Vignette Builder
Vignette Builder is designed for organizations that need a way to rapidly create and modify custom portal applications that make use of existing information systems and business processes from across the enterprise. Vignette Builder includes an intuitive, code-free development environment that is integrated with Vignette Portal. This environment helps to streamline portlet development and allows finished applications to take advantage of all the permissions, personalization and layout flexibility associated with a full-featured portal.
Streamline portlet development efforts through an intuitive, code-free development environment that is seamlessly integrated with Vignette Portal.
Accelerate time to develop and deploy new Portal applications
For most portal products, building and customizing portal applications is a complex, time-consuming and maintenance-intensive process. The portal application development environment offered with Vignette Portal provides full access to the power of the portal with a point and click browser-based environment.
Reduce cost and reliance on IT resources
Vignette Builder's browser-based environment also reduces business users' reliance on IT departments. Business users can create powerful portal applications in this environment, and their direct involvement ensures that the application meets their precise business needs.
Maximize the investment in enterprise applications and information systems
Prevent critical knowledge from being locked away in isolated applications and spreadsheets by quickly and easily transforming them into interactive portal applications that can be made available to employees, customers and suppliers.
Future-proofing through interoperability
Vignette Builder relies on a SOAP/WSDL-based Web service to consume data from virtually any application or repository. IT organizations seeking a single platform for application integration and deployment can easily deliver standards-based integration to their constituents using Vignette Builder.
Features and Benefits
| Powerful code-free View Builder | Vignette Builder's visual portlet designer lets even non-programmers construct portal applications. Application designers create portal interactions by dragging and dropping controls (labels, fields, columns, buttons, links) in a browser. |
| Composite Web applications | Vignette Builder provides an easy mechanism for combining and relating application views based on separate data sources, in order to create a richer end-user interaction. |
| Fast, flexible integration with existing enterprise applications | Vignette Builder delivers Builder Gateways for PeopleSoft, Lotus Domino, Siebel, SAP, Web services based on the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and exposed in Web Services Description Language (WSDL), as well as JDBC-based data stores such as Oracle, DB2, Sybase and Microsoft SQL. |
| Robust business rules | Vignette Builder makes it easy to incorporate application data into portal applications using an extended set of functions that interoperate with Web services. These functions can be called as business rules that can be triggered at any point in the business process. |
| Application templates | Vignette Builder utilizes pre-packaged applications that provide customers with starting points for application creation. These templates are packaged as single files, and contain the forms, reports, charts, rules and Builder Gateway connections that make up a Vignette Builder application. |
| Application navigation map | Vignette Builder provides a graphical representation of the navigation that is defined for a particular application view, simplifying the process for application designers to build applications. With application navigation maps, application designers can more easily understand the flow between views of a given application. |
| Charts and graphs | Vignette Builder delivers wizard-based creation of charts and graphs, providing a visually appealing way for portal users to easily evaluate patterns and trends in data. |
| Internationalization | Vignette Builder expands support for application internationalization and localization by enabling the localization of applications and views. |
Vignette Builder puts the power of portal application building in the hands of business users. The visual environment enables the creation and customization of applications and speeds the organization's response to changing business needs. Simple, yet powerful wizard-based interfaces accelerate the development and deployment of a wide range of critical applications that automatically integrate into the collaborative portal environment.
