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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What is Channel Panic: The New Challenge in Information Management?

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: Streamlining Document Management

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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Why Automating PDF Conversion with OfficeToPDF is a Game-Changer

This week we released another project under an open source license.

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The Importance of Document Management for Unassisted Support

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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Enhancing Integration: CogniDox and Bugzilla 4.0 Integration Guide

You’re a software development leader who takes managing an application lifecycle seriously. You’ve spent time ...

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Optimising Product Management: Agile Strategies and Best Practices

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: A Closer Look at SIPRnet

The release of 260,000 US embassy messages by Wikileaks this week is certainly generating headlines. I don't k...

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The Importance of Software Risk Management 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 Knowledge Worker Productivity: Overcoming Barriers to Success

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: Navigating the ECM Landscape

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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The Search Dilemma: Lost Documents in the Digital Workspace

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: Expert Insights

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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Maximizing User Engagement: The Key to Successful Document Management

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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Unveiling the Truth: CMS Vendor Checklist Reactions

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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