Interwoven Positioned in the Leader Quadrant in Enterprise Content Management Magic Quadrant
Thursday October 21, 2:36 pm ET
Leaders Evaluated on Execution Ability and Completeness of Vision
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV - News), provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for business, today announced that it has been positioned in the leader quadrant of Gartner Inc.'s first Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, 2004.(1) According to Gartner, leaders are vendors who are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market. Leading ECM vendors were evaluated by Gartner on their ability to execute and the completeness of vision.
Interwoven provides customers with ECM solutions for business, enabling organizations to unify people, content and processes to minimize business risk, accelerate time-to-value and sustain lower total cost of ownership. With blue-chip customers in every major vertical industry, Interwoven delivers ECM solutions designed to address specific business processes, such as e-mail management, intranets, enterprise Web content management, channel management, deal management, marketing content management and more. With a service- oriented architecture (SOA), Interwoven leads the industry with best-in-class solutions and products that help enterprises address critical business challenges.
"We feel that Gartner's positioning of Interwoven in the leaders quadrant is strong confirmation of our focus on delivering ECM solutions for business," said Martin Brauns, chairman and CEO of Interwoven. "Interwoven is committed to providing our customers with the content-rich solutions they need to address key business requirements. Our success is validated by our continued profitable financial performance and 3,000 world-class customers, who selected Interwoven because of our best-in-class solutions and products, unmatched ease-of-use, and industry leading ECM service-oriented architecture."
As defined by Gartner, ECM leaders are vendors who are "doing well and are prepared for the future with a clearly articulated vision for ECM. In a content management context, they have strong channel partners, a presence in multiple geographies, consistent financial performance, broad platform support, good customer support, and dominate in one or more technology or vertical markets. They have the ability to deliver a comprehensive ECM suite by owning all six core components and have proven enterprise scalability."
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About the Gartner Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted October 2004 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. |
