Combination of European and American Experience Crucial to Addressing Evolving eBusiness Needs Across EMEA Customer Base

Ascot, U.K. - July 25, 2001- Interwoven Inc. (Nasdaq:IWOV), the leading provider of Content Infrastructure, today announced that Hartmut "Hardy" Poppinga has been appointed to the newly created position of marketing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

Joining the EMEA virtual executive management team and based from Interwoven's central European operations in Munich, Poppinga will facilitate the growth in awareness of Interwoven's Content Infrastructure, its products and alliances and the development and adoption of sales tools and programs, across the entire region. His responsibilities will include the building of European marketing teams, managing the execution of marketing communications, direct marketing, event marketing, product marketing and online marketing activities.

"Hardy's experience in managing and marketing eBusiness operations in both Europe and America will be invaluable to Interwoven being able to brand itself as the undisputed leader in Content Infrastructure across Europe's national markets," said Jan Nordhagen, vice president, Interwoven EMEA. "In the current economic climate, the success of selling enterprise software in Europe is dependent on our ability to address the specific needs of customers across the EMEA markets."

"In a short period of time, Interwoven has grown to be the undisputed leader in Content Infrastructure," said Poppinga. "With our products and employees, our customers and our partners, Interwoven is poised to consolidate on its outstanding European growth over the last 18 months. We have a tremendous opportunity and I look forward to working with Jan Nordhagen's excellent team to achieve our objectives and expand on our regional success."

Prior to joining Interwoven, Poppinga was managing director, western region, of OAR, Inc., a provider of e-Process software and business services based in Northbrook, Illinois, USA. Hardy was formerly vice president of marketing and eCommerce for Corporate Interactive (COIN) AG, of Hanover, Germany, where he was responsible for leading its successful merger with OAR, Inc and coordinating American and European marketing initiatives.

Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV) is the world's leading provider of Content Infrastructure software. Its content infrastructure product suite includes content aggregation, content collaboration, content management, content intelligence and content distribution. Its products are the de facto standard for over 700 Global 2000 companies including British Airways, Cisco Systems, General Electric, General Motors and Philips. Interwoven teams with the leading best-of-breed eBusiness application providers to provide customers an end-to-end platform for eBusiness. For more information on one of the fastest growing software companies in Silicon Valley and its proven XML-based solutions, visit the Interwoven Web site at www.interwoven.com.tw .