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Portals > Features
Portals are a response to several integration problems that exist in corporate IT. Today’s IT systems are complex, consisting of many different elements, and are increasingly overwhelming users in the range of applications and information that they support. A new generation of enterprise portal development tools, appearing now on the market, address the complexities of providing portal support for a range of organizational goals. 

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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.

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.

How (and when) to update your KM strategy

Ensuring that KM endeavors support different access points, systems, and user preferences is a prime consideration for updating KM strategies. Vendors may also supply newfound capabilities (which an organization previously hadn't had access to) that warrant updating a KM strategy to avail organizations of new possibilities.

Cloud technology: A synergistic environment for KM and generative AI

Cloud technology may have become a commodity to some extent, but it is not a simple commodity. The technology that allows cloud computing to be dynamic and agile is composed of many interrelated components, which means that when one thing goes wrong, the problem can cascade.

Personalization to support customer engagement and boost revenue

Over time, consumers have become accustomed to personalized results when they search for products and services. They are demanding that the brands they deal with have a deep understanding of their individual needs.

Promises and Perils of AI for Enterprise Knowledge Management

This survey reveals both excitement and trepidation around enterprise AI adoption for knowledge management. Long-standing problems around information access, data quality, and speedy acquisition of needed information are the puzzle pieces that AI has the potential to solve.

Overcoming data silos: A range of options

The options are many and varied when it comes to taming silos. The specific approach should depend on the use case, the organization's existing knowledge assets, and the strategic goals.

Modern KM tools and techniques for collaboration

Modern collaboration means and mechanisms ultimately make it easier, less risky, and more productive for organizations to work together within business units, between them, and between organizations. Constructs such as data mesh architecture, data fabric architecture, data access governance platforms, data catalogs, and process automation solutions are based on sharing information between parties—and make doing so tenable.

The future of KM is not simply AI

Until KM systems can achieve trust in AI, a totally AI-centric workplace will be a fantasy. The future of KM will be based on collaborative work habits, fueled by technology that encourages knowledge sharing, enhances productivity, supports employees to have a healthy work life, and accepts that not every aspect of knowledge management is technology-reliant.

KM leverages data mesh

An underlying premise of data mesh is that business units should be able to control their own data and interact with one another by sharing data.

Create Superior Digital Client Experiences with M-Files Hubshare

By enabling better visibility and information control across systems, repositories and stakeholders, M-Files provides organizations with a competitive advantage as they deliver higher-quality work with lower risk.

Northern Light SinglePoint Users Receive Well-Informed Answers to their Specific Market & Competitive Intelligence Questions

Northern Light, by implementing generative AI, enable users of Northern Light SinglePoint™ portals to instantly receive well-informed answers to their specific questions, drawing upon only reliable, authoritative content sources.

JOIN US AT KMWORLD NOVEMBER 6–9, 2023 JW MARRIOTT WASHINGTON, D.C.

It's an exciting time for KM, with new technologies and new approaches sparking new opportunities. The KMWorld conference, the largest global gathering of KM thought leaders, practitioners, and authors, returns to Washington, D.C., this November.

AI 100 Trailblazer: Northern Light - Northern Light SinglePoint uses AI to accelerate researchers’ time-to-insight

SinglePoint™ contains several innovative applications of artificial intelligence to accelerate time-to-insight for business researchers. The latest is a generative AI-based "question answering" capability built on top of OpenAI's or Microsoft's GPT-3.5 Turbo large language model.

From automation to autonomy: Streamlining processes with BPM

The fundamentals of BPM (involving workflow management, process optimization, case management, and more) will likely never change.

The State of Knowledge Management in 2023: Untapped Potential for Business Value

Dive into the current state of knowledge management and recommendations for realizing untapped potential for business value.

KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management 2023

Putting together the list of 100 companies that matter in KM causes us to look at organizations with pioneering solutions and notable modifications to existing products, and those that are just plain interesting. We applaud innovation, agility, and a focus on the customer.

The evolution of the omnichannel experience

In the past, omnichannel capabilities were the means of engaging consumers with brands via the digital channel of theirchoice, while still maintaining a consistent experience across those mediums. They've become much more.

ECM evolves to support business goals

Even with the prevalence of ECM systems, many people still rely on personal, folder-based filing systems. This makes collaboration difficult because information is not accessible to others.