Interwoven Receives Widespread Industry Acclaim in 2004
12/22/2004 8:01:45 AM
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec 22, 2004 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Interwoven, Inc. (IWOV), provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for business, heads into 2005 with a look back at a very positive 2004 in which the company garnered significant industry praise for ECM solution and product performance, corporate strategy, and customer successes. Interwoven was recognized in numerous industry analyst reports and received over a dozen accolades.
Industry analysts consistently ranked Interwoven as a leader in key reports, further validating Interwoven's successful focus on delivering deep industry-specific ECM solutions for business. Highlights included Interwoven's positioning in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner, Inc.'s first ECM Magic Quadrant.* Leading ECM vendors were evaluated by Gartner on their ability to execute and completeness of vision. META Group also ranked Interwoven as a leader in its 2004 Web Content Management (WCM) METAspectrum reports for North America and EMEA, while Forrester Research ranked Interwoven number one for WCM in its 2004 ECM TechRankings report.
"Providing our customers with the highest possible value for their ECM investment is our number one priority, and we're thrilled to receive such praise from the industry for the unmatched ease-of-use and success that our over 3,100 customers are already realizing," said Martin Brauns, chairman and CEO of Interwoven. "We look forward to building on our achievements in 2005 and continuing to lead the market in providing solutions to world-class businesses with the depth, flexibility and ROI they're looking for."
2004 Accolade and Achievement Highlights
-- Industry Awards -- Interwoven received numerous awards for superior
product and technology performance. Awards included: Law Office
Computing Readers' Choice Awards for 'Top document management
solution;' two e-LOTIES awards (Legal Office Technology Innovation
Awards) in the categories of 'Best KM/Information Portal Supplier' and
'Best E-mail Management System;' 'Best Legal Office Technology
Newcomer' in the annual LOTIES awards; and a Gold Performer award from
Asia Computer Weekly Readers' Choice Survey in the content management
category.
-- Analyst Recognition -- Additional industry analyst validation included
Interwoven's recognition by Frost & Sullivan as a leading Digital Asset
Management (DAM) provider with the receipt of Frost & Sullivan's 2004
Business Development Strategy Award for the World DAM market. This
award commended Interwoven for being an early mover in the ECM market,
and for leveraging its MediaBin DAM offering to successfully meet
customers' needs. Interwoven was also recognized by The Butler Group in
a September TECHwatch report as a leading provider of document
management and collaboration solutions for the legal industry in
Australia. Furthermore, in a separate September 2004 Collaboration
Technology Audit report, The Butler Group concluded that Interwoven
WorkSite MP is a "class-leading collaborative solution."
-- Customer Momentum and Awards -- Interwoven customers across diverse
industries were recognized for their successes with Interwoven. In the
publication's 2004 CIO Agile 100 ranking, CIO Magazine recognized
numerous Interwoven customers for their ability to successfully combine
IT and business agility, including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode
Island, General Motors, Toshiba America Business Solutions, and FedEx
Corp. Additional Interwoven customers who received recognition for
their ECM successes included the United States Postal Service (USPS)
and the American Hospital Association (AHA). USPS was awarded the
prestigious Grace Hopper Technology Leadership award at the 12th Annual
Government Technology Leadership Awards in the category of 'improving
services to citizens and enterprises.' USPS received the award for its
outstanding public Website with Web Content Management provided by
Interwoven. Also recognized for its successful use of Interwoven
technology, AHA received the DCI Portal award for its demonstration of
'powerful content management and collaboration facilities.' The DCI
Portal award is co-sponsored by DCI and DM Review magazine.
-- Press Coverage -- Interwoven and its customers received positive
coverage in leading technology trade press. Reinforcing the strong
return on investment Interwoven customers receive, CIO.com details in a
November article how Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island "empowered
content providers and liberated content managers in one automated
swoop" with Interwoven TeamSite Web Content Management software. In
January, InformationWeek profiled Interwoven customer Hilton
International on how the company leveraged Interwoven Web Content
Management to develop and localize content across its global Websites
to more effectively appeal to customers in different geographies. And,
in October, Internetnews.com ("Interwoven Gives Intranet Docs a Simple
Touch"), Line56.com ("Untangling Intranets") and Intranet Journal
("Inefficiencies the Target of Interwoven's Intranet Solution") all
positively reported on Interwoven's new Intranet solution, highlighting
the offering's industry-leading ease-of-use.
-- Editorial Rankings -- Interwoven was positioned in a number of
prestigious company rankings published by leading technology
publications including: Software Magazine's Software 500, a
comprehensive ranking of software vendors; KMWorld's '100 Companies
that Matter;' EContent Magazine's EContent 100; and DM Review's 100, a
listing of the top 100 companies in the business intelligence space.
*"Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, 2004," K. Shegda, et al, October 20, 2004
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.
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.
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