Open Text Expands Content Lifecycle Management Services for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

New Solution for Open Text s eDOCS Customers Provides Content Lifecycle, Records Management and Archive Services for SharePoint Content

ARMA 2008 Las Vegas, Nevada - 2008-10-22 - Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), today introduced an expansion of its content lifecycle management (CLM) services for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, extending the solution to its eDOCS customers. CLM Services for SharePoint, eDOCS Edition by SeeUnity will provide eDOCS customers integrated records management and archiving capabilities to improve compliance initiatives in a market where growing regulatory demands and risk management are major concerns.

Open Text provides CLM services for customers to manage the lifecycle of all their business content, from creation to disposition, with the ability to apply records retention rules. Customers can manage information from different systems centrally, with a single set of records management rules to help meet regulatory and business requirements. The services can be applied to information in a variety of systems, not only Open Text repositories, but also SAP, email, shared drives and content created and managed in SharePoint Server 2007.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 offers a powerful business productivity platform that spans collaboration, social computing, enterprise content management and enterprise search that organizations can deploy to meet their enterprise requirements. Open Text extends the built-in SharePoint Server 2007 enterprise content management capabilities by providing robust, enterprise-scale content lifecycle management services across content in all SharePoint sites and other enterprise repositories. Organizations gain the powerful collaborative and enterprise content management capabilities of SharePoint Server 2007, backed by the integration and centralized records and lifecycle management that address corporate compliance and policy mandates.

This latest edition extends the power of the services for SharePoint Server 2007 to eDOCS customers, allowing them to manage content created in SharePoint Server 2007 more effectively. Organizations can develop comprehensive compliance solutions governing electronic content, including email, file systems, and other record-generating environments, while ensuring litigation readiness and supporting discovery processes.

Open Text is offering the solution with SeeUnity, a leading content integration and content migration provider.

SharePoint Server 2007 provides a great platform for partners to build technologies to enhance and expand SharePoint Server s capabilities, said Thomas Rizzo, Microsoft s senior director of SharePoint. Products like CLM Services for SharePoint, eDOCS Edition by SeeUnity from Open Text allows users to customize their SharePoint Server experience to receive the most from their investment.

The Open Text solution was the only one that really fulfilled all the requirements we had which was a fully realized, mature, ready-to-go product. It's been a very good fit for us, said David Walker, Manager, Development and Programming for Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC.

This expansion of our content lifecycle management services for SharePoint Server 2007 has been top of mind for many of our eDOCS customers. Our long partnership with SeeUnity and its vast experience in the SharePoint space made it the perfect partner to help us deliver this solution, said Chris Lynch, Senior Vice President, ECM Solutions Line of Business for Open Text. Our eDOCS customers across the board now have access to a scalable, integrated content solution that provides CLM services to all of their SharePoint Server 2007 and other repository content.

Availability
Open Text CLM Services for Microsoft SharePoint, eDOCS Edition by SeeUnity is available now. For more information, go to: www.opentext.com/2/sol-products/sol-pro-extensions-microsoft/pro-clm-sp-edocs.htm

For more information on SeeUnity, visit: www.seeunity.com

Open Text s Leadership in ECM Solutions for Microsoft
Open Text is a leader in delivering ECM solutions for the Microsoft platform, including the industry s widest range of solutions that extend Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. In addition to content lifecycle management services for SharePoint, Open Text also offers a case management development framework for SharePoint and specialized vertical market solutions. Other solutions for Microsoft include email management and Open Text Enterprise Connect, which lets users create customized views of content from multiple systems, such as SAP or Oracle, in Microsoft Outlook. Open Text is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. For more information on Open Text and Microsoft, go to: www.opentext.com/microsoft-partner.

Open Text Content World
Open Text will host its Content World 2008 conference in Orlando, Florida, November 18-20. The event will bring together leading ECM experts from across the industry to network with peers, discuss the latest developments and trends in ECM and Enterprise 2.0, and to gain a first-hand account of the company s long-term strategy and product roadmap. Open Text is planning a series of sessions on ECM solutions for Microsoft. You can find out more about the sessions here: www.opentext.com/contentworld/2008/microsoft/.

About Open Text
Open Text, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content. Open Text brings two decades of expertise supporting 46,000 customers and millions of users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. For more information, visit www.opentext.com

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