GLOBAL IT SOLUTIONS PROVIDER eFORCE ANNOUNCES SUPPORT OF INTERWOVEN 6 CONTENT MANAGEMENT PLATFORM

Leading Specialist in Fixed Price, Fixed Time IT Solution Deployment Combines with Interwoven to Provide Services-Oriented Architecture, Extending Usability Throughout the Enterprise

HAYWARD, Calif., July 22, 2003 – eFORCE (www.eforceglobal.com), leading provider of fixed price, fixed time IT solutions for Global 1000 organizations, today announces its support for the Interwoven 6 platform which raises the bar on ease of use and ease of integration through the industry’s first services-oriented architecture for content management.

eFORCE and Interwoven, a world-leading provider of content management for the enterprise, have an alliance that delivers a range of value-added IT Solution services based on Interwoven’s open content platform that together result in end-to-end solutions for building and managing all enterprise content. The two companies most recently teamed to launch a secure portal solution for the energy industry that provides highly distributed and mobile access to applications and information needed to run global energy operations. 

Using a guaranteed on-budget, on-time Global Delivery Model, eFORCE has successfully deployed Interwoven-based content management solutions for leading organizations in the Energy/Oil and Gas, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Hospitality, and Food Service industries both in the U.S. and Europe.

eFORCE and Interwoven enable Global 1000 and emerging organizations to reduce the time needed to manage and deploy web sites, share documents across departments, get portals up and running, reuse content across multiple business initiatives, and syndicate content to widely distributed business partners.

“The Interwoven 6 platform offers a strong enterprise solution combining business usability and compliance,” said John Hitchcock, vice president of marketing and alliances at eFORCE. “Combined with eFORCE’s fixed price, fixed time implementation model guaranteeing on-budget, on-time IT solution delivery, together we can help meet our clients ROI expectations.”

Interwoven’s flagship product TeamSite 6.0’s ease-of-use enhancements, including new simplified user interfaces, will ensure rapid, cost-effective rollout and adoption of content management across the enterprise. Also integral to TeamSite 6.0 is its ability to enhance a services-oriented architecture because TeamSite capabilities can now be exposed as Web services using SOAP and WSDL standards. Multiple applications can share a pool of common content management services thereby accelerating application rollout. 

Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV), is a world-leading provider of content management software for the enterprise. Allied with the leading enterprise application providers, the Interwoven 6 platform provides content management for more than 1200 organizations world wide including Air France, Cisco Systems, General Electric, General Motors, and Yamaha. For more information visit www.interwoven.com. www.interwoven.com.

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