Open Text ECM Solution Enables Sony to Improve its ERP Implementation ROI by One Year

Solution Helps Sony Migrate Two Million Invoices in Two Weeks, Offers Single Point of Access to Over Seven Years of Invoices to Cut Costs, Improve Productivity

Chicago, IL. - 2005-07-20 - Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSX: OTC), the leading independent provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software, said today that its legacy decommissioning solution has enabled Sony Global Treasury Services (GTS) to improve return on investment in its ERP solution by one year. Open Text s legacy decommissioning capabilities, part of the company s Livelink ECM Solutions, allow customers to move large volumes of information from legacy systems to SAP solutions.

Sony GTS acts as the internal banking system for the Sony Group, providing a cashless environment within Sony by consolidating all finance into one central place. With revenues of $8 billion, Sony GTS services are critical to the rest of the Sony Group.

When Sony decided to deploy an SAP solution within its GTS division, its legacy billing system became the by-product of a complete system overhaul, holding seven years worth of invoices. The problem of integrating its core Treasury and invoicing systems, while dealing with a legacy, yet still critical COBOL billing system, became a real challenge for Sony.

The new Open Text capabilities gave Sony a highly scalable solution that allowed the migration of two million invoices in less than two weeks, and the creation of a single access point, so that users could retrieve data within seconds via the SAP user interface.

Within three months of the Open Text solution being implemented, documents previously accessible via COBOL could be accessed from within the SAP application itself. This saved Sony GTS substantial amounts in legacy system support costs.

Tony Griffin, Senior Manager, IT Planning at Sony GTS said: Now we are no longer having to rely on COBOL to access documents, and as a result, significant savings are being made. With the help of Open Text we ve been able to see a return on investment (ROI) on our SAP solution implementation within two years. If we hadn t decommissioned our COBOL system and kept the mainframe running, we wouldn t have seen an ROI for at least three years.

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Open Text is the leading independent provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that bring together people, processes and information in global organizations. Today, the company supports almost 20 million seats across 13,000 deployments in 114 countries and 12 languages worldwide. For more information on Open Text, go to: www.opentext.com.

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