The expanding ease and utility of text analytics and natural language processing

The greater utility of text analytics, whether or not that's preceded by speech-to-text conversions, is the capacity to analyze the reams of unstructured text in the form of documents, conversational transcriptions, social media streams, and more.

KMWorld Readers' Choice Award 2022 Winners

In this issue, KMWorld magazine announces the winners of the 2022 KMWorld Readers' Choice Awards. The categories for competition were wide-ranging. In all, there were 13 areas in which products and technologies could be nominated and ultimately voted upon. They include business process management, cognitive computing and AI, customer service and support, e-discovery, knowledge graphs, text analytics, and NLP.

2022 Readers' Choice Award - Best Customer Experience and Support: eGain

Beyond technology, eGain offers domain expertise, risk-free adoption options, a sustained client engagement model, implementation, support, education, and managed services, and ecosystem to succeed with modern KM.

2022 Readers' Choice Award - Best Content Management / Services: Northern Light

Thanks to Northern Light's unique partnerships with research publishers, users of our SinglePointTM portals can easily access and analyze all their relevant licensed content, along with their organization's internally generated content, in a single search. The result: farewell, content silos!

2022 Readers' Choice Award - Best Text Analytics and NLP: Verint

Together with Verint Speech Analytics, Verint's Next Generation Interaction Analytics provides a powerful unified voice and text solution for alerting and acting on topics, categories, sentiment, and other critical insights across channels.

BPM: The value of process mining

As usage of BPM grew and multiple processes were added, many enterprises were no longer able to track their diverse set of processes. The complexity of enterprise applications, some new and some legacy, made it difficult to do so, as did the lack of process documentation. Visibility into processes was limited, especially for the ones that cut across different enterprise systems. Process mining emerged as a new class of enterprise software.

KMWorld Trend-Setting Products of 2022

To help showcase advanced products and services, each year KMWorld magazine looks for innovative offerings that are helping organizations derive greater benefit from their information, share knowledge more efficiently, make better decisions, improve compliance and security, effectively support employees, and communicate more seamlessly with customers.

Reimagining business with digital transformation

Regardless of the increase in scale, speed, and accuracy of digital transformation initiatives involving software agents, the cloud, search, and asset enrichment, the goal of these constructs is ultimately to improve the efficacy of human workers—and their business processes. This distinction may be a subtle one, but it's integral to the overall point of digital transformation, especially when it's applied to knowledge management.

Data Visualization provides rapid insights

One of the advantages of visualization as an analytic tool is its ability to summarize very large amounts of data in a consumable way.

Join us at KMWorld 2022 November 7–10, 2022 JW Marriott Washington, DC

It's time to close that Zoom tab and brush up on those in-person-to-person skills as KMWorld, the largest gathering of knowledge management thought leaders, practitioners, authors, and storytellers, returns to Washington, D.C., for the first time since 2019.

Chasing the Omnichannel Experience

Companies need to be fully aware that customers do not want a fragmented approach, but a smooth and well-informed one, and act on that knowledge.

Making smarter connections with knowledge graphs

Data fabric is the next level of maturity for data integration, and it can make very effective use of knowledge graph technology.

SHAKING UP ECM WITH COMPOSABLE CONTENT SERVICES: ONE PLUS ONE EQUALS THREE

The ease of integration that's foundational to composability supports low-code or no-code application building by automating measures that redress differences in data models and semantics.

KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management 2022

Flexibility, agility, and the ability to pivot continue to be essential characteristics of winning companies. Organizations must have the right tools and products so they can break down information silos, better understand the experiences of their customers and employees, uncover trends, expand collaboration, deploy AI and machine learning appropriately, and take advantage of automation to lighten the burden of mundane, repetitive tasks.

Looking to the future: 2022 KM outlook

The most drastic change KM has grappled with in the 2020s is the explosion of remote and hybrid work, which sparked an urgent need to enable virtual communication and critical information access.

Turning data into gold: Knowledge graphs, AI, and machine learning

Implementing knowledge graphs is either a direct requirement or best practice for the most effectual AI techniques—many of which have significant knowledge management consequences.

Enterprise search— an evolving technology

Today's search technology is much more intelligent, and capable of returning concept-based results rather than simple word matching based on indexed content.

KMWorld Readers' Choice Award 2021 Winners

The categories for the 2021 KMWorld Readers' Choice Awards were wide-ranging. In all, there were 14 areas in which products and technologies could be nominated and ultimately voted upon. They include business process management, cognitive computing and AI, customer service and support, e-discovery, knowledge graphs, text analytics and NLP.

What’s ahead at KMWorld 2021

Jane Dysart, KMWorld conference chair, and founding partner and curator of curiosity, Dysart & Jones Associates, provides a look at what's ahead for KMWorld 2021 attendees. The conference will be held November 15-18, 2021 at the JW Marriott Washington, DC

KMWorld Trend-Setting Products of 2021

To help showcase advanced products and services, each year KMWorld magazine looks for offerings that are designed to help organizations derive greater benefit from their information, share knowledge efficiently, make better decisions, enable compliance, effectively support employees, and communicate seamlessly with customers.