RedDot is now OpenText

In October 2006, OpenText acquired RedDot (as part of its acquisition of Hummingbird Ltd.). To indicate that RedDot was now part of the OpenText family of products, we re-branded it to “OpenText Web Solutions.”

In June 2009, OpenText then acquired Vignette Corporation and its Vignette Content Management product. This event created a potential naming conflict, because it would not be clear whether the name OpenText Web Solutions referred to the former RedDot or Vignette product. To reduce the potential of market confusion, OpenText decided to rename the former RedDot product from OpenText Web Solutions to OpenText Web Site Management. At the same time, we decided to rename Vignette Content Management to OpenText Web Experience Management.

While both Web Content Management products, OpenText Web Site Management and OpenText Web Experience Management address different market needs. The two names are designed to communicate the strength of each product and help customers differentiate between them.

  • OpenText Web Site Management (formerly OpenText Web Solutions and RedDot) is a powerful Web site application that empowers business users to keep content fresh and relevant for Web audiences. It is suited to rapid deployment of featured Web pages and support for multilingual Web environments. Furthermore, it has specific integrations to Microsoft SharePoint and SAP® NetWeaver® Portal, improving content richness and facilitating content management in these portal applications.
  • OpenText Web Experience Management (formerly Vignette Content Management) enables business users to create, edit, manage, and publish content to Web sites, connected devices, and offline media. It provides strong content reuse capabilities across sites and channels, reducing the cost to publish and maintain high quality content. It has proven scalability to thousands of contributors and millions of content items on some of the world's most respected sites. Furthermore, it can work in tandem with OpenText Portal (formerly Vignette Portal) to enable creation of high-performance, scalable Web sites with rich content and applications, supporting personalized interactions with customers, employees, suppliers, and partners.

Today, Web Content Management (WCM) is a strategic component for many of our customers. Whether you choose OpenText Web Site Management or OpenText Web Experience Management, OpenText offers a completely integrated approach to delivering informational, tactical, and enterprise-ready online channels.

Why OpenText?

OpenText, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content. OpenText brings two decades of expertise supporting 50 million users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness.

  • From simple to complex environments, more than 2,600 clients around the world rely on OpenText Web Site Management to create, manage, and deliver a personalized Web experience for their intranets, extranets, and Web sites.
  • OpenText Web Site Management is recognized throughout the industry for its legendary ease-of-use and feature leading multilingual support, enterprise Web 2.0 capabilities, content integration, and contextual delivery to SAP NetWeaver Portal.

Rebranded Product Names

Former Name(s)New Name
RedDotOpenText Web Site Management
RedDot CMSOpenText Web Site Management Server
RedDot Live ServerOpenText Web Site Management Delivery Server

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