Corel Corporation Launches iGrafx Products for Web-based Collaboration

Business Wire, Sept 16, 2002

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OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 2002

iGrafx(R) FlowCharter(TM) 2003 and iGrafx(R) Process Central(TM) 2003 Make It Easy to Author, Publish and Manage Documents via the Web

and Now Offer on-the-fly Browser-based Viewing and Mark up

Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CORL)(TSX:COR) announced today the immediate availability of two new products for enterprise customers. iGrafx(R) FlowCharter(TM) 2003 is a business analysis and communications tool that enables organizations to more clearly visualize, communicate, measure and improve their business processes. iGrafx(R) Process Central(TM) 2003 is an enterprise tool for managing process change and improvement, enabling best practices, and fostering business excellence in organizations. Together these iGrafx products provide users with a way to create, manage and share their business process models, change and update them easily, and take advantage of the document management tools available via the repository of iGrafx Process Central 2003 - including version control, approval tracking, link management, access control, and queries, and now with browser-viewable documents. These two tightly integrated software tools can help businesses improve communication, speed decision-making, and keep them competitive in the global market place by presenting information in a clear, quickly understood graphic format.

Several new features in both products let enterprise customers publish and manage diagrams on the Web, corporate intranets and extranets. iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 publishes diagrams to the Web, publishes them to Microsoft(R) Office applications, creates cause-and-effect diagrams, auto-zooms to shapes on large diagrams, and updates even large diagrams easily. iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 now includes an installer for the iGrafx Process Central 2003 client giving users a team-based collaborative environment for process management, and a means to view repository documents on the fly using only their Web browser.

Together with iGrafx Process Central 2003 and its repository, iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 is the ideal application for combining and transforming an organization's information, data and graphics into highly-manageable, structured business documents, while maintaining version control, audit trails, approval tracking, access control and link management. iGrafx Process Central 2003 also makes documents available from its repository that can be viewed by any user on the fly with a Web browser.

"Our customers invest thousands of hours in all sorts of business process improvement projects," said Trevor Morton, director of marketing for Corel Corporation's iGrafx product line. "We want our products to both simplify and improve the productivity of these projects. So we've worked with our enterprise customers to learn how they wanted iGrafx products integrated, what new features were important to them, and what productivity enhancers they needed for their businesses. Their feedback was helpful. Our beta testers have told us that they found our Web wizard helped their productivity, and made it easier for them to collaborate by pushing their diagrams to their companies' intranets."

Key New Features in iGrafx FlowCharter 2003

-- Web publishing wizard: Allows single-command publishing of iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 diagrams and all supporting documents to the Web. Subdirectory and hyper linked documents are published in an intelligent Java(TM) format. Modifying and republishing any of the files only affects the files containing new changes.

-- Publish to Microsoft Office applications: Export large paginated diagrams to these applications, and each page is published as a separate page in MS Office applications for seamless integration of iGrafx content into text and presentations. Drawings that are spread across multiple pages automatically generate off-page connectors, making multi-page drawings easy to assemble, read and understand.

-- Cause and effect diagramming: This version brings one of the most fundamental brainstorming management techniques up to date. Users can initialize a worksheet that controls the creation of a cause- and-effect diagram and a Pareto chart - all synchronized to the original data and displayed together to communicate more information faster and make updating easier.

-- iGrafx Process Central 2003 ready: Installing the iGrafx Process Central 2003 client, that comes with iGrafx FlowCharter 2003, allows users to view documents in the iGrafx Process Central repository using only their Web browsers, and helps transition products from team-centered to department, division-level or companywide projects easily. The iGrafx Process Central repository lets users manage and share their business process models and makes it easy to change and update them, while taking advantage of the document management tools available - version control, approval tracking, link management, access control, and queries.

-- Deal with large diagrams easily: Dealing with large drawings on the computer screen can be difficult. But iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 makes it easier - simply click on any part of a large drawing to zoom in to view it or update it. Use one shape as an anchor so that other shapes can be easily aligned to it. In addition, any notes associated with a shape pop up as users cursor over them.

-- Link directly to data sources: By linking directly to company databases, diagrams will automatically reflect the most current state of the organization. Linking to the database means that drawings and data are always synchronized and accurate.