Vignette Corporation is a company headquartered in Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...

, that offers a suite of content management

Content management

Content management, or CM, is the set of processes and technologies that support the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium. In recent times this information is typically referred to as content or, to be precise, digital content...

, portal

Web portal

A web portal or links page is a web site that functions as a point of access to information in the World Wide Web. A portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way....

, collaboration

Collaboration

Collaboration is working together to achieve a goal. It is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared goals, — for example, an intriguing endeavor that is creative in nature—by sharing...

, document management, and records management

Records management

Records management, or RM, is the practice of maintaining the records of an organization from the time they are created up to their eventual disposal...

 software. On May 6, 2009 Open Text Corporation

Open Text Corporation

OpenText Corporation Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. As Canada's largest software company, it produces and distributes computer software applications designed to enable Enterprise content management solutions for large corporations across all industries....

 announced they would buy Vignette for $310 million. On July 21, 2009 Open Text Corporation completed its acquisition of Vignette Corporation.
Vignette's Platform consists of several suites of products allowing non-technical business users to create, edit and track content through workflows and publish this content through Web or portal sites.

Many large, content-rich sites on the World Wide Web

World Wide Web

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 run Vignette, including UnitedHealth Group

UnitedHealth Group

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated is a diversified health and "well-being" company. Headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, UnitedHealth Group offers a spectrum of products and services through two operating businesses: United Healthcare and Optum. Through its family of subsidiaries and divisions,...

, Disney, Wachovia

Wachovia

Wachovia was a diversified financial services company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before its acquisition by Wells Fargo in 2008, Wachovia was the fourth-largest bank holding company in the United States based on total assets...

, Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart is an American business magnate, author, magazine publisher, and television personality. As founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, she has gained success through a variety of business ventures, encompassing publishing, broadcasting, and merchandising...

, Fox News

Fox News Channel

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Digital, National Geographic, MetLife and BSkyB.