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HILTON INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVES GLOBAL E-COMMERCE SUCCESS WITH INTERWOVEN WEB CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND TRANSLATIONS.COM'S ENTERPRISE LANGUAGE SOLUTION

Hotel Leader Presented to Hundreds of Attendees at Last Week's Interwoven GearUp '05 Europe Conference on "How to Select, Design and Build a Global Content Management System for Business Success"

SUNNYVALE, California and NEW YORK, New York, October 24, 2005 - Interwoven, Inc. (NASDAQ: IWOV), provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for business, and its partner Translations.com, the leading provider of language support solutions for business, today announced that joint customer Hilton International is achieving global e-commerce success through the combination of Interwoven's industry-leading Web Content Management (WCM) solution and Translations.com's GlobalLink enterprise language solution. The hotel leader presented its business success story last Thursday at the Interwoven GearUp '05 Europe conference in London during a session entitled, "How to Select, Design and Build a Global Content Management System for Business Success." With the tightly-integrated Interwoven and Translations.com solutions, Hilton International has been able to seamlessly and effectively build a direct channel e-commerce initiative for key European and Asian markets. The effort resulted in the creation of eight localized Web Sites representing seven different languages.

Last week's Interwoven GearUp '05 Europe 'ECM Solutions Conference' in London (October 19-20, 2005) was a highly successful event, attracting hundreds of Interwoven customers from across Europe; premier partner sponsors including Microsoft, Sun, Accenture, and others; and presentations from other leading Interwoven customers such as BT, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, Adidas, Lloyds TSB Bank, and more. Interwoven customers presented on how they are successfully leveraging Interwoven ECM solutions to streamline key business processes for improved revenue growth, reduced business risk, and lower costs. For more conference highlights, please go to: http://www.interwoven.com/events/conferences/gearup_emea05/index.html

Hilton International operates over 400 hotels across Europe and Asia including 260 Hilton-branded hotels as well as an additional 140 Scandic properties. In 2002, Hilton International outlined an aggressive e-commerce strategy to build a series of Web sites for its largest markets including the UK, Germany, and Japan. As part of this initiative, local language Web sites were also to be developed for the Hilton-owned Scandic brand hotels across the key Scandinavian countries and Finland.

The company was faced with a number of challenges in implementing this new e-commerce strategy. The project required the translation and editing of more than 4.5 million words of content and over 25,000 individual content files. Additionally, Hilton International had to ensure that a smooth and seamless process was put in place for Web content contributors from around the world to submit, edit, and maintain content. The over-arching operational objective for Hilton International was to empower local hotel properties to directly contribute to and maintain their new localized sites, while still preserving a consistent Hilton International look and feel across all the sites.

To address these challenges, Hilton International implemented the Interwoven WCM solution-powered by Interwoven Teamsite software-to establish a common platform for business users around the world to seamlessly contribute and maintain localized Web content; this was in combination with Translations.com's GlobalLink enterprise language solution to support the translation of content across seven different languages. Fully integrated, the Interwoven and Translations.com solutions provided Hilton International with a comprehensive global content solution they could put in place immediately to accomplish their aggressive e-commerce initiatives.

"Achieving true e-commerce success is no easy task when you have to take into consideration multiple languages, cultures, and consumer behavior and expectations," said Suzanne Thornley, consultant, Hilton International. "Interwoven and Translations.com provided us with the robust solution we needed to accomplish our e-commerce objectives for localized sites in key target markets."

As a result of implementing the Interwoven and Translations.com solutions, Hilton International was able to successfully create eight new localized Web sites representing the company's hotel properties across three continents and seven different languages. Ongoing maintenance of the new Web sites, including time-sensitive promotional content, as well as the content for online reservation applications, is managed through integrated workflows provided by the combined Interwoven and Translations.com solution. Now, Web content contributors in any Hilton International location can directly and seamlessly contribute content to localized sites that are consistent in the Hilton look and feel and support corporate messaging and branding. By empowering business users across locations with direct control, Hilton International is also helping to ensure that localized marketing initiatives can be deployed much more rapidly for increased competitive advantage.

"Interwoven is a key partner for us, and by integrating with their Web Content Management solution, we can jointly enable leading companies like Hilton International to achieve their global e-commerce objectives, no matter how complex or widespread," said Mark Hagerty, director of application development for Translations.com. "Hilton International has set a true example for how global e-commerce expansion can be accomplished."

"It's extremely gratifying to play such a significant role in helping a global leader like Hilton International achieve their goal of successfully expanding their business in such a short amount of time," said Erik Hansen, senior vice president and general manager, EMEA operations, Interwoven "Interwoven's heritage is in delivering industry-leading Web Content Management solutions, and by partnering with language translation pioneers like Translations.com, we can provide our global customers with even deeper solutions to meet all their Web needs."

About Interwoven Web Content Management

The Interwoven Web Content Management solution is based on Interwoven TeamSite software, the industry's most advanced content management software that enables organizations to manage mission-critical information and gain competitive advantage through the deployment of applications such as internally-facing intranets and employee portals, and external sites such as public Web sites, dealer portals, and extranets.

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.

About Translations.com

Translations.com is known worldwide for the quality of its software and website localization, as well as its enterprise language solutions for clients in virtually every major industry. Translations.com's business services meet the strategic needs of organizations seeking to communicate and conduct business in international markets. The company has an established global presence on three continents and continues to pioneer new techniques and technologies for the rapid development of multilingual business solutions.

Translations.com is part of the TransPerfect global group of companies. For more information, please visit www.translations.com, or email the company at info@translations.com.