Interwoven Delivers Industry-Leading Intranet Solution Based on Revolutionary New Content Publishing Technology

Interwoven Delivers Industry-Leading Intranet Solution Based on Revolutionary New Content Publishing Technology Unmatched Ease-of-Use Underpinned by New LiveSite Product Empowers Business Users to Rapidly Create and Deploy Content-Rich Sites SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Interwoven, Inc. (NASDAQ:IWOV), provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for business, today announced the introduction of the company's next-generation Interwoven Intranet solution, empowering companies to increase productivity, improve internal communication and reduce IT support costs. Powered by the company's new LiveSite Web content publishing product (see related announcement, "Interwoven Takes Web Content Management to a New Level with Introduction of LiveSite") and its flagship TeamSite Web Content Management software, the Interwoven Intranet solution is the industry's first offering to enable business users to easily create, publish and manage content-rich intranet sites, while providing IT with centralized control and security. Comprised of a reference intranet site, pre-built components, site templates, intranet best-practices, and standard consulting services, the Interwoven Intranet solution provides companies with a comprehensive offering that enables them to realize rapid implementation times and accelerated time-to-value with minimal up front investment from IT. According to META Group,* while "consolidating intranet sites promises to increase access to information, enhance corporate identity, improve ease of navigation, and decrease the learning curve for new users," many companies "still face multiple disconnected intranets." With multi-site management and superior usability, the Interwoven Intranet solution is enabling companies to address this challenge of consolidating multiple sites for better adherence to IT and corporate governance standards, while simultaneously empowering business users to take ownership of the creation and deployment of business-driven intranet sites. "While intranets have become a key channel for internal communication within many organizations, they also pose a significant management challenge, as companies are often faced with a proliferation of static, small-scale and outdated intranet sites scattered throughout the organization," said Craig Roth, vice president at META Group. "Organizations need to address this challenge by empowering business users to create and own their sites, thereby ensuring up-to-date and relevant information while also helping companies regain control by providing federated management for IT security and control." By eliminating the IT bottleneck, the Interwoven Intranet solution is enabling business users across the enterprise to easily create, publish and manage intranets to address their specific business initiatives. As a result, non-technical business users who are closest to the day-to-day operations and site requirements can retain better control of their content, help improve Web-based communication throughout the company, and better support their key business objectives with up-to-date and content-rich sites. Leading enterprises such as Tyco and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island have already adopted the new Interwoven Intranet solution based on LiveSite and will be implementing the technology to improve and streamline communication across their organizations. "Intranets have come a long way in the last several years, and today serve as important information gateways within enterprises across nearly all vertical industries," said Kevin Cochrane, vice president, WCM products and solutions at Interwoven. "As business users on a departmental level continue to leverage intranets to support their various business initiatives, it's more important than ever for these individuals to have the necessary content control to more quickly and effectively meet their business objectives. With our new Intranet solution, we're excited to bring this enhanced control to business users, while also alleviating the unnecessary burden on IT to own and manage often hundreds and thousands of unique business-driven sites." Key features of the Interwoven Intranet solution include: -- Rapid Implementation -- Users benefit from accelerated time-to-value through a sample intranet site, pre-built components, site templates, intranet best-practices, and standard consulting services. -- Simplified Site Creation & Publishing -- New WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) content publishing capabilities empower business users to rapidly design page layouts, contribute content and launch new intranets using site templates, pre-built components and drag-and-drop layout capabilities. -- Multi-Site Management -- Enterprises benefit from advanced central management capabilities, which provide a consolidated environment for IT to manage multiple independent intranets with high security, scalability, and usability. -- Point-and-Click Customization -- Business users can control the overall site user experience by easily customizing pages. With point and click simplicity, intranet content can be rapidly modified to address changing business requirements. -- In-Context Edit -- Authorized business users can easily modify content in the context of any Web page they are browsing without having to go to a separate content management interface. -- Patented Whole-Site Versioning -- Users can easily create snapshots of a site for version control, compliance archives and rollback to a previous version of the site. Availability The Interwoven Intranet Solution is generally available now. For more information, please go to http://www.interwoven.com/solutions/intranets/index.html *META Group, "Intranet Trends and Opportunities," October 14, 2004 About Interwoven 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, more than 3,100 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. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030430/IWOVLOGO ) Photo: NewsCom: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030430/IWOVLOGO AP Archive: http://photoarchive.ap.org/ PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.com Source: Interwoven Inc. 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