Open Text Announces LiveLinkUp Paris Award Winners

Customers Honored for Best-in-Practice Open Text Solutions

Chicago, Il - 2003-05-22 - Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSX: OTC), provider of Livelink®, the leading collaboration and knowledge management software for the global enterprise, today announced the winners of the LiveLinkUp Paris 2003 Awards.

The winners were recognized at the LiveLinkUp Paris conference last week, which also featured an exemplary line-up of Open Text Customer Presenters from such organizations as F.Hoffmann-La Roche, Shell U.K. Exploration and Production, Roland Berger, Flemish Government, Dutch Refugee Council, JohnsonDiversey, Worknet, Patni Computer Systems, Stadtsparkasse München, Pels Rijcken & Droogleever Fortuijn, Infineon Technologies, T-Systems, and Siemens AG.

Highlights of the conference, including sessions and keynote presentations, will be compiled in a full-color, hard copy resource and comprehensive CD-ROM. To order an advanced copy of the LiveLinkUp Paris 2003 proceedings, or to order the proceedings from a previous LiveLinkUp conference, please visit: http://www.opentext.com/livelinkup/proceedings/index.html.

LiveLinkUp Awards
Award winners were selected from among a distinguished group of customer entrants, including:

• Barnardos
• BP
• Flemish Government
• Hutchison 3G
• Infineon
• Lloyds Register
• Fundació La Caixa
• Nortel Networks
• Patni Computer Systems
• Siemens Financial Services
• Skeria AB
• Stadtsparkasse Muenchen
• The Open University
• T-Mobile Austria GmbH

Open Text honored the following customers with a LiveLinkUp Award for their dedication to achieving real business value and competitive advantage through Open Text solutions and applications:

Knowledge Management Solution
Winner: Patni Computer Systems
Patni's Knowledge Management System, built around Livelink, is used by both delivery and sales organizations that are spread all over the globe. It has been successful in capturing business knowledge and is being used to reduce turnaround time and increase productivity of the organization.

Collaborative Solution
Winner: Barnardos
Barnardo s Livelink solution is helping its staff transform the lives of young people by facilitating comprehensive recording and access to case worker information. It also provides the ability to share information online with partner agencies, in accordance with government e-business directives.

Document & Content Management Solution
Winner: Siemens Financial Services
The Siemens Group, Siemens Financial Services GmbH, Munich, maintains an international network of financing companies, offering a broad range of financial solutions and services. Siemens Financial Services has implemented a fully integrated enterprise content management architecture based on Livelink. XML Skinning enables content to be dynamically published directly from Livelink to the organization s Intranet and to the SAP Enterprise Portal (piloted).

Library & Catalog Management Solution
Winner: Fundació La Caixa
Using BASIS software, Caixa has developed an online media library of texts, images and sounds devoted to contemporary art and music from all periods. The media collection serves as a cultural encouragement center and document management repository through which the organization offers library services to visitors and partners.

Business Application
Winner: BP
BP adopted Livelink to support its internal guidance methodology for managing high value capital expenditure projects, such as the drilling of a new well. Playing a significant role in optimizing project results, the Livelink solution has improved visibility of project deadlines and risk management processes.

Winner: Flemish Government
In order to stimulate the use of qualitative business advice by small and mid-sized companies, the Flemish Government developed an online program for acquiring external know-how at reduced costs through business consultancy cheques . The entire administrative process from subscription, verification and validation with external business administrative repositories up to the actual placing of the print order for the cheques is automated through Livelink.

Centrinity FirstClass Solution
Winner: The Open University
Offering distance learning to around 200,000 part-time students, The Open University uses FirstClass to provide an infrastructure for tutors and students to share information and resources in a secure and user-friendly environment. The FirstClass online learning community improves student-student and student-tutor communication, reduces isolation, and aids learning through discussion and debate.

Open Text s Affinity Partner division also acknowledged the outstanding contributions of two European Open Text partners:

European Channel Partner of the Year
Winner: eXpanded Media
Livelink plays a key role in our total solution offering to the market, with various application areas. We owe this LiveLinkUp Award especially to our succesful integrations with Selor, the Flemish Government and Umicore. At Selor we implemented a competence management system for 30,000 employees, based on Livelink. Within Umicore we developed a knowledge management system within the Research & Development department worldwide with Livelink. And of course the e-government implementation with the Flemish government. As Affinity Partner of Open Text we are very proud of this Award, said Guy Claesen, commercial director of eXpanded Media.

European Technology Partner of the Year
Winner: Pallas/Exper Team
Livelink is a powerful platform that enables us to efficiently deploy our XML know-how of many years in order to develop innovative and cost efficient solutions for our customers, said Dr. Marc Diefenbruch, Head of Department Intelligence, Pallas.

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 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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For more information, please contact

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