Building the Semantic Layer: Scaling Enterprise Intelligence at a Global Investment Firm
The Challenge A global investment firm with a $330 billion dollar portfolio and 50,000+ employees struggled with fragmented data. Investment professionals were losing critical time hunting for assets across disconnected systems. Detailed deal records were scattered as a mix of … Continue reading
Top Semantic Layer Use Cases and Applications (with Real World Case Studies)
Today, most enterprises are managing multiple content and data systems or repositories, often with overlapping capabilities such as content authoring, document management, or data management (typically averaging three or more). This leads to fragmentation and data silos, creating significant inefficiencies. … Continue reading
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
Galdamez and Cross to Speak at the APQC 2025 Process & Knowledge Management Conference
Guillermo Galdamez, Principal Knowledge Management Consultant, and Benjamin Cross, Project Manager, will be presenting “Knowledge Portals: Manifesting A Single View Of Truth For Your Organization” at the APQC 2025 Process & Knowledge Management Conference on April 10th. In this presentation, … Continue reading
Knowledge Portal Architecture Explained
At its core, a Knowledge Portal consists of five components: Web UI, API Layer, Enterprise Search Engine, Knowledge Graph, and Taxonomy/Ontology Management System. Continue reading
Five Lessons in Developing and Deploying a Modern Knowledge Portal
Knowledge Portals are some of the most exciting and promising emerging KM solutions. They create new capabilities to deliver a wide range of unstructured content, structured data, and connections to people and resources in the context of user’s work. Over … Continue reading
When a Knowledge Portal Becomes a Learning and Performance Portal
EK’s CEO, Zach Wahl, previously published Knowledge Portals Revisited, a blog that spells out an integrated suite of systems that actually puts users’ needs at the center of a knowledge management solution. We’ve long acknowledged that content may need to … Continue reading
EK at Ten: Looking Back on Our Greatest Knowledge Management Solutions
We recently celebrated the ten year anniversary of Enterprise Knowledge (EK). As founders, this was very special for both Zach and I. I’ve been reflecting on the amazing people, clients, and projects we have been involved with and pondering all … Continue reading