Features at a Glance

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Easy to Use

  • No user desktop software install – users need only a network connection and web browser
  • Intuitive home page layout with personalization options based on UX design principles
  • Simple to navigate categories – “bread crumb trail” and multiple hyperlinks

Document Management

  • Effective document lifecycle: draft, reviewed, issued, approved, published
  • Version control – latest, approved version as default; full history on-demand
  • Create new documents from company-wide or team document templates
  • Create, search, download and edit files directly from Microsoft Word 2007
  • Automated workflows for document access control, reviewing, approving, etc.
  • Email notification alerts of document and category changes, customer downloads, etc.
  • Bulk import of existing documents from users' PCs
  • Quickly download sets of documents for off-line work in a user briefcase
  • Automatic PDF conversion from commonly-used file formats
  • Compare versions of PDF files for differences
  • Discover and highlight broken document links and invalid part numbers
  • Drag & drop documents into CogniDox from network folders using WebDAV
  • Multiple document file types – suitable for CAD drawings, software release packages, HTML/XML compound documents (such as User Guides), etc.
  • Store and play Adobe® Flash® video directly using in-browser player - useful for company training and product marketing videos

Categorisation

  • Repository organized around any structure that best describes your enterprise taxonomy
  • Individual documents can be linked to multiple categories, and tagged with additional metadata
  • Search by document content or meta data; save searches for later use or RSS feeds
  • Power users can set up new categories and select individual access rights

Access rights

  • Manage user groups with fine-grained control over access to documents
  • Restrict rights to documents based on security profiles containing users or groups

Security

  • Single sign-on / creation of users or groups from LDAP / Active Directory
  • Configurable SSL encryption (from 128-bit to 256-bit) of connections to CogniDox
  • Automatic MD5 hash checking used to check the integrity of files
  • Audit tracking of user actions within CogniDox
  • Fine grained user and group based access controls on document operations

Content Licensing / Knowledge Transfer

  • 'Extranet-in-a-Box' instant web solution for document download and trouble ticket tracking
  • Sophisticated access control using tagging by License, Licensee and License Acceptance Agreement
  • User download reporting and document watermarking for additional security

Easy to Manage

  • Manage user sign-on using existing network directories (LDAP, Active Directories)
  • Easy installation – server install and no client PC software

Low Cost of Ownership

  • Open source software and server/storage virtualisation reduces cost of technology
  • No per-Server/CPU or named user licensing – flexible network configurations including multi-site clusters, hosted or on-premises
  • No proprietary technology lock-in, yet fully supported, commercial code
  • No expensive add-on modules to achieve minimum level functionality

Regulatory Compliance / Auditing

  • Document control for ISO 9001:2008, ISO 13485:2003, GMP CFR 21 Part 11 and 820
  • Auditability records for e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act 2002

Easy to Integrate

  • Generic plug-in framework and pre-integrated support for engineering tools (SVN, CVS, Perforce, Bugzilla); sales tools (SugarCRM, Salesforce.com) and help desk tools (OTRS, RSTickets)
  • Extranet portal managed using Joomla! CMS with CogniDox integration
  • Accessible through command line (CLI) and SOAP interfaces

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