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Customer Knowledge Management (CKM) involves integrating customer relationship management and knowledge management to provide customers with information specifically useful to the customer. You can find the latest Customer Knowledge Management intelligence news, trends, and solutions right here.

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Putting the ‘human’ in ‘human-in-the-loop’ at KM & AI Summit 2025

Kim Glover, Director, Communications Change Management, TechnipFMC, will lead two sessions at this year's KM & AI Summit—'Cooking With KM: Knowledge Sharing & Building Skills,'"and "Storytelling for Collaboration & Change"—exploring how "human-in-the-loop" concepts reflect and affirm the broader purpose of AI, technology, and KM itself.

GenAI for Customer Service: Pitfalls and Prescriptions for Success - eGain

Successful customer service automation with GenAI requires a strong foundation of integrated knowledge management. Investing in a modern knowledge hub to power GenAI projects will help you meet aggressive operational cost reduction and CX goals.

The ability to transform complex data into actionable intelligence - Mindbreeze

By breaking down traditional information silos and offering a unified, intuitive platform where employees can access, share, and leverage critical knowledge effortlessly, we empower users with insights tailored to their specific roles and tasks. This ensures that the right information reaches the right people at the right time.

AI-Powered Contact Center Excellence - Upland Software

Upland Knowledge offers two AI-powered knowledge management solutions, RightAnswers and Panviva, that are designed to empower organizations across diverse industries. Leveraging generative answers and AI-powered search, we help overcome these challenges by centralizing information, ensuring its accuracy, and making it readily accessible to agents. This translates directly into faster resolution times, improved first-call resolution rates, and increased customer satisfaction.

Semantic Search: A Deeper Meaning

Search has proved to be a conundrum for many organizations, but the advent of new techniques and better integration into KM platforms will prove to be a driver for greater adoption.

KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management 2025

The importance of innovation and creativity in KM cannot be overstated. In many respects, AI and other emerging technologies have cemented the importance of KM within organizations, making KM a "must have" rather than a "nice-to-have" vehicle for knowledge sharing and organizational success. Companies on this list are wonderful examples of how they help organizations unlock the power of knowledge. They stand out in the KM field, and we applaud their accomplishments.

Examining the ‘nature’ of KM: Learning from the environment and humanity at KM & AI Summit 2025

You may not realize it, but there's much to learn about KM from the world around us—both in the natural and interpersonal sense. Examining these systems, from the buzzing of bee hives to the way our personhood has always shaped knowledge sharing, bears compelling insights for KM.

Beth Rudden will explore the human element of AI at KM & AI Summit 2025

There's a lot of trepidation when dealing with AI, and for good reasons. However, the key to utilizing the tech is to work with it, not against it.

KM & AI Summit 2025 keynote to showcase knowledge management and AI as the backbone for customer service success

Ashu Roy, chairman and CEO of eGain, will share how leading clients are accelerating knowledge creation and curation, along with improving search success rates while driving down costs, during his KM & AI Summit keynote, "AI Knowledge for Customer Service Success"

Breaking down the realities of GenAI implementation at KM & AI Summit 2025

During his KM & AI Summit session, "Enterprises With AI Action: Industry Insights," John Chmaj, senior director, KM strategy, Verint, will explore how the new knowledgebase requires us to rethink how we add, access, and present content in the age of GenAI.

Tips and Techniques to Close Knowledge Gaps

Knowledge gaps are a moving target, and companies must institute continuous improvement procedures to keep up. Numerous avenues exist for detecting knowledge gaps, including employee assessments and technology-derived metrics. Remedies include training and, increasingly, deploying AI solutions to seek out new information. Organizations will need to proactively monitor these gaps and use the available tools to close them in order to stay competitive.

KMWorld Conference Wrap-Up and Look Ahead

Evident in all the tracks and conferences was the trend toward recognizing the foundational value of KM to enterprises large and small, nonprofit and for profit. Without seamless access to knowledge—access that stretches across data silos and transcends formats—enterprises cannot please customers and employees as they would like. AI-based technologies contribute to elevating the value of KM, but they are not the only driving force.

KMWorld Readers' Choice Award Winners 2024

We hope this list of Readers' Choice Awards winners will be a resource to help you choose wisely when looking for new solutions. As the field continues to evolve, recognizing excellence and innovation remains a constant, even as how knowledge sharing is accomplished morphs in tune with technology changes.

2024 Readers' Choice Award- BEST CX AND SUPPORT - eGain - Safely harness GenAI with controls and guardrails

The eGain Knowledge Hub is a rich, "whole-product" AI knowledge solution that has created transformational value at speed and scale for Global 1000 companies and government agencies alike.

What’s next in KM: All roads lead to AI

KM and AI are a natural team—their combined value can only be expected to increase in the future. As AI-powered technology becomes more integrated with both daily work functions and strategic planning, enterprise knowledge will come closer to achieving its full potential.

KMWorld Trend-Setting Products of 2024

It's clear from the increase in new and exciting products designed for KM practitioners that KM is gaining in importance within organizations and being recognized as critical to the success of enterprises. The ability of technology to streamline information flows, summarize lengthy documents, surface hidden information from existing data, and make search results relevant and actionable gives companies a competitive advantage.

eGain AssistGPT™, eGain’s Generative AI Assistant for Knowledge Automation

eGain AssistGPT™ helps customers find answers in their journeys and contact center agents, knowledge authors, and business analysts in the flow of their work.

Execute Successful Enterprise Content Strategies in Today’s AI Era with Quark Publishing Platform (QPP) NextGen

With content playing a direct role in business growth, enterprises must find ways to modernize their content operations and knowledge management infrastructure, particularly with AI, to support business objectives, the needs of customers, and ability to win in their market.

Revolutionize Support Operations with RightAnswers: The AI-Powered Knowledge Management Platform for Enterprises

At the heart of RightAnswers' offering is a commitment to trusted AI. The platform's flexible AI options, including embedded and Bring Your Own AI (BYO AI) capabilities, enable organizations to leverage cutting-edge AI technology tailored to their unique needs. This strategic approach ensures that RightAnswers can empower service and technical support teams, regardless of their existing tech stack.

Mindbreeze’s 360-Degree View Revolutionizes Data Insight

Mindbreeze's 360-degree view is an indispensable solution for organizations aiming to stay competitive in an increasingly complex digital landscape. By providing tailored, real-time insights, it empowers professionals across various roles to make informed decisions quickly and efficiently, ultimately driving organizational success.