KM Resources: KM Companies
This page provides a listing of companies who offer knowledge management services or whose innovative leadership and practices have helped advance the field of KM.
American Management Systems
www.amsinc.com/KnowledgeMgmt
Assistum
www.assistum.com
A company that provides KM tools which rely on artificial intelligence
and fuzzy logic.
Autonomy
www.autonomy.com
Autonomy has two products aimed at the knowledge management market: Agentware
Knowledge Server: to help companies automatically leverage the knowledge
base of individual employees and 'mine' unstructured information for insight,
regardless of the format or source. Agentware Knowledge Update: to help
employees exploit late-breaking industry developments without wasting
time surfing the Internet or intranet.
Buckman Laboratories
www.buckman.com
Although Buckman Laboratories does not provide KM services to other companies,
Buckman is worth noting as one of the original pioneers of KM and one
of the most cited in the KM literature. Check out their Knowledge Nurture
Website http://www.knowledge-nurture.com/).
Celemi
www.celemi.com
Celemi.com is a Knowledge Management portal whose mission is to help companies
rapidly improve business performance through their people.
Centric Software
www.centricsoftware.com
Centric Software's internet-enabled Collaborative Product Innovation (CPI)
software solutions enable complete team collaboration to innovate, define
and develop new products over the web.
ClearForest
www.clearforest.com
offers products that go through vast amounts of text, extract relevant information
specific to users' requirements and provide visual, interactive, executive
summaries, allowing customers to gain rapid and valuable insights into mission
critical business intelligence.
Comintell
www.comintell.com
Comintell is Northern Europe's leading provider of software and solutions
for Knowledge Management with a special focus on Competitive Intelligence.
Computer Associates (CA)
www.ca.com/services
CA Services helps an organization enable its eBusiness success. They offer
solutions built around the following three strategic categories: eBusiness
Process Management, Information Management and Infrastructure Management.
Convera
www.convera.com
Convera's search solutions power a broad range of mission critical applications
including enterprise portals, knowledge management, intelligence gathering,
profiling, corporate policy compliance, regulatory compliance, customer
service and more.
The Delphi Group
www.delphigroup.com
The global thought leaders at the intersection of business and IT.
Department of Defense Knowledge Worker System
www.cecer.army.mil/kws/welcome.htm
The Knowledge Worker System will enable the Army to continue its mission
critical business process while meeting its downsizing goals.
Documentum
www.documentum.com
Documentum provides enterprise content management (ECM) solutions that enable
people to collaboratively create, manage, deliver and archive the content
that drives business operations, from documents and discussions, to email,
Web pages, records and rich media — using one common content platform
and repository.
Eloquent
www.eloquent.com
Eloquent's portal provides Enterprise Knowledge Deployment Solutions--"turning
knowledge into sales."
Entopia
www.entopia.com
Entopia's software suite provides a full-cycle knowledge sharing solution
encompassing content management, collaboration, search capabilities, a taxonomy
generation and content classification solution.
Entovation International Inc.
www.entovation.com
The ENTOVATION Network is an international network of theorists and practitioners,
dedicated to developing a sustainable future through knowledge and innovation.
It serves as the hub of a world-wide network of expertise exploring new methods
of Knowledge Innovation. This virtual international Network now includes thousands
of professionals from 61 countries.
Framework Technologies
www.frametech.com
It offers software solutions in project execution decision support. The main
products are ActiveProduct and ActiveAEC.
FolioOne
www.folioone.com
An Internet-based Knowledge Management Information site designed to build
Knowledge Portfolios of individuals' learning experiences. Its goal is to
define a person's knowledge by cataloging the topics that a person has studied.
Global Development Group i2K (Information to Knowledge) Initiative
www.globaldevelopmentgroup.org/i2k.htm
Canadian company dedicated to introducing KM in the international development
community. It has developed a number of software and related tools for KM
in development activities.
Group Decision Support Systems
www.gdss.com
A management consulting firm that focuses on using collaborative technologies
for KM.
IBM
www.ibm.com
IBM provides both software and consulting solutions related to KM.
IKM Corporation
www.ikmcorp.com
IKM Corporation is a research, publishing, and consulting firm specializing
in knowledge management. Our emphasis is on the use of KM in e-commerce,
information technology management, and training." IKM also sponsors
The Knowledge Management Resource Center which has different topic areas
with links to companies involved in KM, among other things.
Iniciativa
www.iniciativa.org
A Spanish based European consulting company that provides information
management and knowledge management project expertise to organizations
worldwide.
Integral Performance Group
www.vernaallee.com
A small but multitalented group of consultants, researchers and trainers
with experience in business, management, organizational development and
culture change. This site includes links to KM articles, resources for
KM development, books and journals
Kaieteur Institute for Knowledge Management
www.kikm.org
A think tank involved in KM and competitive intelligence research and
consulting, including research into knowledge enabling software.
Karl-Erik Sveiby
www.sveiby.com.au
One of the giants in KM. One popular product is the Tango Business Simulation.
Knowledge Associates
www.knowledgeassociates.com
A global web-centric knowledge management consulting and technology organization
with Knowledge Centers in Cambridge UK, Boston USA, Singapore and Johannesburg
South Africa. The organization provides thought leadership, education,
strategy, consulting, software solutions, web-based implementation and
support for knowledge management.
Knowledge Base
www.knowledgebase.net
provides an enterprise-level Knowledge Management solution that empowers
the customers, partners, and employees with the self-service ability to
share and leverage knowledge, with key features such as content creation,
content management and customizable portals.
Knowledge Enterprise, Inc.
www.knowledgeenterprise.org
Knowledge Enterprise presents itself as "a U.S.-based private professional
firm dedicated to the generation, advancement and dissemination of knowledge
- worldwide." The president of Knowledge Enterprise, Wadi D. Haddad
has a background in international development. He has worked for the World
Bank, UNESCO and others, mostly dealing with education issues.
KnowledgePlanet
www.knowledgesoft.com
KnowledgePlanet offers comprehensive Human Capital Management software
that includes learning and development, performance management, succession
planning
Knowledge Powered Solutions
www.kmsoftware.com
Knowledge Powered Solutions ("KPS") develops and markets intelligent,
second generation software products and related services in the Knowledge
management market.
Know Inc.
www.knowinc.com
Toronto-based KNOW Inc. is a portal that supports organization development
through applied knowledge management. It offers Web-based tools to support
knowledge management initiatives.
Lotus
http://www.lotus.com/lotus/km.nsf/wdocs/home
Now a part of IBM. Lotus offers a variety of tools enabling KM in the
workplace.
National Institutes of Health
http://kb.nih.gov/www_query_main.asp
NIH Center for Information Technology public knowledge base.
Potomac Knowledgeway
www.knowledgeway.org
The Potomac KnowledgeWay is a not-for-profit leadership organization that
acts as a catalyst, thought leader and idea incubator to help the Greater
Washington region to be a global leader in advanced telecommunications,
content, and Internet-related industries, and the new opportunities their
convergence is creating in the region."
Primus
www.primus.com
Primus is considered one of the world's leading providers of knowledge
solutions, each designed to enable companies to access, analyze and improve
information more effectively.
Technatomy Corporation
www.technatomy.com
Technatomy Corporation is an information-driven solutions and professional
information technology services company. Technatomy's focus is to help
its customers assess, manage, migrate, protect, share, and harvest their
information assets in order to increase organizational communication,
knowledge, level-of-service, transactions, competitiveness, and profits.
US Navy
www.don-imit.navy.mil/interestTemplate.asp?type=initiative&theID=17
Knowledge Management in the Department of Navy. To further the development
of KM leadership within the Department, it is necessary to clarify and
define potential roles and responsibilities of Knowledge Managers and
a KM champion in the capacity of DoN Chief Knowledge Officer.
Verity
www.verity.com
Verity is a leading provider of enterprise knowledge retrieval solutions
for corporate intranets, online publishers, e-commerce vendors and market-leading
OEMs and ISVs. Verity's product suite enables organizations to turn corporate
intranets into a powerful knowledge base by creating corporate portals,
making business information accessible and reusable across the enterprise.
Verity's leadership has been recognized by numerous organizations, most
recently by Delphi Consulting, which gave Verity the Market Recognition
Award based on a survey of 600 corporate users.
Wincite
www.wincite.com
Wincite Systems is an application software company that is focused on
areas related to competitive intelligence, business analysis/planning
and knowledge management.
World Bank
www.worldbank.org/ks
The World Bank Knowledge Sharing Portal is about the prominence of knowledge
at the World Bank and how it creates, shares, and applies knowledge. It
will give you access to all the World Bank's KM activities and huge resources,
including Steven Denning's paper on KM, "What is Knowledge Management?,"
which looks at KM in the context of an international organization trying
to solve global problems.
"What is Knowledge Management?" is located at URL: http://www.worldbank.org/ks/km.html#what
Other great World Bank KM initiatives include
1. The Global Knowledge Partnership
www.globalknowledge.org
An evolving informal partnership of public, private, and not-for-profit organizations in both developing and industrial countries. Its members are committed to sharing information, experiences, and resources to promote broad access to-and effective use of-knowledge and information as tools of sustainable development.2. Development Gateway
www.developmentgateway.org
This is development issues web portal, for users to gain access to information, resources, and tools—and to contribute their knowledge and experience.
3. The Indigenous Knowledge Initiative:
www.worldbank.org/html/afr/ik
The World Bank's Indigenous Knowledge Initiative is an attempt to collect local/indigenous knowledge in the form of practices that have an impact and social and economic development, and to use such knowledge in planning and implementing development assistance programs.
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This Section of the site was last updated on March 31, 2003