Open Text and Guardeonic Solutions Partner on Advanced Security Solutions

PKI, Biometric Security to Control Approvals of Key Legal, Regulatory Documents

Paris, France - 2003-05-15 - Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSX: OTC), provider of Livelink®, the leading collaboration and knowledge management software for the global enterprise, said today it is partnering with Guardeonic Solutions AG to offer a full range of digital signature and electronic security solutions to tightly control who in an organization can approve important legal and regulatory documents in Livelink. The solutions, designed for industries facing tough new rules for electronic documents and records, will provide digital signatures that are recognized by law as equivalent to handwritten signatures. his will help ensure that critical information is handled in accordance with laws and company policies, and thereby reduce costs and increase overall process efficiencies.

Open Text announced the plans to Livelink customers today at LiveLinkUp Paris, Open Text's European user conference.

Guardeonic Solutions, based in Munich, Germany, is a leading provider of electronic security solutions, including SmartCards, digital certificates and biometric devices. The companies will combine Guardeonic Solutions' technology with Open Text's Livelink eSign , which provides electronic and digital signatures, workflows and auditing features for documents maintained in Livelink. The solutions will give customers a unique combination of security, digital signature, workflow and auditing features integrated with Livelink.

"With the growing list of new rules governing electronic information and a new focus on corporate accountability, customers are concerned about having a secure process for document approvals," said Bill Forquer, Senior Vice President of Business Development at Open Text. "Following policies and having properly certified signatures by authorized managers is now vital for legal, financial and regulatory documents in every major industry, from pharmaceuticals, to financial services, to government. By working with Guardeonic Solutions, we are meeting that need with the most complete solution available in the industry."

"Our primary focus is on improving business processes by making them secure, and efficient, and by avoiding media breaches. This leads to a comprehensive and complete workflow solution within a trusted environment. As security experts from the first country to enact a digital signature law, we have extensive experience in this area. As a world leader in the area of collaboration and knowledge management systems, Open Text is the ideal strategic partner for us to work with to offer these innovative solutions," said Wolf-Rüdiger Moritz, CEO of Guardeonic Solutions AG.

Guardeonic Solutions' technologies, including Private Key Infrastructure (PKI), digital certificate management, SmartCards and biometric technologies, are security options customers will be able to choose as part of Livelink eSign. Livelink eSign provides electronic and digital signatures, combined with detailed signing workflows, which can be initiated directly from a document requiring a signature. Livelink eSign includes metadata attached to each signature, with information such as the signer's name, title, the date and time of signing, the meaning of the signing and a link to the signing workflow. With the extensive metadata, customers can initiate audits of signing activity.

For more information on Open Text's LiveLinkUp Paris, go to: http://www.opentext.com/livelinkup/2003-Paris/index.html.

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 Guardeonic Solutions AG

Guardeonic Solutions AG, with its headquarters in Munich, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Infineon Technologies. The Guardeonic Group brings together leading solution providers who have wide-ranging expertise in the sectors of security technology and cryptology. Under the brand name of Guardeonic Solutions, the company offers worldwide customer-tailored, inter-operative IT security solutions, consulting and security products. The company employs around 200 staff and, in addition to Germany, is located in Great Britain, Ireland, Belgium, Italy and Denmark. Customers benefit from Guardeonic Solutions' combined reliability and experience, enjoying technological expertise in IT security solutions and products that meet the highest security standards. Its IT security solutions not only protect against information being lost or abused, but also enable the more efficient running of a business and allow companies to enter into new business areas. This lets Guardeonic Solutions make a constant and substantial contribution to the measurable business success of its customers. For further information; visit our site at www.guardeonic.com.

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 fifteen million seats across 10,000 corporate deployments 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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