Interwoven Unveils Content Apps

The new applications are TeamDoc for workgroup document management, TeamPortal for enabling portal users to access content management services, and TeamCode for managing content-centric code development. TeamCode is expected to be available next quarter, and the other two applications are available now.

The products will work in tandem with Interwoven's MetaTagger, TeamSite and OpenDeploy suite as a content management platform, dubbed the Interwoven 5 Platform, on which additional solutions can be built, the company said.

"This is a platform, which means we won't be building all the applications," said Kevin Cochrane, vice president of product management at Interwoven.

"It's significant," said John Hitchcock, vice president of marketing and alliances at Interwoven partner eForce, Hayward, Calif. "It gives them the opportunity to provide a more overall integrated suite solution to their client base."

TeamPortal uses Web services to tie TeamSite content services to portal technology from 17 vendors, including IBM and BEA Systems. "We're not trying to be your enterprise portal," Cochrane said. "We actually aid and abet your IBM, BEA or other enterprise portals."

TeamDoc extends Interwoven's products beyond managing Web content to managing documents for general business purposes. The application, priced at $50,000 for the first 25 users, is out-of-the-box software that gives business users the ability to set up workgroups and browse, tag and route documents through a collaborative workflow process.

"It's a low-cost system for implementing lower-cost document management than you have today," Cochrane said.

TeamDoc is positioned more for a general market than the complex, process-specific document management solutions from vendors such as Documentum and Stellent, which also recently released an ad hoc workflow application, Cochrane said.