NCompass Labs was a Vancouver-based software company[1] that developed NCompass Resolution,[2] a web content management software package.
[4] NCompass Labs was founded by Gerri Sinclair, Kerem Karatal and Kristof Roomp in 1996, who were working at the ExCITE Center,[5] a multimedia research group at Simon Fraser University.
[6] The initial product of the company was a plug-in for hosting ActiveX controls in Netscape Navigator named ScriptActive,[7] which was developed in cooperation with Microsoft.
[9] In 1997 the company changed direction releasing a Microsoft Windows-based content managed product named ActiveEnterprise.
[2] In 2001 Microsoft purchased the company for approximately $36 million,[10] and re-released NCompass Resolution branded as Microsoft Content Management Server in 2002.