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How a document management system contributes to a lean business model

Lean is a philosophy, a theory that acts as a guiding principle for continuous improvement and customer focus ...

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ISO9001 ready with Cognidox – an overview

4 steps to getting ISO9001 ready Achieving ISO9001 compliance can appear daunting, but while it requires a sig...

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A closer look at Document Control for ISO 9001

What is document control? Properly documented information is at the heart of meeting the ISO 9001 standard, an...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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