McLean, VA and Chicago, IL - 2002-01-22 - Information Management Consultants, Inc. (IMC), a leading provider of e-Business solutions, and Open Text™ Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSE: OTC), today announced that Open Text's Livelink® technology is being used to enhance the National Institute on Drug Abuse's (NIDA) Clinical Trials Network. IMC's selection of Livelink will enable greater collaboration and more effective communication throughout NIDA.

As part of the National Institutes of Health, NIDA's mission is to lead the Nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction. In support of its mission, NIDA established a nationwide Clinical Trials Network. A structured partnership of NIDA treatment researchers and community-based service providers, the NIDA Clinical Trials Network is aimed at cooperatively developing, refining, and delivering new treatment options to patients in community-level clinical settings.

Livelink provides key services needed for the Clinical Trials Network to effectively collaborate nation-wide as multi-site clinical trials are designed and conducted. The Livelink document repository enables:

• electronic filing of documents in a shared workspace, providing controlled access to research throughout the protocol development process;
• version control through a secure interface, supporting document review and download; and,
• access to documents for review and comment in a discussion area, eliminating the need for travel and effectively increasing efficiency and timeliness of communication.

"Ideas for study in the Clinical Trials Network are generated through collaboration among research scientists and treatment service providers," said Jim Glass, Chief of Informatics, NIDA. "The use of collaborative knowledge management technology will greatly improve chances that successful research projects address current needs and are quickly disseminated across the service delivery sector to become part of standard treatments."

"IMC's implementation of Livelink as the underlying technology platform for the Clinical Trials Network provides an extranet framework for maintaining collaborative relationships between researchers throughout the United States. The collective knowledge of top researchers in the United States can work together to propel drug treatment breakthroughs," said John Shackleton, President, Open Text.

The Clinical Trials Network operates through affiliations with Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Oregon Health Sciences University, The Regents of the University of California, and The Johns Hopkins University.

"IMC has over 20 years of document management, workflow, and networking experience in both the public and private sectors," said Suresh Shenoy, Executive Vice President, IMC. "The government is looking to take steps toward transforming their networks and information systems to a more collaborative model. By selecting Open Text's Livelink product, IMC provides a collaborative environment among Clinical Trial Network personnel, furthering the public good through government sponsored healthcare research."

Livelink is a highly scalable collaborative commerce and knowledge management application. Its richly-featured enterprise services include 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 e-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. For more information, visit www.opentext.com/livelink/.

IMC delivers business solutions and intelligence through its Customer-Centric Business Solutions Frameworks. With more than 20 years of experience implementing integrated workflow, CRM, Business Intelligence, Document Management and ERP technologies, IMC's solutions offer a tailored approach to solving your complex business problems better, faster, and with less expense. Headquartered in McLean, VA., IMC serves Fortune 1000 firms worldwide. The Company is recognized as "one of the most forward thinkers in workflow technology" and has been ranked among "the top 25 companies to watch," according to Knowledge Asset Media. For more information, please visit www.imc.com.

Open Text provides collaborative commerce solutions for e-business that enable users to extend and build CRM, SCM and ERP applications and allow them to work together within and across organizations. 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. Its solution family called Livelink enables individuals, teams, organizations, and global trading communities to collaborate on e-business applications that facilitate e-commerce and other transactions among Global 2000 organizations. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.

Copyright © 2001 by Open Text Corporation. Livelink 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, 1998, June 30, 1999, June 30, 2000, and June 30, 2001, and Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2001. 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.

Patty Kloss-McKay
Corporate Marketing
IMC
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Margaret E. Dobbin
Director, Industry Analyst Relations
Open Text Corporation
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Lisa Dekker
Public Relations
Open Text Corporation
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