CNW Group Enhances Client Experience with Open Text's Livelink ECM

Company-wide Client Management Platform To Become Foundation For All Business Lines at CNW Group

Waterloo, ON - 2006-12-07 - Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), the largest independent provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software and solutions, today announced that CNW Group, Canada's number one resource for time-critical news and information, has completed the implementation of its new full-text editorial system, using Open Text's Livelink ECM .

CNW Group provides newsrooms, the financial community and the public with news and photos from over 10,000 sources coast-to-coast and around the world. Open Text's Livelink ECM solution was chosen for its flexible, integrated content management and collaborative workflow capabilities.

"With the addition of Open Text's Livelink ECM, CNW Group now has a seamless, enterprise-wide content management platform to use as a foundation for all business lines across CNW Group," said Melanie Kurzuk, Senior Vice-President News & Information Technology Division, CNW Group. "The extent to which we are able to build a multi-language system and connect to other applications make this a solution for now and the future."

Livelink ECM met CNW's objective of replacing their legacy system with a content management solution that can adapt effortlessly to variations in volume, improve turnaround time, work seamlessly with existing applications and meet growth requirements for years to come. The project also provides support for managing multi-media content and other markup formats such as NewsML and XBRL. Since the implementation of the Open Text solution, CNW has realized expected cost savings and, most importantly, enhanced the client experience.

The new full-text editorial system provides a single, integrated system to manage customer information, work orders and workflow. CNW Group now has a system capable of fulfilling client requests for news release preparation and delivery via wire, fax or email to local and international networks all from one platform, with faster delivery times.

"CNW's project for managing client information is a testament to the company's strength as a market leader," said John Wilkerson, Executive Vice President of Global Sales, Services and Support at Open Text. "Built to enhance CNW's overall customer experience and to support multi-media content and other markup formats, Open Text's Livelink ECM solution provides a more automated and collaborative workflow, resulting in a rapid and reliable execution of work orders and dramatically reducing paper usage."

About CNW Group
CNW Group is Canada's leader in the distribution of time-critical news and information. Founded in 1960, CNW is co-owned by U.S.-based PR Newswire and U.K.-based PA Group and operates Canadian offices from coast-to-coast with 24-hour bilingual service. CNW communication services facilitate the flow of news from Canadian organizations to their local, national, and global audiences in the media and financial communities. CNW Group and CNW Telbec in Quebec, offer a range of market-reaching services for IR professionals within the CNX Marketlink suite and services designed to reach the media within the Newsmaker suite. www.newswire.ca

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

Sylvia Kavanagh
Corporate Communications Manager
CNW Group
Tel: (416) 863-5782, Cell: (416) 230-0504
sylvia.kavanagh@newswire.ca

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