Venetica Extends Enterprise Content Integration Platform to Open Text s ECM Suite Livelink

Charlotte, N.C. and Orlando, Fla. - 2003-11-05 - Venetica, the leading provider of enterprise content integration (ECI) software, today announced extended support for Open Textä Corporation s LivelinkÒ, collaboration and content management software for the global enterprise. Venetica offers a Content Bridge to Livelink, enabling real-time federated access to content in Livelink and other repositories from within business applications. The Bridge provides an option for Open Text customers who are creating enterprise applications, such as portals, intranets, customer service or compliance initiatives, that need to harness the value of content in Livelink as well as other systems they may have in their enterprise. This announcement is being made in conjunction with LiveLinkUp Orlando 2003, Open Text s annual users conference underway this week, November 3-6.

Venetica, an Open Text Global Alliance Partner, provides customers with a single interface to content across disparate environments. Unlike other offerings that create copies of documents and meta-data, Venetica solutions provide a real-time virtual view of content and workflow in place. Venetica s approach exposes the full, two-way functionality of underlying content management and workflow systems, respects the security of those systems and adds cross-system services such as federated search.

An ECI platform allows customers to focus on their immediate business objectives, such as a life sciences company looking to get a new drug to market more quickly. The team working on a particular new drug application submission needs access to clinical trials documents directly from their clinical trials application. However, in a large company, these documents may be stored in disparate repositories across different divisions. VeniceBridge enables companies to create applications that span different content, image and report management systems to expedite complex processes such as FDA submissions.

"VeniceBridge eliminates the complexities associated with the various underlying technologies at play in any given environment through seamless access to content - for any enterprise application, from any system," said Stuart Levinson, president and CEO, Venetica. "This announcement underscores our continual work to create the most robust ECI platform for our customers."

"For our customers, Livelink serves as a central place for knowledge sharing and collaboration," said Mike Baraiolo, Vice President, Global Business Development at Open Text. "Enterprise content integration is important for Livelink because it gives customers greater flexibility and more ways to offer access to content in Livelink. Venetica s solution fits our strategy of offering customers easy ways to integrate Livelink in the enterprise."

By providing a single platform for content and workflow across disparate systems, Venetica helps companies with their business critical initiatives such as improving customer service, complying with new regulations and consolidating operations following a merger.

Venetica s solution complements Open Text s content integration offering for Livelink called Livelink Doorways. Livelink Doorways enhances collaboration by bringing together all of a company's content, no matter where it resides, and making it available to users working in Livelink. The VeniceBridge solution is designed for customers with projects built outside of Livelink which require access to Livelink content, along with content from other systems.

For more information on Venetica and VeniceBridge, please visit Venetica at LiveLinkUp Orlando in booth #9, or visit them on the web at www.venetica.com.

For more information on 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.

About Venetica

Venetica is the leading provider of enterprise content integration software. The company s flagship product, VeniceBridge®, dramatically reduces the cost and complexity associated with creating content-rich applications such as portals, collaborative applications, CRM and others. Venetica also provides out-of-the-box bridges to leading systems such as those from FileNet, Documentum, IBM, Open Text, Microsoft and Lotus Notes. Built with a flexible service-oriented architecture, Venetica leverages numerous industry standards, including Web Services, Java, and .NET. Venetica partners with leading software vendors and system integrators in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region to deliver solutions around the world. For more information on Venetica please visit http://www.venetica.com.

For more information, please contact

Amy Cojac Andrews
Public Relations
Venetica
+1-704-926-3112
aandrews@venetica.com

Margaret E. Dobbin
Director, Industry Analyst Relations
Open Text Corporation
+1-519-888-7111 ext.2410
mdobbin@opentext.com

Richard Maganini
Open Text Corporation
1-847-961-0662
rmaganin@opentext.com