SUNNYVALE, Calif., - 23 July, 2002 - Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV), the leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), today announced that BOC, a leading producer of industrial gases and related products, has selected Interwoven to underpin the content requirements for enterprise-wide portal strategies which range from internally focused employee portals to external portals for BOC's customers and business partners.
Interwoven ECM will integrate with mySAP Enterprise Portals from SAP to provide content creation, management and distribution capabilities for both intranet content to be deployed via portals and for external content supporting eCommerce portals. It will be deployed rapidly to content contributors across BOC, initially focusing on the U.K., U.S.A. and Australia.
"The main factor in choosing Interwoven is that it gives us an enterprise content management solution that can support our global collaboration strategy, in that it enables us to share, contribute to and distribute information across the group," explained Andy Fawcett, information management director for e-Services at BOC. "Interwoven also provides distinct benefits for the users with all around product ease-of-use, publishing flexibility with version-control, and that it enables the complete management of our content assets from source code through to knowledge management."
The Interwoven 5 platform, which includes the products TeamSite software for content management and MetaTagger software for content intelligence, will be deployed initially in a pilot scheme to an estimated 50 content contributors. This will be followed by rapid rollout to marketing departments supporting eBusiness initiatives and corporate communications groups that maintain all enterprise content assets.
"Only Interwoven provides scalable and collaborative enterprise content management required to support global eBusiness initiatives," said Jan B. Nordhagen, Interwoven vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa. "We are proud to be supporting BOC's customer portal rollout and to provide the platform for managing critical business information via their employee portal solutions."
To learn more about Interwoven's ECM solution for enterprise portals, visit http://www.interwoven.com/solutions/portal/index.html
About The BOC Group
Serving two million customers in more than 50 countries, The BOC Group is one of the largest and most global of the world's industrial gases companies. It employs some 43,000 people and had annual sales of over £4 billion in 2001. Three significant businesses have grown in parallel with BOC's industrial gases activities. BOC Edwards supplies ultra-high-purity gases and associated equipment to the semiconductor industry and is also world-famous for its vacuum pumps. Gist is a specialist logistics company operating principally in the UK. The third is Afrox Hospitals based in South Africa - the largest supplier of private healthcare in Africa and one of the largest outside the US Further information about The BOC Group may be obtained on the Internet at http://www.boc.com
About Interwoven
Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV) is the world's leading provider of Enterprise Content Management software. The Interwoven 5 platform provides complete content lifecycle services including Content Processing, Content Management, Content Intelligence, Content Production and Content Distribution. Its products are used by more than 1000 global organizations including British Airways, Cisco Systems, General Electric, General Motors and Singapore Airlines. Interwoven teams with the leading best-of-breed enterprise application providers to provide customers complete, collaborative business enterprise solutions. Recently, Interwoven won Transform Magazine's "2001 Product of the Year" award for Enterprise Content and Collaboration Technology. For more information on Interwoven and its proven XML-based ECM solutions, visit the Interwoven Website at www.interwoven.com.
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