Boots Selects Interwoven to Underpin All Enterprise Portal Initiatives

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Interwoven ECM to Help Power Single, All-Embracing Communications Platform for More Than 52,000 Employees of Leading UK Retailer

SUNNYVALE, Calif., - December 16, 2002 - Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV), a world leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM),today announced that The Boots Company Plc (Boots) has selected Interwoven`s ECM platform to help create a single intranet for 52,000 Boots employees. Boots is the leading retailer and manufacturer of health and beauty products in the UK. The new intranet is the result of a business-wide restructuring program designed to simplify and speed up decision-making. Previously Boots had several divisions, including property and manufacturing, each with their own intranet. These activities have now been brought together under one business unit, Boots Retail.

"Our intention is to create a single means of effective and consistent communication for our 52,000 employees with one intranet for all Boots information," says David Lister, Boots chief information officer. "Interwoven`s openness and flexibility supports a collaborative approach for information creation and sharing, helping us meet our objectives of providing a single, all-embracing communication platform."

The Interwoven 5 platform was chosen for its scalability and collaboration features that encourage and enable end-user content contribution. These features include templates for easy contribution, workflows that map to Boots business, e-mail integration, and the import of enterprise content from other IT systems. Interwoven will provide Boots employees with the means to easily create, edit, and deploy more robust information within a single portal.

"A major asset of Interwoven ECM is its usability which empowers all employees with the means to create and share information across the enterprise. Interwoven means anyone can create and publish content in a structured and secure manner," said James Murray, director of Interwoven UK & Ireland. "We are proud to be working with Boots to provide the necessary content management platform for their large portal initiative."

The Interwoven 5 platform will integrate with Microsoft Windows 2000 and will be implemented by both IBM Global Services and Interwoven`s Client Services Organization.

About Boots
Boots is one company with two businesses. Best known as the UK`s largest pharmacy chain, the company also owns, develops and markets consumer healthcare products in 130 countries around the world through Boots Healthcare International. Among its best-known brands are Nurofen, Strepsils and Clearasil.

Boots retail operations continue to break new ground in health and beauty with the recent introduction of wellbeing services from aromatherapy to laser eye surgery. Boots unparalleled product offer includes Boots brands and exclusives such as Britain`s top selling cosmetics range, No7, and the designer hair care brand Toni & Guy. In addition to its stores in the UK and Ireland, Boots also operates in Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong and The Netherlands.

About Interwoven
Interwoven, Inc. is a world-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 the de facto standard for more than 1000 global companies 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. 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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