Our Company

Kraai Consulting, LLC is an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Portal consulting company specializing in the Vignette suite of products including Vignette Content Management, Vignette Portal (VAP/DPM), Vignette Dynamic Site, and Vignette Dialog. We also support other ECM and Portal platforms including Alfresco and LifeRay. Our teams of consultants collaborate with each client to help transform their businesses and allow them to focus on their core capabilities. With broad technological experience and deep industry and business process expertise, Kraai can mobilize the right people, skills, and technologies to help create centralized single source content for every delivery point.

What is Content Management?

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) comprises the technology and procedures surrounding the authoring, storage, lookup, editing, publication, governance, and other administrative actions one might do against the articles/documents/data behind the Intranet. The system that Vignette provides for this is the Vignette Content Management System (CMS). The CMS is the "author and editor" environment.

Web Content Management is the above definition applied to Web Properties. Most systems that claim Web Content Management support have Managed Data and delivery mechinisms that interface with a web front end or presentation layer (like Vignette's Portal products).

What is Portal?

Portal technology is how the content in the CMS is delivered to the end-user, secured and personalization, and the framework for interaction between content and web based applications (Portlets). The Portal is the web based end-user environment.