TORONTO, Oct. 12, 2004 - Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ: HUMC, TSX: HUM), a leading global provider of integrated enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, today announced that Hummingbird Enterprise(TM) will provide out-of-the-box integration with Lotus Notes for advanced e-mail and business content management. Hummingbird Enterprise also provides comprehensive end-to-end matter lifecycle management integration with standard e-mail authoring tools including Microsoft Outlook and Novell GroupWise.

According to analyst estimates, over 35% of mission-critical business content is received via e-mail and stored within e-mail repositories, such as Lotus Notes. The result is the inability of the organization to control and manage the lifecycle of the business content, both for knowledge retention as well as risk mitigation purposes.

With the new Hummingbird Enterprise Lotus Notes Integration Module, organizations will be able to:

- Manage all critical business content and correspondence in a simple, intuitive and familiar way from within the Lotus Notes interface;

- Declare Notes content as records, empowering the organization to enforce retention and disposition rules for risk management and corporate compliance;

- Automatically profile correspondence in the Hummingbird Enterprise repository with a simple drag-and-drop, providing enterprises with the ability to manage their Notes content together with the rest of the enterprise knowledge;

- Attach documents or references to documents within the Hummingbird Enterprise repository to an e-mail message ensuring Lotus Notes users always have access to the appropriate version of the business document;

- Achieve productivity gains as users work with all business content from within the familiar Lotus Notes environment, requiring minimal training.

For Lotus Notes environments, Hummingbird Enterprise already provides the following functionality:

- The ability to conduct single, unified searches across multiple enterprise information sources including Lotus Notes e-mail and databases;

- Seamless access and interaction with Lotus Notes from within a portal framework;

- The ability to access Lotus Notes e-mail on mobile devices including BlackBerry(R), Windows Mobile(TM) Pocket PC and Palm-based devices.

"A big part of our business knowledge is in e-mails sent and received through our Lotus Notes e-mail system," said Tony Cordeiro, CIO, from global law firm, Shearman & Sterling LLP. "We look forward to working with Hummingbird in managing this content more easily with their tools and to provide access to other enterprise content through the familiar Lotus Notes interface with which our users are already accustomed."

Australian law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth has customized its Hummingbird Enterprise Document Management (DM) system to work with the firm's Lotus Notes e-mail system. The Corrs E-mail Profile allows attorneys to save sent or received e-mails directly to DM from within Lotus Notes with all relevant information automatically recorded about the e-mail. This saved information can then be used to search for the document or e-mail when required.

"So much of our communication with clients is done by e-mail, so integrating our Lotus Notes e-mail system with our DM system was a crucial requirement for our firm. With 1,000 staff, spread across several offices throughout Australia, it is imperative that we have a single national system," said Vic Wotherspoon, CIO, Corrs Chambers Westgarth. "Notes users can save directly to DM without having to profile e-mail messages from the Sent Box. All e-mail messages are part of the DM system and can be stored within particular Client or Matter folders, along with the relevant documents, allowing our attorneys to view and manage all content from one familiar environment."

"E-mail volume is increasing with inescapable velocity, challenging the abilities of many organizations to capture critical business content for knowledge preservation and records retention purposes," said Andrew Pery, chief marketing officer and senior vice president, Hummingbird Ltd. "With the Hummingbird Enterprise Lotus Notes Integration Module, Hummingbird will be delivering unequaled functionality to unlock valuable enterprise content that resides in Lotus Notes."

The Hummingbird Enterprise Lotus Notes Integration Module is expected to be available in Q1, 2005.

About Hummingbird Enterprise(TM)

Hummingbird Enterprise provides an integrated platform for enterprise content management that provides global organizations with solutions to manage business interaction information such as documents, records, virtual deal room exchanges, discussions, email or financial data - linking business processes, information and people. Our solutions are designed as modular applications that are fully interoperable with each other, enabling our customers to incrementally build an enterprise content management 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. Our enterprise content management (ECM) solutions enable organizations to manage the lifecycle of enterprise content from creation to disposition. Hummingbird Enterprise solutions enable organizations to address critical business needs, such as information management, business continuity, compliance and risk mitigation.

Founded in 1984, Hummingbird employs approximately 1450 people and serves more than 33,000 customers, including 90% of Fortune 100. Hummingbird solutions are sold directly from 40 offices worldwide and through our Alliance Network of partners and resellers. For more information, visit http://www.hummingbird.com

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