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28 October 2009

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Open Text Shares Vision for ECM and Enterprise 2.0, Releases 2010 Product Roadmap at Content World

Open Text™ Corporation released its 2010 product roadmap for Web content management (WCM), digital asset management (DAM) and social media solutions at Content World, the company's annual user conference underway this week in Orlando, Fla. The plans include how the company will further develop solutions from both Open Text and recently acquired Vignette, as well as plans for next generation Web solutions.

"The expectations for the Web have evolved," said Scott Bowen, Senior Vice President at Open Text. "A successful Enterprise 2.0 strategy must consider social media, mobile devices, brand consistency - all while managing massive amounts of content in a range of formats. Medium and large enterprises must learn to do this effectively and securely, while meeting compliance and privacy requirements. We're helping customers bridge the divide, combining new technology to extend their ECM solutions in new and more powerful ways. The plans we're unveiling this week demonstrate a comprehensive set of new capabilities, all integrated as part of the Open Text ECM Suite."

Open Text's new product plans deliver significant enhancements in user experience, allowing more people to interact, manage and publish content in all its forms, increasing productivity and streamlining processes, plus adding innovative social media capabilities. Enhanced integration with the Open Text ECM Suite deepens broader ECM integration, making a number of scenarios possible including:

    -   Integrating the traditional intranet with a social knowledge

        management Enterprise 2.0 solution for increased productivity.

    -   Improved efficiencies through consolidated and localized multi-site

        global Web solutions.

    -   Increased revenue and profitability by driving conversions and

        advocacy through more social, personal and engaging Web channels.

    -   Improved customer satisfaction and loyalty, plus driving cost

        savings, with automated surfacing of customer or partner information

        via a Web service portal.

    -   New ways of interacting with employees, customers and partners by

        fostering communities that produce innovation, loyalty, knowledge

        sharing and engagement.

    -   Greater brand control, and ensuring rich media captured via the Web

        is managed centrally and in ways that are efficient, secure and

        compliant

Product Roadmap:

    Web Content Management

    -   Vignette Content Management 8.0 will be released this quarter,

        delivering on many customer requests and market innovations. A new

        user interface will empower business users to contribute, review,

        edit, manage and publish web content, relieving IT of day-to-day Web

        responsibilities. Additional enhancements in content models,

        publishing and many other areas raise the bar for advanced and fully

        dynamic enterprise scale Web Content Management and Web Content

        Delivery. Version 8.1, coming in Q2 2010, will see Vignette Content

        Management become part of the Open Text ECM Suite, serving as the

        foundation for highly dynamic and interactive web applications.

    -   Open Text Web Solutions 10.1, planned for the first half of 2010,

        will deliver comprehensive social media offerings utilizing the

        Vignette Community Applications and Services as part

        of a seamless solution, while furthering the integrations with core

        Open Text ECM Suite capabilities. Open Text Web Solutions will

        continue to see increased investment specifically in areas that take

        advantage of utilizing shared services in the Web Solutions portfolio

        such as search, video delivery, social media, digital asset

        management and document management integrations. Open Text reiterated

        its long term commitment to the Web Solutions product line and will

        continue to position the product for quick-to-deploy Web site

        management use cases.

    -   After the successful launch of Open Text's Portal Manager 9.0 for SAP

        NetWeaver Portal, Open Text will deliver further enhancements of this

        product during the first quarter of 2010. With this offering, dynamic

        content as well as dynamic navigation structures can be easily

        managed and merged into the portal structure by non-technical

        business experts just by clicking editing buttons and making inline

        changes. Open Text will be adding delivery of social media

        capabilities to NetWeaver portal with the next release of this

        offering.

    -   Open Text also plans a next-generation Web Business Application,

        targeted for 2012, which will build upon the strengths of the highly

        scalable Vignette Content Management foundation and add the legendary

        ease-of-use application framework of Open Text Web Solutions. Areas

        of development include enhanced content modeling and templating,

        richer in-context editing for non-technical users and faster Web site

        deployment, all within the context of a productized offering. This

        initiative gives Open Text a platform to address highly varying

        requirements within one suite based offering, broadening the scope of

        its ECM suite to address all WCM use case scenarios.

    Digital Asset Management

    -   Open Text will launch Media Management 7.0 in Q1 2010 featuring a

        completely new user interface that leverages the latest Web design

        technologies to provide an immersive experience in rich media

        management. Media Management 7.0 will feature flexible metadata and

        asset management capabilities, along with process management and

        workflow capabilities delivered through Open Text's ECM Suite

        technology.

    Social Media

    -   Vignette Community Applications 8.0, to be released in Q1 2010, will

        include innovative features in a flexible and powerful platform that

        can socially enable interactions with customers, partners and

        employees. Version 8.0 will build on existing community capabilities

        like idea management, blogs, wikis and forums to deliver social

        networking, advanced notifications, integration with multiple

        presentation systems, REST API enhancements and deep integration with

        Open Text content management solutions.

    -   Open Text will build on the successful launch of its social media

        solutions in first half of 2010 with the introduction of Open Text

        Social Media 1.1. The application will include deeper integration

        with the ECM Suite, a new wiki editor and a quick messaging feature

        that combines the convenience of instant messaging with the

        flexibility of microblogging.

Content World

Open Text's Content World Conference is focused on helping customers capitalize on their content, with distinguished speakers, more than 125 sessions on ECM best practices, emerging trends and technical expertise, and in-depth networking. For more information on Content World, go to: http://www.opentext.com/contentworld/2009/

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