Interwoven Expands Partnership with BEA to Accelerate SOA Growth Opportunity for Businesses

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – September 19, 2006 – Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV), provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for business, today announced that it has  expanded its five-year partnership with BEA Systems, Inc., a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, to co-market a solution designed to enable organizations to more effectively take advantage of emerging Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) business opportunities. By jointly leveraging Interwoven’s award-winning Composite Application Provisioning (CAP) Solution and the BEA AquaLogic and WebLogic Platforms, businesses can better manage and streamline SOA application development and deployment, and obtain increased business agility and improved IT efficiency.

SOA can help enable organizations to achieve greater responsiveness to customer needs, and can increase competitive advantage, through the delivery of highly-targeted and dynamic customer-facing business services.   Interwoven provides expertise in automated application deployment that can complement BEA’s focus on promoting the reuse of SOA services and the company’s complete solution designed for rapid SOA application development, deployment, and management. 

"Interwoven has long recognized the importance of SOA as the underpinning of customer facing applications. We’re thrilled that our partnership with BEA can help enable IT organizations to take full advantage of this increasingly important paradigm," said Todd Scallan, vice president of product management Interwoven. "Together, Interwoven and BEA offer companies looking to accelerate growth and market share the ability to create more targeted, personalized customer interactions, while improving their overall IT efficiency."

Enabling True SOA Success
In spite of SOA’s transformative impact on both business and IT, many companies are striving to understand the full capabilities, opportunities, and challenges that SOA applications bring to their organization.  Further, new regulations mandate a high level of control and accountability for the code, content, and configurations reflected in those applications.

To help address these challenges, Interwoven and BEA provide a new category of enterprise software that is designed to  enable companies to seamlessly manage the complete SOA lifecycle — from application development, to release control and deployment, to ongoing management and reuse. The Interwoven CAP solution is designed to help IT operations quickly and easily provision application changes from development to production.

 “Interwoven’s proven distribution capabilities make them the ideal BEA partner in providing a comprehensive SOA solution. Together, we offer companies the capability to effectively manage the end-to-end SOA lifecycle,” said Paul Patrick, vice president and chief architect, BEA Systems, Inc. “From development to deployment and provisioning, BEA AquaLogic, combined with the Interwoven Composite Application Provisioning Solution forms a powerful means of realizing SOA applications’ full potential.”

Key Benefits
Together, Interwoven and BEA can provide:

•  Increased Business Agility — Enabling companies to quickly and efficiently develop, deploy, and update business applications in order to map to today’s rapidly-evolving customer demands.
• Faster Time-to-Market — Accelerating application availability, and increasing responsiveness to customer demands.
• Greater Personalization — Rapid and more efficient application development can result in highly-targeted, personalized, dynamic, customer applications.
• Automated Application Provisioning — Automating manual development and deployment processes can eliminate errors while cutting release management costs.
• IT and Governance Regulation Compliance — Organizations can provide application and data integrity through audit trails, granular reporting, and data retention enabling compliance with key U.S. federal regulations.

About the Interwoven Composite Application Provisioning Solution

The Interwoven Composite Application Provisioning (CAP) Solution is designed to provide an ideal solution for provisioning SOA, composite, or Web applications. By streamlining the application lifecycle, the Interwoven solution can provide a way to standardize the aggregation, synchronization, and deployment of all the code, content, and configurations to testing, staging, and production, while tracking change activity and ensuring application integrity and compliance. The Interwoven CAP Solution can also give IT Operations the ability to automate the provisioning of SOA, composite, or Web applications through a standard process while providing efficiency through scheduling, version control, and rollback capabilities. By automating a typical error-prone manual process of provisioning applications, organizations can accelerate the availability of critical business applications to the organization and slash release management costs an average 40%. The CAP Solution also meets key IT Compliance requirements by delivering a repeatable process for aggregating, synchronizing, and deploying  applications while offering an auditable trail, full reporting, and retention, guaranteeing data integrity of all SOA, composite, and Web applications.

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