Open Text Extends Collaboration in Livelink

Livelink 9.2 Improves Best Practices, Project Coordination, Knowledge Sharing
Revised Interface Makes Collaboration Easier

Chicago, IL - 2003-11-06 - Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSX: OTC), provider of Livelink®, the leading collaboration and content management software for the global enterprise, said today it is introducing new Livelink features that make collaboration easier, improve best practices and help project teams be more productive. The enhancements, introduced as part of Livelink 9.2, include expanded capabilities for team workspaces and a new interface developed from extensive customer research on usability. Open Text is also introducing a new tool that lets communities of users share content with a single click and easily add information to the Livelink repository.

Open Text announced the new features at LiveLinkUp Orlando 2003, the company s annual users conference underway this week, November 3-6.

"For our customers, Livelink is a central place for collaboration and knowledge sharing, and we re continuing to reinforce that position with the new capabilities we re introducing," said Anik Ganguly, Executive Vice President of Products at Open Text. "The enhancements to Livelink s workspaces were particularly important to us. In large organizations today, team members on a project are often spread across the globe. Project workspaces in Livelink are what binds teams and their work together, so they can be more productive, and overcome the barriers of time and distance."

The new workspace features are designed to help companies advance best practices for projects, and to help teams organize their efforts quickly. Improved workspace templating allows customers to design detailed templates for different types of projects. Templating allows customers to assign standard components, content and structures to workspaces based on the type of project or team using the workspace. For example, a company can create a workspace template for product launches and define the structure, content, tasks, deliverables and other materials needed in the workspace. The workspace template can then be used as the standard for product launch teams across the company. Open Text has also added a project overview page, which includes a status indicator to give users a quick update on the team s progress, and new icon bars for quick navigation within a workspace.

Livelink s new user interface completely revises the look of Livelink, making navigation easier and allowing users to personalize Livelink for their needs. Examples of new features include one-click links to the most commonly used items in personal, enterprise, project and other workspaces; and hyperlinked "bread crumbs" allowing one-click navigation to any folder further up the hierarchy of the current folder. For a look at the new Livelink user interface, click here then click on the Livelink 9.2 Guided Tour.

Open Text is also offering a new, optional feature called Livelink Companion, which is designed to increase the information flow among communities of people in Livelink. With one click, Livelink Companion lets users harvest and share information with others, as well as add information to Livelink to enhance its value as a knowledge repository. Once loaded, Livelink Companion adds a toolbar to the user s Web browser and an application link that sits in the Windows system tray. Through a Livelink Companion window, users can, for example, send a URL to colleagues, including a description, comments and rating, or access industry or competitive news feeds to stay on top of the latest events. Users can also add a URL to Livelink with a single click or add information to the Livelink repository by dragging and dropping items onto a designated icon that appears on the user s desktop. Users can also perform searches directly from the Livelink Companion toolbar, and search within Livelink or submit queries to personal or administrator-specified search engines, such as Yahoo! or Google.

To learn more about LiveLinkUp Orlando, visit:
http://livelinkup-orlando.opentext.com/

About Open Text and Livelink

Open Text is the market leader in providing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that bring together people, processes and information in global organizations. Since launching the world's first Internet search engine and the first Web-based enterprise collaboration and knowledge management software, Open Text has continued its leadership in providing global enterprises with innovative and effective solutions. Throughout its history, Open Text has matched its tradition of innovation with a track record of financial strength and growth. Today, the company supports fifteen million seats across 10,000 deployments in 31 countries and 12 languages worldwide. Open Text s flagship product, Livelink® seamlessly combines collaboration with content management, helping organizations transform information into knowledge to provide the foundation for innovation, compliance and accelerated growth. For more information on Open Text and Livelink, go to: www.opentext.com and www.opentext.com/livelink.

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