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Are your ISO inspections painful? How to make your QMS really useful

Many quality managers find that as an ISO audit approaches, their stress levels increase. Are all the procedur...

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Boost Product Development Efficiency with DMS Version Control

Raising your productivity levels can improve your delivery to customers and your profitability. Productivity i...

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Evaluating Document Management Systems: A Comprehensive Guide

A document management system (DMS) can measurably improve your productivity and efficiency. A good DMS helps m...

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7 Key Questions to Ask Before Choosing a DMS Provider

If you’re new to document management systems (DMS), how do you know what to look for when choosing the right p...

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Maximising Efficiency: The Role of a Lean DMS in Business Operations

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

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4 Steps to ISO9001 Compliance

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

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Cognidox CEO Paul Walsh Passes Away, Joe Byrne Named CEO

Cambridge, 18 October 2017 - Cognidox today announced that Paul Walsh, its co-founder and CEO passed away on O...

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Navigating CAD Product Data Management Challenges

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

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Secure Your Documents: The Key to a Great Document Management System

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

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The Rising Threat of Whaling: Protecting Your Organisation from Fraud

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

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Enhanced PDF Conversion with OfficeToPDF Version 1.7

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

Explore the Exciting Features of CogniDox 9.0.0

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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Implementing Risk-based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015: A Practical Guide

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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Apply Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 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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Optimising Quality Management Principles with a Graphical QMS

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

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Apply Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 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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Apply Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 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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Apply Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 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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Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 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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Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 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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Apply Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 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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Apply Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 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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Uncovering the Pitfalls of Business Process Visualisation

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

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Apply Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 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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Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 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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Apply Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 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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Apply Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 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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The Key to Efficient Audits: Graphical QMS and documented information

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

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Increase Efficiency: Convert Office Files to PDF with OfficeToPDF

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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Maximising Value from Documented Information in Your QMS

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

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Impact of ISO 9001:2015: What You Need to Know (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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Impact of ISO 9001:2015: What You Need to Know (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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Impact of ISO 9001:2015: What You Need to Know (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 Documentation Requirements: A Comprehensive Guide

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

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Understanding Changes in ISO 27001:2013 Risk Assessments- Part II

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

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Understanding the Changes in ISO 27001:2013

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: OfficeToPDF Server-Based PDF Conversion Tool Update

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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Can You Trust Your Ex-Employees with Company Data?

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

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Beware of Virus-Infected Macros 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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Enhance Email Efficiency 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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Unveiling 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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Mastering Document Control: Tips for ISO 9001 Compliance

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

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Enhancing Information Findability with Enterprise Search

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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Optimising Product Releases with CogniDox: A Guide for Efficiency

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 Comprehensive Guide

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The Power of Lean Document Management in 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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Why SharePoint Deployments Fail: The Business vs IT Dilemma

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

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The 'R' in CRM: Why Your Business Needs It

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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Unravelling Big Content and Dark Data: Insights from the AIIM Roadshow

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

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Why 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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Unveiling XtraNet: Revolutionising Document Management and Control

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 Document Type for Quality Management Systems

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

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Boosting Collaboration: CogniDox and file sharing in SkyDrive

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Maximising Savings: Open Source CRM Solutions for Success

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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