Open Text Empowers Innovation and Collaboration Within The Miller Group

The Miller Group Chooses Livelink to Power Enterprise-Wide Intranet and Support Virtual Project Collaboration

Waterloo, ON - 2000-08-10 - Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSE: OTC), the leading provider of collaborative intranet, extranet and e-business applications, today announced that The Miller Group has chosen Open Text's Livelink to create a centralized resource capable of hosting vast amounts of information generated by The Miller Group's employees.

The Miller Group is the UK s largest privately-owned property development, house building and construction services company, with strategic locations throughout the country. Acting in concert or as autonomous units, The Miller Group s Divisions provide integrated solutions for clients across all sectors.

Committed to an innovative approach to project design and finance, The Miller Group will deploy Livelink as the company s corporate intranet solution to enhance internal communication across all of its divisions. Users of the new information portal will have instant access to news channels, quality control, cost control documents and Group procedures. In addition, Livelink s powerful virtual team features will enable users to collaborate on projects, share knowledge and encourage innovation.

Graeme Stirling, IT Director of The Miller Group, said, "Using Livelink to develop an intranet solution for the entire company will allow employees to remain up-to-date with best industry practices, streamline workflow and improve worker collaboration, ultimately enhancing project performance."

The Miller Group generates a significant quantity of information across the organization that is currently not accessible from a central repository. With Livelink, this volume of information will be transformed into a useful resource through effective knowledge management. Project work documentation that was typically generated from all UK locations, will now be centralized and easily accessed to improve customer service and final product delivery. In the future, The Miller Group plans to extend its deployment of Livelink to encompass the Group s partners.

With more and more companies recognizing the value of a centralized repository of information and the benefit of being able to jointly collaborate on projects via the corporate intranet, the property and construction industries are proving to be fast growth areas for Open Text, explains Andrew Pery, Vice President of Global Marketing at Open Text. Livelink s highly scaleable and comprehensive collaborative environment enables enterprises to leverage their most valuable assets people and knowledge.

About Livelink

Livelink is a highly scaleable e-business application. Its richly-featured enterprise services include virtual team collaboration, business process automation, enterprise group scheduling and information retrieval services, all tightly integrated into a solution that is easily customized and extended. Livelink is essential to the effective management and development of communities of interest that span organizations and industries. For everything from the creation of complex e-community relationships to the automation of simple e-business processes, Livelink delivers true dynamic collaboration between individuals, organizations, and large trading communities. Livelink servers are fully Web-based and open-architected to ensure rapid deployment and easy access to its full functionality through a standard Web browser.

About Open Text

Open Text has pioneered the development of innovative intranet, extranet and e-business applications. Since creating one of the first search engines to index the World Wide Web, the Company has remained at the forefront of Internet-based technologies. Today, Open Text solutions allow individuals, teams, organizations, and global trading communities to collaborate on projects, share ideas and accelerate innovation to the fastest possible speed. We call it HyperInnovation and it is already a major factor in the success of leading Global 2000 organizations. Open Text has become the largest supplier of collaborative, Web-based e-business applications for the enterprise, with over 3.5 million users in 31 countries, speaking 12 languages throughout the world. For more information, visit www.opentext.com

About The Miller Group

The Miller Group is the UK s largest privately-owned property development, house building and construction services company with an annual turnover of over £400million. The Group has operations throughout the UK and employs over 2,000 people. The Group has five Divisions covering property development, housebuilding, construction, civil engineering and mining. www.miller.co.uk

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Margaret E. Dobbin
Director, Industry Analyst Relations
Open Text Corporation
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