Interwoven Delivers Powerful Collaborative Document Management Capabilities Optimized for BEA WebLogic Platform

BEA Customers Can Deploy CDM Capabilities Across Their Enterprise With New Portlets Running Natively on J2EE and SOA-enabled Platform

SAN FRANCISCO, BEA eWorld - Booth #423, May 24, 2004 -- Interwoven Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV), the world's next-generation enterprise content management (ECM) company, today announced the availability of new software that enables collaborative document management (CDM) capabilities within the BEA WebLogic Portal(TM) 8.1 and on WebLogic Application Server(TM) 8.1. Deploying on BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform means that enterprises can now give their employees collaborative document management capabilities to increase their productivity, accelerate mission-critical business processes and projects, and increase compliance and knowledge retention. These are an aggregate of the top requirements facing customers today.

"BEA is a highly valued partner, with leading application infrastructure offerings in the market," said Steve Pattison, vice president alliances and business development for Interwoven. "Because both companies have invested heavily in driving standards for service-oriented architectures, it made sense to strengthen our relationship and tighten the integration between our products. As a result, our joint customers can benefit from improved service levels and increased productivity."

"Interwoven's product is both a functional and architectural fit with BEA WebLogic Platform, providing powerful collaborative capabilities for mutual customers," said Scott Edgington, vice president and general manager, worldwide channels and alliances, BEA Systems. "This is an important move for both of our companies that delivers tangible business benefits to our customers as they further expand their operations. We look forward to a new level of collaboration with Interwoven as we move forward."

Compatible J2EE and Service-Oriented Architectures

Interwoven WorkSite Multi-Platform (MP) Server software is the first collaborative document management product built from the ground up to tap the power of the open computing standards of Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), extensible mark-up language (XML), SOAP, and others. As a 100 percent Java-based application suite for enterprise-grade collaborative document management, WorkSite MP offers leading extensibility and flexibility that adapts to requirements across business units and geographies in today's heterogeneous computing environment. WorkSite MP is successfully deployed in many enterprises today and is representative of Interwoven's successful product line expansion during the last 12 months.

BEA provides the application infrastructure software that enables thousands of major companies worldwide to benefit from service-oriented architectures (SOA) as they expand their operations. With BEA WebLogic, businesses can leverage SOA to evolve into service-driven enterprises, helping to dramatically increase their efficiency, responsiveness, and adaptability. The Interwoven CDM Portlets are the first to represent the new breed of deployment utilizing the architecture advancements that run natively on the BEA WebLogic Portal.

New Interwoven CDM Portlets for BEA WebLogic

By introducing Interwoven CDM Portlets for BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1, BEA customers can benefit from Interwoven's market-leading collaboration and document management platform. Interwoven CDM Portlets provide BEA WebLogic Portal users with all the features of Interwoven WorkSite MP. Because Interwoven CDM Portlets come with full documentation and sample code, customers can easily develop and customize the portlets to meet individual their business needs.

The following portlets are now available:

-- WorkSpace Subscriptions -- WorkSpaces allow for users to collaborate on all types of business functions. Using this portlet, members can maintain a personal list of the WorkSpaces for their projects, with instant access and visibility into the status of those business processes. Users can also quickly create new collaborative WorkSpaces from this portlet using a wizard and process templates;

-- Search -- Users can search the content repository using a hybrid of metadata, full-text, and scope (e.g. specific workspace) criteria allowing very accurate results. The search engine returns both content and collaboration items including tasks, calendars, and discussions. For the first time, users do not need to leave the portal to sift through the results;

-- My Tasks -- Users can stay abreast of tasks assigned to them. More than simply a to-do list, tasks contain all the associated information -- templates, instructions, and drop-off location for deliverables so contributors have all the information they need to complete the job. Individuals can filter the list by status to ensure only the most important tasks are presented;

-- My Calendar -- WorkSite MP acts as a personal secretary, ensuring meeting invitations from team WorkSpaces are not lost or forgotten. With a few toggle switches, event coordinators can request Web conferences and telephony services, and event reminders for attendees. Users can download events into their favorite personal information management tool;

-- Checked Out Documents -- The checked out list consolidates all items currently locked by the user, and provides a visual reminder to the user of the date they are due back into the repository. Users can also check in documents directly from this portlet.

The alliance of BEA and Interwoven can give enterprises a powerful platform to empower business users. With features such as full text and metadata searches, workspace views, and subscription lists, Interwoven CDM Portlets help BEA customers overcome the challenges posed by distributed workforces, complex business processes, and compressed sales cycles. Users can view personal content such as subscriptions, checked out documents, and workflow inboxes from within the WebLogic Portal. Interwoven handles this seamlessly within the BEA WebLogic Platform.

Availability

The Interwoven CDM Portlets are available immediately. For more information on the Interwoven-BEA relationship, events, and Webcasts, please visit http://www.interwoven.com/bea.

About Interwoven

Interwoven, Inc. is the world's next-generation enterprise content management (ECM) company. Interwoven's patented, award-winning ECM platform integrates the six pillars of content management: collaboration, e-mail management, document management, Web content management, digital asset management, and records management. Allied with the leading enterprise application providers, the Interwoven ECM platform provides complete, end-to-end content management for more than 2,800 organizations worldwide including Air France, Citibank, Ford, General Electric, Jones Day, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, and Yamaha. For more information visit http://www.interwoven.com.

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