Livelink From Open Text Helps Power mySAP.com Collaborative Communities

Open Text Joins Forces With SAP to Deliver Industry-Focused Communities for Business-to-Business Collaboration

PHILADELPHIA -SAPPHIRE'99 - 1999-09-14 - Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX; TSE:OTC), the leading provider of collaborative knowledge management and corporate portal solutions, today announced a technology alliance with SAP AG, the world's leading provider of inter-enterprise software solutions, that will deliver Livelink®'s collaborative services to mySAP.com Marketplace. mySAP.com provides an open collaborative business environment of personalized solutions on demand. This enables companies of all sizes and industries to fully engage their employees, customers and partners to capitalize upon the new Internet economy. This relationship between Open Text and SAP will provide enterprise collaboration for communities of interest in mySAP.com Marketplace to share ideas, insights and experience.

By providing access to Livelink's powerful collaborative engines, SAP customers and partners gain unprecedented competitive advantages. Livelink's collaborative knowledge management services bring buyers and sellers together, give users the ability to form virtual collaborative teams, share business critical information, and leverage the collective experience of the entire SAP user community. Open Text will show Livelink's collaborative features including focused industry discussions, knowledge libraries, and news channels for mySAP.com at SAPPHIRE'99 Philadelphia, the SAP Americas Annual Customer Conference. Additional Livelink features such as Livelink team calendars are scheduled to be added by year's end.

"This alliance offers a unique opportunity to the SAP business community. The addition of collaboration with mySAP.com Marketplace allows users to instantly create business communities around specific opportunities and interests," says Les McNeill, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing, Open Text Corporation. "The alliance with SAP confirms that Livelink is the engine of choice to power collaborative knowledge management for business portal solutions."

"SAP is pleased to be working with Open Text on mySAP.com, based on its leadership in the collaborative knowledge management industry and for Livelink's status as a leading collaborative portal engine," said Heinz Ulrich Roggenkemper, executive vice president, SAP Labs, Inc. "With mySAP.com, powered in part by Livelink, we can establish collaborative markets and facilitate dynamic relationships. Livelink adds a key ingredient to the success of business collaboration."

Open Text is exhibiting at SAPPHIRE'99 Philadelphia September 13 through to September 16, 1999, at booth # 1325-1327.

About mySAP.com

This expanded solution complements mySAP.com. mySAP.com provides an open collaborative business environment of personalized solutions on demand. This enables companies of all sizes and industries to fully engage their employees, customers and partners to capitalize upon the new Internet economy. Further information about mySAP.com can be found at http://www.mySAP.com

Trademark

Copyright © 1999 by Open Text Corporation. Livelink is a registered trademark of Open Text Corporation. Open Text and HyperInnovation are trademarks of Open Text Corporation. SAP, R/3, SAPPHIRE , mySAP.com and all SAP product and service names referenced herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. This list is not exhaustive. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

For more information, please contact

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

Sarah Burns
High Road Communications
(416) 368-8348
sburns@highrd.com