Over 20 Customers Turn to TeamSite and Dynamo for Streamlined Web Development,
Delivery and Transformation
SUNNYVALE, Calif., November 17th, 1999 - Interwoven (Nasdaq:
IWOV), a leading provider of content management for the enterprise Web,
and Art Technology Group ("ATG") (Nasdaq: ARTG), developer of e-commerce
and online personalization applications today announced a significant
expansion of their successful partnership based on a series of joint sales,
marketing, and development initiatives. Together the companies currently
offer a tightly integrated solution of Interwoven TeamSite and ATG's Dynamo
product suite to build, maintain, and extend personalized relationships
with online customers. ATG and Interwoven will continue to leverage the
advantages of open standards-based architecture ensuring further interoperability,
greater flexibility and more rapid time to Web.
Interwoven and ATG's customers are under pressure to quickly launch
entire eBusiness sites. These involve bringing together large development
teams, many different Web components, as well as ever-increasing scalability
and performance requirements. Among the more than 20 customers who have
already turned to Dynamo and TeamSite are: Tech Republic, the IT community
hub; LookSmart, a leading category-based Web Directory; and Tavolo, a
specialty food and kitchenware online retailer.
"LookSmart creates and maintains one of the largest editorially reviewed
directories of content on the World Wide Web. TeamSite and Dynamo allow
us to standardize our content management across diverse business units
and make critical changes to our Web site on a real-time basis," said
Elizabeth Runyan, engineering project manager at LookSmart.
For Web developers and system integrators, the tight integration of
Dynamo and TeamSite is applicable to a wide range of customer projects
and offers important benefits from the ease of co-deployment and the seamless
interoperability between the products. The result is fast ramp-time and
coordinated vendor support for solution providers who are building up
eBusiness and eCommerce practice areas.
"Our clients need rapid development and the ability to evolve their
systems to stay ahead of the competition," said Kevin Smith, vice president
of business development, Fort Point Partners. "The integration of TeamSite
and Dynamo can provide our clients with a flexible platform that will
accommodate a wide range of projects from simple personalization to sophisticated
e-commerce models. Applying the right technology and tools is crucial
to success."
ATG and Interwoven are building on their customer-proven success and
extending their collaborative efforts through new initiatives in sales,
marketing, and product development. Joint marketing activities include
additional physical and online seminars, as well as trade shows and other
events. The companies are investing in additional joint training of their
sales organizations and are also cooperating to bring the integrated solution
to more customers, more efficiently and more effectively.
"By all measures, our partnership with ATG has been a tremendous success,"
said Martin Brauns, president and CEO of Interwoven. "It has been great
to see the market validation that comes from seeing how TeamSite and Dynamo
have been so widely embraced together by our common customers over the
past year."
"This is a customer-driven partnership. Our integrator partners have
been eager to set up practices that efficiently bring the best solution
to their customers," said Jeet Singh, president and CEO, Art Technology
Group. "We've responded to their requests by ramping up the partnership
with Interwoven in order to provide our joint integrator partners with
the competitive advantage necessary to deliver world-class solutions to
market quickly."
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
Art Technology Group, Inc. ("ATG") (NASDAQ: ARTG) is a leading provider
of Internet customer relationship management and electronic commerce products
and services. ATG offers an integrated suite of Java application server-based
products and services, as well as related application development, integration
and support services. ATG's Dynamo product suite enables Global 1000
enterprises, as well as new businesses using the Internet as their primary
business channel, to understand, manage and build their online customer
relationships and to more effectively market, sell and support their products
and services over the Internet.
The Dynamo solution is designed to provide businesses with the core platform
and software tools required to develop and deploy personalized, scalable
and reliable e-commerce Web sites. Dynamo is licensed to over 100 customers
including: 3M, BabyCenter, BellSouth, BMG Direct, Eastman - Kodak, Informix,
John Hancock Funds, Inc., Network Solutions, Newbridge Networks, Scudder
Kemper Investments, Sun Microsystems and TheStreet.com. The Company is
headquartered in Cambridge, MA with additional locations throughout the
U.S. and in Europe.