Interwoven Continues to Receive Widespread Industry Analyst Recognition for ECM Solution Leadership

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - November 9, 2005 - Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV), provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for business, today announced that it continues to be recognized worldwide by top industry analyst firms for its focus on bringing to market proven content-centric ECM solutions that are enabling customers to streamline key business processes for improved revenue growth, reduced business risk, and lower costs.

Over the last 10 months alone, Interwoven's robust ECM solution portfolio and best-in-class products have been recognized by top industry analyst firms across the globe including: Gartner, Forrester Research, Ovum, Butler Group, and InfoTrends/CAP Ventures.

Interwoven's ECM Solutions Focus Garners Worldwide Industry Analyst Praise

Interwoven's strategy is to develop and deliver deep content-centric ECM solutions that are easy to implement, empower both business users and IT, and solve specific business process challenges across departments and vertical industries including: Web Content Management (WCM); Intranet management; Extranet Management; Records Management; Digital Asset Management (DAM); PowerPoint Presentation Management; Content Provisioning; Deal Management; IT Project Management; OTC Derivatives Trading Automation; Matter-Centric Collaboration for Law Firms; Document Management (DM) for Corporate Legal Departments; Electronic Content Management for Accounting Firms; and more.

According to industry analyst firm Gartner ("Vendor Rating: Interwoven Strengthens Its Position With ECM Suite and Solutions Vision," March 2005), Interwoven has positioned itself well for the future through its strong solution focus and balanced approach to building out the company's solutions and underlying ECM platform: rather than "simply producing a horizontal content management platform, [Interwoven] is providing content solutions that will leverage vertical domain expertise and process management capabilities."

Additional leading industry analysts from across the globe have also recently recognized Interwoven for its successful ECM solution focus including:  

• Forrester Research-In its recent report, "The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Content Management Suites, Q3 2005" (October 2005), Forrester Research commends Interwoven for its strong solution strategy execution:  "[Interwoven's] ECM strategy is completely focused on meeting the content-centric needs of organizations, highlighted by current offerings for matter-centric, deal management, contract management, presentation management, eDiscovery, and other solutions." Additionally, Forrester recognized Interwoven solutions for being a "superb fit for organizations with comprehensive WCM, collaboration-DM, and high-end DAM requirements."
• InfoTrends/CAP Ventures-According to Michael Maziarka, director of research at InfoTrends/CAP Ventures, Interwoven's solution focus will continue to contribute to the high degree of ECM success realized by Interwoven customers: "Interwoven's strategy to deliver industry and department-specific solutions on a common platform promises to deliver higher return on investment and satisfy key business challenges for customers."
• Ovum-In a recent vendor profile report -"Vendor Analysis: Interwoven" (September 2005) - UK-based industry analyst firm Ovum recognized Interwoven for how it has "moved away from its previous branding as a WCM provider to a provider of content-centric business solutions. Interwoven is strategically committed and is executing aggressively on its content-centric apps strategy through acquisitions, partnerships, and R&D."

Recent Reports and Industry Accolades Recognize Interwoven for Best-in-Class ECM Technology

Interwoven has also received praise from the analyst community for having a suite of best-in-class ECM capabilities, built on open standards, that deliver ease-of-use to accelerate business user adoption, platform independence to leverage previous infrastructure investments, and enterprise scalability to minimize total cost of ownership.

• Document Management-Reinforcing its continued DM leadership, Interwoven was recently honoured with two prestigious awards for its best-in-class DM. Interwoven was recognized with the 'Top Document Management' award by the readers of Law Office Computing magazine in its 11th Annual Readers' Choice Awards. Additionally, Interwoven DM was named to KMWorld's list of 'Trend-Setting Products' for 2005, which features products and solutions that have demonstrated superior usability, strong market adoption, and provide measurable value to customers.
• Web Content Management-Interwoven also continues to be recognized by industry analysts for its ongoing WCM market leadership. Most recently, Interwoven was ranked as a leader by Forrester Research in "The Forrester Wave: Web Content Management for Retail, Q3 2005" (August 2005) report. Interwoven's ranking as a WCM leader for the retail industry follows on the heels of the company's earlier ranking by Forrester as an overall WCM leader across industries in its 2005 Web Content Management Wave (April 2005) report. Interwoven's established market leadership was also recently reaffirmed by Gartner, which gave Interwoven a 'strong positive' rating in its "2005 WCM MarketScope" (November 2005) report. 
• Digital Asset Management-Gartner recently acknowledged Interwoven for its strength in DAM. In its "MarketScope for Enterprise Digital Asset Management, 2005" (September 2005) report, Gartner highlighted Interwoven's technology strength by giving the company a 'positive' rating, and commenting that Interwoven's focus on PowerPoint Presentation Management has had "a powerful appeal to marketing executives everywhere who would otherwise have little interest in media."
• Collaboration-In its recent report, "Collaboration Technology Audit: Interwoven WorkSite MP" (March 2005), the Butler Group, which is based in the UK, recognized Interwoven for its best-in-class collaboration capabilities which address many of the issues that form barriers to the adoption of collaboration technologies. The report states, "[Interwoven WorkSite] has tight integration with existing users' desktop products, minimizing the problems of adoption. With a range of potential platforms and high-scalability, it will be of benefit to any larger organization, which requires people to collaborate around documents in a structured manner."
• Records Management-Global organizations are increasingly addressing emerging information and risk management challenges by extending their document management implementations and selecting Interwoven Records Management, which offers a true end-to-end approach to records management that has previously been unavailable. Recently, ARMA International, the global authority on managing records and information, selected Interwoven to present on records management best practices at the 2005 ARMA Conference in Chicago. 

"Receiving such widespread recognition from the analyst community is strong validation of our focus on bringing to market a suite of targeted ECM solutions that address specific business processes and deliver rapid ROI to enterprises around the world," said Kevin Hayden, vice president of corporate marketing, Interwoven.

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