Open Text Brings Livelink Workspaces, Content to Portals

Latest Enterprise Content Integration Capability Adds Value to Customers Portals

Chicago, Il - 2003-08-21 - Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSX: OTC), provider of Livelink®, the leading collaboration and content management software for the global enterprise, today introduced a new product, called Livelink UNITE Anywhere, that makes all the capabilities of Livelink easily accessible within any commercially available portal. Customers can easily create tailored window views in a portal that offer access to Livelink's collaborative tools, workspaces and content, extending the portal's capabilities and improving enterprise content integration.

Livelink UNITE Anywhere is an extension of Livelink UNITE , which Open Text introduced last year. Livelink UNITE provides virtual workspaces with tailored views of Livelink content for project teams and individuals working in Livelink. UNITE Anywhere takes the same capabilities and extends them into any portal. Customers can create customized views of Livelink within a portal, including specialized workspaces with Livelink content, all designed to meet the specific needs of project teams or individuals. UNITE Anywhere also allows customers to easily deliver Livelink content in the same way to Websites or extranets not built on a portal framework.

Customers can also offer access to a wide range of Livelink tools through their portal, for example online team meetings with Livelink MeetingZone , as well as knowledge and document management, information retrieval, workflows, and even records management.

Organizations that have invested heavily in portals rely on them as a central place for online work, said Anik Ganguly, Executive Vice President of Products at Open Text. But customers are demanding more from their portals, including improved collaboration tools and better ways to manage information for regulatory compliance. With Livelink UNITE Anywhere, companies can easily add scalable collaboration and knowledge management to portals without specialized programming. It s a great option for customers, who today must choose solutions that either have limited features or are too expensive.

According to Ganguly, customers current options include connectors from application vendors that only work with a specific portal or specialized portlets created by portal vendors for a specific customer neither of which is easily extended. The other option is choosing the usually limited collaboration and document management capabilities offered by portal vendors. Livelink UNITE Anywhere is a ready-made super connector that automatically makes all of Livelink available, so Livelink content can be easily tailored or personalized to meet very specific needs. UNITE Anywhere also offers access to Livelink s brokered search, which lets users submit a single query and receive combined results from multiple Livelink repositories, public and internal search engines, and from other authenticated sites.

Livelink UNITE Anywhere works with any portal, including Oracle Portal, mySAP Enterprise Portal, Plumtree Corporate Portal, Vignette Application Portal, Netscape iPlanet Portal, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, as well as Open Text s own portal, Coreport.

Solutions for Enterprise Content Integration Livelink UNITE Anywhere is the latest in a series of Open Text offerings designed to give customers greater flexibility to link content and applications spread across the enterprise. Other solutions include Livelink UNITE, which provides tailored views of content inside Livelink; Coreport, a portal which lets users offer tailored access to a wide range of content and applications based on job functions, departments, distributor networks, even project teams; Livelink Doorways , which bridges content and tools across different repositories and provides centralized access through Livelink; and Livelink for Content Management which lets users create, manage and publish online content.

Livelink UNITE Anywhere is available now from Open Text. For more information, go to www.opentext.com/livelink/contentmanagement/

About Livelink

Livelink is a leading software product in enterprise content management (ECM) for the global enterprise. Its richly-featured enterprise services are based upon a unique combination of integrated collaboration and knowledge management tools which 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 ECM 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.

Trademark

Copyright © 2003 by Open Text Corporation. LIVELINK, LIVELINK MEETINGZONE, LIVELINK UNITE ANYWHERE, COREPORT 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.

Oracle Portal is a trademark of Oracle Corporation.

mySAP Enterprise Portal is a trademark of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries all over the world.

Plumtree Corporate Portal is a trademark of Plumtree Software, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries.

Vignette Application Portal trademark or registered trademark of Vignette Corp. in the United States and other countries.

Netscape iPlanet Portal is a trademarks or registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

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