The company was voluntarily delisted from the NASDAQ and Toronto Stock Exchanges. In August 2003, Corel was bought out by the private equity firm Vector Capital for $1.05 a share (slightly more than the cash in the company). Corel acquired the graphics software company Micrografx in late 2001. However, these plans were scrapped, and only the Corel brand remained. A new board of directors was then appointed and Derek Burney Jr., announced that the product line would be split into several brands-DeepWhite, ProCreate, and Corel. In August 2000, Cowpland was accused of insider trading and left. As part of the deal, Corel acquired a minority interest in Hoffmann + Associates and received royalties. In 1997, Corel sold its Corel ChemLab studio and its "CD Home Collection" consisting of over 60 multimedia titles to Hoffmann + Associates, a Toronto-based company. In 1996, Corel created a Full motion video game called Mode. The company held the naming rights to the home arena for the NHL's Ottawa Senators from February 1996 until January 2006 as the "Corel Centre", a venue currently known as the Canadian Tire Centre. This mainly consisted of Microsoft Works office applications, but a variant called Works Suite also bundled the Microsoft Word software. Corel was in a difficult position as Microsoft pushed pre-loaded copies of its software onto new computers. In 1996, it acquired Novell WordPerfect and started competing with the thought of being " Pepsi to Microsoft's Coke" as Microsoft Word was the top-used word processing software at the time. The company had great success early in the high-tech boom of the 1990s and early 2000s with the product CorelDRAW, and became, for a time, the biggest software company in Canada. Mitel needed writing and creative design programs to enhance the company product line. * Time-zone broadcasting and the innovative "resend an inactive employee" feature.Corel was founded by Michael Cowpland in 1985 as a research laboratory. * Countdown clocks to mark special events/deadlines * Micro-sites, landing pages, searchable archives, and an innovative "favorites” page for each employee. * Audio-podcasting and embedded-video are both real * Easy drag-and-drop email editor that allows you to create custom templates (and lockable). * Works with Active Directory, Workday, and other HRIS systems * Dynamic SMART content that targets each employee's interests, roles, or departments. This will grab your audience's attention, generate valuable feedback, and make your emails stand out. You can add rich visual elements to your emails with a simple drag and drop wizard.
Proze is a robust internal communications platform that allows for employee messaging and content management. Proze combines deep personalization, real time interactivity, and a drag-and drop interface for Internal Employee Communications.
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