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Paul Walsh

Paul Walsh
Paul Walsh was one of the founders of Cognidox. After a period as an academic working in user experience (UX) research, Paul started a 25-year career in software development. He's worked for multinational telecom companies (Nortel), two $1B Cambridge companies (Ionica, Virata), and co-founded a couple of startup companies. His experience includes network management software, embedded software on silicon, enterprise software, and cloud computing.

Recent Posts

Lean Document Management and CogniDox

If CogniDox had to have a mission statement, it would be "to promote Lean principles in the adoption of Docume...

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SharePoint is NOT an IT project

The AIIM organisation has just published the results from their annual Microsoft SharePoint survey. The sample...

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The 'R' in CRM

Here are five business scenarios that might benefit from a software solution:

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Using the new online Document Holder editor

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Big Content, Dark Data and Information Management

AIIM is a non-profit association covering image and information management topics. These are notes from the AI...

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File sharing is not document management

We spent a few hours this week looking at a couple of CRM software solutions and the features they offer.. We ...

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Extranet as a Service - XtraNet

We launched our new XtraNet product yesterday and there was a short interview about the new service over at th...

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Using a Web Archive (WA) document type for a QMS

Recently we announced a case study with a partner, Primilis, in which they used a CogniDox feature to implemen...

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CogniDox and file sharing in SkyDrive

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Saving Business Cost with Open Source CRM

Gartner published one of their Hype Cycle reports for CRM Sales a few days back. There's a useful summary on t...

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Information Overload, Filter Failure and Channel Panic

I think I’ve invented a new term - "Channel Panic". Here’s the context. I've been asked to participate in a pr...

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CogniDox for Microsoft Office Add-in is now available

Today we announced a major re-work of our Microsoft Office add-in. For some time we've offered an add-in for W...

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Top 5 Interview Mistakes made by Product Managers

I was at another excellent meeting last week of the Cambridge Product Management Network which as the name imp...

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CogniDox WordPress Blog Plug-in is released

We moved our CogniDox blog from using a Joomla extension to WordPress a while back. You may have seen us relea...

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Notes from "Product Management – who cares?! A VC speaks."

Last night was the Cambridge Product Manager Network 'gala event' - a special meeting before the summer break ...

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Pricing and the Open Source business model

For over a year, I've been following a great series of blog posts by Tarus Balog (founder and main mover of th...

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OfficeToPDF: open source PDF conversion for Microsoft Office 2007&2010

This week we released another project under an open source license.

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Worldwide Enterprise Software market size

In a previous blog we threw around some total-size-of-market numbers. Today I see that Gartner has just releas...

Assisting unassisted support - why document management matters

A few days back I upgraded to version 4 of the Mozilla Firefox browser because I wanted to test the new user i...

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Integrating CogniDox (more) with Bugzilla 4.0

You’re a software development leader who takes managing an application lifecycle seriously. You’ve spent time ...

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On Startups and Market Domination

Dharmesh Shah is a serial entrepreneur who is currently involved with HubSpot.com. They have just announced $3...

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Psychology and the Pricing of Software

This month's Cambridge Product Management Network meeting covered the topic of software pricing. The presenter...

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Product Management in an Agile style

The Software East group continued its series on Agile software development with a talk by Scrum consultant Rom...

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Information security lessons from Wikileaks

The release of 260,000 US embassy messages by Wikileaks this week is certainly generating headlines. I don't k...

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Software Risk and Source Code Access

There was an interesting piece of news this week from the NCC Group plc, an information assurance specialist t...

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Boosting the productivity of knowledge workers

I noticed an article on Silicon.com with the above title and it seemed pretty relevant to the news item we pub...

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People and Documents Working Together

Last Thursday (17th June) the AIIM Roadshow 2010 reached the final day of a four day tour ending in London. Th...

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Now Where Did I Put That Document?

IT Reseller Magazine is today reporting a survey by Networked Planet (an Enterprise Search software company ba...

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3 Reasons Why Product Management Can Fail

Tomorrow (Tue, May 18) there's an excellent chance to hear one of the best bloggers and practitioners on the t...

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On BizSpark and Microsoft Development

We recently released CogniDox 8.1 and amongst the new features was a CogniDox Word Add-in.

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What is Product Management?

The Cambridge Product Management Network had a useful get-together this week to debate the question: what is p...

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Measuring the benefits of Enterprise Software applications

There was an interesting survey published just over a week ago - Axios Systems, an IT services management soft...

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Open Source Enterprise Search is a Hot Topic

We published a paper just two days ago on open source Enterprise Search tools such as Lucene/Solr and Xapian/F...

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Improving Document Import

One of the top issues in all Enterprise Software is that no matter how good the software tool is, unless it is...

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Building Software in-House – Why?

I came across a survey by Cadence Design Systems, the electronic design automation (EDA) company, in which the...

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Agile, Continuous Integration and Software Documentation

At an event hosted by the Electronics KTN and DSP Valley I had a conversation with the CEO of Easics NV about ...

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Register Management and Integrated Software on Silicon

We did an integration project with Verieda Ltd recently and issued a press release about it. Verieda is a new ...

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CMS Vendor Meme - "We get it"

A month or so back one of the CMS vendors (Day Software AG) posted a blog entry in which they invited (as in t...

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Adopting a line of Miro source code

Miro, an open-source video aggregation site using VLC media player, has a novel idea for generating funds. The...

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Everybody wants it now!

Saw this interesting quote today:

CogniDox for R&D document management

Knowledge management and effective document collaboration is critical for R&D companies, and CogniDox is t...

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