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Optimizing Historical Knowledge Retrieval: Extracting Knowledge by Making Connections
A financial services firm built a mature graph data ecosystem, but the graph database they selected originally did not scale as multiple business-critical solutions relied on graph data. As application and business teams across multiple stakeholder groups expanded usage … 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
Graph Database Evaluation for a Financial Services Firm
A financial services firm built a mature graph data ecosystem, but the graph database they selected originally did not scale as multiple business-critical solutions relied on graph data. As application and business teams across multiple stakeholder groups expanded usage … 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
Taxonomy Alignment for SDG Tagging
In the session “Utilizing Taxonomies to Meet UN SDG Obligations“ co-presented at KMWorld 2025 on November 17th, Enterprise Knowledge’s Ben Kass and ASHA’s Mike Cannon discuss how they structured taxonomies within an ongoing auto-tagging implementation to serve content management and … Continue reading
The Role of Product Taxonomies in the Age of AI
Product Taxonomies are Your Intellectual Property; Why they Deserve More than AI Slop “Good design is invisible,” a principle that applies as much to digital taxonomy design as it does to the design of physical objects and spaces. At their … Continue reading
Knowledge Cast – Mike Ferguson, CEO of Intelligent Business Strategies
Enterprise Knowledge’s Lulit Tesfaye, VP of Knowledge & Data Services, speaks with Mike Ferguson, CEO of Intelligent Business Strategies and Conference Chair of Big Data LDN, the largest data and analytics conference in Europe. With over 40 years of experience … Continue reading
Enterprises, KM, & AI: From Fragmented Knowledge to Intelligent Systems
In the session “Enterprises, KM, & AI: From Fragmented Knowledge to Intelligent Systems,” Jess DeMay (Enterprise Knowledge) and Rachel Teague (Emory Consulting LLC.) co-presented at KMWorld 2025, exploring how organizations can evolve from disconnected information environments into intelligent and adaptive … Continue reading
Taxonomist Role in the New World of Generative AI
We have been at the forefront of implementing generative technologies to augment traditional taxonomy workflows offering new capabilities for content modeling, classification, and semantic enrichment. This raises an important question for practitioners: What are the implications of Generative AI for … Continue reading
The Cost of Missing Critical Connections in Data: Suspicious Behavior Detection using Link Analysis
Graph-powered link analysis, combined with natural language processing (NLP), offers a powerful approach to identifying complex patterns and trends within extensive and complex datasets, especially unstructured data like emails, documents, and social media. By modeling data as interconnected entities and … Continue reading