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Designing Your Taxonomy to Fit Your Use Case: Advanced Taxonomy Use Cases (Part 2)
In my previous blog, I wrote about building a taxonomy for two foundational use cases – findability and navigation – that we commonly design for at EK. This blog will focus on two advanced, yet still common, taxonomy use cases. … Continue reading
Improving Product Documentation With a CCMS and a Knowledge Graph
The Challenge A financial solutions provider wanted to improve and personalize customer interaction with support and technical documentation as well as streamline the content authoring process to ensure consistent messaging and avoid duplicated information. Before the EK team’s involvement, technical … Continue reading
Expert Analysis: Does My Organization Need a Graph Database?
As EK works with our clients to integrate knowledge graphs into their technical ecosystems, client stakeholders often ask, “Why should we leverage knowledge graphs?” and more specifically, “Do we need a graph database?” Our consultants then collaborate with stakeholders to … Continue reading
Data Management Trends in 2022: Data Fabric v. Data Mesh v. DataOps? What is Right for Your Organization?
When we start most of our engagements with our clients, there are common and important challenges we’re typically presented with that help summarize the core needs that persist within the data management space today: We don’t know what data we … Continue reading
Trimming an Untamed Taxonomy
When your taxonomy has overgrown your path towards usability, it’s time to do some gardening. Congratulations: you have a taxonomy! You’ve gone through the work of gathering user feedback, developing a design, validating the design, and you’ve come out the … Continue reading
Knowledge Cast Product Spotlight – Andreas Blumauer of Semantic Web Company
In this episode of Product Spotlight, EK COO Joe Hilger speaks with Andreas Blumauer of Semantic Web Company. Andreas has been CEO and managing partner of Semantic Web Company (SWC) for more than 15 years. At SWC, he is responsible … Continue reading
Designing Your Taxonomy to Fit Your Use Case: Common Taxonomy Use Cases (Part 1)
At EK, we’ve designed countless taxonomies for our clients over the years. These taxonomies are reflective of each individual client’s content and needs, and provide direct business value. One of the keys to our success is that before we even … Continue reading
The Phantom Data Problem: Finding and Managing Secure Content
Every organization has content/information that needs to be treated as confidential. In some cases, it’s easy to know where this content is stored and to make sure that it is secure. In many other cases, this sensitive or confidential content … Continue reading
How Do I Implement A Taxonomy?
Congrats, you have a taxonomy! It is a strategic milestone for many organizations whether the taxonomy is instantiated in a taxonomy management system of some type, or, as we much more commonly see, stored in a spreadsheet. Regardless, your next … Continue reading
System Migration and Enterprise Search Design Powered by Enterprise Taxonomy, Automated Tagging, and Content Governance
The Challenge Staff at a US-based investment and insurance company were spending extraneous amounts of time finding information through the organization’s search experience. Users had been instructed to interact with search in specific ways (which filters to use, how to … Continue reading