Vignette to Resell Andromedia’s Aria

Andromedia Inc. said Vignette Corp., a provider of Web content
application systems, will resell to its customers ARIA, Andromedia’s Web site
activity analysis software, in conjunction with Vignette’s StoryServer 3 Web
Content Application System.

“Both Andromedia and Vignette sell software solutions to high-end, corporate
enterprises where content management goes hand-in-hand with real-time Web
activity analysis to transform the process by which organizations build and
manage effective, results-oriented online businesses,” said Brad Husick, vice
president of business development for Austin, TX-based Vignette. “This
agreement enables Vignette to now offer enterprise customers the ‘best of
both worlds.'”

“The agreement further solidifies our close working partnership with Vignette
and greatly broadens the channels of distribution for ARIA and puts it at the
forefront of the Web site development process,” said Mark Brewer, vice
president of sales for San Francisco-based Andromedia.

“Vignette customers are advanced, cutting-edge content sites that want
ARIA’s real-time activity analysis to better understand site activity and
use it as a feedback loop to deliver continually improving customer
experiences.”

ARIA customers include Sony, Total Sports, Colgate-Palmolive, EarthLink
Network, and Cyberian Outpost.

ARIA tracking and reporting helps to maximize the return on marketing
spending by measuring the results of each Web campaign and increasing
visitor retention by improving site design, Andromedia says.

ARIA has been optimized to track the dynamic content served by StoryServer.
In September 1997, the two companies announced a strategic partnership to
focus on joint marketing and joint sales efforts.

Vignette’s flagship product, StoryServer 3, enables companies to build,
manage, and deliver service-based applications such as online publishing,
customer self-service, and sophisticated e-commerce systems.

More than 75 companies, including Ziff-Davis’ ZDNet, First Chicago NBD, Bay
Networks, and CNET, use StoryServer 3 to serve a combined 25 million page
views per day, the company said.