KMWorld's Trend-Setting Products list of 2025 is composed of the contributions of forward-thinking vendors that are leading the way in innovation.
Marydee Ojala //
08 Sep 2025
Nexis+ AI delivers access to quality results, leveraging a global data library that includes genAI-enabled news and corporate data from thousands of globally-recognized sources, including The Associated Press, Dun & Bradstreet, Gannett, and many more.
08 Sep 2025
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.
08 Sep 2025
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.
08 Sep 2025
The manufacturing sector is at a crossroads. While investments in new technologies and infrastructure are essential, they must also be utilized to preserve and share institutional knowledge. By adopting a comprehensive KM strategy that includes centralized data management, digital innovation, and a culture of knowledge sharing, manufacturers can safeguard their expertise and secure long-term success.
Yushiro Kato //
10 Mar 2025
To secure their data, certain industries have strict regulations regarding data storage, requiring data to be kept in specific geographic locations or under stringent security measures. This is yet another reason for organizations nowadays to switch back to on-prem resources.
Matthias Gromann //
06 Jan 2025
AI continues to disrupt the knowledge management space and experts in the field predict that it's a trend that still hasn't reached its full potential, yet. In 2025 there's more room for improvement.
Stephanie Simone //
06 Dec 2024
The need for comprehensive data management will always be important, and there are many other benefits of digital transformation, but CIOs don't need to delay GenAI projects until the completion of a giant data centralization effort. By adopting a more flexible approach that incorporates GenAI and next-generation BI tools, businesses can navigate the complexities of modern data ecosystems while driving innovation and maintaining a competitive edge in an AI-driven world.
Saurabh Abhyankar //
09 Sep 2024
Many long-standing technologies such as swarm intelligence, biomimicry, neural networks, and the like are now being stitched together. Think of what could happen if each of those technologies interacted not only with each other but also with the environment at large, its living and artificial elements, as an integrated whole.
Art Murray, D.Sc. //
08 Sep 2025
The tech industry has a long history of overpromising and underdelivering, but AI has taken this to new heights. We're bombarded daily with headlines about AI writing novels, diagnosing diseases, and even replacing entire job functions. Yet, when you peel back the layers, you find a landscape littered with half-baked implementations, inflated claims, and solutions that work only in the most controlled environments.
Alan Pelz-Sharpe //
08 Sep 2025
A much less-known but arguably more critical tech law is Amara's Law, which states that we tend to overestimate the short-term impact of new technology while underestimating its long-term effects.
Alan Pelz-Sharpe //
06 Jan 2025
Today's AI has many different flavors and architectures, along with massive amounts of memory and processing capacity. We could probably make better use of this computational power by looking at how we can improve the quality of our queries and, as a result, make better quality decisions.
Art Murray, D.Sc. //
04 Nov 2024
How ENOVIA + Adlib turn CAD, BOMs, and SOPs into reliable knowledge for search, RAG, and compliance
02 Sep 2025
Discover how Veeva + Adlib eliminate content bottlenecks, accelerate approvals, and make your launches AI-ready.
26 Aug 2025