SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Interwoven GearUp '05 ECM Solutions Conference - May 11, 2005 - Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV), provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for business, today highlighted a number of key solutions and products that it has brought to market over the past twelve months, extending its market leadership and capping off a year of innovation that is transforming the way companies manage content across the enterprise. At its annual GearUp '05 ECM Solutions conference this week, Interwoven will be showcasing its robust ECM technology portfolio, including recent solution additions and product enhancements that are leading the industry with revolutionary new technology. A number of Interwoven customers will also take the stage to discuss how they're standardizing on Interwoven ECM across their organizations.

To become more agile and responsive to new market demands and competitive pressures, today's businesses are pursuing a broad range of content-driven initiatives that span traditional departments and processes. Interwoven has established a leadership role in the ECM industry by delivering highly-targeted ECM solutions for business designed to address specific challenges out-of-the-box, while also providing the flexibility to adapt to new requirements over time. Powered by newly-enhanced software from across the entire Interwoven product line, Interwoven's ECM solutions enable customers to improve business processes enterprise-wide for increased productivity and faster time-to-value.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts utilizes multiple Interwoven solutions across the enterprise to address a broad spectrum of business needs, including disaster recovery, regulatory compliance and the creation and management of one of the most innovative and award-winning websites in the healthcare industry. Said Frank Enfanto, vice president of healthcare service delivery at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, "Our Interwoven implementation has evolved over the past few years from a targeted Web Content Management solution to a truly enterprise-wide ECM solution. As our business needs and processes have changed, Interwoven has continued to provide new capabilities that keep us at the forefront of healthcare IT."

Another Interwoven customer who is leveraging Interwoven for improved business processes and efficiencies across the organization is BT. One of Europe's leading providers of telecommunications services, BT is using Interwoven to support users and processes in multiple business units across the organization that participate in the creation, management and publication of online content. As a result, BT has been able to establish a common content infrastructure to deliver the right content to the right audience at the right time. Said Stephen Stokols, director of BT's Netcentricity Program, "Interwoven has helped BT transform our online presence into a fully-integrated, automated and easy-to-use sales and e-service environment. Their continued innovation is making it possible for us to improve business processes and reduce costs as we pursue key ECM initiatives across our company."

Solution Highlights

Over the past year, Interwoven has introduced a number of highly-targeted ECM solutions for business that reflect the company's deep domain and vertical market expertise. Key solutions introduced include:

• Content Provisioning-The first ECM solution designed specifically for IT Operations, the Interwoven Content Provisioning solution enables IT departments to standardize the aggregation, synchronization and deployment of browser-based application assets from any development system to any application environment. The solution speeds time-to-market, facilitates compliance and reduces provisioning costs by an average of 40 percent.
• Intranet Management-Powered by Interwoven's new LiveSite Web Content Publishing product, the Interwoven Intranet solution is the industry's first offering enabling business users to easily create, publish and manage content-rich intranet sites that increase productivity, improve internal communication and reduce IT support costs, while providing IT with centralized control and security.
• Extranet Management-Also based on Interwoven's new LiveSite Web Content Publishing technology, the Interwoven Extranet solution empowers companies to expand revenue channels and reduce partner support costs by enabling business users to easily build and roll out extranets that reach their business partners wherever and however they work.
• Accounting-The Interwoven Accounting solution provides tax, audit and consulting professionals with firm-wide ECM to consolidate all forms of content into a single, searchable, and accessible repository to better manage costs, improve visibility into client engagements, enhance customer service and manage risk.
• Brand Management-Interwoven and Landor Associates, the internationally recognized branding and design consultancy, entered into a strategic partnership under which Landor is now integrating Interwoven MediaBin digital asset management (DAM) software into Brand Management solutions that quickly and efficiently support any form of online, print, and retail branding expression.
• E-mail Management for Notes-Interwoven extended its market-leading E-mail Management solution to support businesses using Lotus Notes, adding to already available solutions for Microsoft Outlook and Novell GroupWise. The solution enables organizations to eliminate the risks created by e-mail and documents disassociated and split between multiple repositories.
• Integrated Information Capture and Collaborative Document Management-Together with Kofax, the world's largest information capture vendor, and BCS Systems, leading systems integration specialist, Interwoven now offers a solution to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of capturing and organizing business information. Product Highlights

  Interwoven also introduced a number of key enhancements to the core products and technologies that power Interwoven's ECM solutions. New products and enhancements introduced include:

  • Interwoven MediaBin Presentation WorkBench-Available as part of the latest version of Interwoven's MediaBin Asset Server, Presentation WorkBench enables enterprises to manage and share Microsoft PowerPoint files within a centrally-managed system for all digital assets. Enterprises benefit from increased brand control and consistency across the organization; reduced IT support costs; and improved productivity through a streamlined presentation assembly and distribution process.
  • Interwoven OffSite-A new module for Interwoven WorkSite 8 software, OffSite delivers 'portable' document management capabilities for the mobile worker, enabling remote business users to easily access and modify their working documents, e-mails and projects while working offline.
  • Interwoven LiveSite Content Publishing Server-This groundbreaking new Web Content Publishing product empowers business users to quickly and easily create and publish dynamic websites-including public sites, intranets and extranets-using a WYSIWYG interface, while still providing IT with the tools to maintain a high degree of control and security.
  • Interwoven Records Manager-Fully integrated into the Interwoven ECM environment, the Interwoven RecordsManager product provides enterprises with a unified records management (RM) system across the complete content lifecycle, from creation to archiving and retention, encompassing paper documents, electronic documents and e-mail within a single system.
  • Interwoven TeamSite 6.5-Extending the power of the underlying technology engine for the Interwoven Web Content Management (WCM) solution, Interwoven introduced new information management and business reporting capabilities with TeamSite 6.5. Advanced Information Management Services helps enterprises bolster greater workforce productivity by enabling users to more quickly and easily find, retrieve, and leverage managed content and information. TeamSite ReportCenter empowers enterprises to measure the efficiency of people, processes and systems to accelerate time-to-value from their WCM investment.
  • Interwoven WorkSite MP 4.0-The latest version of Interwoven's enterprise-class Collaborative Document Management system offers improved usability, better business-unit level configurations and enhanced compliance capabilities. New features include Records Retention, Offline Mode, BEA Portlets, Virtual Folders, Configuration Tools and a .Net SDK.
  • Interwoven TeamSite for Linux-TeamSite joined Interwoven OpenDeploy and Interwoven WorkSite MP on the Linux platform to make the industry's most comprehensive ECM suite available on the fast-growing, open standards-based operating system. The initial release, a Workgroup Edition, ensures a low total cost of ownership for departmental solution deployments such as employee self-service, portals and intranets.
  • Interwoven MediaBin Asset Server 4.5-Interwoven introduced global functionality, usability and performance enhancements to its marketing content management software, including a Mac OS X client; MediaBin Syndication, which offers the ability to connect multiple MediaBin workgroup servers both inside and outside the organization in a single environment; metadata enhancements; greater use of Web services to ease communications for remote users working behind corporate firewalls; and an even more intuitive and productive user interface.
  Platform Integration

  As Interwoven continues to enhance its ECM platform, the company is looking toward Interwoven Tapestry as the next-generation integrated ECM framework that will leverage the current integration and emerging standards to ensure even lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and drive faster ECM solution development. Enterprises will benefit from the following capabilities:

  • eamless user access-a composite application builder powered by Interwoven's LiveSite Content Publishing product leveraging document management, collaboration, digital asset, and records management interfaces
  • Integrated repository-a unified platform that is highly optimized for documents, collaboration, digital assets, and records management
  • End-to-End Records Management-highly tuned for unified retention, archiving and disposal of documents, digital assets and physical media
  • Common infrastructure-framework will deliver a common layer of platform services that enhances the unification of security, administration, APIs, workflow, and UI for documents, collaboration, digital assets, and records management.
  "Interwoven is committed to bringing to market the most innovative ECM solutions and products to help both IT and business professionals meet their unique business challenges, and looking back over the past twelve months, this focus is clearly reflected in the industry-leading technology we've delivered to our customers," said Rafiq Mohammadi, CTO, Interwoven. "Moving forward, customers can expect that Interwoven will continue to execute against our proven solution strategy, delivering even more vertically-focused ECM solutions to address the evolving needs of our customers across industries."

  To read about more news announced at this week's GearUp '05 conference, please go to www.interwoven.com.tw Interwoven, Inc., provider of Enterprise Content Management solutions for business, enables organizations to unify people, content and processes to minimize business risk, accelerate time-to-value and sustain lower total cost of ownership. Interwoven delivers deep industry-specific solutions which reduce business process cycle time from initial collaboration through design, production, sales, marketing, legal review, IT and service. Interwoven leads the industry with a service-oriented architecture today and easy-to-use, best-in-class components and solutions. Today, approximately 3,200 enterprises, law firms and professional services organizations worldwide are Interwoven customers including British Telecom, Ford, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, General Motors, Jones Day, Motorola and Yamaha. Interwoven is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices around the world. For more information visit www.interwoven.com.tw.