Interwoven Given High Marks for Market Leadership, Technology Leadership and Ability to Execute

SUNNYVALE, California - September 18, 2001 - Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV), the leading provider of Content Infrastructure, today announces that it has been recognized by four top industry analyst firms: Aberdeen, GartnerGroup, SPEX (a division of Meta Group) and Yankee as an overall leader in the content management marketplace.

"At Interwoven, we view third-party research as a valuable source of information and a solid benchmark in the industry when it comes to competitive product and company evaluations," said John Van Siclen, senior vice president and COO of Interwoven. "The level of recognition Interwoven has received in these reports reinforces our message to customers and the marketplace: A comprehensive content management strategy is no longer just an option for eBusiness - their future depends on it. Interwoven's Content Infrastructure is clearly a next-generation solution, and our market leadership, superior technology and ability to execute will take us - and our customers - to the next level."

Interwoven attributes these recent analyst accolades to a proven, thorough understanding of what it takes to provide a comprehensive Content Infrastructure to the largest Global 2000 companies: management of all assets, all people and all initiatives.

All Assets
Interwoven customers manage a combination of information assets spread throughout their enterprise including database content, documents, XML, Web content and source code. Because of its hybrid architecture, Interwoven supports all asset types under a single environment. With Interwoven's Content Infrastructure, customers avoid content retrofit or the need for multiple systems that create the inevitable gaps of mismanaged content.

Asset versioning has become a critical requirement for customers today. Interwoven's whole-site versioning allows customers to version individual assets as well as version a Website in its entirety. Customers enjoy the tight control over their assets with whole-site versioning enables them to make corrections on the fly.

All People
Moving business to the Web means enabling people to contribute content in their own terms. Collaboration within teams and between teams is essential in driving successful Web initiatives. Customers have embraced Interwoven's inclusive interface strategy. For contributors who already contribute content within an organization, Interwoven TeamSite projects a virtual file system interface so each and every authoring tool is supported out of the box while ensuring that all assets are under versioning and security control.

At the same time, ease-of-use is critical for the non-technical contributor base. Interwoven's email interface, Microsoft Word integration and WYSIWYG templating has allowed customers to break the Web bottleneck and fast-track initiatives by empowering the non-technical contributors.

All Initiatives
With more than 750 customers in every major vertical market, Interwoven has worked with the most forward-thinking companies on Web-enabling their business. These global companies are using Interwoven's Content Infrastructure to underpin all their initiatives including portals, extranets, intranets, document management and many more. With the increasingly crucial role of content management in eBusiness, these enterprises are wagering their future online success on Interwoven's Content Infrastructure suite, seeking the superior functionality that enables virtualization, parallel development and whole-site versioning.

The Content Infrastructure suite is composed of TeamSite, TeamSite Templating, TeamCatalog, TeamXML, MetaTagger, OpenSyndicate and OpenDeploy software. For more information, please see http://www.interwoven.com.tw/company/features/ci/.

Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV) is the world's leading provider of Content Infrastructure software. Its content infrastructure product suite includes content aggregation, content collaboration, content management, content intelligence and content distribution. Its products are the de facto standard for over 700 Global 2000 companies including British Airways, Cisco Systems, General Electric, General Motors and Philips. Interwoven teams with the leading best-of-breed eBusiness application providers to provide customers an end-to-end platform for eBusiness. For more information on one of the fastest growing software companies in Silicon Valley and its proven XML-based solutions, visit the Interwoven Web site at www.interwoven.com.tw.