September/October 2024, Trend-Setting Products 2024 [Volume 33, Issue 5]

Features

Access Unify - AI-driven digital transformation technology and service delivered with a client-centric approach

Access Unify ensures a streamlined, digital-first workflow, minimizing the need for extra training or staffing. It revolutionizes file indexing, storing, retrieving and securely destroying records. Imagine having immediate access to crucial documents, at any time, wherever you are.

Access Innovations: Knowledge Domains

The data you feed an AI engine matters, and Access Innovations enhances your data to help you get the best return on your AI investment.

eGain AssistGPT™, eGain’s Generative AI Assistant for Knowledge Automation

eGain AssistGPT™ helps customers find answers in their journeys and contact center agents, knowledge authors, and business analysts in the flow of their work.

Lexsoft T3 GenAI Knowledge Management

T3 GenAI applies AI to automatically extract relevant information, create abstracts, and accurately mine the metadata to classify them in the KM system. This removes the need for KM professionals to manually appraise lawyers' documents or ask questions to identify, curate, and classify the knowledge documents.

Mindbreeze’s 360-Degree View Revolutionizes Data Insight

Mindbreeze's 360-degree view is an indispensable solution for organizations aiming to stay competitive in an increasingly complex digital landscape. By providing tailored, real-time insights, it empowers professionals across various roles to make informed decisions quickly and efficiently, ultimately driving organizational success.

Execute Successful Enterprise Content Strategies in Today’s AI Era with Quark Publishing Platform (QPP) NextGen

With content playing a direct role in business growth, enterprises must find ways to modernize their content operations and knowledge management infrastructure, particularly with AI, to support business objectives, the needs of customers, and ability to win in their market.

Revolutionize Support Operations with RightAnswers: The AI-Powered Knowledge Management Platform for Enterprises

At the heart of RightAnswers' offering is a commitment to trusted AI. The platform's flexible AI options, including embedded and Bring Your Own AI (BYO AI) capabilities, enable organizations to leverage cutting-edge AI technology tailored to their unique needs. This strategic approach ensures that RightAnswers can empower service and technical support teams, regardless of their existing tech stack.

KMWorld Trend-Setting Products of 2024

It's clear from the increase in new and exciting products designed for KM practitioners that KM is gaining in importance within organizations and being recognized as critical to the success of enterprises. The ability of technology to streamline information flows, summarize lengthy documents, surface hidden information from existing data, and make search results relevant and actionable gives companies a competitive advantage.

Knowledge seekers are mobile: Is your data?

There's an assortment of best practices to abide by when designing an application for a document repository to be accessed via multiple devices.

Taxonomies: Foundational to knowledge management

As the volume of digital content increases, the ability to manage it becomes more important. Taxonomy and metadata are vital to finding products, conducting scientific research, and keeping track of organizational information. They also enable a wide variety of analytics on unstructured data. We can see the results of a well-designed taxonomy, but behind the scenes, there's a lot more going on than meets the eye.

KMWorld 2024: Unlocking Powerful Knowledge-Sharing Solutions

This year's KMWorld 4-day event is filled with amazing practitioners, who share their enterprise knowledge and experiences, as well as experts in a number of fields, who relate their engaging stories of success with taxonomies, text analytics, search, and discovery to those in the KM community who want to learn from and network with these stellar performers.

ViewPoints

Integration impasse: Why organizations can’t wait for data integration before deploying AI

The need for comprehensive data management will always be important, and there are many other benefits of digital transformation, but CIOs don't need to delay GenAI projects until the completion of a giant data centralization effort. By adopting a more flexible approach that incorporates GenAI and next-generation BI tools, businesses can navigate the complexities of modern data ecosystems while driving innovation and maintaining a competitive edge in an AI-driven world.

David Weinberger

On Chat AI and BS

So, I'm sticking with hallucinations for all of chat AI's statements, true or false. But that leaves us with a question: Why isn't there a word that perfectly expresses this situation? The answer is easy: LLMs are doing something genuinely new in our history. Our lack of a perfectly apt verb proves it.

The Future of the Future

Inefficient at the speed of light

While process mining started years ago as a mainly data-driven exercise, its stated goal is to be knowledge-driven. Given KM's multidisciplinary scope, we can play a major role in achieving that goal. Any process, no matter how simple, has the potential to reach across an entire business ecosystem, including all stakeholders. This seems like a perfect match for collaborative workflow, AI/ML, knowledge graphs, human sensemaking, and many of the other arrows in our KM quiver.

Ethical Innovation

The rise and potential fall of the citizen developer

The citizen developer movement was heralded as a revolution. Like most revolutions, things have sometimes gone differently than planned. The logic is sound, empowering those who know the business best to build the tools and systems needed to do their job. Ah, if only things were that simple …