Cognidox
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Cognidox 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. 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
). 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.
Independent software vendor
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based in Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, UK. Its flagship product is CogniDox - a commercial document management and content management
Content management
Content management, or CM, is the set of processes and technologies that support the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium. In recent times this information is typically referred to as content or, to be precise, digital content...
system based on open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
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. 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
SugarCRM
SugarCRM is a software company based in Cupertino, California. They produce the web application Sugar, also known as SugarCRM, which is a customer relationship management system that is available in both open source and Commercial open source applications.Sugar's functionality includes sales-force...
). 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
Virata Corporation
Virata Corporation is an inactive acquired company that was a major contributor to the "Cambridge Phenomenon" or Silicon Fen high-tech cluster in the United Kingdom. Case studies and research papers have been created to illustrate the role of social networking in the creation of Virata's success...
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
Fabless semiconductor company
A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing the fabrication or "fab" of the devices to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry...
sector.
CogniDox is written in Perl
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...
and uses the Apache Web Server and MySQL
MySQL
MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
database management system. The licensing follows the commercial open source model.