Graph-Based Security & Entitlements: Transforming Access Control for the Modern Enterprise
Introduction Modern organizations face significant challenges in managing entitlements across their increasingly complex technology landscapes. The proliferation of cloud-native architectures and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms has dramatically expanded the digital footprint of most organizations. Critical assets, including sensitive data, analytics, collaboration … 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
How to Leverage LLMs for Auto-tagging & Content Enrichment
When working with organizations on key data and knowledge management initiatives, we’ve often noticed that a roadblock is the lack of quality (relevant, meaningful, or up-to-date) existing content an organization has. Stakeholders may be excited to get started with advanced … 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
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
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