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Breaking Down Types of Knowledge Assets and Their Impact

In their blog “What is Knowledge Asset?”, EK’s CEO Zach Wahl and Practice Lead for Semantic Design and Modeling, Sara Mae O’Brien-Scott, explored how organizations can define knowledge assets beyond just documents or data. It emphasizes that anything, from people … Continue reading

Building Your Information Shopping Mall – A Semantic Layer Guide

Imagine your organization’s data as a vast collection of goods scattered across countless individual stores, each with its own layout and labeling system. Finding exactly what you need can feel like an endless, frustrating search. This is where a semantic … Continue reading

LLM Solutions PoC to Production: From RAGs to Riches (Part 1)

In the past year, many of the organizations EK has partnered with have been developing Large Language Model (LLM) based Proof-of-Concepts (PoCs). These projects are often pushed for by an enthusiastic IT Team, or internal initiative – with the low … Continue reading

Inside the Unified Entitlements Architecture

Today’s enterprises face a perfect storm in data access governance. The shift to cloud-native architectures has created a sprawling landscape of data sources, each with its own security model. For example, a typical enterprise might store customer data in Snowflake, … Continue reading

Unified Entitlements: The Hidden Vulnerability in Modern Enterprises

Maria, a finance analyst at a multinational corporation, needs quarterly revenue data for her report. She logs into her company’s data portal, runs a query against the company’s data lake, and unexpectedly retrieves highly confidential merger negotiations that should be … Continue reading

How Sustainability Grows from KM

Sustainability is becoming increasingly important to businesses’ fiscal outcomes. Sustainability is the practice of enhancing environmentally-friendly practices in an organization, such as by reducing energy consumption or water usage. Today’s consumers value sustainability as a core principle when making purchasing … Continue reading

A Practical Guide To Knowledge Transfer Interviews

Organizations often wait too long to target and capture the lessons learned and takeaways gained from senior leaders’ experience and tenure. As a result, when senior executives leave or retire, key nuggets of institutional knowledge often leave with them. Knowledge … Continue reading