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Mind the Gap: CAD Product Data Management

A number of Cognidox companies use the tool to store their 2D and 3D CADdrawings, in addition to more typical ...

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What makes a great Document Management System?

Your documents are your everything. Contracts, client details, employee details, invoices, minutes of meetings...

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10 Minutes to Save Yourself from Whaling

The CEO, CFO, COO of a company: the people in charge, the brains behind the whole organisation. If not totally...

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Version 1.7 of OfficeToPDF available

Today we released version 1.7 of our OfficeToPDF open source project for PDF conversion. You can read more abo...

New Release CogniDox 9.0.0 - the 'other' features

We made CognDox 9.0.0 available for download on May 4th and announced it to the world on May 9th - there's a c...

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White Paper – How to apply Risk-based Thinking to ISO 9001:2015

For the past several months we've published a series of blog posts on the application of Risk-based Thinking f...

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ISO 9001:2015 – How to apply Risk-based Thinking to Quality Processes [Part XII]

There are twelve posts in this series. To read Part XI, please click here. This is the final part in our serie...

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A gQMS reinforces ISO 9000 Quality Management Principles

When gaining a quality badge is the primary objective, there is a temptation to just think about meeting the m...

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ISO 9001:2015 – How to apply Risk-based Thinking to Quality Processes [Part XI]

There are twelve posts in this series. To read Part X, please click here. If you have been reading this blog r...

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ISO 9001:2015 – How to apply Risk-based Thinking to Quality Processes [Part X]

There are twelve posts in this series. To read Part IX, please click here. In this and the following two posts...

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ISO 9001:2015 – How to apply Risk-based Thinking to Quality Processes [Part IX]

How to apply Risk-based Thinking to Quality Processes - a Summary There are twelve posts in this series. To re...

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ISO 9001:2015 - How to apply Risk-based Thinking to Quality Processes [Part VIII]

RISK MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGY FOR QUALITY MANAGEMENT Steps 4-6 in the method There are twelve posts in this seri...

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ISO 9001:2015 - How to apply Risk-based Thinking to Quality Processes [Part VII]

There are twelve posts in this series. To read Part VI, please click here. Steps 1-3 in the method If you have...

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ISO 9001:2015 - How to apply Risk-based Thinking to Quality Processes [Part VI]

There are twelve posts in this series. To read Part V, please click here. Risk based thinking is the new 'prev...

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ISO 9001:2015 - How to apply Risk-based Thinking to Quality Processes [Part V]

SO 31000 Risk management techniques - continued Attributes of a selection of risk assessment tools There are t...

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Visualizing Business Processes - what can go wrong?

Most Quality Control and Quality Assurance methods are concerned with business process mapping as a way of und...

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ISO 9001:2015 - How to apply Risk-based Thinking to Quality Processes [Part IV]

ISO 31000 Risk management techniques - continued There are twelve posts in this series. To read Part III, plea...

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ISO 9001:2015 - How to apply Risk-based Thinking to Quality Processes [Part III]

ISO 31000 Risk management techniques Attributes of a selection of risk assessment tools If you haven't yet rea...

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ISO 9001:2015 - How to apply Risk-based Thinking to Quality Processes [Part II]

ISO 31000 Risk management techniques: A selection of risk assessment tools you might like to consider Part 1 i...

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ISO 9001:2015 - How to apply Risk-based Thinking to Quality Processes [Part I]

Why taking a risk-based approach is a requirement of ISO 9001 Risk-based thinking is a sore point among many Q...

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Graphical QMS, documented information, and the audit process

A gQMS will help with internal and external auditing requirements - leading to ISO certification in less time ...

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Convert Office documents to PDF using OfficeToPDF 1.5

We’ve made a new release (1.5) of our OfficeToPDF open source project and pushed the code to its usual home on...

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The Graphical QMS - how to get value from documented information

Documented information in a Quality Management System (QMS) - and why it's time for a radical overhaul of how ...

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ISO 9001:2015 - The likely impact (Part III)

What 'documented information' is required by ISO 9001:2015? There are twelve posts in this series. To read Par...

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ISO 9001:2015 - The likely impact (Part II)

There are twelve posts in this series. To read Part I, please click here. Risk-based thinking and the resultin...

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ISO 9001:2015 - The likely impact (Part I)

How will the new version affect ISO 9001:2008 registrations? According to BSI, the new standard, ISO 9001:2015...

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ISO27001:2013: What has changed from 2005? - Part III

Documentation Requirements set out in ISO/IEC 27001:2013 For those of you who are currently 'transitioning' to...

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ISO 27001:2013: What has changed? - Part II

Information Security Risk Assessments in ISO/IEC 27001:2013 ISO/IEC 27001:2013 aligns with the principles and ...

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ISO 27001:2013 - What has changed from the 2005 version?

The short answer is 'A lot more than many professionals currently think'. To start, though, the basic facts: I...

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New release of OfficeToPDF server-based PDF conversion tool

We've made a new release (1.4) of our OfficeToPDF open source project and pushed the code to its usual home on...

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Do You Trust Your Ex-Employees?

It's one thing to ask whether companies truly trust their employees with company information, but I think most...

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Virus-infected Office Macro threats and self-signed SSL certificates

I saw an article today whose headline ("Remember macro viruses? Infected Word and Excel files? They're back......

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Improve Email Management with CogniDox DMS Integration

Sorry to state the obvious, but you receive a lot of emails and your number of unread messages only ever seems...

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The Technology Behind LinkedIn Publish

LinkedIn has opened its publishing platform called LinkedIn Publish to the rest of us that are not "Influencer...

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Document Control, ISO 9001 and CogniDox DMS

ISO 9001:2008 is not prescriptive - it provides a framework and good advice but generally leaves it up to the ...

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Enterprise Search is critical for Information Management

Continuing the theme of projects that can change the way your company works, in this post we'll look at the to...

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Building a Product Release Engine with CogniDox

In this blog I want to start a new theme - projects that can change the way your company works. All companies ...

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CogniDox and Information Security Management - a white paper

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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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