KMWorld Trend-Setting Products of 2017

IDERA: SQL Secure and SQL Doctor—new cloud capabilities that allow data professionals to take advantage of expanding cloud strategies and help DBAs embrace the speed and agility demands of DevOps with database performance and security recommendations designed for the public cloud.

Igloo Software: Digital Workplace Solutions Portfolio—comes with all required pre- and post-implementation services to enable organizations to address challenges impacting communications, knowledge management, collaboration, and employee engagement and culture.

IHS: Harmony Enterprise—scalable, collaborative multi-user platform for IT environments of all sizes; meets needs of engineers, geoscientists and analysts to collaborate with others to help deliver a confident final interpretation of oil and gas well performance.

Inbenta: Inbenta Virtual Assistant, also known as the InbentaBot with Avatar—artificial intelligence interaction, human-like conversation, understands natural language; intelligent, accurate, instant answers and site guidance; easily integrates with voice recognition apps.

Ingeniux: Ingeniux CMS—decoupled architecture and focus on structured “intelligent” content; delivers big data-like innovation for managing content and digital assets; works in the cloud or in your network to deliver high-performance digital experiences and content at scale.

IntelliChief: IntelliChief Integration Link—integrates IntelliChief’s automated document management and business processes workflow to business applications; users can access documents and content stored in IntelliChief directly from familiar enterprise resource planning and line of business system screens.

Interfacing Technologies: Enterprise Process Center Version 10 (EPC10)—centralized platform that reaches beyond analysts to everyone wishing to collaborate; provides insight into operations to streamline quality, increase productivity, reduce risk and maximize performance.

IntraFind: iFinder5 elastic—enterprise search and content analytics solution for your company, supporting natural language processing and deep learning.

Intralinks, a Synchronoss business: Intralinks VIA Pro Edition—accelerates collaboration with simple, intuitive Workspaces for secure file sync, content sharing and team collaboration.

K2: New integration with Microsoft Power BI—enables customers to visualize K2 process data and make more informed decisions to transform and optimize business processes.

kCura: Relativity 9.5—offers the ability to import and export data to and from your workspace without leaving Relativity. (Company rebranded Relativity at press time.)

KMS Lighthouse: Lighthouse 5—omni-channel knowledge solution with enhanced integration and sharing capabilities; Lighthouse Desktop, a knowledge solution for contact centers, head offices and branches; Lighthouse Mobile, enables a distributed workforce to quickly access knowledge in the field.

Knosys: Knosys Enterprise Content Management—content management capabilities enable business users to create, link and contextualize information and apply role-based access rights; rich media content, including audio, images and video, can be imported and managed through a simple web-based console.

Kodak Alaris: Information Management Solutions—technology for digital transformation; injects insight into business decisions, streamlines internal processes and helps meet company revenue objectives.

Laserfiche: Laserfiche 10.2—includes new features and updates to the Laserfiche Server, Windows client, web client, Forms, App, Discussions, Workflow, Federated Search and Connector.

LiquidPlanner: LiquidPlanner—predictive project management software for manufacturing and IT teams; new release with advanced custom fields functionality that enables organizations to draw deeper insights and analyze important data.

Lucidea: Inmagic Presto—fully web-based knowledge management platform creates a single venue for managing, finding and sharing organizational knowledge resources; search across internal and third-party information assets; and leverage the “wisdom of the community” via social tools. Click here for more product details.

Magnitude Software: Magnitude RapidDecision 6.5—prebuilt enterprise data warehouse solution includes access to the full metadata model, business glossary and lineage; expanded access to data within JD Edwards and PeopleSoft ERP systems; delivers a complete, real-time view of business data.

MaritzCX: MaritzCX Platform—built with a big data backend that enables it to accept data from many different sources; Hadoop and elastic search technologies bring fast answers from the cloud.

Medallia: Best Practice Packages—include software, predefined configurations, streamlined deployment, enablement materials and ongoing support; Best Practice Packages available for Medallia for B2B, Medallia for Contact Centers, Medallia for Digital, Medallia for Retail and Medallia for Retail Banking.

Metalogix: Metalogix Microsoft SharePoint 2016 Success Portal—provides Microsoft professionals with a direct link to the latest information and SharePoint 2016-ready Metalogix solutions to succeed across enterprise, cloud and hybrid IT environments.

Microsoft: Team news in the SharePoint mobile app for Android—personalized team news roll-up on your Android mobile device from across sites you’re active in and news suggested by Microsoft Graph; keeps you connected to news, collaboration and communication.

Mindbreeze: Mindbreeze InSpire—high-performance enterprise search and big data solution to use out of the box for all data sources; observes a user’s working methods and the type of information that he or she finds relevant, then differentiates between important and unimportant information. Click here for more product details.

Nuxeo: Nuxeo Marketing DAM Accelerator—designed for marketers and business users to manage digital assets; an out of the box application that’s easy to use to foster immediate adoption and rapid time to value; modern, modular enterprise platform with a comprehensive, micro-services API and scalability.

Onix: Equidox by Onix—adds PDF Export functionality, developed for professionals who struggled to convert PDFs into accessible versions that support WCAG 2.0 and PDF/UA standards.

OpenText: OpenText Release 16 Enhancement Pack 2 (EP2)—new user interfaces for increased usability, more intelligent search, embedded analytics and reporting, and mobility for better experiences; focused on cloud optimization, mobility, smart UI, automation, flexibility, self-service and creative collaboration.

Oracle: Oracle Cloud—best-of-breed SaaS applications integrated with social, mobile and analytic capabilities to help deliver the experiences customers expect, the ability to succeed and the performance the market demands.

Panasonic System Communications Company: Premier-OCR/PremierCOMPRESSION—document management solution to optimize PDF documents; makes documents more efficient by using OCR and file compression to make files smaller, faster, more accessible and easier to process. Click here for more product details.

RAMP: AltitudeCDN Altimeter—with enhanced enterprise management capabilities including support for OmniCache, making it a centralized management system for enterprise-grade multicasting and video caching.

RightAnswers: RightAnswers Community—provides a better support experience by enabling customers to help each other; combines community discussions and knowledgebase solutions in one place, making it easier to find the answer.

SAS: SAS Text Miner—enables users to extract information from a collection of text documents and uncover the themes and concepts that are concealed in them; can combine quantitative variables with unstructured text to incorporate text mining with other traditional data mining techniques.

SearchBlox Software: SearchBlox Software—now can natively use the Amazon Elasticsearch Service available on Amazon Web Services (AWS); using SearchBlox with Amazon Elasticsearch Service provides customers a highly scalable, fully managed cloud-based enterprise search solution.

Search Technologies: Aspire 3.1—with new features including a refactored Salesforce connector; runs in the new connector framework and supports execution in a distributed environment, resulting in more robust, stable features, more flexibility and improved crawling. (Acquired by Accenture.)

SearchYourCloud: SearchYourCloud—patented algorithms slice through big data, instantly returning search results; quickly locates content in any location; simultaneously searches all email, desktop and cloud sources; find what you need without interrupting workflow.

Seclore: Seclore Enterprise Digital Rights Management (EDRM)—new edition eases use with the launch of a complete agentless EDRM solution; gives enterprises the ability to leverage the power of data-centric security without requiring downloads or agent installs.

Semantic Web: PoolParty Semantic Suite—semantic data integration and professional knowledge management solution; build knowledge graphs for smart applications or use the semantic middleware for RDF data processing. 

ServiceNow: ServiceNow Intelligent Automation Engine—machine learning capabilities tackle problems in IT; companies can prevent outages before they happen, automatically categorize and route incidents, benchmark performance against IT peers and predict future performance. 

Signavio: Signavio Process Intelligence—next generation of process mining solutions; signifies the next step in business process management, providing an innovative path to real-time process analytics. 

Sinequa: Sinequa integration with Google and IBM Watson—bolsters capabilities already in place with existing integrations for Microsoft Azure Media Services for image and video treatment; translate text between a large number of languages, analyze and tag images and transcribe video conversations. 

Sitecore: Sitecore Cloud—delivers next-generation platform-as-a-service (PaaS) native support for the entire Sitecore solution; marketers can more quickly execute digital initiatives in context of customer interactions; leverages the speed and agility of Microsoft Azure’s PaaS development and deployment environment.

Slack: Slack Enterprise Grid—search, direct messaging and announcement-focused channels companywide; enables users to find the information and people they need to get work done; unlimited workspaces give every team a focused place to work, with access to the people, information and apps that matter most.

Smartsheet: Smartsheet for Google Inbox—layers work management superpowers onto the Gmail add-on, making it easier to find the right content at the right time and take action; Smartsheet notifications surface in your email’s summary message view so important updates show up at the top of your inbox.

Squiz: Funnelback—advanced search tool that delivers an intelligent, tailored and engaging user experience; harnesses data such as search history, geographic location and domain name to serve up personalized website content, without users even having to search for it. 

Swiftype: Swiftype Enterprise Search Platform—AI-powered cloud-based content discovery and search platform; with a single search, users can locate information in Salesforce, files on Dropbox, documents in Google G Suite or Office 365, information from internal databases and conversation threads on Gmail.

Synaptica: OASIS—enables users to dive inside an image to highlight and annotate points of interest at specific coordinates and levels of zoom; builds up an interactive map of the visual features and the conceptual ideas contained in images.

TallyFox: TallyFox Tallium—business ecosystem platform created to facilitate knowledge sharing, content management and communication; quickly find relevant experts to answer your questions and share experiences via the TallyFox Smart Match Pro algorithm.

Thru: Thru Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS)—end-to-end file sharing and collaboration solution, built for the business user; offers enterprise-grade security and reliability; easy-to-use interface and deep integration into a variety of business applications.

Transversal: Prescience—cognitive technology platform for next-generation knowledge; enables people and machines to interact more naturally to extend human expertise and cognition; secure, reliable enterprise knowledge platform delivered via the cloud.

Upland Software: PowerSteering Project and Portfolio Management (PPM)—features updated integration capabilities through the Upland Integration Platform, powered by Dell Boomi; connects Upland’s enterprise PPM with its Tenrox Professional Services Automation (PSA) application.

Vanguard Software: Multilingual IBP Cloud Platform—strengthens unified forecasting and planning with multilingual operability; now supports 104 languages—Afrikaans to Zulu—in a single version.

Verint Systems: Verint Workforce Optimization for the Mid-Market—available in the cloud or on premises; provides workforce optimization offerings for businesses with small and medium-sized contact center operations. Click here for more product details.

Viewpointe: OnPointe—information governance platform to streamline information lifecycle and automate business processes in a dedicated private cloud; leverages best-in-class content and records management, archiving, analytics and e-discovery technologies to harness information value.

Vitrium: Vitrium Security—robust, easy-to-use document security and digital rights management software; locks files and ensures they remain secure no matter where they travel or on what device, no matter the type or size of PDF, Word, Excel or PowerPoint document.

Workfront: Workfront—enterprise work management software gives users control over every task, project, resource and report, from the initial request to final delivery.

Wrike: Wrike’s Microsoft Teams Integration—deepens Microsoft Office 365 Integration with Outlook actionable messages; launched concurrently with Microsoft’s chat-based workspace in Office 365, enables enterprises to bring complete project management into Teams.

Zapproved: Z-Discovery Suite—modern approach to affordable and sustainable e-discovery; comprised of a suite of cloud-based applications that offers a state-of-the-art solution for managing the e-discovery process.

ZL Technologies: ZL Enterprise Analytics—offers three core products: Email Analytics, File Analytics and Log Analytics, all built within the same environment.