Open Text Introduces Unified Livelink ECM Platform

    Business Editors/High-Tech Editors
    LiveLinkUp Europe 2005

    CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2005--

    Shared Repository and Shared Services Offer Platform for the Full Range of ECM Solutions -From Collaboration to E-mail Management to ERP Integration and More

    Open Text(TM) Corporation (TSX:OTC)(NASDAQ:OTEX), the world's largest provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software, today introduced the Livelink ECM Platform, a secure, integrated framework that combines a shared content repository with user, content, and process services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Open Text announced the news at its European user conference LiveLinkUp Europe 2005, underway this week in London, Paris and Munich.

    The Livelink ECM Platform marks the completion of Open Text's integration of Livelink with the content archive from IXOS Software, which Open Text acquired last year. This integration within the service-oriented architecture announced last fall, allows Open Text to offer a shared platform for multiple solutions, universal access to enterprise content, a common user experience, and simplified maintenance and administration.

    With the platform as a foundation, customers can more quickly and easily deploy a comprehensive range of Open Text ECM solutions, as their needs evolve. These solutions include collaboration, document and content management, compliance, email and records management, ERP integration, and archiving and storage management. This also applies to solutions Open Text offers to meet the specific needs of industries such as government, pharmaceuticals, financial services, energy and more.

    "With the Livelink ECM Platform, we can give customers a unified infrastructure and the flexibility to add ECM solutions when they're ready, as their needs evolve," said Hartmut Schaper, Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Open Text. "With a shared repository and services, customers can start with one departmental ECM solution today, add another tomorrow, and ultimately deploy a comprehensive ECM strategy company-wide when the time is right, all the while leveraging and building upon the company's initial investment."

    Announced in November (www.opentext.com/news/pr.html?id=1546), Open Text's services-oriented architecture provides a layer of software "services" that link corporate applications to repositories of information, no matter where it resides, providing the ultimate in flexibility with existing repositories. The services architecture is being built entirely in Java and includes native support for SOAP-based web services. The services include: Collaboration services to support person-to-person interaction; content services to provide a single point of access to all content; business process services to automate processes around content; and a user directory service for a single point of user management and single sign-on for applications.

    For more information on the Livelink ECM Platform, go to http://www.opentext.com/products/enterprise-content-management/platfor m.html (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.)

    For more information on Open Text's European user conference, LiveLinkUp Europe 2005, go to http://livelinkup-europe.opentext.com/.

    About Open Text

    Open Text(TM) is the market leader in providing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that bring together people, processes and information in global organizations. Throughout its history, Open Text has matched its tradition of innovation with a track record of financial strength and growth. Today, the company supports almost 20 million seats across 13,000 deployments in 114 countries and 12 languages worldwide. For more information on Open Text, go to: www.opentext.com

    This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the success of any of the Company's strategic initiatives, the Company's growth and profitability prospects, the benefits of the Company's products to be realized by customers, the Company's position in the market and future opportunities therein, the deployment of Livelink and our other products by customers, and future performance of Open Text Corporation. Forward-looking statements may also include, without limitation, any statement relating to future events, conditions or circumstances. Forward-looking statements in this release are not promises or guarantees and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, among others, risks involved in the completion and integration of acquisitions, the possibility of technical, logistical or planning issues in connection with deployments, the continuous commitment of the Company's customers and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2004. You should not place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which are based on management's beliefs and opinions at the time the statements are made, and the Company does not undertake any obligations to update forward-looking statements should circumstances or management's beliefs or opinions change.

    Copyright (C) 2005 by Open Text Corporation. LIVELINK and OPEN TEXT are trademarks or registered trademarks of Open Text Corporation in the United States of America, Canada, the European Union and/or other countries. This list of trademarks is not exhaustive. Other trademarks, registered trademarks, product names, company names, brands and service names mentioned herein are property of Open Text Corporation or other respective owners.

    Open Text Corporation (TSX:OTC) (NASDAQ:OTEX)

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CONTACT: Open Text Corporation Margaret Dobbin Director, Industry Analyst Relations (519) 888-7111 ext.2410 mdobbin@opentext.com OR Open Text Corporation Richard Maganini Director, Corporate Communications (847) 267-9330 ext.4266 rmaganin@opentext.com

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