Blog Archives
Using Knowledge Management to Prevent Bottlenecks and Disrupted Operations – A Case Study
The extent to which a company makes use of the collective insights and expertise that it accumulates over time—what we refer to as institutional knowledge—can significantly impact operational performance. When successfully captured and made easily accessible to employees (and to … Continue reading
When Should You Use An AI Agent? Part One: Understanding the Components and Organizational Foundations for AI Readiness
It’s been recognized for far too long that organizations spend as much as 30-40% of their time searching for or recreating information. Now, imagine a dedicated analyst who doesn’t just look for or analyze data for you but also roams … Continue reading
Auto-Classification for the Enterprise: When to Use AI vs. Semantic Models
Auto-classification is a valuable process for adding context to unstructured content. Nominally speaking, some practitioners distinguish between auto-classification (placing content into pre-defined categories from a taxonomy) and auto-tagging (assigning unstructured keywords or metadata, sometimes generated without a taxonomy). In this article, I use ‘auto-classification’ in the broader sense, encompassing both approaches. Continue reading
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
The Semantic Exchange Webinar Series Recap
Enterprise Knowledge recently completed the first round of our new webinar series The Semantic Exchange, which offers participants an opportunity to engage in Q&A with EK’s Semantic Design thought leaders. Participants were able to engage with EK’s experts on topics … 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
The Journey to Unified Entitlements
Now, more than ever, organizations need a clear and consistent way to ensure that the access permissions for all their data are applied consistently across the enterprise. We call this unified entitlements 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