Loblaw Companies Selects Open Text ECM Suite

WATERLOO, ON, April 30  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Open Text(TM) (NASDAQ: OTEXNASDAQ:TSX:NASDAQ:OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), today announced that Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada's largest food distributor, has chosen Open Text's ECM Suite.

Through its more than 1,000 corporate and franchised stores from coast-to-coast, Loblaw Companies Limited is also a leading provider of general merchandise products, drugstore and, through President's Choice(R) Financial, financial products and services. Loblaw is known for the quality, innovation and value of its food offerings, and maintains Canada's strongest control label brands, including the unique President's Choice(R), no name(R) and Joe Fresh Style(R) brands.

The archiving and records management capabilities of the Open Text ECM Suite will enable Loblaw users to more effectively ensure storage and accessibility of data and information, according to their value, across the entire retention period, while helping to reduce data storage costs.

Open Text is the worldwide leader in records management, offered as part of the Open Text ECM Suite, providing the industry's most comprehensive set of solutions to extend records management across the full range of content types stored in multiple systems, including SAP, SharePoint, email, instant messaging, file systems, and Open Text content repositories. Open Text's records management solutions have been certified as compliant with SAP, the U.S. Department of Defense 5015.2-STD requirements, United Kingdom's TNA regulations and Australia's VERS regulations, all key standards for records management software used in corporations and governments.

The Open Text ECM Suite, the company's flagship offering, brings together the broad range of content management capabilities organizations need to securely and safely manage all types of enterprise information - documents, vital records, Web content, video, images, email, forms and reports - across many different enterprise systems and applications.

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 http://www.opentext.com/.

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