KMWorld Readers' Choice Award Winners 2024

We hope this list of Readers' Choice Awards winners will be a resource to help you choose wisely when looking for new solutions. As the field continues to evolve, recognizing excellence and innovation remains a constant, even as how knowledge sharing is accomplished morphs in tune with technology changes.

2024 Readers' Choice Award- BEST AI - DOMO- Empower Your Business with Secure, Flexible, and Conversational AI

There is undeniable potential in generative AI and large language models, but these tools alone come with significant gaps and challenges. AI often needs additional technologies to create guardrails around data security and response accuracy.

2024 Readers' Choice Award- BEST CX AND SUPPORT - eGain - Safely harness GenAI with controls and guardrails

The eGain Knowledge Hub is a rich, "whole-product" AI knowledge solution that has created transformational value at speed and scale for Global 1000 companies and government agencies alike.

What’s next in KM: All roads lead to AI

KM and AI are a natural team—their combined value can only be expected to increase in the future. As AI-powered technology becomes more integrated with both daily work functions and strategic planning, enterprise knowledge will come closer to achieving its full potential.

Level up your change management with these three key practices

Practicing the art of change management means accounting for organizational culture, which refers to the ingrained social norms and beliefs of an organization. It is comprised of values, belief systems, leadership styles, collective unspoken assumptions, stories, and rituals, as well as an organization's character and orientation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The KMWorld AI 100: The Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management

It's easy to become overwhelmed, even awestruck at the amount of information about AI, particularly GenAI, being thrown at us on a daily basis. The ability of AI technologies to process vast amounts of data, recognize patterns that humans can't see, and generate new knowledge and insights boggles the imagination. The challenge faced by knowledge managers is determining what is actually useful and will have staying power.

AI 100 Trailblazer: Enterprise Knowledge - Taking AI Beyond a Prototype: At the Intersection of Knowledge and Data Management

Throughout the many AI solutions we have developed within both the public and private sector, we differentiate ourselves by working alongside our clients to weave KM and data management practices through knowledge graphs and a semantic layer and build user-focused AI solutions that are embedded within organizational processes, support the organizational mission, and reflect how people and processes fuel enablement and adoption.

AI 100 Trailblazer: Lucidworks - Your Trusted Partner for AI-Powered Search and Discovery

Lucidworks' total AI solutions seamlessly integrate cutting-edge generative AI models with over a decade of proven search expertise. We create personalized experiences for customers and employees, driving engagement and results across key applications like knowledge management, commerce, and service & support.

AI 100 Trailblazer- M-Files: Unleash the benefits of knowledge work automation and superior GenAI experiences

The M-Files metadata foundation drives superior AI experiences by creating a unique, customer-specific information model that surrounds all content, ensuring safe and high-quality results. With M-Files, organizations automatically get the mandatory enablers for successful AI deployment: connectivity, confidentiality and curation.

AI 100 Trailblazer: Northern Light optimizes GenAI for market and competitive intelligence research

Key to the accuracy of SinglePoint's GenAI responses is Northern Light's use of retrieval augmented generation (RAG); only sources from vetted content collections within the client organization's SinglePoint portal— business news, primary or licensed secondary market research, thought leaders' commentary, technology white papers, conference abstracts, or industry and government databases—are tapped for answers. There's virtually no risk of "hallucination" since SinglePoint does not rely on a commercial large language model's internet-based training data.

AI 100 Trailblazer: RightAnswers - Future-Proof Your Contact Center: Harnessing AI for Superior Knowledge Management And Customer Service

Your contact center is crucial to your company, so equipping agents with cutting-edge technology is essential for delivering top-notch service. RightAnswers from Upland Software, a leader in AI knowledge management, simplifies creating, maintaining, and accessing relevant information when needed.

AI 100 Trailblazer: Sugarwork - Unlocking the 80% of institutional knowledge not captured by existing KM tools

Sugarwork is designed for companies to capture institutional knowledge—both tacit and explicit—and make it accessible to anyone in the organization. It leverages GenAI to enable organizations to capture the information, insights, and nuances of daily operations.

AI Trailblazer Profile: Talkdesk- Leading the charge against bad customer experience

Talkdesk Knowledge Management leverages AI to enhance self-service and agent-assisted automation. It consolidates articles from third-party platforms for federated search and uses LLM-based generation and semantic search for faster content retrieval.

AI for KM: Unlocking the future with a human-centric focus

Developing and honing your KM team's change management capabilities are two of the most important things you can do to help your organization prepare for AI and implement it effectively. Partnerships with IT are also critical, not only for helping KM implement new technologies, but by also providing opportunities for KM to provide value back to the business.