KMWorld Trend-Setting Products of 2018

Igloo Software: Digital Workplace Platform—Features and integrations include blogs, forums, file sharing, tasks, wikis, people directory, search and calendars, which are assembled to work within an organization’s existing structure to connect people, processes and information.

Inbenta: APIs & SDKs for its Enterprise Chatbot—New APIs and SDKs give companies more control to custom tailor Inbenta services to their business needs and use cases. Capabilities include intent detection, decision trees, transactional intelligence and seamless escalation.

Ingeniux: Ingeniux CMS 10—Content management system that delivers a modern platform for managing the next generation of websites, portals and applications, with support for headless, dynamic and decoupled content delivery.

IntelliChief: Mobile Workflow on the Go—Enables users to access, comment and approve details in documents for their company projects and transactions; capabilities allow quicker interdepartmental collaborations.

Interfacing Technologies: Enterprise Process Center Version 10—New user interface designed with innovative views to simplify navigation, reduce user complexity and promote continuous improvement through user-friendly collaboration.

IntraFind: iFinder5 elastic—Professional insight engine empowers users to make the right decisions at any time; content analytics and the integration of deep-learning methodologies offer the possibility to detect relationships between the located information.

K2: K2 platform—New features and functionality focused on enabling a simpler way for non-technical resources to build business applications on the K2 platform; workflow designer builds a workflow in minutes without using any code.

Knosys: Knosys Enterprise Content Management—Extensive 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 web-based console. Click here for more product details.

Laserfiche: Laserfiche Cloud—Helps organizations of all sizes take control of their documents and improve day-to-day business processes; centralized, secure repository that's accessible no matter where work takes you.

Lucidea: Presto Release V5.0—Offers many features designed to enhance the user experience and improve workflow, including a redesigned user interface, new web-based configuration options, link checker, automated record categorization and easy record de-duplication. 

Lucidworks: Fusion 4—Enterprise-grade development platform for building intelligent search apps at any scale; upgraded to enable completely portable applications with search and AI capabilities, enabling rapid experimentation, configuration and delivery across any architecture. 

MaritzCX: MaritzCX Platform—Updates to its CX platform and product suites enable large enterprises to execute better customer experiences and boost the bottom line; enhancements drive better action in the field, easier management of complex enterprise datasets and better governance.

Microsoft: Yammer Enterprise—Extends an organization's basic Yammer network and is available as part of many SharePoint Online and Office 365 plans; provides a richer enterprise social experience. 

MicroStrategy: MicroStrategy 10.11—Three new optimized gateways for Microsoft Azure services include Azure HDInsight, SQL Data Warehouse and Cosmos DB; enables users to easily visualize, analyze and distribute data.

Mindbreeze: Medical Cockpit—Created for the healthcare sector; semantic analysis and networked searching enable previous, comparable cases to be scanned in a fraction of a second to identify medical correlations; detects and compares patterns in clinical findings, illnesses and medications. Click here for more product details.

Neuron ESB: Neuron ESB—easy-to-use, powerful enterprise service bus built by and for .NET developers; simplifies messaging and web service enablement to accelerate adoption of service-oriented architecture.

Nintex USA: Nintex platform—Intelligent process automation capabilities within the no-code platform empower line of business workers to automate, orchestrate and optimize business processes without waiting for IT.

Nuxeo: Fast Track 10.1—Pluggable, accelerated transfer for upload services; can be plugged into any direct upload service that provides file or object transfer acceleration; results in faster uploads of large content assets like 4K video files via Web UI. Click here for Nuxeo Content Services Platform product details.

Onix: Expanded enterprise search solutions—By joining forces with AI-powered search and relevance vendor Coveo Solutions, Onix’s expanded enterprise search offerings enable customers to reach the next level of efficiency and success.

OpenText: OpenText Release 16 Enhancement Pack 4 (EP4)—Extends security, artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud support into the OpenText EIM platform; new cloud connectors place its ecosystem at the center of digital business.

Oracle: Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud—A new class of offering that requires zero operational administration on the customer’s part, enabling cloud data warehousing that is easy, fast and elastic.

Panasonic System Communications Company: FacePRO—A deep learning facial recognition system using extreme sensing and enhanced detection technology to identify people of interest and alert authorities of their presence in real time. 

Planbox: Planbox platform—Offers an all-in-one cloud-based solution to manage innovation activities; crowdsource, discover, collect, develop, evaluate, manage and experiment on ideas from the entire workforce, customers, partners and suppliers. 

Powell Software: Powell 365—Digital workplace for Office 365; an integrated intranet solution to transform the user experience and boost communication, collaboration and business productivity.

RAMP: AltitudeCDN Altimeter—Global management interface for multicast provisioning; platform-agnostic solution supports any HLS and DASH video source; advanced global multicast management and monitoring through a centralized interface.

Relativity: RelativityOne—New updates to the SaaS product that include enhancements like active learning and an impact on delivering a single technology platform, cloud security and cross-border availability.

Reveille Software: Reveille 8—Leverages enhanced user analytics that provides active insight into an organization’s content services platform; through a new UI, it offers real-time insights on how to enhance performance and adoption, increases security and audit capabilities.

Rivet Logic: Box integration—New partnership with Box expands its service offerings to include digital experience solutions; with Box, Rivet Logic has implemented such solutions as Document Center for ECM, Video Center for DAM and Customer Portal for Wealth Management platforms.

SAS: SAS Viya enhancements—Embed transparent AI technology and offer better data governance and improved user productivity; enhancements designed to maximize collaboration among data scientists and business users and to improve the creation and deployment of analytics models.

ScienceSoft: S3GRAF v2017.9—New features include a workflow manager, CMG 2016 support, large PLT file support and more; Workflow Manager is a new way of using S3GRAF for plotting, creating new quantities and performing analyses. 

SearchBlox Software: SearchBlox Cloud Search—Can automatically extract content from PDF and Microsoft Office documents and make them available for search.

Search Technologies: now part of Accenture: Aspire Content Processing—A framework for unstructured data; enables enterprise content to be securely accessed, cleaned, normalized and enriched so search systems and analysis applications can perform well.

Seclore: Seclore Data Classification—Delivers integrated data-centric security; integrates classification with rights management so enterprises can seamlessly identify and label sensitive information, automatically protecting that information with granular usage controls and track usage.

Semantic Web: PoolParty GraphSearch Server—Combines graph databases and SPARQL engines with features of “traditional” search engines; provides additional insights through interactive visualizations of reports and search results; can be based on various linked knowledge graphs.

ServiceNow: Virtual Agent—New conversational bot technology; designed to improve customer and employee experiences by getting work completed quickly through more natural interactions and real-time automated resolution.

Signavio: Signavio Process Manager—An intuitive BPM solution for professional process modeling, whether creating current-state documentation or target concepts; innovative web technology lets users get started right away.

Simpplr: Simpplr—A modern employee intranet that improves company communication by combining intelligence, immersive user experience and tight integration with other applications to heighten employee engagement and improve workplace productivity. 

Sinequa: Insight Platform—Provides instant insights extracted from structured and unstructured data for companies and government agencies; its Cognitive Search & Analytics platform offers broad connectivity to all enterprise data sources and combines disruptive analytical tools. Click here for more product details.

Sitecore: Sitecore Experience Commerce 9—Cloud-enabled platform that natively integrates content and commerce so brands can personalize and individualize the end-to-end shopping experience before, during and after the transaction.

SMARSH: The Archiving Platform—One archive for electronic communications; retains critical information in a single, secure, search-ready repository where it can be actively monitored and produced on demand; email, IM, text messages, web, video and social media retained and presented in their original context.

Smartsheet: Integration with Workplace by Facebook—Enables Smartsheet notifications, update and approval requests and reminders to be delivered to Workplace Chat. The recipient can then take action without leaving Workplace.

Synaptica: Synaptica KMS—Enterprise software application for building and maintaining many types of knowledge organization systems, including taxonomies, ontologies and name authorities; scaled to manage hundreds of millions of concepts and relationships; provides many innovative editing tools.

Thru: Thru DAM—Offers the basis for organizations to transform how they produce, manage, share, use and reuse their corporate collateral and brand assets, resulting in cost savings, productivity gains and market responsiveness.

Transversal: Prescience for Self-Service—Goes beyond enabling customers to find answers online; self-service solution that leverages cognitive technologies to understand human context, anticipate future dialog and improve the self-service experience.

Upland Software—Upland Tenrox: KM Platform for PSA—Knowledge-enabled professional services automation (PSA) solution; helps organizations plan, manage and optimize resources and projects that streamlines administrative operations, enables accurate invoicing, and accelerates revenue recognition. Click here for more product details.

Vanguard Software: Vanguard IBP Cloud Platform—Integrated business planning (IBP) solution that unites lines of business in a single, unified environment; puts enterprise in a real-time collaborative workspace; delivers streamlined precision in budgeting, planning and forecasting.

Verint Systems: Automated Verification solution—Automates the process of checking systems for issues across multiple applications (e.g., ACD, IVR, recording, desktop applications, routers, firewalls) and proactively simulates user transactions to validate performance. Click here for more product details.

Viewpointe: OnPointe—OnPointe—Helps users proactively manage the lifecycle of business information; provides a wide range of services to enable and optimize the collection, archiving and governance of business content.

Vitrium: Vitrium Security Version 7—Content security and digital rights management software; in addition to protecting PDF files, it now secures a range of file formats including images, Microsoft Office and OpenOffice files.

Voyager Search: Voyager ODN (Open Data Network)—Single point of search for publicly available data; makes the most of Voyager Search’s core software capabilities by providing public access to millions of free, geospatial pieces of content.

Workfront: Workfront Fusion—Integration platform that enables Workfront customers to easily connect more than 100 common business applications to its work management application platform; codeless and flexible.

Wrike: Wrike Templates—Pre-configured workspaces and workflows to help users instantly plan and launch common projects; includes fully fledged dashboards, reports and tutorial videos customized to a user's needs.

Xillio: Xillio API—Developers can quickly and easily access many content repositories and applications or build functionality that provides users efficient access to the right content; simple and intuitive, supports most known repositories and saves time for developers.

Zapproved: Z-Discovery Suite—Empowers teams to easily manage litigation response, investigations and information requests, resulting in lower e-discovery costs, less risk and faster litigation resolution; consists of Legal Hold Pro and Digital Discovery Pro.

ZL Technologies: GDPR Ready Solutions—Provide a versatile set of capabilities depending on each customer's needs and concerns; leverages multiple applications from ZL Tech's unified governance platform, offering a solid compliance foundation.