By Version 5.x, Interwoven's TeamSite family of CMS products faced 2 main challenges: a plethora of confusing user interfaces, and a developer-unfriendly customization environment. With the newly released Version 6.0, the company has focused intently on the former problem by putting all content managers into a unified, portal-like interface. Interwoven hardly touched the product's back-end, however, and is placing a big bet that a new Web Services-based API will allow the product to meet the integration needs of new customers without having to uproot the sunk investments already made by the company's sizable installed base. We like the new interface -- Interwoven will always appeal to MarCom types -- but still think a back-end overhaul remains overdue...
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