Microsoft Corp. and Open TextTM Corporation announced a new strategic relationship to optimize Open Text's comprehensive Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for the Microsoft® platform. This effort will take advantage of both companies' global scale and complementary products to enable ECM solutions in large, complex customer environments.

As part of the announcement, Open Text, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, becomes a worldwide ECM partner with Microsoft. By deepening the relationship between Open Text and Microsoft, the companies will work to enhance Open Text solutions in ways that combine the power of the Microsoft platform and Open Text's deep understanding of the ECM needs of large enterprises. The resulting end-to-end solutions from Open Text, which will include vertical-market offerings in financial services and government, will help companies address the complexity of managing an ever-growing volume of online information, a major source of productivity loss and compliance risks.

With today's announcement, Open Text is also introducing two new solutions that use Open Text's Livelink ECM suite and Microsoft Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003. The expanded relationship and new solutions were unveiled to customers at Open Text's LiveLinkUp Orlando 2005 user conference, underway this week in Orlando, Fla.
 
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