24 Aug 2005

Toronto, Ontario and ILTA '05, Phoenix, Arizona - Hummingbird Enterprise™ customer to implement integrated end-to-end enterprise content management (ECM) with Hummingbird and RedDot solution

Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ: HUMC, TSX: HUM), a leading global provider of integrated enterprise content management (ECM) and network connectivity solutions, today announced that Stikeman Elliott LLP, one of Canada’s largest and most prestigious law firms, has selected RedDot’s Web content management software (CMS) to manage its Web site and deliver relevant, personalised content.  A long-standing Hummingbird Enterprise™ customer, Stikeman Elliott will benefit from the seamlessly integrated enterprise content management solutions by providing an end-to-end solution for the firm’s content.

Stikeman Elliott is redesigning its Web site with plans to go live with the new site on January 1, 2006.  RedDot CMS will offer the firm scalable out-of-the-box functionality to easily manage and publish Web content.  In addition, leveraging the existing integration between Hummingbird Enterprise and RedDot CMS, Web site contributors will be able to easily publish content stored in the Hummingbird Enterprise repository to the Web. The result is substantial savings for the law firm in terms of time and production costs for the Web site.

RedDot CMS will provide Stikeman Elliott with renowned easy to use software designed for non-technical users to adopt and master quickly. The law firm can empower non-IT content editors to easily create, publish, and manage their own Web content to build and update the site.  RedDot’s CMS system also provides the tools to seamlessly manage the French language version of the firm’s Web site.

RedDot CMS meets all of the firm’s Web content management requirements, including:  strong workflow and versioning capabilities; the timely delivery of the most relevant, personalised and current content to the Web site; increased employee productivity by automating the content management process; and significant reductions in time and costs associated with managing Web content.

“The tightly integrated Web content management capability that RedDot CMS brings to the Hummingbird Enterprise suite extends the value of our investment in Hummingbird technologies,” said Venky Srinivasan, Director of Technology, at Stikeman Elliott.  “Much of the content for our Web site is created and managed within the Hummingbird document management system.  With RedDot in place, our Web site contributors will continue to use the tools and interfaces they are familiar with, without needing to learn sophisticated editing tools to maintain Web content, which will streamline the publication process, reduce the workload for our IT staff, and optimise efficiencies.”

Stikeman Elliott has also selected RedDot LiveServer™, RedDot’s personalisation and integration engine, which will be implemented in the second phase of the project.  With RedDot LiveServer, visitors to the law firm’s Web site will have a dynamic, personalised view, ensuring that each visitor receives the most relevant content.

“Hummingbird customers understand the tremendous value of their business content,” said Detlef Kamps, President of RedDot Solutions North America.  “By adding RedDot to the technology mix, Stikeman Elliott will be able to implement a simple process to manage and deliver critical content to the Web, realising the full value of their investment in content management technologies.”

“Hummingbird and RedDot have been working together for a number of years and have demonstrated a commitment to quality and customer satisfaction.  With the recent acquisition of RedDot, we are now in a position to leverage our joint resources and technologies to deliver an end-to-end enterprise content management solution from a single vendor to our respective global customer base,” said Barry Litwin, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hummingbird Ltd.  “With the combined power of Hummingbird Enterprise, RedDot CMS and RedDot LiveServer, Stikeman Elliott will be able to effectively manage the full content lifecycle from creation, review and approval to Web site publication and ultimately to retention and disposition for records management purposes.” About Stikeman Elliott LLP
With more than 400 lawyers, Stikeman Elliott is internationally recognised as one of Canada's leading business law firms. Domestically the firm has offices in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary and, Vancouver. Globally, the firm extends to New York, London and Sydney. For more information, please visit www.stikeman.com.

About RedDot Solutions
RedDot Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hummingbird Ltd, is Europe’s fastest-growing provider of extended content management solutions.  Its pioneering technology promises ease-of-use, rapid installation and low cost, empowering non-technical employees to implement their own content management needs. 
Built on open industry standards, RedDot’s extended content management system requires minimal training, delivering unparalleled returns on investment.  RedDot’s business model works through some of the leading channel and agency partners with whom it has successfully built a customer base of over 1,400 businesses, educational institutions and government bodies worldwide.  With its UK headquarters in Maidenhead, leading UK clients include: Age Concern, AMEC, CIMA, City & Guilds, London Business School, London Fire Brigade, Morrisons/Safeway and O2.
 
About Hummingbird Enterprise™
Hummingbird Enterprise provides an integrated platform for enterprise content management that provides global organisations with solutions to manage business interaction information such as documents, records, virtual deal room exchanges, discussions, e-mail or financial data - linking business processes, information and people. Hummingbird solutions are designed as modular applications that are fully interoperable with each other, enabling customers to incrementally build an enterprise content management (ECM) solution to meet their evolving information needs in a cost effective manner.

About Hummingbird
Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ: HUMC, TSX: HUM) is a leading global provider of enterprise software solutions. The Company’s enterprise software solutions fall into two principal categories: enterprise content management solutions, and network connectivity solutions.  Hummingbird’s ECM solutions enable organisations to manage the lifecycle of enterprise content from creation to disposition, thereby enabling organisations to address critical business needs, such as information management, business continuity, compliance and risk mitigation.  The network connectivity solutions provide a comprehensive set of core network technologies that enables the enterprise to connect to any type of legacy system.

Founded in 1984, Hummingbird employs over 1,525 people and serves more than 33,000 customers, including 90% of Fortune 100. Hummingbird solutions are sold directly from 40 offices worldwide and through an Alliance Network of partners and resellers. For more information, visit http://www.hummingbird.com.