Corel Develops Business Applications for Vertical Markets - Legal, Medical and Construction Suites to Address Needs of Specialized Industries.OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 1997--COREL CORPORATION (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : COSFF, TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). : COS.) Corel Corporation (company) Corel Corporation - A software publisher best known for the CorelDraw application. Founded in June 1985 by Dr. Michael Cowpland, Corel Corporation was originally a systems integration company. has announced that it will release three specialized editions of its business productivity applications to the legal, medical and construction markets. Currently in development are Corel WordPerfect Suite See WordPerfect Office. 7 - Legal Edition for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, Corel Office A suite of applications for Windows from Corel that was superseded by Corel WordPerfect Suite. See WordPerfect Office. Professional 7 - Medical Edition for Windows 95, and Corel WordPerfect See WordPerfect Office and WordPerfect Corporation. Suite- - Construction Edition for Windows 95. The medical and construction editions are due to ship by mid-February 1997, with the legal edition scheduled to ship by March 1997. All products will ship for a suggested retail price of $449 US., with upgrades available for $229 U.S. (Dealers may sell for less.) "Niche markets have their special requirements, which is why we've decided to provide customized business applications for the legal, medical and construction industries. Out of the approximately 130 million workers in the U.S., there is an estimated 12 million people working in each of the medical and construction industries, and over two million in the legal market. We therefore, expect a great deal of enthusiasm for these upcoming office solutions," said Dr. Michael Cowpland Michael Cowpland (born April 23, 1943) is a Canadian entrepreneur, businessman, and the founder and one-time president, chairman and CEO of Corel, a Canadian software company. Cowpland was born in Bexhill, Sussex, England and obtained a BSc. . Corel WordPerfect Suite 7 -- Legal Edition for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 This integrated suite of office applications is scheduled to include legal-specific enhancements to Corel WordPerfect, along with Corel Quattro Pro See Quattro Pro. , Corel Presentations, Corel Address Book, Corel Desktop Application Director, QuickTasks and Envoy. All Corel products will be offered in both 16-and 32-bit. In addition, this product is scheduled to provide case management capabilites, time, billing and accounting functions, enhanced legal-specific Corel WordPerfect functions, and a legal speller spell·er n. 1. One who spells words: students who are good spellers. 2. An elementary textbook containing exercises that teach spelling. Noun 1. . A shareable address book allows sharing of data across operating systems (Windows 3.1 and Windows 95) and across major components of the Legal Edition. ODMA (1) (Open Document Management API) A programming interface used to allow client programs to communicate with document management systems on a server. support for integration with document management systems will also be included. "According to a recent article in Law Office Computing, "WordPerfect continues to command 82.5 percent of market share among law firms." The legal community has traditionally relied on the power of WordPerfect to facilitate day to day operations, and we intend to build on that support with the legal edition of Corel WordPerfect Suite 7," said Dr. Cowpland. "At Sheppard, Mullin, document production is the core of our business and we rely on Corel to provide us with the software necessary to produce our documents," said Eric Goldrich, director of information systems at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. "Corel's suite of products is the best solution for the legal marketplace. Corel's team is approachable, responsive and interested in what we have to say. We have access to their development people - and they actually listen. Corel has done a magnificent job of enhancing and supporting WordPerfect and we are eagerly awaiting future releases." Corel will continue its commitment to the legal community by providing special pricing through its academic sales program. Corel Office Professional 7 -- Medical Edition for Windows 95 In addition to all components currently available in Corel Office Professional 7, shipping since August 1996, this edition will include a number of medical-specific features. A small manual detailing the highlights of these new features will also appear in the box. The new features include Stedman's Electronic Medical Dictionary 3.0 with over 100,000 medical words and terms, Stedman's Plus 4.0 spellchecker with over 343,000 medical and pharmaceutical terms, 20 medical master templates for Corel Presentations, 100 new medical clip art and medical illustrations, and 30 medical image watermarks. Twenty QuickTasks, including 23 Corel WordPerfect 7 templates, have been developed for keeping patient records such as discharge summaries, immunization immunization: see immunity; vaccination. schedules and patient care forms. Template and style guides for research paper submissions to over 600 journals have also been included, as have templates for such general office management requirements as billing forms and expense lists. This suite will be launched at a special event on February 6, 1997, at the Sheraton Palace in San Francisco. Please contact Daniela Gaudert at 613-728-0826 x1333 for more information. Corel WordPerfect Suite -- Construction Edition for Windows 95 Offering some of the world's most innovative CAD and business software and a new dimension in power, functionality and Internet support, Corel WordPerfect Suite - Construction Edition is the first office suite that has integrated all of the software that a builder, architect, engineer or any other professional in the construction business will require. Core applications in Corel WordPerfect Suite - Construction Edition include Corel WordPerfect 7, Corel Visual CADD (Computer-Aided Design and Drafting) CAD systems with additional features for drafting, such as dimensioning and text entry. CADD - Computer Aided Detector Design: a project to develop standards and methods to allow cooperation between HEP 2.04 Corel Quattro Pro 7, Corel Presentations 7, Envoy 7, InfoCentral, and DAD. Value-added features included CorelFLOW 3, Netscape Navigator, over 400 house plans in Visual CADD format, 7,000 CAD symbols, 50 titleblocks, construction forms and building specifications. Corel Corporation Incorporated in 1985, Corel Corporation is recognized internationally as an award-winning developer and marketer of productivity application, graphics and multimedia software. Corel's product line includes CorelDRAW(TM), Corel(R) WordPerfect(R) Suite, Corel(R) Office Professional, CorelVIDEO(TM), CorelCAD(TM) and over 30 multimedia software titles. Corel's products run on most operating systems, including: Windows, Macintosh(R), UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , MS-DOS MS-DOS in full Microsoft Disk Operating System Operating system for personal computers. MS-DOS was based on DOS, developed in 1980 by Seattle Computer Products. Microsoft Corp. bought the rights to DOS in 1981, and released MS-DOS with IBM's PC that year. and OS/2 and are consistently rated among the strongest in the industry. Corel is traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. (symbol - COS) and on NASDAQ-National Market System (symbol - COSFF). For more information visit Corel's home page on the Internet at http://www.corel.com . -0- Note to Editors: Corel and WordPerfect are registered trademarks and CorelDRAW, CorelVIDEO and CorelCAD are trademarks of Corel Corporation or Corel Corporation Limited. All products mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Corel Corporation Daniela Gaudert, 613/728-0826 x1333 http://www.corel.com |
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