Charlotte, N.C. and Toronto, September 8, 2004 - Venetica, the leading provider of enterprise content integration (ECI) software, today announced general availability of its Content Bridge for Hummingbird Enterprise™ DM. This announcement is part of an on-going sales and marketing partnership with Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ: HUMC, TSX: HUM), a leading global provider of integrated enterprise content management (ECM) solutions. With VeniceBridge, Hummingbird users can access and work with Hummingbird content along with content stored in other systems for a single, seamless view of information across the enterprise.

The Content Bridge for Hummingbird DM enables users to perform federated searches across DM and other repositories, copy content from other systems into Hummingbird and access content from other systems as part of a Hummingbird business process. Venetica’s integration will also enable users to access Hummingbird content from enterprise business solutions, such as Siebel, and enterprise portals, including BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere and Oracle.

Business processes such as contract management inherently involve multiple stakeholders, multi-faceted business, financial and legal requirements, and a complex relationship lifecycle. An ECI platform reduces the time and cost associated with such challenges by providing access to distributed information relevant to establishing and maintaining a business relationship. This information is often owned by different business groups such as corporate development, procurement, legal, line of business and finance, and may be stored in disparate systems across the enterprise. Together with Venetica, Hummingbird can now enable companies to deploy applications that span different content, image and report management systems to expedite and improve the complex contract management process.

“Hummingbird solutions help drive business initiatives across a number of industries,” said Andrew Pery, chief marketing officer and senior vice president, Hummingbird Ltd. “Incorporating content from other existing systems, along with content stored in Hummingbird DM, is often a key part of meeting customer’s needs. Our partnership with Venetica allows us to quickly and seamlessly tap into that external content.”

VeniceBridge enterprise content integration capabilities can also be integrated into Hummingbird Enterprise RM to apply enterprise-wide records management for distributed content. The reality at most companies is that information that needs to be identified and managed as a record may be distributed across multiple content sources in the organization. VeniceBridge virtualizes this content and enables Hummingbird RM to discover, declare and dispose of distributed records-class content assets trapped in isolated repositories, creating a truly enterprise-wide system of record.

“Business processes in various industries such as government and financial services often span multiple organizations, geographies and systems,” said Eric Sall, vice president of marketing, Venetica. “Venetica technology provides Hummingbird users with the ultimate flexibility to access and work with all enterprise contentas business needs dictate, rather than being limited by where content is stored.”

Venetica provides customers with a single interface to content across disparate environments. Unlike other offerings that create copies of documents and meta-data, Venetica solutions provide a real-time virtual view of content and workflow in place. Venetica’s approach exposes the full, two-way functionality of underlying content management and workflow systems, respects the security of those systems and adds cross-system services such as federated search. Venetica provides tools to easily develop enterprise applications that connect to any content system, and out-of-the-box bridges to leading ECM systems.

To learn more about leveraging external content as part of Hummingbird initiatives, please join us for a webinar on October 15. To register, please visit http://placeware.viewcentral.com/reg/hummingbird/venetica.

About Hummingbird Enterprise™ 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 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.

About Venetica Venetica is the leading provider of enterprise content integration (ECI) software. The company's flagship product, VeniceBridge®, enables multiple, disparate content repositories to work as a single unified system. By providing a real-time, virtual interface to enterprise content and business process, Venetica helps companies reduce the cost and complexity of business critical initiatives such as improving customer service, complying with regulations and consolidating operations following a merger. Venetica partners with leading software vendors and system integrators in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region to deliver solutions around the world.