Guardian maximizes value of its Lotus Notes content using Stellent Lotus Notes Integrator
Stellent product enables Guardian to easily migrate Lotus Notes content to Stellent Content Management and automatically publish it to an IBM WebSphere-powered portal
EDEN PRAIRIE, MN, Mar. 18, 2003 -- Stellent, Inc. (Nasdaq: STEL), a global
provider of content management solutions, announced today that The Guardian
Life Insurance Co. of America, New York, the fourth largest mutual life
insurance company in the United States, is unlocking and maximizing the
value of its Lotus Notes content using the Stellent Lotus Notes Integrator.
The Stellent product enables Guardian to automatically migrate content
stored in Lotus Notes repositories into its Stellent Content Management
repository. The company can then automatically publish this content, such as
the Employee Handbook and the Telephone Directory, to Guardian¹s
soon-to-be-available IBM WebSphere-powered corporate portal where employees
throughout the organization, including mobile workers, can quickly and
easily access it.
"The Stellent Lotus Notes Integrator is the most efficient, cost-effective
method we found for distributing business content from Lotus Notes to other
enterprise applications, such as our intranet," said Joe Tom, project
manager for Guardian.
"Guardian would have spent approximately five times the amount it took to
implement Lotus Notes Integrator if we would have had to develop our own
publishing product," shared Ann Golob, director, client service and
electronic channels for Guardian. "Instead, we avoided spending hundreds of
thousands of dollars on this process and have been able to fully leverage
information that was previously siloed in a Lotus Notes repository."
Once the Lotus Notes Integrator automatically migrates Guardian¹s content
into the Stellent system, users can take advantage of content management
functionalities offered by Stellent, such as categorization, enterprise
search, workflow, library services, subscriptions, format conversion and
publishing, and standards-based integration with other applications
options largely unavailable in the Lotus environment.
"Many companies have a tremendous amount of critical business information
locked in Lotus Notes repositories that can be more fully leveraged if
integrated with or migrated to a content management system," said Dan Ryan,
senior vice president of marketing and business development for Stellent.
"Our Lotus Notes Integrator expedites the process of making Lotus Notes
content available to a larger number of users and applications. Guardian¹s
successful application of this product illustrates how companies can utilize
it to generate greater returns on their content investments."
Stellent Content Management Features
Stellent Content Management provides a single product architecture that
offers Web content management, document management, collaboration, file
service and rich media/digital asset management functionalities. The system
enables customers to rapidly deploy line-of-business Web sites, such as
employee portals and partner extranets, as well as enterprise-wide solutions
that standardize content management for use by multiple sites and
applications throughout an organization. The Stellent Content Management
system offers the widest array of content contribution and content delivery
mechanisms on the market, enabling any user to contribute any kind of
content into the system for conversion, management and delivery to any kind
of Web site or application. It also integrates with existing security
systems and provides business personalization, content integration,
distribution and categorization features. For information on how to obtain
Stellent Content Management, contact Stellent at 1-800-989-8774.
About Stellent, Inc.
Stellent, Inc. (www.stellent.com) is a global provider of content management
solutions. The company¹s Stellent Content Management system enables
customers to rapidly deploy line-of-business Web sites, such as employee
portals and partner extranets, as well as enterprise-wide solutions that
standardize content management for use by multiple sites and applications
throughout an organization. Stellent has been ranked one of the top three
content management vendors by industry analyst firms Gartner Dataquest, Giga
Information Group and Aberdeen Group, and has more than 1,500 customers,
including much of the Global 2000. Its customer roster includes Procter &
Gamble, Merrill Lynch, Los Angeles County, British Red Cross, Aetna/ING,
Target Corp., Janus, Emerson Process Management and various BlueCross
BlueShield organizations across 15 states. Stellent is headquartered in Eden
Prairie, Minn. and maintains offices throughout the United States, Europe
and Asia-Pacific.
About Guardian Life Insurance
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian) is the fourth
largest mutual life insurance company in the United States. As of December
31, 2001, Guardian and its subsidiaries had $34.3 billion in assets. Founded
in 1860, Guardian is listed among Fortune magazine¹s top 500 businesses
and in 2002 was ranked once again as one of the top 10 most admired life and
health companies in Fortune¹s "America¹s Most Admired Companies" list. With
5,500 employees, over 2,700 financial representatives and 100 agencies
nationwide, Guardian and its subsidiaries protect individuals, businesses
and their employees with life, disability, health and dental insurance
products, and offer 401(k), mutual fund and annuity investment products, and
trust services. More information on Guardian can be obtained at:
www.glic.com.
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