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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
AI & Taxonomy: the Good and the Bad
The recent popularity of new machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications has disrupted a great deal of traditional data and knowledge management understanding and tooling. At EK, we have worked with a number of clients who have questions–how … 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
From Enterprise GenAI to Knowledge Intelligence: How to Take LLMs from Child’s Play to the Enterprise
In today’s world, it would almost be an understatement to say that every organization wants to utilize generative AI (GenAI) in some part of their business processes. However, key decision-makers are often unclear on what these technologies can do for … Continue reading
Data Governance for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful approach for injecting organizational knowledge into enterprise AI systems. By combining the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) with access to relevant, up-to-date organizational information, RAG enables AI solutions to deliver context-aware, accurate, … 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
Why Your Organization Needs Unified Entitlements
Successful semantic solutions and knowledge management initiatives help the right people see the right information at the right time. When properly implemented, knowledge workers have the knowledge they need to make the best decisions for their organization. The good news … Continue reading
Metadata Within the Semantic Layer
As a standardized framework for connecting organizational assets, a Semantic Layer captures organizational knowledge and domain meaning to support connecting and coordinating assets across systems and repositories. Metadata, as one component of a Semantic Layer approach, is foundational. Whether you … 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