2025 KMWorld Readers’ Choice Awards: Submit your nominations now!

It's time again to choose the best of the best for the KMWorld Readers' Choice Awards—the 2025 KMWorld Readers' Choice Awards nominations process is open through July 16th.

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, buton 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.

AI 100 Trailblazer: Progress Software Empowers Businesses with Responsible AI Solutions

Through its comprehensive AI approach, combining Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with semantic search and knowledge graphs, Progress helps deliver significant reductions in hallucinations from the GenAI responses with source attributions that engender trust. Their solutions help businesses apply domain knowledge to AI systems, effectively amplifying human intelligence at machine scale.

AI Trailblazer: Upland RightAnswers - Knowledge with Trust, AI with Purpose

RightAnswers is more than a platform. Our team has over 25 years of experience across contact centers, knowledge management, and IT support. RightAnswers includes KCS-certified enablement and a dedicated customer success team to guide your knowledge strategy every step of the way.

AI Trailblazer: Fisent Technologies - Applied GenAI Process Automation solutions for enterprises

By bridging the gap between enterprise applications and rapidly evolving LLMs, BizAI significantly enhances backoffice process efficiencies. It reduces or replaces the manual workload associated with human interpretation of diverse data and content. Within weeks, organizations deploying BizAI can expect increased efficiency, reduced costs, improved task accuracy, and faster, more informed decision-making.

Building Trustable AI

When successfully implemented, GenAI can leverage corporate knowledge in an efficient and reliable way.

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.

Using Tacit and Explicit Information for Productivity

One of the strongest driving forces for launching an initiative to capture tacit knowledge is to ensure that institutional knowledge is not lost as people retire or resign. Another is for succession planning and organizational growth. Lack of succession planning results in loss of knowledge. It undermines organizational stability and impedes innovation.

Taxonomies and Ontologies Transforming Knowledge Management

The long history of KM's reliance on taxonomies and ontologies is adding new, transformative possibilities as practitioners explore technological developments with AI.

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.