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.

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.

Enhancing Organizational Experiences: The Power of Knowledge Management Systems and LLMs - KMS Lighthouse

Looking forward to 2025 and beyond, the synergy between KMS and LLMs will drive significant advancements in organizational experiences. By leveraging the strengths of both technologies, organizations can expect enhanced efficiency, better decision-making, and more innovative solutions to complex problems.

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.

Moving beyond the illusion of ‘AI is magic’ at KM & AI Summit 2025

At this year's KM & AI Summit, Seth Earley, CEO of Earley Information Science and author of The AI Powered Enterprise, will break down what makes AI work—and work successfully—in his session, "Building a Knowledge Architecture for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)."

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.

Unearth the importance of creativity in knowledge management at KM & AI Summit 2025

Unlock the future of innovation and knowledge management at the KM & AI Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona, March 17-19, 2025.

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.

Technology to connect people and knowledge

The ability to centralize the knowledge found in the distributed tools, repositories, and databases for KM practitioners is the defining characteristic of today's technologies. Generative machine learning models not only play pivotal roles in managing that knowledge to make it meaningful to users, but also in enabling them to interface with it on-demand, for ad-hoc use cases.

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.

Taxonomies: Foundational to knowledge management

As the volume of digital content increases, the ability to manage it becomes more important. Taxonomy and metadata are vital to finding products, conducting scientific research, and keeping track of organizational information. They also enable a wide variety of analytics on unstructured data. We can see the results of a well-designed taxonomy, but behind the scenes, there's a lot more going on than meets the eye.

KMWorld 2024: Unlocking Powerful Knowledge-Sharing Solutions

This year's KMWorld 4-day event is filled with amazing practitioners, who share their enterprise knowledge and experiences, as well as experts in a number of fields, who relate their engaging stories of success with taxonomies, text analytics, search, and discovery to those in the KM community who want to learn from and network with these stellar performers.

The KMWorld AI 100: The Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management

It's easy to become overwhelmed, even awestruck at the amount of information about AI, particularly GenAI, being thrown at us on a daily basis. The ability of AI technologies to process vast amounts of data, recognize patterns that humans can't see, and generate new knowledge and insights boggles the imagination. The challenge faced by knowledge managers is determining what is actually useful and will have staying power.

AI 100 Trailblazer- M-Files: Unleash the benefits of knowledge work automation and superior GenAI experiences

The M-Files metadata foundation drives superior AI experiences by creating a unique, customer-specific information model that surrounds all content, ensuring safe and high-quality results. With M-Files, organizations automatically get the mandatory enablers for successful AI deployment: connectivity, confidentiality and curation.

Gaining competitive advantage from non-textual information

With the right approaches, tools, and self-service facilities, it is possible for users possessing any degree of technical aptitude to quickly find and avail themselves of non-textual content.