Causeway Technologies, Open Text Strengthen Relationship by Providing Next Generation of Collaborative Commerce Service for the Construction Industry.

Business & High Tech Editors

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 2001

Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq:OTEX)(TSE:OTC)

Causeway Collaboration Launched Today at LiveLinkUp 2001

Causeway Technologies, Inc. (NQB:CAUS), a market-leading supplier of productivity enhancing solutions and services to the construction sector, and Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq:OTEX)(TSE:OTC), a worldwide leader in delivering collaborative commerce solutions, today announce the release of Causeway Collaboration(TM).

Causeway Collaboration uses as its underlying technology platform Open Text's flagship product, Livelink(R), the world's most widely deployed team collaboration software. Construction clients, designers, engineers, contractors, facilities managers and other project stakeholders can now use advanced functionality to collaborate more effectively, reducing approval cycles and risk, promoting team work and encouraging best practice. Significant time and effort has been invested to ensure Causeway Collaboration is intuitive and easy to use for everyday operators, while providing advanced facilities for administrators and power users.

With Causeway Collaboration, project teams can:

-- streamline procedures and highlight issues before they become problems;

-- compare and contrast performance over time, providing continuous process
improvement;

-- focus on details first without losing sight of the 'total picture';

-- work together transparently, reducing the risk of disputes and litigation;

-- produce a complete project information archive automatically for the
facilities mangers.

With the target to become the best-in-class collaborative tool for construction, Causeway Collaboration is unique in offering its users the ability to:

-- manage and report upon all their personal, project and

enterprise tasks and information management needs from with a

single and consistent environment;

-- access and view all enterprise and project documents remotely,

including CAD files, without the need for `plugins';

-- exploit `push/pull' technology to provide automated proactive

issue and task alerts to project participants;

-- view, manage and report upon team members' availability,

activities and tasks by utilising powerful project and team

calendaring facilities;

-- synchronize the project calendars with personal Microsoft

Outlook or Lotus Notes diaries;

-- automate business processes by creating and dynamically

integrating `intelligent' forms with customisable workflows;

-- use the same technology that powered Yahoo to search all text

within documents, drawings, communications and information

both within and across projects;

-- integrate with ERP and Intranet systems using fully featured

`activators' for SAP, J D Edwards, PeopleSoft, Lotus Notes and

Microsoft Exchange.

Bill Forquer, Open Text's Senior Vice President of Business Development, said, "Open Text's relationship with Causeway as a premier global partner for the construction market reinforces Open Text's strategy of developing customized solutions targeting specific industries. Open Text's collaborative technology leadership and Causeway's domain expertise in the construction, engineering and architecture market create a powerful new solution and a major growth opportunity for both companies."

"The necessity to be on time, on budget and within specification is paramount for any building project," says Andrew Warzecha, Senior Vice President, META Group. "Web-based collaboration and process management in the construction sector can help maintain the project schedule, monitor the budget and fulfill the building specifications creating significant competitive advantage for organizations leveraging these technologies."

Causeway is showcasing Causeway Collaboration at Open Text's user conference, LiveLinkUp 2001, in Las Vegas from November 5-9. As a participant in LiveLinkUp activities, Phil Brown, CEO of Causeway, presented the Customer Spotlight session entitled "Extending Your Reach with Extranet Applications" on November 8. Brown's presentation focused on the business benefits achieved through the use of collaborative extranets for construction projects. "The launch of Causeway Collaboration marks the arrival of the next generation of collaborative technologies for the construction industry. We worked closely with both our customers and Open Text to deliver a product with the level of functionality I believe extends beyond the reach of current offerings," commented Brown.

Graham Cunningham-Walker, Causeway's Vice President of Marketing, who presented at LiveLinkUp on November 7, said, "Causeway Collaboration has been specifically designed to address the challenges inherent in the highly fragmented construction industry and gives organizations the time and space to collaborate, and to share ideas and resources. We believe Causeway Collaboration is simply the most powerful collaborative application available in the construction market sector today."

About Causeway Technologies

Causeway Technologies, Inc. (Causeway) is a market-leading supplier of enterprise and web based collaboration and e-commerce solutions. Causeway's solutions provide proactive support for the key project processes throughout the construction project life-cycle and cover design management, estimating and procurement, cost and value management, project collaboration and enterprise document management. Causeway's global partners include Arup and Open Text. The company's head office is in High Wycombe, England with other offices in Maidstone and Los Angeles. For further information, visit www.causeway-tech.com

About Causeway Collaboration

Causeway Collaboration provides a single collaborative solution for enterprise intranets, online construction communities, departmental solutions, project management and individual task management. It is powered by Open Text's Livelink(R) enterprise collaboration solution and extended by Causeway to provide construction industry specific best-practice work flows, document handling, search capabilities and push and pull technologies designed to put the users in control of their information needs.

Causeway Collaboration can be deployed to suit an organisations specific requirement. As a hosted extranet, Causeway Collaboration provides a comprehensive and secure hosted collaborative environment that can be used for document sharing, process management and knowledge capture, allowing all members of the project team, wherever located, to access project drawings, programmes and reports. Project messaging, memos, requests for information and discussion forum facilities ensure that communication takes place quickly and transparently. Causeway Collaboration can alternatively be implemented as part of internal IT infrastructure, customised to support best practice process and corporate requirements intelligent document, information and knowledge collaboration across the enterprise. Workflows developed within Integration Enterprise can be integrated with ERP, and other back office systems, to deliver transparency, auditability and management of individual tasks, departmental processes, internal and external projects and enterprise wide initiatives from within a single environment.

About Open Text

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.

About Livelink

Livelink is a highly 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/.

Copyright (C) 2001 by Open Text Corporation and Causeway Technologies, Inc. Livelink and Open Text are trademarks or registered trademarks of Open Text Corporation. Causeway, Causeway Technologies and Causeway Collaboration, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Causeway Technologies. 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 and Causeway Collaboration by customers, and future performance of Open Text Corporation and Causeway Technologies, Inc. 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, and June 30, 2000, and Form 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 2000, December 31, 2000 and March 31, 2001. Forward-looking statements are based on management's beliefs and opinions at the time the statements are made, and Open Text Corporation and Causeway Technologies do not undertake any obligations to update forward-looking statements should circumstances or management's beliefs or opinions change.