Beaconsfield, UK - 2000-02-15 - Open Text, the leading provider of innovative intranet, extranet and e-community platform solutions, today announced that its flagship product Livelink is to be deployed at The University of Manchester, one of the UK’s leading research universities. The University will be making use of the strong document management and workflow functionality of Livelink to revolutionise its administrative services. Livelink is used for the development of intranets, extranets and e-communities, and will enable staff across the University to access all relevant administrative material quickly and easily.

Livelink is expected to provide two key benefits:

• Reduce the ‘paper mountain’ at the University by providing electronic document management. Prior to implementing Livelink, most administrative documents were kept as hard copy in a complex filing system. With the workflow system, documents will also be easily routed to the relevant staff member.
• Improve access to information. Staff will be able to call up documents on screen quickly and easily, resulting in much greater efficiency in administrative business processes. The system will also provide comprehensive back-ups and an audit trail - benefits not possible with most paper records.

Shelley Willson, business analyst at The University of Manchester, comments: "For an open IT infrastructure such as ours, there are significant security issues that need to be considered before any implementation, particularly due to the confidential nature of the documents we will be holding on the system. After an extensive EU procurement process, we concluded that only Open Text’s Livelink was able to accommodate our very stringent security requirements and easily integrate with the existing security structure used at the University."

Livelink is currently being piloted in the Finance office, with the intention of being rolled-out across the administrative sector of the University over the coming year.

"The level of service and professionalism at Open Text has also been exemplary from day one, and was an important deciding factor in our decision to deploy Livelink," further comments Ms Willson.

"The establishment of an intranet was necessary at the University in order to increase efficiency of communications and business processes. The decision to use Livelink to enable this is a credit to the technology, as well as Open Text itself and the service provided to customers," comments Jill Wilkin, Open Text Marketing Director, Northern Europe.

Livelink is a highly scaleable platform for the development of intranets, extranets and e-communities. Its richly-featured enterprise services include document management, virtual team collaboration, business process automation, enterprise group scheduling and information retrieval services, all tightly integrated into a solution that is easily customized and extended. Livelink is essential to the effective management and development of communities of interest that span organizations and industries. For everything from the creation of complex e-community relationships to the automation of simple business processes, Livelink delivers true dynamic collaboration between individuals, organizations, and large trading communities. Livelink servers are fully Web-based and open-architected to ensure rapid deployment and easy access to its full functionality through a standard Web browser.

Open Text has pioneered the development of innovative intranet, extranet and e-business applications. Since creating one of the first search engines to index the World Wide Web, the Company has remained at the forefront of Internet-based technologies. Today, Open Text solutions allow individuals, teams, organizations, and global trading communities to collaborate on projects, share ideas and accelerate innovation to the fastest possible speed. We call it HyperInnovation™ and it is already a major factor in the success of leading Global 2000 organizations. Open Text has become the largest supplier of collaborative, Web-based e-business applications for the enterprise, with over 3.5 million users in 31 countries, speaking 12 languages throughout the world.

Copyright © 2000 by Open Text Corporation. Livelink, 'Effective Solutions. Driven By Vision. Powered By Innovation.', HyperInnovation, and Open Text are trademarks or registered trademarks of Open Text Corporation. This list is not exhaustive. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the deployment of Livelink by customers, and future performance of Open Text Corporation. Forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, among others, risks involved in the completion and integration of acquisitions, the possibility of technical, logistical or planning issues in connection with deployments, the continuous commitment of the Company's customers and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the final prospectus for the Company's initial public offering of common stock in January 1996, Form 10-K for the years ended June 30, 1997, June 30, 1998, and June 30, 1999, and Form 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 1998, December 31, 1998, March 31, 1999, September 30, 1999, and December 31, 1999. Forward-looking statements are based on management's beliefs and opinions at the time the statements are made, and the Company does not undertake any obligations to update forward-looking statements should circumstances or management's beliefs or opinions change.

Richard Janes
Account Manager
Grant Butler Coomber
Phone: (00 44) 0181 322 1922
richardj@gbc.co.uk

Jill Wilkin
Marketing Director, Northern Europe
Open Text UK Ltd.
(00 44) 01494 679700
jwilkin@opentext.co.uk