Research from Aberdeen Affirms Interwoven as Top Vendor

SUNNYVALE, California - August 1, 2001 - Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV), the leading provider of Content Infrastructure, today announced that it has been identified as the market leader in content management in a recent report by industry analyst firm Aberdeen Group.

"The broad market adoption of our Content Infrastructure product suite attests to the fact that we're delivering what the market demands," said Joe Ruck, senior vice president of marketing at Interwoven. "Aberdeen's research provides independent validation of our market traction and underscores the fact that Content Infrastructure is a "must have" for successful eBusiness."

With 43 of the Fortune 100 in its portfolio, Interwoven customers include American Airlines, Charles Schwab, CSFB, Deere & Company, Fuji Xerox, Procter & Gamble and TESCO.

"In the content management market, market leaders are starting to emerge," said Guy Creese, research director at the Aberdeen Group. "When we looked at the software revenue profiles of both best-of-breed and integrated solutions players and then zeroed in on their content management revenue, Interwoven came out on top."

The analyst report, entitled Content Management: At the Center of eBusiness , issued in July 2001, established content management systems as an essential component of an enterprise's eBusiness environment.

Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV) is the world's leading provider of Content Infrastructure software. Its content infrastructure product suite includes content aggregation, content collaboration, content management, content intelligence and content distribution. Its products are the de facto standard for over 700 Global 2000 companies including British Airways, Cisco Systems, General Electric, General Motors and Philips. Interwoven teams with the leading best-of-breed eBusiness application providers to provide customers an end-to-end platform for eBusiness. For more information on one of the fastest growing software companies in Silicon Valley and its proven XML-based solutions, visit the Interwoven Web site at www.interwoven.cn .