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Semantic Layers Bring Answers to Problems KM Is Designed to Solve

With a semantic layer framework, an organization can actually spot where they lack explicit knowledge and information, or where people are asking questions for which explicit answers don't exist.

Agentic AI and the Evolution of Finance: How Smarter Systems Are Powering Usage-Based Models and Enterprise Growth

Agentic AI marks a shift from passively recording business activity to actively driving it. Those who embrace this shift early will do more than automate tasks—they'll build a trusted, intelligent infrastructure that accelerates not only efficiency but also agility, strategy, and scale.

Conversational AI interfaces and human-AI collaboration to transform legal knowledge management in 2026

This next year will see the knowledge management function take a direction that focuses on a more advanced and mature way of leveraging AI.

Leaders predict AI to continue permeating all aspects of KM in 2026

AI continues to be the topic du jour for various aspects of knowledge management, and 2026 looks to be no exception as leaders in the industry look ahead

Navigating the IT Landscape: Balancing Hybrid Cloud and Cloud Repatriation to Stay in Control of Your Infrastructure

To secure their data, certain industries have strict regulations regarding data storage, requiring data to be kept in specific geographic locations or under stringent security measures. This is yet another reason for organizations nowadays to switch back to on-prem resources.

Experts predict AI will continue impacting KM in 2025

AI continues to disrupt the knowledge management space and experts in the field predict that it's a trend that still hasn't reached its full potential, yet. In 2025 there's more room for improvement.

The transformative role of AI in the next generation of records management

While there are many ways AI will disrupt and advance the records management process, these four key applications will make the biggest impact: automating document classification and tagging, records retention and data hygiene, leveraging natural language processing for record analysis and predictive analytics for records management.

Navigating the risks and challenges of AI (quickly): Create an AI governance program

A strong AI governance program is essential to ensuring compliance and reducing risk. An equally important benefit is that by developing the governance program at the same time the AI application is being developed, issues can be identified early, thus avoiding system redesign or rework on the tail end.

What you should know about cross-border data transfer laws

Multinational companies are generally aware of data transfer laws, but smaller ones just embarking on looking beyond country borders may not be.

KMWorld 2023 sees a sea change

Most of the papers presented at the 2023 conference did not report on what had changed. Instead, they assumed and predicted that there would be substantial change.

KM and AI: Experts look at what lies ahead for 2024

AI and dreams of its potential rocked this past year as companies moved quickly to embed and offer their own version of chat assistants, predictive and generative AI, and more

Avoiding the wrath of illegal data

To mitigate the risks associated with illegal data, organizations need to implement data governance policies and procedures to ensure that all data is properly documented, stored, and maintained.

It’s not about knowledge, it’s about action

Organizations cannot continue to digitally hoard knowledge. Investments in knowledge technology have to pay and provide an ROI. It all starts by making different decisions.

Knowledge management experts provide KM predictions for 2023

Several KM leaders offer predictions for the space in 2023

Why reducing review time can revolutionize enterprise content search

Leveraging this finding of the brain's superior ability to recognize patterns, a next-generation viewer uses three progressive panels to display search results and document pages as visual thumbnails

Why SaaS visibility matters

With the increase of decentralized workplaces and remote and hybrid work models, SaaS has overtaken on-premises apps and become critical to any company's success

KMWorld Connect 2021 recap: Knowledge graphs were front and center

In 2021, knowledge graphs weren't just blossoming—they were blooming—and it was clear that we are now in the knowledge graph stage of KM development

3 Ways third-party data can help enhance a company’s analytical approach

The road to best practices in data may not be a short one, but it's one all companies must take to survive today and into the future

5 Knowledge graph insights from KMWorld Connect 2021

Knowledge graphs continue to make a splash in the KM space

MDM and data governance: What comes first, the chicken or the egg?

In a very real sense, data governance is the "business function" of MDM, controlling how data is created, collected, and used