At the Seybold show this week in San Francisco I caught up with content management vendor Vignette, and learned a little about their upcoming product direction. Vignette has been on a mission to broaden out from its roots in traditional Web CM, and in the process has assembled content, portal, integration, process workflow, analysis, and collaboration tools as part of its Vignette V7 platform.Because content creation and delivery involves such a wide spread of tools, the company plans to deliver a business process integration engine. Although timing was not discussed, nor whether the functionality would come in the form of new features to Vignette’s existing process workflow tools or as a separate product, business process integration clearly will be a focus for the company in the coming months, according to Vignette vice president Leif Pedersen. “The next step is making sure you can manage business process across all those pieces of software,” Pedersen said. “This is more complex than traditional CM workflow.”Robert Perry, director of product marketing, explained why process integration tools should be tightly coupled with CM.“Business process starts with content or uses content. Many applications require information from repositories, and content is the source of or an important part of what we move through the process,” Perry said. Technology Industry