Interwoven Extends Legal Market Leadership Across Europe With Strong Continued Adoption Of The Interwoven Matter-Centric Collaboration Solution
Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV), a leading provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for business, today announced that it continues to extend its legal market leadership across Europe with strong adoption of the Interwoven Matter-Centric Collaboration solution among top law firms, ongoing ECM solution innovation, and deep integration with Microsoft technologies. Today, more large European law firms rely on Interwoven to manage the entire client/matter file -- including documents, e-mail, and records -- than any other competing ECM solutions. Worldwide, over 1,500 law firms, professional services firms, and legal departments have adopted Interwoven to streamline business processes for improved productivity, reduced risk, enhanced client service, and lower costs.
Interwoven understands the unique content management needs of law firms, and delivers deep domain expertise solutions based on this knowledge. As a result, Interwoven has established itself as the clear ECM leader for the legal market in Europe today. Currently, Interwoven's European legal customer base includes: 3 of the top 5 law firms in The Netherlands; 3 of the top 4 law firms in Spain; 3 of the top 5 law firms in France; and more top UK law firms than any other ECM vendor.
Leading law firms across Europe who currently rely on Interwoven include: A&L Goodbody; Addleshaw Goddard; Berwin Leighton Paisner; Bond Pearce; Burges Salmon; Clyde & Co; Cobbetts; Dickinson Dees; DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary; Garrigues; Gomez Acebo & Pombo; Field Fisher Waterhouse; Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; Hannes Snellman; Hengler Mueller; Herbert Smith; Houthoff Buruma; Lawrence Graham; Mannheimer Swartling; Matheson Ormsby Prentice; Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw; McGrigors; Mills & Reeve; Nabarro Nathanson; NautaDutilh; Norton Rose; Osborne Clarke; SJ Berwin; Stibbe; Tayor Wessing; Uria Menendez; White & Case; Wragge & Co.; and many others.
Interwoven's Focus on Matter-Centricity Drives Continued Industry
Leadership
Interwoven's ongoing legal technology leadership in Europe is largely
driven by the company's focus on industry-leading usability provided by the
company's Matter-Centric Collaboration solution for law firms. Based on
Interwoven WorkSite 8 software, the Interwoven Matter-Centric Collaboration
solution enables legal practitioners, for the first time, to manage client and
matter-related content in the electronic world the way they have done for more
than 100 years in the physical world. Legal professionals can consolidate
documents, records, e-mails, billing, contacts, and all other relevant content
for any given client or matter in a single integrated file that is accessible
both internally and externally across departments and locations. As a result,
Interwoven is providing the industry's most complete solution for law firms to
manage critical content, enhance client and business relationships, enable
efficient collaboration over distance, and improve lawyer and staff
utilization.
In fact, LegalIT, a leading online IT publication for European law firms, recently published an article ("Vendor Speak -- Face-to-Face Service," October 6, 2005) highlighting Interwoven's increasing market leadership and competitive replacement track record: "Interwoven's unique customer-facing strategy has put it far ahead of its competitors . . . [the company] is gaining new sites and winning business by way of competitive swap-outs from firms who had previously been running rival DMS products." The publication attributes this success to Interwoven's leadership in providing a true matter-centric solution: "Along with the steady expansion of Interwoven's product portfolio -- from the original WorkSite document management software and on to matter-centric document management, e-mail management, disconnected working and records management systems -- the company has ensured that its products keep abreast of the broader trends and developments within the legal market . . . Matter-centric document management has been a buzzword in the legal world for some time, but Interwoven was one of the first suppliers to be able to actually deliver a solution to address this issue."
Interwoven European law firm customers continue to validate the company's matter-centric collaboration leadership with strong solution adoption. Said Derek Southall, partner and head of strategic development at Wragge & Co: "Effective IT systems and products are central to our ability to offer clients the best possible service. Choosing Interwoven WorkSite 8 as our document management system fits with this strategy and allows our lawyers to work more efficiently and productively, which adds up to improved service delivery."
Brodies, a leading Scottish law firm, is also leveraging Interwoven's matter-centric collaboration approach for increased productivity: "We see Interwoven WorkSite 8 as a central part of our matter-centric collaboration strategy moving forward. By adopting this next-generation content environment, we can further empower our lawyers to provide more rapid and high-quality service to our clients and maintain effective control over the rising volume of content -- particularly e-mail -- that their work involves," said Andrew Powell, IT Director, Brodies.
Interwoven and Microsoft Deliver Tightly-Integrated Solutions for Law
Firms
Interwoven also continues to expand its legal market leadership through
key partnerships, including its recently-expanded partnership with Microsoft.
By working more closely together, the two companies are delivering tightly
integrated end-to-end ECM solutions that enable lawyers, and others in the
professional services industry, to manage the entire content lifecycle through
the tight integration of the Interwoven Matter-Centric Collaboration solution
with the Microsoft platform.
Delivering on this deepened partnership, Interwoven announced in August a new integration with Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003, enabling legal professionals to easily access the Interwoven Matter-Centric Collaboration solution from within the SharePoint Portal Server environment. By integrating with Microsoft technologies such as SharePoint Portal Server, Microsoft Office, and SQL Server, Interwoven is enabling law firms to achieve more seamless and straightforward implementations, while simplifying IT operations and future development roadmaps.
"We see tremendous value for our firm in the strategic relationship between Interwoven and Microsoft," said David Hamilton, IT director at Freshfields. "We use both Interwoven WorkSite and Microsoft Office extensively across our organization, and from an immediate perspective we are planning to roll-out Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Windows XP in combination with Interwoven WorkSite 8. Having our two main software suppliers working even more closely together will make this a very seamless and straightforward implementation and will help us simplify our IT operations and future development roadmaps. This relationship is a winning combination for customers."
Solution Innovation Transforms Legal IT
A key driver of Interwoven's legal market momentum has been its continued
legal solution innovation. In addition to the company's industry-leading
Matter-Centric Collaboration solution, Interwoven law firm customers are
benefiting from the following technology innovations:
- Mobile Document Management -- In today's fast-paced environment, lawyers need the ability to access information at any time, from any location. However, until recently, they only had the ability to download specific files to a laptop for remote use, but lacked the ability to automatically access the entire matter file -- including utilizing features such as check-in/check-out, versioning, and search -- while disconnected from the network. With the Interwoven OffSite module, Interwoven is the first and only vendor to currently provide a truly portable document management offering, enabling lawyers to experience robust document management and e-mail management functionality when disconnected from the network.
- Integrated Document, Records, and E-Mail Management -- Integrated seamlessly with Interwoven's Matter-Centric Collaboration solution, the company's new Records Manager 5.0 product enables law firms to implement policies driven by regulatory compliance, such as the EU market abuse directive, and better manage confidentiality and privacy of client information across both paper and electronic records. Together, the Interwoven Matter-Centric Collaboration solution and Records Manager 5.0 provide law firm customers with the industry's most effective offering to manage paper, electronic documents, and e-mails within a true matter-centric collaboration environment.
About Interwoven
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
reduce business process cycle time from initial collaboration through design,
production, sales, marketing, legal review, IT and service. Interwoven leads
the industry with a service-oriented architecture today and easy-to-use, best-
in-class components and solutions. Today, nearly 3,400 enterprises, law firms,
and professional services organizations worldwide are Interwoven customers
including BT, Ford, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, General Motors, Jones Day,
Motorola and Yamaha. Interwoven is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with
offices around the world. For more information visit www.interwoven.com.