KMWorld Readers' Choice Award Winners 2025

KM is about people and their ability to capture, organize, share, and make actionable knowledge. KM relies on technologies that can enable this core mission. Congratulations to the KMWorld Readers' Choice Award winners, and many thanks to all of you who submitted nominations and took the time to vote.

KMWorld Leader Group for 2025

While our Readers' Choice Awards honor the top companies in each of the categories, we've expanded this year's coverage to include a supplementary list we're calling the Leader Group that showcases the broader landscape of exceptional KM solutions available to organizations today. So much excellent work is being done, and done quickly, given the rapid changes in technology. We urge you to review the winners and our new Leader Group of companies to check out how they could help you in your KM journey.

Readers' Choice Awards 2025 - Copyright Clearance Center: Building an Effective Copyright Compliance Program

CCC's Annual Copyright Licenses provide an important foundation on which organizations of all sizes can build an effective copyright compliance program.

Readers' Choice Awards 2025 - Stravito: From Insight to Action— How Stravito Is Powering Faster, Smarter Consumer Decisions

By blending AI with human expertise, Stravito is evolving from simplifying searching for knowledge to shaping smarter, consumer-led strategies.

2025 KM Leaders Circle: Enterprise Knowledge, LLC. - Harnessing assorted data, content, and other knowledge assets in an AI-ready format

Enterprise Knowledge helps organizations harness their assorted data, content, and other knowledge assets in an AI-ready format, building the necessary organizational models and mechanisms to support enterprise-level alignment.

Future-Ready Knowledge Management: Skills, Roles, and Career Paths in Transition

The future of KM as a discipline and profession lies not just in systems and strategies, but in the people who bring them to life. While no one can predict the future, skills such as facilitation, emotional intelligence, and change management will always be valuable for organizations.

AccessibilityNow®: AI Accessibility for Speed, Savings & Compliance - Crawford Technologies

Crawford Technologies is a global leader in enterprise document management, helping organizations optimize and enhance the secure and accessible delivery, storage, and presentation of their customer communications.

Transform enterprise data into a strategic, AI-ready asset - EncompaaS

Designed for unstructured content, EncompaaS discovers, classifies, and enriches information across Microsoft 365, legacy ECM systems, and file shares—without migration. It automates governance, applies retention and sensitivity policies, and enriches metadata to improve GenAI outcomes.

Progress Semaphore: Metadata-Driven Semantic AI for Smarter Content and Data Governance

Progress Semaphore is a semantic AI platform that helps organizations turn unstructured content and data into meaningful, actionable insights. By enriching information with consistent, domain-specific metadata, Semaphore supports more accurate search, streamlined workflows, and stronger governance.

PaperStream Capture Pro - Ricoh

By eliminating manual data entry and improving document management processes, PaperStream Capture Pro boosts operational efficiency, enhances data usability, and strengthens compliance. Teams can shift their focus from repetitive tasks to high-value strategic initiatives and customer engagement.

Semedy Knowledge Management System

Semedy's Knowledge Management System (KMS) empowers your organization to tackle complex KM challenges—setting the stage for success in an era defined by generative artificial intelligence (AI).

Vote now for the 2025 KMWorld Readers’ Choice Awards

It's time again to choose the best of the best for the KMWorld Readers' Choice Awards—voting for the 2025 KMWorld Readers' Choice Awards is now open through August 29

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.

AI Trailblazer: Bloomfire - Transforming Knowledge Management into Enterprise Intelligence

At the core of Bloomfire's platform are five capabilities of Enterprise Intelligence: connecting siloed information across systems, resolving content duplication and gaps through a self-healing knowledge base, unlocking tacit expertise from employees, injecting insights directly into workflows, and proactively surfacing what teams need before they ask. Together, these capabilities turn knowledge from a passive archive into an active, strategic asset.

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: Lexsoft - Evolving legal ‘knowledge management’ into ‘knowledge research’

Lexsoft is leading the way in how generative AI technology can be leveraged to deliver new KM-related capabilities in the legal sector.

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, but on delivering trusted, transparent, and high-performing solutions that help companies grow with confidence.

AI Trailblazer: M-Files - Transforming how organizations handle information

M-Files empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of AI with the essential foundations already built in: structured data, secure access, and intelligent automation.