KMWorld AI50 : The Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management 2021

The importance of AI is underscored by forecasts for revenue growth. Worldwide revenues for the AI market, including software, hardware, and services, are forecast to grow 16.4% year over year in 2021 to $327.5 billion, according to the latest release of the IDC Worldwide Semiannual Artificial Intelligence Tracker. To help spotlight innovation in knowledge management, KMWorld presents the annual KMWorld AI 50, a list of vendors that are helping their customers excel in an increasingly competitive marketplace by imbuing products and services with intelligence and automation.

Mastering blockchain for traceability and trust

The unalterable nature of blockchain data means the consistency and correctness createan unassailable trust for numerous enterprise use cases.

The growing role of AI in the modern contact center

The global market for contact center software was $20.5 billion in 2020 and is predicted to grow 21% per year until 2028, according to Grand View Research. Within this market, interactive voice response (IVR) accounted for 23% of revenue and services for 42%. Despite a steady move to the cloud, on-premise solutions still accounted for 59% of the market. This proportion is likely to reverse within a few years, however, because of the agility, ease of maintenance, and ability to support remote workers that cloudbased contact centers provide.

Information governance 101: The regulatory compliance survival kit

Mapping data's flow throughout the enterprise is pivotal for securing information assets since it allows organizations to consider what they're trying to protect and what that requires.

Equipping your remote workforce for success during the pandemic—and beyond

It's clear the pandemic has brought on the need to rethink how knowledge management should best be addressed in a WFH world

Fundamentals of modern knowledge management

The answer to the problem of digital fragility lies in knowledge centralization

Overcoming a key roadblock to digital transformation

To truly take advantage of digital transformation organizations must adopt new approaches to "records management" and a new notion of what information really means to the organization.

Visibility is key to securing an ethical future for AI and machine learning

Visibility for AI and machine learning is an essential feature for avoiding bias, and building and maintaining trust in the technology

The coming blue wave

It should come as no surprise that topping the list of requirements to create and sustain a vibrant blue economy are innovation, learning, and collaboration.

The enterprise of the future: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow

Today, much of the knowledge we need is readily available. The problem is having the courage and fortitude to properly act on it.

Usability testing for effective interactivity

Connecting the seeker to the information she seeks is not a new problem. Interaction design has been a stumbling block since the age of the card catalog.

A deep future approach to KM

We're familiar with the near-term portion of the time spectrum—from femtosecond lasers used in eye surgery to high-frequency trading in milliseconds on the major securities exchanges. Unfortunately, the extreme opposite end of the time spectrum, the "deep future" receives little if any attention. Decisions in fields such as genetic engineering, nuclear energy, geopolitics and the like can have serious implications for human civilization. But the impact of those decisions might not become apparent for many thousands of years and hundreds of generations.

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KMWorld 2021 Sourcebook and Buyers' Guide