Understanding the New Knowledge, Data, and AI Ecosystem: Trends in Enterprise AI Architecture
The way we consume, create, and engineer information has changed dramatically, with the last several years demonstrating a marked transformation due to Artificial Intelligence (AI). According to a recent report, Generative AI adoption has reached a tipping point, with nearly … Continue reading
What Are Explainable AI Knowledge Portals and Why Do You Need Them?
Knowledge Portals first came into prominence in the early 2000s. These initial portals were a collection of static links to information on everything from HR systems to company policies and communications. It was a single location to access the systems … Continue reading
Top Knowledge Management Trends – 2026
Since 2019, I’ve been authoring an annual KM Trends article. This article tends to be one of the most important and challenging that Enterprise Knowledge produces each year, and rightly should be listed as a coauthorship with many of my … Continue reading
How to Design Taxonomies that Reflect Organizational Differences, For Humans and AI
One of the key steps to prepare your content and data for AI is developing taxonomies that identify, organize, and define the terms used in the organization in order to better structure and contextualize knowledge assets for use in AI … Continue reading
The Role of Unified Entitlements in Getting Your Content AI Ready
AI has become the place to find answers to nearly any question. I have used the public LLMs like ChatGPT, Anthropic, and Gemini to create trip itineraries, research topics for a book I am writing, and plan social gatherings. I … 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
Entitlements Within a Semantic Layer Framework: Benefits of Determining User Roles Within a Data Governance Framework
The importance of data governance grows as the number of users with permission to access, create, or edit content and data within organizational ecosystems faces cumulative upkeep. An organization may have a plan for data governance and may have software … Continue reading