Cognidox

Cognidox Limited

Type	Private
Industry	content management
Founded	2008
Headquarters	Cambridge, UK
Products	CogniDox software CogniBox storage appliance
Website	www.cognidox.com

Cognidox (Officially Cognidox Ltd) is an independent software vendor based in Cambridge, UK. Its flagship product is CogniDox - a commercial document management and content management system based on open source technology.

According to the company's web site, CogniDox enables collaboration and workflow between teams engaged in knowledge-intensive R&D. Such groups are characterised by a need to synchronise the overall design to obtain the maximum benefits of re-use; and by a need to transfer knowledge via a secure external web site to their partners to ensure the minimum time-to-volume for incorporation into end-consumer products.

The product is a vertical solution for the Fabless Semiconductor industry^[1]. The product aims to build document management into the Intranets and Extranets of such companies. It integrates with a number of leading open source solutions in content management, issue tracking and sales force automation (e.g. SugarCRM)^[2]. It provides content licensing that regulates the publishing of content from the internal system to Customer Portals and Support web sites.

The origins of CogniDox lie in an in-house solution "Doxbox" created by Virata Corporation and later acquired by Conexant Systems. Since then, the re-named CogniDox has been adopted by a wider number of companies in the Fabless semiconductor company sector.

CogniDox is written in Perl and uses the Apache Web Server and MySQL database management system. The licensing follows the commercial open source model.

See also

• Document management system
• Enterprise content management

References

1. ^ "CogniDox addresses unmet needs of semiconductor industry". http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/article/?objid=49150. Retrieved 2008-09-02. 
2. ^ "Cognidox say four software tools are the key to high-tech company success". http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/article/default.aspx?objid=51382. Retrieved 2008-11-04. 

External links

• CogniDox website
• Microsoft Startup of the Day - Interview with Paul Walsh, CEO of CogniDox