Open Text Obtains Latest U.S. Department of Defense Records Management Certification

Receives Certification for Records Management and Content Lifecycle Management Services for SharePoint Offerings; Only Vendor to Receive Certification for Solution in Support of SAP® Solutions

Waterloo, ON - 2009-01-14 - Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), today announced that it has received the latest version of the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) Standard for Records Management certification (DoD 5015.2-STD V3 April 2007) for its advanced records management offerings, including its Content Lifecycle Management (CLM) Services for SharePoint. Open Text has also received the only certification for a solution in support of SAP® solutions with its Open Text Extended ECM for SAP solutions. Additionally, Open Text was first in the market to certify on this new specification with Solaris, a UNIX-based operating system.

The announcement demonstrates Open Text s continued leadership in records management, offered as part of its broader ECM Suite. The Open Text ECM Suite is designed around Open Text Content Services, a unique services-oriented architecture enabling customer journeys from departmental solutions towards an integrated, enterprise-wide ECM strategy. Records Management is a key component of the Open Text ECM Suite and is central to the company s compliance and content lifecycle management solutions. Open Text offers records management for both electronic and physical content types, and its solutions are integrated with the company s archiving, metadata management, search and storage management capabilities.

Now more than ever, it is imperative that organizations have a secure and trusted repository that delivers integrated records management for all business content whether it resides in dedicated ECM repositories, in Microsoft SharePoint or SAP solution-based environments, said Kirk Roberts, EVP and President, Integrated ECM Group at Open Text. With an ongoing track record of firsts in records management, Open Text continues its leadership in the records management space by offering organizations a variety of solutions that comply with key government standards; helping to reduce risk, promote security and increase productivity across the enterprise.

The DoD 5015.2-STD certification process serves as a way to demonstrate that records management software meets mandatory functional requirements for use in the U.S. federal government. The standard is widely recognized not only in government, but also in the private sector. Open Text s Records Management solutions assist corporations to achieve compliance and reduce risk by enabling organizations to control how and for how long enterprise content is retained, and ensures its destruction when this time has elapsed.

Open Text s Extended ECM for SAP solutions manages all forms of SAP content throughout the entire content lifecycle, combining secure, automated capture, storage, and organization of documents with archiving, records management, and imaging functionality, while providing a flexible environment to allow users to collaborate on content involved in multi-faceted SAP business processes.

With Open Text CLM Services for SharePoint, organizations can manage the lifecycle of content across SharePoint sites with integrated records management and archiving capabilities. Organizations gain the powerful collaborative capabilities of Microsoft SharePoint with robust compliance management from Open Text s content lifecycle management capabilities designed for SharePoint. The latest version of Open Text CLM Services for SharePoint works with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Open Text is a worldwide leader in records management, offering the industry s most comprehensive set of solutions to extend records management across the full range of content types stored in multiple systems, including email, instant messaging, file systems and Open Text content repositories, in addition to SAP solutions and Microsoft SharePoint. Along with this most recent U.S. Department of Defense 5015.2-STD certification, Open Text s records management solutions are also compliant with the United Kingdom s TNA regulations and Australia s VERS regulations, both important standards for records management software.

For more information on Open Text s records management solutions, go to: www.opentext.com/2/sol-products/sol-pro-records-management.htm

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 50 million 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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