Content management specialist Vignette has released Vignette Records & Documents, an application that it claims will manage and deliver all forms of corporate information from a single interface. The release is the first new application since Vignette acquired records management vendor Tower Technology in January.

Vignette claims users are looking for enterprise-wide content management applications that can automate entire business processes such as customer support and loan applications. It also claims Vignette R&D will solve issues around three of the major buzzwords currently preoccupying the ECM marketplace - compliance, risk management and business automation.

"The demand is for an open standards application that can deliver content from its own repositories or those of other applications in a single interface to the information worker," said Adam Lee, product marketing manager at Vignette. Lee said most deployments opt for a portal for information delivery.

Vignette Records & Documents comes with 75 built-in adapters that allow the application to connect to information repositories and utilise their content. "These can be repositories that are off-site, a number of our portal users in the financial services industry connect to news feeds and subscriber information services," he said.

"Tower Technology was always strong on management and Vignette on delivery," Lee said, adding that the integration of the Tower technology "rounds out" its product range to cover all stages of information management and delivery.

Vignette Records & Documents has been designed to meet the recent wave of records compliance laws, including UK National Archives (PRO)2002, Sarbanes-Oxley and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA).