Interwoven Delivers ECM Solutions Enabling Business Agility
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - August 30, 2004 - Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV), provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for business, today announced that many of its customers across diverse industries have been selected for the CIO Magazine Agile 100, which lists those organizations best able to combine IT agility with business agility to adapt to rapidly changing business conditions. Interwoven is helping to enable this agility for many of its customers today.
According to Gartner's CIO Update, "Agility equates to nimbleness when managing transitions caused by constant business change, such as changing market conditions." (CIO Update: CIOs Need Better IT Service and Support Metrics, Kris Brittain,
August 2004.)
For the 17th annual CIO 100 Awards, 100 organizations were selected wherein IT agility enables agility across the enterprise. The Agile 100 honorees structure their IT costs so that spending can flex with fluctuating demand. They use elastic staffing and sourcing methods to align their people and resources with changing business needs. They employ agile project processes. They create technological agility by regularly testing new tools and developing their employees' skills. The governance mechanisms of agile IT organizations are proactive. Most importantly, their IT agility supports and sustains organizational agility.
"Technology plays an increasingly important role as a strategic differentiator in the legal industry," said Doug Caddell, CIO of Foley & Lardner, one of the Interwoven customers awarded. "Interwoven has enabled us to pursue strategic initiatives like client extranets that keep our firm at the forefront and help us respond to the evolving expectations of today's legal customers."
The Interwoven customers recognized by CIO Magazine for their IT acumen include:
7-Eleven
Alcoa
Allstate Insurance Co.
American International Group
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island
CUNA Mutual Group
Daimler Chrysler
Defense Logistics Agency
Fannie Mae
FedEx Corp.
Flextronics International
Foley & Lardner
General Motors Corp.
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GMAC Commercial Holding Corp.
H&R Block
Harrah's Entertainment
Hewlett-Packard Corp.
Kennametal
Lincoln National Corp.
Marriott International
Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch & Co.
Oakland County, Michgan
SBC Communications
Staples
The Dow Chemical Co.
The Vanguard Group
Toshiba America Business Solutions
Verizon Wireless
W.W. Grainger
Warner Music Group
Interwoven Vice President of Corporate Marketing, Kevin Hayden, congratulated the Interwoven customers singled out by CIO Magazine. "We know from firsthand experience with these companies what it takes to succeed in today's fast-moving business environment. Interwoven's industry leading solutions provide the agility and flexibility needed to execute new initiatives at market speed, and to make new strategies a reality."
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 reduces business process cycle time from initial collaboration through design, production, sales, marketing, 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 3,000 enterprises worldwide are Interwoven customers including British Telecom, Ford, General Motors, Jones Day, AIG, Motorola and Yamaha. Interwoven is headquarted in Sunnyvale, Calif, with offices around the world. For more information visit
www.interwoven.cn.
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