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.

Enterprise Intelligence: Turn Knowledge from Cost Center to Profit Driver - Bloomfire

In 2025, you need enterprise intelligence—dynamic, AI-powered knowledge orchestration that connects critical insights across your entire organization in real-time.

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.

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.

In KM, Content is King - Northern Light

Make sure your knowledge management system fulfills all these requirements for effective content processing so that users (and your organization) reap maximum benefits from your KM investment.

How enterprises handle their most valuable asset: their knowledge - RWS

We're moving into an era where AI-driven content operations will be the norm, not the exception. Organizations will shift from basic automation to intelligent content orchestration, where AI systems don't just process content but understand and adapt it in real-time across multiple channels and markets.

Making Knowledge Transfer Intentional

It's critical to provide the right resources for effective knowledge transfer. This not only includes the time and space to learn but also change management elements such as rewards and recognition to motivate both sources and recipients.

Avoiding Legal Pitfalls Through Savvy Data Governance

Data governance solutions can scan and classify organizations' sensitive data according to its relevance to a particular regulation. Classifiers find specific data types of interest to specific regulatory entities.

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 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.

Lexsoft T3 GenAI Knowledge Management

T3 GenAI applies AI to automatically extract relevant information, create abstracts, and accurately mine the metadata to classify them in the KM system. This removes the need for KM professionals to manually appraise lawyers' documents or ask questions to identify, curate, and classify the knowledge documents.

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.

AI 100 Trailblazer: Northern Light optimizes GenAI for market and competitive intelligence research

Key to the accuracy of SinglePoint's GenAI responses is Northern Light's use of retrieval augmented generation (RAG); only sources from vetted content collections within the client organization's SinglePoint portal— business news, primary or licensed secondary market research, thought leaders' commentary, technology white papers, conference abstracts, or industry and government databases—are tapped for answers. There's virtually no risk of "hallucination" since SinglePoint does not rely on a commercial large language model's internet-based training data.

AI 100 Trailblazer: Openstream.ai® - Conversational AI for Visionaries

Openstream.ai serves global enterprises with a visionary platform continually tuned by world-class AI experts, orchestrating the latest AI approaches and tools to deliver state-of-the-art conversational experiences.

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.

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.

KMWorld 2023 Video - How to Guard Against AI Bias

AI reflects the conscious and unconscious biases of the knowledge that's fed into it and the learning model at its core. So how do we arrive at a better understanding of our AI systems' biases-knowing that we may share them and have contributed to them-and take measures to curb and counteract them?