Cognizone

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Cognizone

About what we do
Founded in 2015, CZ (www.cogni.zone) is a company formed by IT engineers of many disciplines who are working on Computer Science and Information Technology for the last 15-20 years. The company covers areas around "Data Management", with focus on Semantic Technologies, Linked (and Open) Data, Metadata, Thesauri and Controlled Vocabulary Management, to name a few.

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Company profile

Cognizone situates itself in working with the industry sector as integrator (something that the team has as core competence in) but also with the European Commission and other Governments. Cognizone's intention is to provide its know-how and expertise to these institutions in order to carry out complex and demanding projects.

The company’s core engineers have been involved and successfully implemented deliverables in big government and industrial projects for the last 20 years and are proficient with a wide variety of tools, software products and systems ranging from Thesauri Management Systems like Intelligent Topic Manager, PoolParty and VocBench, to integration and interoperability architectures and modern software development paradigms like micro-services and Linked Data Fragments.

Furthermore, the company has been involved over the past years in several labour market related studies at the request of public bodies including DG Empl, DG Digit and the Publication Office of the European Union. Those projects involved AS-IS / TO-BE in depth analysis through desk research, questionnaires, stakeholder interviews and other qualitative and quantitative means. Themes such as semantic interoperability in the labour market, recommendations for labour market and education metadata schema, reviews and recommendations for European software platforms have been covered by these studies.
Cognizone’s expertise and credibility gained through those projects lead to the development of trusted and mutually beneficial relationships with the European bodies above mentioned.

About our values

In its core, Cognizone is about...

“DATA FOR GOOD, DRIVEN BY PASSION FOR SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES”

Sweet right?! Of course we didn’t wait to come up with this statement to apply it into our daily work life. In fact it was already there in spirit when Cognizone was born, exactly three years ago.

But even if it was already present and guiding us since then, we still needed to put words and context (we are semantic guys after all!) to express the essence of what we aim to achieve as a company.

With this statement we emphasise on the fact that we are not only experts in data sciences and software engineering but that, through our projects, data are published in a way which is good for citizens, companies, researchers or any stakeholder for which they are intended. Our use of semantic technologies makes the data we process of high quality, transparent, interoperable, reusable and interpretable both by “machines” and people so they can be put to good use through applications and services that can benefit to the society.

Expressing this mission statement triggered the process to further define who we are and what we do, to shape our corporate identity and clearly share this message to (potential) partners and clients. Stay tuned!”