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: Enterprise Knowledge - Taking AI Beyond a Prototype: At the Intersection of Knowledge and Data Management

Throughout the many AI solutions we have developed within both the public and private sector, we differentiate ourselves by working alongside our clients to weave KM and data management practices through knowledge graphs and a semantic layer and build user-focused AI solutions that are embedded within organizational processes, support the organizational mission, and reflect how people and processes fuel enablement and adoption.

AI 100 Trailblazer: RightAnswers - Future-Proof Your Contact Center: Harnessing AI for Superior Knowledge Management And Customer Service

Your contact center is crucial to your company, so equipping agents with cutting-edge technology is essential for delivering top-notch service. RightAnswers from Upland Software, a leader in AI knowledge management, simplifies creating, maintaining, and accessing relevant information when needed.

AI 100 Trailblazer: Sugarwork - Unlocking the 80% of institutional knowledge not captured by existing KM tools

Sugarwork is designed for companies to capture institutional knowledge—both tacit and explicit—and make it accessible to anyone in the organization. It leverages GenAI to enable organizations to capture the information, insights, and nuances of daily operations.

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.

AI Trailblazer Profile: Talkdesk- Leading the charge against bad customer experience

Talkdesk Knowledge Management leverages AI to enhance self-service and agent-assisted automation. It consolidates articles from third-party platforms for federated search and uses LLM-based generation and semantic search for faster content retrieval.

Taking the leap: Migrating to a new platform

The key best practice is upfront planning, including having an understanding of the potentially far-reaching impact of migration.

AI 100 Trailblazer: Atlas - Trailblazers in Intelligent Knowledge Management

ClearPeople's flagship product, Atlas, is the first Intelligent Knowledge Platform built specifically for Microsoft 365. Atlas tackles the critical organizational challenge of unlocking knowledge within Microsoft 365 and other enterprise systems, to drive your business forward.

How (and when) to update your KM strategy

Ensuring that KM endeavors support different access points, systems, and user preferences is a prime consideration for updating KM strategies. Vendors may also supply newfound capabilities (which an organization previously hadn't had access to) that warrant updating a KM strategy to avail organizations of new possibilities.

Cloud technology: A synergistic environment for KM and generative AI

Cloud technology may have become a commodity to some extent, but it is not a simple commodity. The technology that allows cloud computing to be dynamic and agile is composed of many interrelated components, which means that when one thing goes wrong, the problem can cascade.

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Personalization to support customer engagement and boost revenue

Over time, consumers have become accustomed to personalized results when they search for products and services. They are demanding that the brands they deal with have a deep understanding of their individual needs.

Using Generative AI for real-world KM solutions

The overarching utility derived from GenAI capabilities relies on organizations' proficiency to reduce redundancy to minimize inaccuracies, monitor outputs, and trace responses to the underlying data sources from which their responses are produced.

Master These Five KM Practices for Success

Knowledge management is a journey— not a project or a technology—and people are at the heart of it. Whether an organization is starting a new KM program or continuing to evolve and expand an existing program, it is critical to have a documented strategy and focus on all the essentials.

KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management 2024

We think these companies play a pivotal role in shaping the future and bringing relevancy to how knowledge is harnessed and made useful across diverse sectors. They are committed to driving efficiency and effectiveness through KM to organizations of all types.

Promises and Perils of AI for Enterprise Knowledge Management

This survey reveals both excitement and trepidation around enterprise AI adoption for knowledge management. Long-standing problems around information access, data quality, and speedy acquisition of needed information are the puzzle pieces that AI has the potential to solve.

Overcoming data silos: A range of options

The options are many and varied when it comes to taming silos. The specific approach should depend on the use case, the organization's existing knowledge assets, and the strategic goals.

Modern KM tools and techniques for collaboration

Modern collaboration means and mechanisms ultimately make it easier, less risky, and more productive for organizations to work together within business units, between them, and between organizations. Constructs such as data mesh architecture, data fabric architecture, data access governance platforms, data catalogs, and process automation solutions are based on sharing information between parties—and make doing so tenable.

The future of KM is not simply AI

Until KM systems can achieve trust in AI, a totally AI-centric workplace will be a fantasy. The future of KM will be based on collaborative work habits, fueled by technology that encourages knowledge sharing, enhances productivity, supports employees to have a healthy work life, and accepts that not every aspect of knowledge management is technology-reliant.

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.