Incorporating Unified Entitlements in a Knowledge Portal
Recently, we have had a great deal of success developing a certain breed of application for our customers—Knowledge Portals. These knowledge-centric applications holistically connect an organization’s information—its data, content, people and knowledge—from disparate source systems. These portals provide a “single … Continue reading
How a Semantic Layer Transforms Engineering Research Industry Challenges
To drive future innovation, research organizations increasingly seek to develop advanced platforms that enhance the findability and connectivity of their knowledge, data, and content–empowering more efficient and impactful R&D efforts. However, many face challenges due to decentralized information systems, where … Continue reading
The Minimum Requirements To Consider Something a Semantic Layer
Semantic Layers are an important design framework for connecting information across an organization in preparation for Enterprise AI and Knowledge Intelligence. But with every new technology and framework, interest in utilizing the technological advance outpaces experience in effective implementation. As … Continue reading
Enterprise AI Architecture Series: How to Extract Knowledge from Unstructured Content (Part 2)
Our CEO, Zach Wahl, recently noted in his annual KM trends blog for 2025 that Knowledge Management (KM) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are really two sides of the same coin, detailing this idea further in his seminal blog introducing the … Continue reading
Enterprise AI Architecture Series: How to Build a Knowledge Intelligence Architecture (Part 1)
Since the launch of ChatGPT over two years ago, we have observed that our clients are increasingly drawn to the promise of AI. They also recognize that the large language models (LLMs), trained on public data sets, may not effectively … Continue reading
Enterprise AI Meets Access and Entitlement Challenges: A Framework for Securing Content and Data for AI
In today’s digital landscape, organizations face a critical challenge: how to leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) while ensuring their knowledge assets remain secure and accessible to the right people at the right time. As enterprise AI systems become … Continue reading
Data Management and Architecture Trends for 2025
Today, many organizational leaders are focused on AI readiness, and as the AI transformation is accelerating, so are the trends that define how businesses look for, store, secure, and leverage data and content. The future of enterprise data management and … Continue reading
Consolidation in the Semantic Software Industry
As a technology SME in the KM space, I am excited about the changes happening in the semantic software industry. Just two years ago, in my book, I provided a complete analysis of the leading providers of taxonomy and ontology … Continue reading
Analyzing and Optimizing Content for the Semantic Layer
As I wrote in my previous post, Adding Context to Content in the Semantic Layer, the organizational challenge of effectively generating, managing, and distributing content can be addressed by integrating content into a semantic layer. The semantic layer enriches the … Continue reading
Adding Context to Content in the Semantic Layer
Content is a critical organizational asset. Whether product documentation, sales and marketing materials, industry rules and regulations, employee policies, or learning materials, content forms the backbone of operations, decision-making, and end-user experiences. Organizations are challenged to generate content and structure … Continue reading