OutStart, provider of the only proven, content-centric software product family for learning, announced today that, as a Vignette Technology Partner, it is moving forward to enable organizations to address the growing market demand for combined portal, learning and integrated content management functionality.
OutStart also announced that Vignette, which enables enterprises to achieve real-time advantage by rapidly building, deploying and optimizing Web-based applications, has selected OutStart Evolution to power learning for its own employees, customers and partners.
“Vignette powers the Web applications of the world’s top organizations,” said Massood Zarrabian, president and CEO of OutStart. “Like OutStart’s customer base, these companies have complex business offerings and address a broad variety of constituencies, making effective, personalized content mission critical. This commonality creates a natural synergy and means OutStart’s partnership with Vignette will provide both of our companies with a competitive advantage in the market.”
Vignette and OutStart will co-sell a combined VignetteÒ Application Portal -Evolution offering. The Vignette Application Portal is an award-winning, industry-leading portal framework that enables organizations to rapidly build and deliver highly customizable applications to support the real-time information needs of customers, employees and partners. Evolution is an award-winning learning application to create, manage and deliver personalized online and offline learning content, as native format to any delivery channel.
“Vignette is pleased to have OutStart as a technology partner in its continually growing partner program,” said Leif Pedersen, vice president of worldwide marketing at Vignette. “OutStart and Vignette’s partnership will help address the growing demand from organizations that want to integrate the delivery of online learning applications without having to create a separate portal. This agreement joins the industry’s leading content management and portal technology with a leading online learning technology, to meet both sets of needs through one offering.”
Vignette Selects OutStart Evolution
Vignette will integrate Evolution with its Vignette Training Portal, thus adding learning capabilities to its portal infrastructure.
Specifically, Vignette selected Evolution for the following capabilities:
The ability to import and reuse training content that is contributed by subject matter experts through commonly used tools like Word or PowerPoint.
The ability to support Vignette’s vision for prescriptive learning, in which test results will be used to tailor and deliver personalized learning content that covers just what each individual does not know.
About OutStart
OutStart provides a proven, integrated product family for companies seeking to increase individual and organizational performance. Only OutStart offers complete learning applications that meet all of the diverse learning and training needs of large and small companies and any size team. OutStart’s content-centric learning applications enable an organization to transform its unique business knowledge into practical learning assets and deliver those assets to the right person, the right way, at the right time, to drive a sustainable competitive advantage. They also include the functionality needed to manage all administration around learning and training processes.
OutStart helps companies realize improvements in sales force and services productivity, call center efficiencies, customer and partner education and technology adoption. OutStart is headquartered in Boston and has offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dublin, Lake Mary, Fla., London, Los Angeles, New York City, Raleigh, N.C., and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.outstart.com
