Companies Work Together to Integrate Interwoven TeamSite with Bluestone Total-e-Business
SUNNYVALE, CA. and Mount Laurel, N.J., November 3rd, 1999 - Interwoven,
Inc. (NASDAQ: IWOV), a leading provider of content management software for the
enterprise Web, and Bluestone Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLSW), a leading provider
of Enterprise Interaction Management software, today announced a strategic alliance
in which the two companies will work together to seamlessly integrate Interwoven
TeamSite and Bluestone Total-e-Business. This alliance will allow Bluestone
to offer Interwoven TeamSite's advanced Web content management capabilities
to Bluestone customers building e-business solutions.
Bluestone Total-e-Business is designed to meet the diverse needs of e-business,
putting business experts from operations, sales, marketing, and finance in control
of key business functions, while allowing IT professionals to focus on technical
performance and security demands. Through its alliance with Interwoven, Bluestone
will add the proven functionality of TeamSite, providing an advanced, robust
content management system to this comprehensive e-business solution. TeamSite
features, such as templating and workflow, will allow Total-e-Business customers
to be more productive and efficient, while features, such as versioning and
rollbacks, will give customers a higher level of management and security. Both
Interwoven and Bluestone are committed to an open architecture, which provides
forward compatibility for future best-of-breed technology.
"Our goal with Total-e-Business is to provide a global-class solution that
gives business experts direct control of the business processes in the e-business
enterprise," said John H. Capobianco, senior vice president of worldwide marketing
at Bluestone. "By aligning with Interwoven, we can add TeamSite content management
to our impressive list of Total-e-Business features, providing our customers
with a higher level of control and responsiveness to changing market conditions."
Jeffrey Englemann, vice president of business development at Interwoven, added,
"The proven enterprise level content management functionality in TeamSite is
a strong complement to the Bluestone Total-e-Business suite. Interwoven is committed
to working with Bluestone to provide a comprehensive solution to Total-e-Business
customers."
Bluestone's Total-e-Business product suite is an e-business solution that meets
the exacting demands of the people responsible for e-business operations, sales,
marketing, and finance, while addressing the IS technology mandate for excellence
in a non-stop, high-performance platform to support mission-critical applications.
Total-e-Business combines best-of-breed components for content management, personalization,
integration, and e-commerce with Bluestone's award-winning Sapphire/Web Application
Server infrastructure and Bluestone XML Suite integration server - based upon
JSP and XML standards.
Interwoven's flagship product, TeamSite, was built specifically for the creation,
production and management of large, complex Internet and intranet Web sites.
TeamSite provides companies with an effective solution for moving business to
the Web. TeamSite's browser-based user interface allows non-technical end users
to become an active, integral part of the Web development process. TeamSite
also offers unparalleled administrative control, system performance and scalability
- it enables the central management of hundreds of thousands of files, maintaining
high performance as the number of users increases.
Bluestone Software Inc. is a leading provider of Enterprise Interaction Management
software. Companies deploying Internet Commerce applications like ARI, Conexant
(formerly Rockwell Semiconductor), Dreyfus Corp., Eli Lilly, MCI WorldCom, Reliance
National, and Time Inc. depend on Bluestone Sapphire/Web and Bluestone XML Suite
Application Server frameworks to integrate business applications into Web-enabled
environments, manage information interactions, and exchange data with employees,
partners, and customers. For more information about Bluestone, please call 888-Bluestone,visit
http://www.bluestone.com , or e-mail
info@bluestone.com
Interwoven, Inc.(NASDAQ: IWOV) is a leading provider of content management
for the enterprise Web. Its flagship product, TeamSite, controls the development,
management and deployment of business-critical Web sites. As the platform for
eBusiness, Interwoven enables electronic commerce, customer relationship management,
supply chain management and knowledge management for Web leaders and Fortune
1000 companies moving to the Web. TeamSite is available for both the Sun Solaris
and Microsoft NT operating systems. For more information on the company and
its software solutions, visit the Interwoven Web site at www.interwoven.cn
or e-mail info@interwoven.com