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

    
    Plans Revealed for Web Content Management, Digital Asset Management and
    Social Media Solutions
    

OPEN TEXT CONTENT WORLD, ORLANDO , FL, Oct. 28 /CNW/ - Open Text(TM) Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), today 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.

As this painful recession continues, organizations will look for opportunities to grow while controlling costs. Many organizations have realized the Web has become the most critical channel to engage customers, partners and employees, helping organizations achieve growth while bringing significant efficiencies and cost savings.

"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
        market leading 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/

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(TM) 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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