Company
Xerox, innovative company
Xerox is the global
leader in document management, offering the widest range of technology,
consulting services and solutions in the industry.
Xerox Corporation is one of the world's top technology innovators, with research and technology centres in the United States, Canada, and France. The Xerox Innovation Group (XIG) invents next-generation technology, focusing on marking systems, materials, digital imaging, as well as solutions and services.
Xerox Research Centre Europe
Xerox Research Centre Europe's
primary activity is research. Our work at XRCE focuses on increasing productivity
in the workplace through new document technologies. While drawing on the strength
of the Xerox Corporation around the world, our focus is on Europe.
We work with organisations drawn from the continent and reflect their needs
and talents. We cooperate with the scientific community and with businesses
and their customers to ensure that we develop technologies that are not only
innovative, but also match the requirements of the market. Our teams include
both researchers and developers who work closely together.
The origins of Codendi
Development of Codendi (formerly CodeX) began in 2000 at Xerox Research
Centre Europe with the aim of bringing to the enterprise the ideas behind
the success of open source projects: centralised implementation of tools
and best practices, as well as collaboration between project teams.
Initially, Codendi was based on the source code of SourceForge.net
(version 2.0 of November 2000).
From that time, the Xerox Research Centre has carried on the development of the platform to improve it with new features and to adapt to new standards.
On the strength of the success noticed within Xerox Corporation, Codendi is now available to various industry sectors (electronics, telecommunication...). Today, the Codendi community gathers 12 000 users worldwide and hosts more than 2 000 projects.
Code-Opus, the first official reseller of Codendi accredited by Xerox.
Xerox signed a partnership with Code-Opus, open-source services company with which Xerox already works on Codendi for the development.
Code-Opus is thus the first official reseller of Codendi accredited by Xerox.
In addition of the customer portfolio management, they also focus on stimulating and animating the Codendi community.