KMWorld Readers' Choice Award Winners 2025

KM is about people and their ability to capture, organize, share, and make actionable knowledge. KM relies on technologies that can enable this core mission. Congratulations to the KMWorld Readers' Choice Award winners, and many thanks to all of you who submitted nominations and took the time to vote.

KMWorld Leader Group for 2025

While our Readers' Choice Awards honor the top companies in each of the categories, we've expanded this year's coverage to include a supplementary list we're calling the Leader Group that showcases the broader landscape of exceptional KM solutions available to organizations today. So much excellent work is being done, and done quickly, given the rapid changes in technology.

Readers' Choice Awards 2025 - eGain: Accelerating Knowledge Creation and Curation while Improving Search Success

eGain providers rich technology: content management, workflows, profiled content access, intent inference, search methods, generated instant answers, guided help, analytics, pre-built connectors to existing systems, and much more, powered by hybrid AI, including agentic and generative AI, ML, and reasoning.

Readers' Choice Awards 2025 - Stravito: From Insight to Action— How Stravito Is Powering Faster, Smarter Consumer Decisions

By blending AI with human expertise, Stravito is evolving from simplifying searching for knowledge to shaping smarter, consumer-led strategies.

LLMs for the Rest of Us

LLMs are rapidly becoming pervasive across a wide range of use cases, both for individuals and SMBs. The underlying technology is complex, but using them is just a matter of writing your first prompt. With some practice and the right model, you can end up with a powerful tool that enhances your productivity in numerous ways.

2025 KM Leaders Circle: KMS Lighthouse - Transforming static data into dynamic, actionable insights

Empowering enterprises to automate knowledge delivery, reduce operational costs, and elevate customer experiences.

2025 KM Leaders Circle: Lucidworks - Empowering Smarter CX Through Agentic AI

By combining the power of agentic and generative AI with a deep understanding of user intent, Lucidworks helps enterprises create more intuitive, efficient, and impactful digital experiences.

2025 KM Leaders Circle: metaphacts - Do what you do—better, with knowledge graphs & AI

metaphacts transforms data into consumable, contextual and actionable knowledge that drives intelligent business decision-making and trustworthy and explainable insights.

2025 KM Leaders Circle: Upland Software - Knowledge With Trust. AI With Purpose.

RightAnswers turns technical complexity into competitive advantage through intelligent knowledge creation, curation, and delivery.

AccessibilityNow®: AI Accessibility for Speed, Savings & Compliance - Crawford Technologies

Crawford Technologies is a global leader in enterprise document management, helping organizations optimize and enhance the secure and accessible delivery, storage, and presentation of their customer communications.

Transform enterprise data into a strategic, AI-ready asset - EncompaaS

Designed for unstructured content, EncompaaS discovers, classifies, and enriches information across Microsoft 365, legacy ECM systems, and file shares—without migration. It automates governance, applies retention and sensitivity policies, and enriches metadata to improve GenAI outcomes.

KMS Lighthouse Recognized as a Trend-Setting Product of the Year

KMS Lighthouse stands out by enabling organizations to deliver precise, consistent, and context-aware answers across all channels, including digital help centers that support both employees and customer inquiries. Our customers are successfully leveraging our platform to create smarter, faster, and more intuitive support experiences.

Upland RightAnswers—Knowledge with Trust, AI with Purpose

RightAnswers connects all knowledge sources with federated search, supports bring-your-own AI models, and easily integrates with CRM, IT Service Management, and other enterprise systems.

Vote now for the 2025 KMWorld Readers’ Choice Awards

It's time again to choose the best of the best for the KMWorld Readers' Choice Awards—voting for the 2025 KMWorld Readers' Choice Awards is now open through August 29

2025 The KMWorld AI 100: The Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management

As AI adapts and learns, its value to KM becomes more apparent. AI offers remarkable capabilities to avoid data silos, improve search relevance, handle multimodal information sources, and uncover knowledge hidden in large, complex data stores.

AI Trailblazer: Earley Information Science creating adaptable, AI-ready solutions that evolve alongside organizational needs

Successful AI initiatives begin with well-managed information. Whether designing taxonomies and ontologies, optimizing product information management, or enhancing enterprise search and personalization, we build intelligent frameworks that enable advanced analytics, machine learning, and generative AI applications.

AI Trailblazer: Enterprise Knowledge, LLC. - Bridging Knowledge Management, Data, and Artificial Intelligence

Our foundational success stems from bridging knowledge, information, and data management, enabling us to deliver highly functional and reliable semantic layer and AI initiatives for our clients.

AI Trailblazer: Evalueserve Powers Tech-Enhanced Managed Services with GenAI and Domain Expertise

What sets Evalueserve apart is its conviction that AI alone isn't enough. True transformation happens when AI is contextualized by industry knowledge and operationalized through managed services. Co-created with clients, Evalueserve's AI-enhanced workflows automate tasks, surface deeper insights, and amplify decision-making.

AI Trailblazer: Lucidworks - turn complex data into simple, actionable insights that accelerate business outcomes

As the AI landscape evolves, Lucidworks continues to lead the way in human-centered, responsible AI—focused not on hype, but on delivering trusted, transparent, and high-performing solutions that help companies grow with confidence.

AI Trailblazer: Openstream - Multiple AI tools and techniques to deliver bespoke solutions

Experiences built with Eva are grounded with a deep understanding of knowledge automatically extracted from enterprise data and the ability to assimilate, interpret, and activate that knowledge within any AI conversation or collaboration. This knowledge foundation enables Eva's neuro-symbolic AI engine to conduct human-like conversations without backend complexity or hallucinations, combining speech, gesture, vision, and touch inputs with text.