CogniDox began circa 1998 as a document management system called "DoxBox" created by Virata Corporation to assist in managing its communications semiconductors business. Virata grew revenue by 2x in 2000 and 6x in 2001, and realised that it needed a way to share design collateral with OEM customers using a self-service portal in order to keep up with such rapid expansion. Virata especially wanted to make sure that companies only saw documentation for the designs they had licensed, and it wanted to know which users from those companies had downloaded what documentation, and when.
DoxBox continued in use as the company became GlobespanVirata and again later when it was acquired by Conexant Systems. IPR rights to the software were granted to us in 2005 to ensure that it would be fully commercialised as a product.
Cognidox Ltd was set up in 2008 to make CogniDox the first choice document control software for high-tech companies.
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