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KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management 2024

We think these companies play a pivotal role in shaping the future and bringing relevancy to how knowledge is harnessed and made useful across diverse sectors. They are committed to driving efficiency and effectiveness through KM to organizations of all types.

Using Generative AI for real-world KM solutions

The overarching utility derived from GenAI capabilities relies on organizations' proficiency to reduce redundancy to minimize inaccuracies, monitor outputs, and trace responses to the underlying data sources from which their responses are produced.

Promises and Perils of AI for Enterprise Knowledge Management

This survey reveals both excitement and trepidation around enterprise AI adoption for knowledge management. Long-standing problems around information access, data quality, and speedy acquisition of needed information are the puzzle pieces that AI has the potential to solve.

Overcoming data silos: A range of options

The options are many and varied when it comes to taming silos. The specific approach should depend on the use case, the organization's existing knowledge assets, and the strategic goals.

The future of knowledge management: Talking to documents with generative AI

The fundamental pillars of KM—taxonomies, domain-specific data models, knowledge extraction, search, and text analytics—are as pertinent today as they ever were. Now, generative AI has rendered these constructs much more accessible to the enterprise. Its long-standing utility will be determined by surmounting models' tendencies to generate contrived, inaccurate responses while embedding them into core KM processes.

KM leverages data mesh

An underlying premise of data mesh is that business units should be able to control their own data and interact with one another by sharing data.

Data governance solves multiple KM challenges

Organizations are recognizing that effective data governance is ultimately more of a benefit than a burden. It increases efficiency by delivering trusted data, improves business processes, decreases data downtime, and reduces compliance risk. It also promotes data literacy throughout the enterprise.

Automate Digitization and Support Your Full Information Management Lifecycle with Award-winning Access Unify

Integrating flawlessly into your existing infrastructure, Access Unify solutions ensure a streamlined, digital-first workflow, minimizing the need for extra training or staffing.

eGain - Eliminating content, knowhow, and analytics silos, creating one trusted source for AI-infused knowledge

An end-to-end solution that unifies and orchestrates all the building blocks needed for modern, KM, infused with conversational and generative AI, the Hub eliminates content, knowhow, and analytics silos, creating one trusted source for knowledge.

Create Superior Digital Client Experiences with M-Files Hubshare

By enabling better visibility and information control across systems, repositories and stakeholders, M-Files provides organizations with a competitive advantage as they deliver higher-quality work with lower risk.

Mindbreeze InSpire Integrates with Large Language Models to Elevate Natural Language Question Answering

Mindbreeze InSpire captures, stores, and manages data within a company, allowing companies to benefit from incorporating pre-trained models trained on vast amounts of data.

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The KMWorld AI 100: The Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management

AI reaches many different areas within organizations—marketing, customer service, legal, finance, human resources, compliance, fleet maintenance, manufacturing, sales, and other business units as well. AI touches almost every piece of an organization's structure and operations, as well as their customer-facing presence. 

AI 100 Trailblazer: Enterprise Knowledge - Leading at the Intersection of Knowledge Management and Artificial Intelligence

AI has the potential to transform how organizations do business, combining an organization's wealth of knowledge, information, and data, in all its forms, to help people make decisions, spot trends, learn, and perform in new ways. However, none of that can come to fruition without the right foundations of quality content, appropriate structure, and consistent mapping and design of relationships.

AI 100 Trailblazer: AI Knowledge Fabrics: Franz Inc.

Financial institutions, healthcare providers, contact centers, manufacturing firms, government agencies and other data-driven enterprises that use AllegroGraph gain a holistic, future-proofed Data Fabric architecture for big data predictive analytics and machine learning across complex knowledge bases to discover deep connections, uncover new patterns and attain explainable results.

AI 100 Trailblazer: Lucidworks - Lucidworks Makes Search a Superpower

Lucidworks Fusion platform provides customers with a powerful, adaptable search platform that captures user behavior and utilizes machine learning to connect people with the products, content, and information they need.

AI Trailblazer Profile: Shelf - Revolutionizing Knowledge Management with Cutting-Edge AI Solutions

Shelf's flexible and user-friendly platform quickly generates value for the world's largest enterprises in complex KM projects. By providing crucial information when needed, the solution enhances day-to-day workflows without disrupting users' tasks but enhances productivity.

MANAGING KNOWLEDGE COMPLEXITY THROUGH VISUALIZATION

The flexibility of current visualization tools makes them an asset to any analytical initiative. These products can visualize data contained in relational databases or graph databases, and they provide engaging opportunities for exploring data to reveal information that predefined queries would not. As AI capabilities are incorporated and natural language interfaces become the norm, visualization will only become easier and more valuable in the coming years. 

From automation to autonomy: Streamlining processes with BPM

The fundamentals of BPM (involving workflow management, process optimization, case management, and more) will likely never change.

IoT forging new pathways to innovation

The value in using IoT for knowledge management and decision support is found in the analytics conducted on the data that comes in from the sensors.