Professional Alliances

Cognitive is strategically aligned with technology partners and leading professional associations. Our goal is to provide our distributors, resellers, and customers with certified thermal printing solutions and market knowledge obtained from leading industry associations.

Technology Partners

• Oracle – Cognitive’s Advantage XML prints directly from Oracle’s Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Oracle’s Mobile Supply Chain Applications (MSCA). This eliminates the need for a third-party integrator or middleware.
  
  
• Transaction Printer Group (TPG) –Headquartered in Lincolnshire, IL, TPG designs, manufactures, and markets thermal and impact banking, retail POS printers, and value-added receipt master system software.
  
  
• Architext is a font developer for Cognitive printers, centered around pharmacy warning label fonts and digitization of signatures/company logos.  Architext can develop specialized printing requirements such as additional languages, pharmacy logos, corporate fonts etc.
  
  
• Intercon Associates develops software applications to automate the collection, management and processing of content and data for enterprise content management systems, electronic forms, pharmacy labeling systems, and barcode applications.
  
  
• Pharmacy Automation & Supplies - For over 100 years, Pharmacy Automation Supplies has been a leader in the manufacturing of pressure sensitive labels for the pharmacy marketplace.
  

Industry Associations

• AIM North America - AIM North America is the industry trade association representing the Automatic Identification and Mobility sales channel in the US, Canada and Mexico.
  
  
• American Society for Automation in Pharmacy (ASAP) – ASAP advances the need for computer technology to aid pharmacists in their roles as caregiver, operator and manager.
  
  
• American Society of Health-System Phamacists (ASHP) ASHP is the 30,000-member national professional association that represents pharmacists who practice in hospitals, health maintenance organizations, long-term care facilities, home care, and other components of health care systems.
  
  
• The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Himms is the healthcare industry's membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.
  
  
• Material Handling Industry of America (MHAI) – MIHA is the leading trade association representing the material handling and logistics industry.
  
  
• National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) – The National Association of Chain Drug Stores represents the largest component of pharmacy practice chain community pharmacies.
  
  
• National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) – The NCPA represents the pharmacist owners, managers, and employees of more than 24,000 independent pharmacies across the United States.
  
  
• Self Service Organization (SSKA) – SSKA promotes the interests the electronic, self-service kiosk industry.