Sandia National Labs Leverages Open Text s Artesia for Digital Asset Management Needs

Chicago, IL - 2004-11-04 - Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSX: OTC), the world s largest provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software, said today that Sandia National Labs plans to implement its Artesia Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution to manage its digital content, including a large store of historical images. The Artesia solution is provided by Artesia Technologies®, a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Text and a leader in Digital Asset Management software.

Operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin company, for the U.S. Department of Energy s National Nuclear Security Administration, Sandia National Labs is a multi-program laboratory with major research and development responsibilities in U.S. national security, energy and environmental technologies. With more than 8,000 employees and locations worldwide, the organization needed a way to maintain content such as artwork, technical photographs, testing results and components, as well as employee photos.

Sandia was looking for a fast, easy-to-use application to manage more than 40,000 images, with 2000 to 4000 images added per year. Sandia opted to implement Open Text s Artesia solution and hopes to see an almost immediate return on its investment as it deploys the system to 1500 active users.

This system allows us to manage and store a large amount of subject matter in one location, including everything from historical images dating back to the 1940 s, right up to the enormous volume of digital content we create today, said Russell Smith, Corporate Imaging Archive Administrator at Sandia National Labs. We have photographers working on 20 to 50 assignments per month, producing as many as 25 images or more per assignment. An ability to easily find and retrieve content from this central system will be incredibly beneficial to the entire organization.

Artesia is an easy-to-use digital asset management system that serves as the single access point for all digital media files and their underlying information. Artesia enables users to easily find, access, share, reuse, distribute and archive all types of digital content. By centralizing storage and providing easy, efficient, enterprise access to these digital assets, Artesia extends value, allowing content to be quickly repurposed.

The effective management of digital assets, such as those held by Sandia, is fundamental to organizations that need to retrieve information quickly, said Chris Veator, Chief Executive Officer of Artesia Technologies. With a diversity of assets, ranging from artwork to photo identification cards, Sandia will be able to benefit from its adoption of digital asset management technology in a relatively short period of time.

Solutions such as Sandia s will be among the broad range of capabilities Open Text will present at its upcoming annual user conference LinkUp 2004, being held this year in Phoenix, Arizona, November 15-18. For more information, go to: www.opentext.com/linkup.

About Artesia

Artesia Technologies®, a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Text, is the leader in enterprise Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions. Artesia builds innovative solutions for the smart management of digital assets, helping information-intensive companies more efficiently manage their digital assets - reducing costs, safeguarding copyrights, and developing new revenue streams by re-expressing and reusing existing content. Artesia, an award-winning and proven solution, is unique in its ability to offer singular management of all digital content throughout the enterprise via an intuitive, Web-based front-end accessing an enterprise-class back-end. Artesia's blue-ribbon customers include thought leaders as impressive and diverse as Time Warner, DaimlerChrysler, Discovery Communications, DreamWorks, Electronic Arts, General Motors, HBO, Simon and Schuster, public broadcaster WGBH Boston and many more.

About Open Text

Open Text is the market leader in providing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that bring together people, processes and information in global organizations. Throughout its history, Open Text has matched its tradition of innovation with a track record of financial strength and growth. Today, the company supports more than 17 million seats across 13,000 deployments in 67 countries and 12 languages worldwide. For more information on Open Text, go to: www.opentext.com

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