In the 17th century, René Descartes uttered the now famous line “Cogito Ergo Sum” or “I think, therefore I am”. Almost four centuries later, Cogito was founded, focused on a new mathematical way to structure and query complex data and named in honor of the man known as the Father of Modern Mathematics.

The company is a pioneer in the development of Graph-based Relationship Analytics, improving data structuring, modeling, definition and analysis. This smarter approach to data analytics gives organizations new insight into complex and distant relationships previously hidden within massive data stores.

Cogito has spent many man-years researching and modeling data structures, knowledge management algorithms, and data visualization techniques. The resulting product—the Cogito Knowledge Center—represents the first commercially significant advance in information management since the advent of relational databases. Where standard relational databases deal with sets of data elements, Cogito represents data in a mathematical graph. This structure is far more flexible for users who need to analyze relationships between data elements.

By exploiting the power of Graph-based Relationship Analytics, organizations as diverse as intelligence agencies, manufacturers and companies in life sciences can get a better handle on information and turn that understanding to their advantage.