KMWorld Readers' Choice Award Winners 2023

It borders on the incredible the speed at which KM tools, products, and services have evolved recently, creating challenges for those charged with identifying the best ones for their KM projects. We hope that our Readers' Choice winners' list will be a resource for you to choose wisely.

2023 Readers' Choice Award- Best Knowledge Graphs: Franz Inc. AllegroGraph - LLMs and Knowledge Graphs for AI in the Enterprise

Franz Inc. not only offers cutting-edge technology but also provides a suite of services for building industrial-strength Knowledge Graphs. By combining the semantic richness of AllegroGraph with the natural language processing capabilities of LLMs, organizations can unlock the full potential of their data, ensuring that AI-driven insights are grounded in facts.

The future of knowledge management: Talking to documents with generative AI

The fundamental pillars of KM—taxonomies, domain-specific data models, knowledge extraction, search, and text analytics—are as pertinent today as they ever were. Now, generative AI has rendered these constructs much more accessible to the enterprise. Its long-standing utility will be determined by surmounting models' tendencies to generate contrived, inaccurate responses while embedding them into core KM processes.

KM leverages data mesh

An underlying premise of data mesh is that business units should be able to control their own data and interact with one another by sharing data.

Data governance solves multiple KM challenges

Organizations are recognizing that effective data governance is ultimately more of a benefit than a burden. It increases efficiency by delivering trusted data, improves business processes, decreases data downtime, and reduces compliance risk. It also promotes data literacy throughout the enterprise.

Automate Digitization and Support Your Full Information Management Lifecycle with Award-winning Access Unify

Integrating flawlessly into your existing infrastructure, Access Unify solutions ensure a streamlined, digital-first workflow, minimizing the need for extra training or staffing.

AvePoint: Collaborate with Confidence

AvePoint's Confidence Platform is the most advanced platform for SaaS and data management, purpose-built to migrate, manage, and protect SaaS applications and data, enabling transformation, governance, and compliance.

eGain - Eliminating content, knowhow, and analytics silos, creating one trusted source for AI-infused knowledge

An end-to-end solution that unifies and orchestrates all the building blocks needed for modern, KM, infused with conversational and generative AI, the Hub eliminates content, knowhow, and analytics silos, creating one trusted source for knowledge.

Kodak Alaris - aligning customers’ existing infrastructures to their future needs

From streamlining data capture, extracting key information, and delivering the right information to the right place at the right time, scanners and software from Kodak Alaris can meet each customer's unique business needs.

Mindbreeze InSpire Integrates with Large Language Models to Elevate Natural Language Question Answering

Mindbreeze InSpire captures, stores, and manages data within a company, allowing companies to benefit from incorporating pre-trained models trained on vast amounts of data.

Northern Light SinglePoint Users Receive Well-Informed Answers to their Specific Market & Competitive Intelligence Questions

Northern Light, by implementing generative AI, enable users of Northern Light SinglePoint™ portals to instantly receive well-informed answers to their specific questions, drawing upon only reliable, authoritative content sources.

Simplify Enterprise Content Lifecycle Complexities with Quark Publishing Platform (QPP) NextGen

40+ years of content complexity understanding and the latest AI technology have been infused into Quark Publishing Platform (QPP) NextGen, empowering enterprises to automate each stage of the content lifecycle and effectively create, collaborate, assemble and deliver high value content -often critical for businesses in regulated industries - to support business objectives.

JOIN US AT KMWORLD NOVEMBER 6–9, 2023 JW MARRIOTT WASHINGTON, D.C.

It's an exciting time for KM, with new technologies and new approaches sparking new opportunities. The KMWorld conference, the largest global gathering of KM thought leaders, practitioners, and authors, returns to Washington, D.C., this November.

The KMWorld AI 100: The Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management

AI reaches many different areas within organizations—marketing, customer service, legal, finance, human resources, compliance, fleet maintenance, manufacturing, sales, and other business units as well. AI touches almost every piece of an organization's structure and operations, as well as their customer-facing presence. 

AI 100 Trailblazer: Enterprise Knowledge - Leading at the Intersection of Knowledge Management and Artificial Intelligence

AI has the potential to transform how organizations do business, combining an organization's wealth of knowledge, information, and data, in all its forms, to help people make decisions, spot trends, learn, and perform in new ways. However, none of that can come to fruition without the right foundations of quality content, appropriate structure, and consistent mapping and design of relationships.

AI 100 Trailblazer: Mindbreeze—Extract Information that Matters to You

Using knowledge extraction, Mindbreeze enables key information and its meaning to be obtained and linked to previously labeled data. This revolutionary technique can transform outdated business processes and reduce timely job functions.

AI 100 Trailblazer: Northern Light - Northern Light SinglePoint uses AI to accelerate researchers’ time-to-insight

SinglePoint™ contains several innovative applications of artificial intelligence to accelerate time-to-insight for business researchers. The latest is a generative AI-based "question answering" capability built on top of OpenAI's or Microsoft's GPT-3.5 Turbo large language model.

AI Trailblazer Profile: Shelf - Revolutionizing Knowledge Management with Cutting-Edge AI Solutions

Shelf's flexible and user-friendly platform quickly generates value for the world's largest enterprises in complex KM projects. By providing crucial information when needed, the solution enhances day-to-day workflows without disrupting users' tasks but enhances productivity.

MANAGING KNOWLEDGE COMPLEXITY THROUGH VISUALIZATION

The flexibility of current visualization tools makes them an asset to any analytical initiative. These products can visualize data contained in relational databases or graph databases, and they provide engaging opportunities for exploring data to reveal information that predefined queries would not. As AI capabilities are incorporated and natural language interfaces become the norm, visualization will only become easier and more valuable in the coming years. 

IoT forging new pathways to innovation

The value in using IoT for knowledge management and decision support is found in the analytics conducted on the data that comes in from the sensors.