Owens Corning Debuts New Portal to Improve Relationships With Customers, Suppliers and Business Partners

BroadVision, Inc. (Nasdaq:BVSN), the leading provider of enterprise business portal applications, today announced that Owens Corning, a world leader in building materials and composite systems has launched a new portal for the company's Composite Solutions Business (CSB). Using BroadVision's enterprise business portal applications, Owens Corning has committed to a strong focus on relationships with customers, suppliers and business partners.
    The recently launched CSB portal (www.owenscorning.com), now standardized on BroadVision's business portal applications, is the initial phase of an overall site redesign that offers visitors a personalized experience with many new and enhanced functionalities.
    At the core of the Owens Corning portal is the BroadVision-powered "dashboard" which allows users to view content organized by industry, product, process and service. content that features news, events and 150 of the most Frequently Asked Questions, is presented on standard templates to improve navigation through the site.
    A robust, centralized document library houses a wide variety of documents including brochures, datasheets and case studies. Information about Owens Corning products can now be viewed, downloaded, faxed, e-mailed or ordered online.
    The global-ready website was designed to support multi-lingual and regionalized content. Documents are displayed based on geographic applicability, and the user can cross-reference documents in different languages with a single click of the mouse.
    By taking advantage of the site's alert function, users have the ability to receive e-mail notifications whenever specific pieces of content are added or changed. This ensures they are up-to-date on the information they find most relevant, and makes visits to the site a more valuable experience.
    BroadVision's integrated content management features are used to give individual business units the ability to publish fresh and relevant content directly to the site, using a single content repository for all digital assets.
    "BroadVision is committed to helping companies realize the value of a portal driven business, said Sandra Vaughan, senior vice president of marketing for BroadVision. "With the debut of this personalized and interactive portal, Owens Corning has built a strong foundation that facilitates more effective communication, which will help to turn prospects into customers and potential opportunities into actual sales."
    "This new site is a big step forward, but it is not the end-game," said Remon Veraart, e-business leader for Owens Corning's Composite Solutions Business. "It serves as a powerful foundation that allows Owens Corning to leverage personalized interactions with customers, employees and business partners and present to them a single view of the company. We intend to continue launching a variety of portal projects based on BroadVision's technology."