Northrop Grumman Employs Open Text's Livelink to Support Airborne Systems Initiatives; Fulfills CITIS Requirements Through Collaboration and Knowledge Management

Business Wire, June 6, 2002

Business & High-Tech Editors

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2002

Open Text(TM) Corporation (Nasdaq:OTEX) (TSX:OTC), provider of Livelink(R), the leading collaboration and knowledge management software for the global enterprise, today announced that Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems relies on Livelink to help it meet key business objectives and collaborate with external partners. Integrated Systems is a premier aerospace systems integration enterprise and the prime contractor or major subcontractor on a number of strategic military aircraft programs.

The deployment of Livelink at a key business unit of the Integrated Systems sector, called Airborne Ground Surveillance & Battle Management Systems (AGS&BM Systems), has been a significant part of the site's knowledge management initiative to support multiple new programs and proposal efforts. AGS&BM Systems is primarily focused on the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS), as well as several other airborne systems. A cooperative program between the US Air Force and the US Army, Joint STARS is an airborne battle management and command and control platform designed to conduct ground surveillance.

"Northrop Grumman shares the same end goals as other organizations -- to improve customer satisfaction, to reduce the costs of delivering information to those who need it most, and to speed time-to-market," said Mike Farrell, Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing, Open Text. "By combining collaboration and knowledge management functionality, Livelink enables AGS&BM Systems to better manage critical intellectual capital, as well as share that information electronically with its customers, partners and suppliers who require it."

The Program Management and Data Management groups of AGS&BM Systems required an online system for the process of developing, releasing, and publishing program documents. Livelink was chosen to fulfill these requirements, as well as to provide improved visibility into the status of documents in progress and reduce paper processes.

By enabling the creation of an integrated information environment that is accessible electronically, Livelink also supports AGS&BM Systems' commitment to following a Contractor Integrated Technical Information Service (CITIS). A paperless approach to information management, CITIS represents an arrangement by which Northrop Grumman agrees to manage technical program data and provide online access to authorized government users. This approach vastly improves efficiency by eliminating redundancy and duplication of data between Northrop Grumman and its US military clients.

"The business of national defense is evolving. There is a shift towards working with multiple partners, collaborating across diverse geographic locations, and reducing product lifecycle times," said Paul Ranyak, Internal Information Systems, Northrop Grumman Information Technology. "These deliverables cannot be achieved without an integrated data environment such as Livelink -- one which brings both business and technical data into an online, shared infrastructure."

About Livelink

Livelink is the leader in collaboration and knowledge management for the global enterprise. 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/

About Open Text

Since 1991, Open Text Corporation has delivered innovative software that brings people together to share knowledge, achieve excellence, deliver innovation, and enhance processes. Its legacy of innovation began with the successful deployment of the world's first search engine technology for the Internet. Today, as the leading global supplier of collaboration and knowledge management software for the enterprise, Open Text supports five million users across 4,500 corporations in 31 countries and 12 languages throughout the world. As a publicly traded company, Open Text manages and maximizes its resources and relationships to ensure the success of great minds working together. For more information, visit www.opentext.com

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