions incorporate portal, integration, enterprise content management and collaboration capabilities that can rapidly deliver unique advantages through an open, scalable, and adaptable architecture that integrates with legacy systems. Vignette is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with local operations worldwide. Visit http://www.vignette.com to see how Vignette customers achieve measurable improvements in business efficiency and to find out why more companies prefer Vignette.
About OutStart
OutStart software powers solutions that help make people more effective in a fraction of the time and cost. Unlike traditional training or knowledge management approaches that take too long, cost too much and fail to address the entire need, OutStart’s applications address the way people learn through a combination of formal training, knowledge sharing and expert collaboration that is available on-demand. Customers like Empire BlueCross BlueShield, Cisco Systems, Steelcase, the U.S. Navy, Verizon and Westland Helicopters rely on OutStart to increase individual and organizational performance, improve knowledge transfer and lower operating costs. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., OutStart has offices throughout the US and Europe and can be found on the Web at www.outstart.com.
