Open Text to Demonstrate Expanded Records Management and Compliance Offering at ARMA 2006

Livelink ECM - Records Management Helps Customers Manage the Complete Lifecycle of Corporate Records to Reduce Risk, and Manage Compliance

Waterloo, ON - 2006-10-19 - Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSX: OTC), the largest independent provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software and solutions, announced today that it will show an expanded offering of innovative compliance and records management solutions at ARMA 2006. ARMA International s 51st Annual Conference is being held in San Antonio, Texas, from October 22-25 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. Open Text will showcase its industry-leading solutions at booth #330.

With today's growing list of regulatory and legal requirements, progressive organizations are formalizing records policies and looking to integrated records management systems to protect, organize, and manage their entire content lifecycle. Records management practices help organizations meet complex regulatory provisions, mitigates the risk of litigation, fines, and other penalties, eliminates redundant information, and reduces time spent locating records.

Open Text s records management solutions are among the industry s most advanced and widely tested. As a result of its acquisition of Hummingbird, Open Text now offers an expanded portfolio of solutions aimed at a wide range of vertical markets including legal, government, financial services, energy, pharmaceuticals, retail, manufacturing, and media and entertainment.

Compliance requirements can be overwhelming for companies today, said Bill Forquer, Executive Vice President, Compliance Solutions Business at Open Text. By delivering a broad range of both solutions and expertise, we are helping our customers manage information in a compliant and transparent way, while ensuring that content is safe, searchable and readily accessible.

Throughout ARMA 2006, attendees will learn how Open Text s records management expertise helps organizations establish comprehensive lifecycle management of paper and electronic records. Open Text and Open Text customers will be speaking in many sessions. They include the following:

ARMA Pre-Conference Sessions

Friday, October 20th

8:30 a.m. 9:45 a.m.: Collaboration as the New Standard of Excellence How IT and records management professionals can collaborate for a successful records management program.

Saturday, October 21st

8:30 a.m. 9:45 a.m.: An E-mail Discovery Project at Cargill -- Learn how Open Text customer Cargill reduced the risk of email discovery.

ARMA Sessions

Monday, October 23rd,

10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: Panel discussion: E-mail Management - What s New in Archiving Solutions -- This panel will evaluate the latest e-mail archiving solutions and how to determine which is best for an organization.

1:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m.: The Effect of Exiting Employees on Corporate Memory -- This session will address the generational shift that is escalating in the knowledge worker demographic, particularly in the public sector, with the highest risk in the loss of senior project and technical managers.

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.: Panel discussion: ECM Solutions - How They Compare -- What differentiates one ECM product from another? Where do records management, document management, imaging, and archives fit in?

Tuesday, October 24th

10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m.: Panel discussion: What s Hot in Litigation Support Technology Open Text will join a discussion on the hottest technologies in litigation support, the key players and overall trends to watch.

1:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m.: Panel discussion: Emerging Technologies 2007 -- This panel will discuss significant technology innovations that will affect RIM practitioners in 2007.

Wednesday, October 25th

8:30 a.m. 9:45 a.m.: Managing Municipal Government e-Records: A case study on the City of Austin s implementation of a DoD 5015.2-certified enterprise electronic records management system.

8:30 a.m. 9:45 a.m.: Panel discussion: Successes in records management and IT Collaboration -- Three Livelink ECM - eDOCS customers will talk about their successes with their records management and IT collaboration.

For more information about ARMA International s 51st Annual Conference and Expo, please visit: http://www.arma.org/conference/index.cfm.

About Open Text

Open Text is the world's largest independent provider of Enterprise Content Management software. The company's solutions manage information for all types of business, compliance and industry requirements in the world's largest companies, government agencies and professional service firms. Open Text supports approximately 46,000 customers and millions of users in 114 countries and 12 languages. For more information about Open Text, visit www.opentext.com.

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For more information, please contact

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

Richard Maganini
Open Text Corporation
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rmaganin@opentext.com

Brian Edwards
McKenzie Worldwide
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