KMWorld Trend-Setting Products of 2025

KMWorld's Trend-Setting Products list of 2025 is composed of the contributions of forward-thinking vendors that are leading the way in innovation.

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: Access Innovations, Inc. - Improving the ability to find and discover information

We have been implementing AI since 1997. We use its collection of techniques, applications, algorithms and models to make processing informational text faster, easier, more accurate, and less of a burden on humans.

Conversational AI interfaces and human-AI collaboration to transform legal knowledge management in 2026

This next year will see the knowledge management function take a direction that focuses on a more advanced and mature way of leveraging AI

Leaders predict AI to continue permeating all aspects of KM in 2026

AI continues to be the topic du jour for various aspects of knowledge management, and 2026 looks to be no exception as leaders in the industry look ahead

Navigating the IT Landscape: Balancing Hybrid Cloud and Cloud Repatriation to Stay in Control of Your Infrastructure

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.

Experts predict AI will continue impacting KM in 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.

Is Your Agentic AI Built on Sand or Bedrock?

Data and knowledge do not, anymore, exist as separate components. They are rapidly merging into a single architecture. As KM'ers, we can no longer leave data management solely up to the admins. Rather, we need to work closely with them on creating data architectures that are contextually and semantically rich enough to be reliably actionable for use by autonomous and semi-autonomous agents.

Forget AI Magic, Embrace the Knowledge Graph

The advances in AI and information management are not our enemies; they are our most powerful allies. When wielded by skilled KM professionals, these technologies work. When deployed without our input, they fail miserably, delivering incorrect, misleading, or plain nonsensical results.

The Productivity Paradox: Why Your AI Investment Won’t Pay Off Without KM

There should be one clear group of winners emerging from the coming disillusionment: knowledge and information managers. The AI reckoning will force a long-overdue epiphany upon executive leadership: The value of technology is not inherent; it is contingent on the quality of the information fuel you feed it.

Will AI Ever Play in Peoria? The Enterprise Reality Check

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.

The Trend-Setting Products in Knowledge Management 2025

AI-Powered PLM in Manufacturing: Making PLM Content AI-Ready

How ENOVIA + Adlib turn CAD, BOMs, and SOPs into reliable knowledge for search, RAG, and compliance

Pharma Launches Don’t Fail Because of Strategy. They Fail Because of Documents.

Discover how Veeva + Adlib eliminate content bottlenecks, accelerate approvals, and make your launches AI-ready.

Managing Information Through Transition: The Merger and Acquisition Integration Playbook