2013 KMWorld Promise and Reality award finalists

KM PROMISE AWARD

Many companies promise that their technology is the best knowledge management solution. One of the greatest challenges for organizations purchasing these technologies is to determine which of the companies will deliver on its promise. This award is given to the organization that is delivering the promise to its customers by providing innovative technology solutions for implementing and integrating knowledge management practices into their business processes. The award-winning organization demonstrates how it goes beyond simply delivering technology to working with clients to ensure that both the technology and knowledge processes are embedded into the work processes. In other words, it helps organizations realize positive business results.

Because our finalists are chosen from those who submitted nominations, some familiar KM-savvy companies might be missing from the list.

KM Promise Award Finalists:

Accellion delivers enterprise-class mobile productivity solutions to enable secure, anytime, anywhere access to information while ensuring enterprise security and compliance. Its solutions can be deployed in public, private and hybrid cloud environments and provide the ease of use business users demand while enabling flexibility, scalability and protection.

Attensity provides customer analytics for discovering feedback found in social media (blogs, forum threads, tweets, Facebook postings, reviews, etc.), making it easy for customers to combine open and internal data for validation and insight.

AvePoint DocAve 6 Software Platform is a comprehensive suite of products for Microsoft SharePoint infrastructure management and protection. With a unified, browser-based user interface and a fully distributed architecture, it integrates AvePoint's backup, administration, data management, governance and compliance technologies into a highly scalable, enterprise-level solution for all Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies.

BA Insight offers search technologies that help organizations leverage the power of Microsoft SharePoint across the enterprise. BA Insight's flagship Longitude Search and Longitude Connector products enable organizations to extend Microsoft's enterprise search capabilities across dozens of CRM, ERP, ECM, messaging and collaboration systems.

BP Logix's BPM solution, Process Director, employs the proprietary Process Timeline to understand process execution history to predict when each task is likely to complete, no matter how far in the future that task is scheduled to begin, and provides a real-time calculation of the critical path, as well as deviations from that path.

Colligo's enterprise SharePoint collaboration solution enables increased productivity, streamlines collaboration and improves compliance by delivering a consistent, secure experience across desktop and mobile devices.

Coveo's Unified Indexing and Insight platform transforms knowledge management initiatives by redefining how people access and share fragmented knowledge around the customer-focused enterprise with relevance and context.

Datawatch's visual data discovery solutions allow organizations to optimize the use of any data, regardless of its structure, volume or velocity, to analyze and gain insights into what is driving their business. It integrates structured, unstructured and semi-structured sources such as reports, PDF files and EDI streams with real-time streaming data into analytic applications with rich visualizations.

Decooda provides text analytics solutions including Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) technology to turn content in social media, customer feedback and other unstructured content into meaningful, actionable insights about customer sentiment and purchase behavior intentions.

Digital Reasoning's machine learning platform, Synthesys, aggregates a collection of technologies that enable enterprises to quickly go from unstructured data to a knowledge graph of actionable information about entities, facts and relationships.

Expert System has built semantic analysis and rich semantic networks to ensure complete understanding of text beyond the limitations of traditional technologies based on keywords or statistics.

HiSoftware provides end-to-end information security and compliance solutions to help organizations address business process, regulatory and productivity concerns around the secure collaboration of data in content management systems and social environments.

Information Builders offers software solutions for business intelligence and analytics; integration and data integrity empower people to make smarter decisions, strengthen customer relationships and drive growth.

Interneer Smart Mobile Apps are built on the "no programming," drag-and-drop Intellect Business Process Management Suite, and are designed for speed, freeing up IT resources.

kCura has developed the e-discovery software Relativity, a Web-based platform for the processing, review, analysis and production of electronic evidence during litigation and investigations. kCura helps corporations, law firms and government agencies meet e-discovery challenges by installing Relativity on premises and providing hosted, on-demand solutions through a global network of partners.