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Interwoven Extends the Global Reach of Its Widely-Adopted Document Management Offering With New Japanese Version
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WorkSite MP Japanese Version Enables Enterprises With Japanese Operations to Streamline Business Processes and Collaborate for Improved Productivity and Increased Compliance
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 7 / -- Interwoven, Inc. (NASDAQ:IWOV), provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for business, today announced the introduction of a Japanese version of its widely-adopted Document Management offering based on Interwoven WorkSite MP software. With the new release, the company is further extending the global reach of Interwoven Document Management, enabling companies that conduct business in Japan to more effectively streamline business processes and collaborate for improved productivity and increased compliance within one easy-to-use system.
According to leading research group IDC, the average business professional today spends over 13 hours per week creating documents and nearly 7 additional hours organizing them. However, in spite of this, business professionals cannot find the right documents 60-80 percent of the time, resulting in the recreation of past work.* As the volume of documents created every year continues to increase dramatically, this document and information management challenge is often exacerbated for enterprises with offices in multiple countries, since language barriers and different administrative processes can hamper coordination.
Interwoven enables enterprises around the world to overcome this challenge by continuing to expand the reach of Interwoven Document Management with multi-language support. Now, enterprises that conduct business in Japan can ensure the broad adoption of document management company-wide; business professionals who utilize the system in Japanese can still collaborate and share with colleagues in other countries who may speak different languages. Other languages currently supported by Interwoven Document Management include: English, French, German, and Spanish.
Enterprise-Class Document Management and Collaboration Extended Beyond Language Barriers
As enterprises embark on document and collaboration-intensive initiatives such as deal management, contract management, new product introductions, IT project management, and others, they often face common bottlenecks that can stand in the way of a project's success. The new Japanese-localized version of Interwoven Document Management provides enterprises that operate in Japan with the market's only true multi-platform document management offering to enable the successful management of these processes. Previously, enterprises were challenged to achieve effective collaboration and management of these processes due to: geographically-distributed employees; different time zones; language and cultural barriers; external partners, vendors, and other key parties; and compliance challenges imposed by legislation, internal best practices, and regulatory agencies. Now, enterprises with offices in Japan can benefit from one comprehensive system that enables teams, departments, and divisions to more effectively collaborate, build, share information, and manage projects enterprise-wide, regardless of previous language barriers.
"As a strategic Interwoven partner, EXA is thrilled that Interwoven is bringing to market a Japanese version that will help our customers improve communication and productivity for increased competitive advantage," said Akira Mizukami, General Manager, Ubiquitous Solution Sector, EXA Corporation. "Particularly within the financial services and manufacturing industries, there is a heavy reliance on the exchange of corporate information to improve decision making and bring to market new products and services more quickly. With a Japanese version of the Interwoven Document Management offering, we are now in a position to deliver a complete, unified solution for collaboration and document management to the marketplace."
The adoption of Interwoven ECM products and solutions, including Document Management, continues to expand throughout the Asia Pacific region. Key Asia Pacific customers include: Fujitsu; Konica Minolta; Visa; Sharp; HSBC; OCBC Bank; Queensland Department of Employment; Singapore Airlines; Qantas; Yamaha; NEC, and many others.
"With Interwoven's strong and increasing presence in Japan and the broader Asian market, we wanted to further empower our customers with operations in Japan to fully realize the benefits of Interwoven Document Management," said Hiro Sugimoto, managing director for Japan, Interwoven. "Through the solution's extended functionality and Japanese language support, customers can now more easily ensure the broad adoption of document management and collaboration for increased productivity, compliance, and streamlined processes across the enterprise."
About Interwoven Document Management
Interwoven Document Management is based on Interwoven WorkSite MP software, which enables organizations to streamline team-based collaboration and document-intensive processes across geographically-dispersed offices and with outside parties. The "workspace" content-centric design of Interwoven Document Management enables the consolidation of documents, e-mails, records, calendar items, contacts, and more, in a centralized file that is accessible both internally and externally. Additionally, fully integrated e-mail management provides automatic and simplified user-controlled methods that streamline and automate the filing of e-mails and documents into dedicated folders. As a result, all content can be managed, tracked and accessed in one central location, resulting in improved operational efficiency and increased compliance. For more information on Interwoven Document Management, please visit: interwoven.com/dm
Key Features include:
-- Industry-Leading Usability for Streamlined Processes -- Through enhanced WorkSpace configurability and metadata management, as well as the introduction of Knowledge Spaces and Reference Folders, WorkSite MP removes the challenges typically found in "front office" deployments -- such as large training efforts, process re-engineering, and general lack of usage-enabling widespread document management adoption through industry-leading ease-of-use.
-- Offline Mode for Greater Productivity -- This module enables users to add and edit content including documents, collaborative items such as discussion threads, calendar items and even an entire workspace, all while disconnected from the repository. The offline functionality also includes conflict resolution for when users re-synchronize content, maximizing productivity for busy, on-the-go professionals.
-- Records Retention for Increased Compliance -- WorkSite MP has the ability to declare items including documents, folders, and even entire workspaces, and apply retention rules that govern retention and disposition of specifically identified items. Records managers can use an administrative console to manage declared items.
-- Point-and-Click Configuration Tools for Departmental Customization -- Individual departments can now completely localize their interface to an enterprise repository centrally managed by IT, helping to drive the adoption of corporate document management practices by bringing enterprise technology to business users in a form that is intuitive to them.
-- Virtual Folders for Improved Content Re-Use -- Virtual folders aggregate content from across the document management repository using a combination of full text and metadata search criteria. These folders help users leverage organizational knowledge and efficiently re-use it within their projects.
-- Complete Software Developer Kit for Easy Customization -- Companies can effectively leverage their in-house development skills to customize or create new applications through a fully-documented .NET, JAVA, and COM software development kit.
Availability
The Japanese version of Interwoven's Document Management offering is available now. For more information and a full list of product features and benefits, please visit: http://interwoven.com/products/worksite_mp/
*IDC: "The Hidden Costs of Information Work," March 2005
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.
CONTACT: Catherine Brew of Interwoven, Inc., +1-408-530-7043, or
cbrew@interwoven.com
