Interwoven Honors Customers for Innovation in Unlocking the Value of Content

Ashurst, Education Management Corporation, Ehrhardt Keefe Steiner & Hottman PC, Fulbright & Jaworski, Kao Corporation, KPMG Australia, Loma Linda University Medical Center, and Lowenstein Sandler Named Interwoven Excellence Award Winners

SAN FRANCISCO, April 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GEARUP 2008 -- Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV), a global leader in content management solutions, today announced the winners of the 2008 Interwoven Excellence Awards. This year's winners -- Ashurst, Education Management Corporation, Ehrhardt Keefe Steiner & Hottman PC, Fulbright & Jaworski, Kao Corporation, KPMG Australia, Loma Linda University Medical Center, and Lowenstein Sandler -- are outstanding examples of how customers are using Interwoven to help their businesses succeed amidst a shifting business landscape. The awards were formally presented at GearUp 2008, the company's user conference taking place this week in San Francisco, California.

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"While this year's winners represent a cross-section of different industries, and span a variety of medium to very large organizations, they have one point in common - they are all leveraging content in ways that transform their business," said Joe Cowan, CEO at Interwoven. "By putting Interwoven and content at the core of their business, these companies have risen above their peers by finding new ways to maximize online business performance and increase collaboration and agility within their organizations."

    Following is a brief description of this year's Excellence Award winners:

    Ashurst is a leading international law firm that advises corporate and
    financial institutions, with core businesses in M&A, corporate, and
    finance. With a team of over 200 partners and 1,800 staff in 12 countries,
    Ashurst is currently adding approximately 500,000 documents a year to its
    Interwoven WorkSite system as well as 18 million email records. Since
    implementing Interwoven, Ashurst has enjoyed easier and faster processes
    for storing and retrieving all work produced, and remote users enjoy the
    same secure access as desktop users. Ashurst has achieved broad adoption
    of the solution and is able to gain further business efficiencies through
    even wider knowledge sharing.

    Education Management Corporation (EDMC) is one of North America's largest
    providers of private post-secondary education, and operates Argosy
    University, The Art Institutes schools, Brown Mackie College schools, and
    South University. EDMC relies on the Web as an increasingly vital channel
    for reaching prospective students. This strategy is essential to meet the
    high standards and expectations of today's highly Web-savvy younger
    generation. With Interwoven at the core, EDMC is able to create, deliver
    and optimize its online content to help improve access to information and
    educational offerings through its Web channels.

    Ehrhardt Keefe Steiner & Hottman PC (EKS&H) is the largest Colorado-based
    accounting and business advisory firm, providing tax, audit, and business
    advisory services to clients in 16 industries.  EKS&H embarked on a
    knowledge management initiative to break down silos and help its
    professionals better manage, organize, and collaborate around information.
    Interwoven provided both a conceptual model and the technology to put it
    in place. Interwoven's engagement-centric repository provides easy access
    to content of all types, including work papers, client information,
    finished documents, and emails, managed side-by-side in a unified
    environment. With Interwoven, EKS&H professionals can easily access and
    collaborate around content both in the office and at client sites, driving
    productivity and efficiency overall.

    Fulbright & Jaworski is a full-service international law firm, serving the
    needs of businesses, governments, non-profit organizations and individual
    clients around the world. Fulbright is one of the largest law firms in the
    United States with nearly 1,000 lawyers and more than 50 integrated
    practice areas.  Fulbright & Jaworski leverages Interwoven technology to
    apply consistent governance policies to manage electronic and paper
    records across its 16 international locations, and to automate as much of
    the records retention process as possible. By using Interwoven
    RecordsManager Fulbright & Jaworski can deliver a fully integrated records
    management system that enables them to comply with frequently changing
    regulations and guidelines while continuing to provide award-winning
    service to clients.

    Kao Corporation is the largest consumer goods company in Japan with more
    than 32,000 employees and 10 Billion USD in sales. Since 1890, Kao has
    viewed the consumer as the driving force behind everything they do. To
    achieve this objective, Kao has used Interwoven's Web content management
    technology since 2001 to consistently enhance and improve the user
    experience for customers and to simplify the content creation process for
    key stakeholders within Kao. Today, Kao's Website receives over 12 million
    page views per month and 1 million unique monthly visitors. Looking to the
    future, Kao is committed to providing users with an engaging experience by
    leveraging the latest in Web analytics to provide the right content to the
    right customers.

    KPMG Australia is a partnership that is part of the KPMG International
    network, one of the world's leading professional services firms providing
    audit, tax, and advisory services. KPMG Australia operates nationally
    across 7 offices with over 5,000 people. KPMG Australia selected
    Interwoven WorkSite as its core document management solution along with
    Interwoven partner, Metastorm's Business Process Management (BPM) workflow
    to automate the creation and management of client and engagement
    workspaces.  KPMG is proactively addressing new compliance and regulation
    standards by implementing Interwoven RecordsManager. As Australian firms
    work to comply with strict records management standards, KPMG Australia is
    taking a leadership role to apply consistent governance policies, manage
    electronic and paper records, and end the reliance on paper files. And as
    its professionals spend more time out of the office, KPMG Australia is
    using Interwoven OffSite to enable remote access to client files and
    collaboration with colleagues.

    Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) operates some of the largest
    clinical programs in the United States in areas such as neonatal care and
    outpatient surgery and is recognized as the international leader in infant
    heart transplantation and proton treatments for cancer.  LLUMC partnered
    with Interwoven and Earthbound Media Group (EMG) to launch a truly
    cutting-edge Website designed to help patients explore the services and
    care offered by the Medical Center.  Success with the Website is driving a
    fundamental change in their business: they are completely re-imagining
    their Web presence to ensure it plays a central role in driving service
    excellence and patient access, global healthcare leadership, and outreach.
    By leveraging a combination of search engine optimization, Web analytics,
    targeting, and content management capabilities, the organization has
    achieved dramatic results.  For instance, LLUMC has seen a 1400% increase
    in daily visitors and 1700% increase in traffic sources. Their search
    engine ranking also went from 150 to number 1 on many keywords. Loma Linda
    subsequently rolled out a 2,000-page main Website and saw a 470% increase
    in physician referrals per month within 4 months of the site launch.

    Lowenstein Sandler is an AmLaw 200 firm representing public and private
    companies, financial institutions, investors, entrepreneurs, universities,
    and private clients in corporate, litigation and bankruptcy matters
    throughout the country.  Lowenstein Sandler uses Interwoven WorkSite to
    provide centralized, unified information lifecycle management, including
    emails and other documents.  Lowenstein Sandler's professionals can now
    respond more quickly to client queries by accessing complete
    matter-related documents and emails in an electronic matter file, and
    leverage knowledge sharing and best practices through practice
    group-specific workspaces where key documents are managed.

About Interwoven

Interwoven is a global leader in content management solutions. Interwoven's software and services enable organizations to maximize online business performance and organize, find, and govern business content. Interwoven solutions unlock the value of content by delivering the right content to the right person in the right context at the right time. Approximately 4,300 of the world's leading companies, professional services firms, and governments have chosen Interwoven, including adidas, Airbus, Avaya, BT, Cisco, Citi, Delta Air Lines, DLA Piper, FedEx, Grant Thornton, Hilton Hotels, Hong Kong Trade and Development Council, HSBC, LexisNexis, MasterCard, Microsoft, Samsung, Shell, Qantas Airways, Tesco, Virgin Mobile, and White & Case. Over 20,000 developers and over 300 partners enrich and extend Interwoven's offerings. To learn more about Interwoven, please visit http://www.interwoven.com.

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