Open Text's New Livelink UNITE Provides Virtual Workspaces with Tailored Content for Collaboration

Unified Views Bring Together Content to Fit the Needs of Project Teams and Individuals

Chicago, IL - 2002-06-26 - Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSX: OTC), provider of Livelink®, the leading collaboration and knowledge management software for the global enterprise, today introduced Livelink UNITE which lets users create virtual workspaces with tailored content for project teams and individuals. Livelink UNITE streamlines collaboration by presenting a unified view of all content needed by a project team collaborating online or individuals who want easy access to content that fits their job roles.

Livelink UNITE brings together workspaces, documents, meetings, discussions, and other content from any number of Livelink repositories into a common user interface, helping project teams access and share information as they collaborate in Livelink. With Livelink UNITE, team leaders and managers can also create and push content to project teams or individuals throughout an organization. Livelink UNITE also includes brokered search capabilities, allowing users to submit single search queries to multiple data sources and receive one set of results.

"We were looking for a new way for people to share information from geographically diverse locations and collaborate online, with the end goal of increasing productivity," said Hugh Banister, Global IS Manager, Premier Oil. "Our solution needed to accommodate multiple Business Units around the world. Livelink UNITE offers a unique solution by letting employees work together and exchange information through a personalized window designed around their needs and interests. Each user is shielded from the complexities of the underlying IT architecture, and is presented only with the information that is relevant to them, independent of the information location."

"Finding the right information in the vast repositories of data in companies today too often slows collaboration," said Anik Ganguly, executive vice president of products at Open Text. "Livelink UNITE streamlines collaboration by giving users one-click access to all the content they need from a single interface, filtering out the content they don't need and helping them to be more productive."

According to Gartner, Inc., "The vast explosion of unstructured data types is overwhelming the management infrastructure of many enterprises. It is negatively affecting the productivity of individuals and the overall competitiveness of enterprises. It is the need for better organization, access and processes around digitally based collaborative work products and processes that the would-be smart enterprise suite vendors are trying to address."*

With Livelink UNITE, users set up virtual workspaces by selecting items of interest from any Livelink system to which they have access. Users can also create tailored tree-view "context maps" for easy, one-click access to and navigation of content in Livelink from key starting points.

Livelink UNITE Views offer managers the ability to publish headlines, banners, information and other content packaged together, which can be targeted to individuals or specific user communities. For example, a human resources department can develop pre-packaged content for new hires and provide directly to new hires via their UNITE workspaces.

Livelink UNITE's brokered search capabilities let users submit a single query and receive combined results from multiple Livelink repositories, public and internal search engines, and from other authenticated sites.

*Gartner, "The First Wave of Smart Enterprise Suites", Karen Shegda, Mark Gilbert, Debra Logan, Simon Hayward, Lou Latham, and French Caldwell. May 2002.

About Livelink

Livelink is the leader in collaboration and knowledge management for the global enterprise. 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. For more information, visit www.opentext.com/livelink/.

About Open Text

Since 1991, Open Text Corporation has delivered innovative software that brings people together to share knowledge, achieve excellence, deliver innovation, and enhance processes. Its legacy of innovation began with the successful deployment of the world s first search engine technology for the Internet. Today, as the leading global supplier of collaboration and knowledge management software for the enterprise, Open Text supports five million users across 4,500 corporations in 31 countries and 12 languages throughout the world. As a publicly traded company, Open Text manages and maximizes its resources and relationships to ensure the success of great minds working together. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.

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