Interwoven News & Articles

Hot on the heels of last week's move to "rescue" its competitors' customers, FatWire is back in the news. Fortifying their competitive edge, folks at FatWire (news, site) launched a new partner program aiming to extend reach and consulting capabilities globally.

Once Autonomy Interwoven and Vignette customers start jumping the ship (if they, in fact, do so), a stronger partner network will clearly come in handy. Sapient, Satyam and EMC Conchango are among FatWire’s "leading partners," if that tells you anything.

The Global Partner Program covers FatWire's full portfolio of solutions -- web content management, targeted marketing and analytics, collaboration and community, content integration, and mobile delivery.

Partners will be able to get certified to deliver the technical, business and marketing consulting services to customers, which should benefit all parties involved.

There are three levels:

• Registered Partner: Experience with multiple implementations, offer some services.
• Certified Partner: Experts in best practices with access to FatWire technical resources.
• Premium Partner: “Deepest knowledge” of best practices, highest levels of access to FatWire expertise and technical resources.

According to the vendor, 2008 had brought approximately 40% revenue growth. Without a successful partner network, it would be difficult to sustain growth. In most cases, it’s next to impossible to be a successful partner without vendor support.

Competition in the Web CMS market is cutthroat. Not a single weakness goes unnoticed. Not a single slip goes unattacked. But it’s just business as usual, right? We all seize opportunities, especially in tight times.

FatWire (news, site) is no exception. Demonstrating as much, the web content management vendor has launched a "rescue program" for Interwoven and Vignette customers who are apparently plagued by their recent acquisitions by Autonomy and Open Text respectively.

What is FatWire offering as bait? Free licenses and "proven migration tools" valid until the end of September. Should you consider?

Obviously if you make the list of any analyst report -- at least in a good light -- you want the world to know. For FatWire (news, site), that analyst report comes in the form of the Forrester Wave for Web Content Management For External Sites, Q2 2009.

One of three leaders among ten web content management systems listed, FatWire received recognition for “business-user-oriented tools that enable not only the management of content, but targeted delivery, analysis, and optimization of content consumption as well.”

We won't go into the details of the report, we did that in our article SDL Tridion Named Leader in Web CMS for External Sites. Suffice it to say, this report is designed for enterprise level organizations who have money to spare (well, no one really has money to spare these days).

It's worth noting that FatWire is the smallest vendor to make the Forrester Wave list. Does that make it any less good? We doubt it, but sometimes the smaller vendors can give better support.

Get your copy of the Forrester Wave and get more detail on FatWire and the other leaders.

Autonomy reported its financial results for the first quarter of 2009. According to the company, these (unaudited) numbers represent the highest Q1 revenues and profits in Autonomy's history.

One of Q1 2009 highlights is, of course, the completed acquisition of Interwoven, Inc. with “integration ahead of plan” and cash flowing in as well as out.

When Autonomy (news, site) announced its acquisition of Interwoven in late January there were many in the web content management industry who believed it was the beginning of the end for Interwoven TeamSite -- this despite Autonomy's commitment at the time that all Interwoven products would live on according to their existing roadmaps.

Well Interwoven does live on, but the roadmap? It's not quite the same. The existing roadmaps for TeamSite and the other products have been accelerated and the capabilities within TeamSite have taken on new meaning -- meaning based marketing.

CMSWire had the opportunity to talk with Autonomy execs to get a better understanding of what is happening since the acquisition was finalized -- there's been a whirlwind of announcements -- and what it means for the future of Interwoven's TeamSite web content management solution.

Want a peak at the new innovations for Intewoven products? Autonomy (news, site) will provide them during the GearUp 2009 Executive Briefing Roadshow.

The Executive Briefing Roadshow is a series of one day events happening around the globe. These events will showcase both the Interwoven product innovations, which include the new IDOLized Interwoven Teamsite, and Autonomy's iManage solution.

Now that the earlier announced acquisition intent is a done deal, and the planned layoffs are (as we hear) underway -- what would be a better move for Autonomy and Interwoven than to release a new product based on mutual strengths?

And so they did. One of the products from the company now called Autonomy Interwoven -- the web content management system Interwoven TeamSite -- has been integrated with Autonomy’s Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) platform.

The IDOL-based TeamSite 6.7.2 will allow customers to use IDOL functionalities like (supposedly) faster search, increased scalability, advanced conceptual content technologies, including customer profiling based on a combination of modes of customer interaction (e.g. e-mail, phone, messaging, web browsing behaviors, etc.)

According to Anthony Bettencourt, CEO of Autonomy Interwoven, the goal of this “injection” is to “enable marketers to derive meaning from all forms of digital information -- both structured and unstructured, text audio and video -- on a single platform.”

It won’t be long until we hear from Autonomy Interwoven again. In the meantime, it would be interesting to see how customers are reacting to the new, IDOLized TeamSite. 

Enterprise content management is always a hot topic. It gets even hotter when you start talking about mergers and acquisitions. This is why the Autonomy / Interwoven deal got so much attention in January. One of the biggest ECM vendors is snapped up by one of the biggest Search vendors -- and in the name of eDiscovery and compliance.

Is this acquisition a sign that we can no longer look at these three areas as separate and individual? That the tools are converging and perhaps becoming secondary to the mindshare that sits behind that technology?

Recommind, a software vendor we've covered in the past, has announced the availability of the latest version of their Decisiv Email software. Version 2.3 brings new functionality to the e-mail categorization software product including automated contacts management and enhanced search.

You have been charged with investigating say... your average Wall Street Super-Sized trading office. Wouldn’t it be grand if you could employ software-driven conceptual analytics to refine your search process of the target data repositories?  With eDiscovery being such a priority for enterprises today, they need a solution that helps them find the information need fast and they need to prove they did it the right way. Autonomy has come to the rescue with a new search module that claims to do all this and more.

Big new yesterday -- the acquisition of Enterprise Content Management provider Interwoven by Autonomy. A surprise to many, not so much because Interwoven was snapped up, but more because it was Autonomy that did it.

Regardless, the news has sparked much discussion in the ECM industry. Or wait.. it's the Web Content Management industry that is all a buzz...

Well, didn't really see that one coming, did you? The Wall Street Journal has reported today that Autonomy, one of the leading search providers, has bought Interwoven for US$ 775 million. Is the world of Enterprise Content Management about to take a significant change in direction?

Interwoven, a known player in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) market, has recently announced a round of layoffs for 2009.

EMC Corporation -- an Enterprise CMS, and information management and infrastructure vendor -- announced that it expects an all-time quarterly revenue record for its Q4 2008. The preliminary results show expected revenue of approximately US$ 4 billion, which is approximately 8% revenue growth over Q3 2008, and 4% growth over the same period a year ago.

On the not-so-optimistic side, EMC also announced its plans to cut as many as 2,400 jobs, representing approximately 7% of its entire workforce.

It’s a Swiss treats day for a Swiss vendor. Enterprise CMS provider Day Software has received the Swiss Open Source Award 2008 in the business category.

Recipe for success? Mix two tablespoons of Day with several pounds of a new chief marketing officer, who has arrived from Interwoven via the open source devout Alfresco. And, voila! The open source awards will follow.

Day’s recently-onboarded CMO Kevin Cochrane tells us all the glorious details about this award and (much) more — including, why he left Interwoven and Alfresco.