Open Text positioned in Leaders Quadrant in 2006 Enterprise Content Management Magic Quadrant

Issued by Global Research Partners for Enterprise Content & Wireless

Johannesburg, 06 Nov 2006

Lava Systems Africa, an affinity partner of Canadian-based Open Text, and one of the companies within the Enterprise Content & Wireless (ECW) Group, today announced that Gartner has positioned Open Text in the Leaders Quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, 2006, co-authored by Karen Shegda, et al.

"We consider our positioning in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner to be important confirmation of our strategy," commented Kirk Roberts, Executive Vice-President of Products, Solutions and Marketing at Open Text.

"Our focus on delivering vertical-market applications, our strategic relationships and integrations with Microsoft, Oracle and SAP, and our initiatives to extend the Basic Content Services of these partners align us with the direction of our corporate, government and professional services customers."

Open Text's fully integrated ECM suite not only includes the six core components of document management, Web content management, records management, document imaging, document-centric collaboration and workflow, but also has the complementary functional components of archiving, digital asset management, and e-mail management. The Livelink ECM suite provides the foundation for business-specific and industry solutions and is designed to address requirements in organisations driven by compliance demands for content generated within business processes or for productivity gains related to the usage of unstructured content.

For further information, please contact Ray Dalgarno, Lava Systems Africa: telephone 011 675-7193, fax 011 675-4075, e-mail rayd@lavasystems.co.za

Enterprise Content and Wireless (ECW)

ECW is the merged entity of Lava Systems Africa and Lava Systems Mobile (LSM).

The Lava Systems Africa (LSA) team originated in the late 1990s with the objective of becoming a premier supplier of enterprise systems based around knowledge management, document management, records management, image management, collaboration and workflow solutions. The emerging demands that were identified included government process re-engineering, supply chain co-ordination, customer relationship management, e-government and B2B processing. In support of these business aims, the technology platforms chosen had to enjoy a proven global track record and adhere to open Internet architecture standards and developments. LSA is a South African-based company dedicated to the sales, marketing, support and consultancy founded upon the Livelink product suite from Open Text, a product that the staff have been involved with since 1998. LSA user base embraces customers from both the private and public sector and includes organisations such as Bateman Projects Limited, Alexander Forbes, the Gauteng Provincial Government and the National Social Security Fund of Uganda.

Lava Systems Mobile, a company focusing on the development of mobile applications and tools, was originally created in 2005 and later that year absorbed KeyTools, a well-established mobile applications software developer with international links.

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