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2009 KM World: promise and reality award finalists.

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KM PROMISE AWARD

Many companies promise that their technology is the best knowledge management solution. One of the greatest challenges for organizations purchasing these technologies is to determine which of the companies will deliver on its promise. This award is given to the organization that is delivering the promise to its customers by providing innovative technology solutions for implementing and integrating knowledge management practices into their business processes. The award-winning organization demonstrates how it goes beyond simply delivering technology to working with clients to ensure that both the technology and knowledge processes are embedded into the work processes. In other words, it helps organizations realize positive business results. Because our finalists are chosen from those who submitted nominations, some familiar KM-savvy companies might be missing from the list.

The KM Promise finalists:

A2iA (a2ia.com)--artificial intelligence and image analysis technology is recognized as the worldwide leading developer of intelligent document recognition, word recognition and character recognition (ICR) technologies. Its toolkits classify images of paper documents and extract business-critical information, including unstructured documents that contain cursive handwriting.

Alfresco (alfresco.com)--open source enterprise content management system that combines the innovation of open source with the stability of an enterprise-class platform at a tenth of the cost. The Alfresco content platform uses a flexible architecture to provide document management, Web content management and collaboration software to enterprise customers worldwide.

Astute Solutions (astutesolutions.com)--call center technology to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of customer interactions. The company is a developer of knowledge management and customer interaction and relationship management solutions that enable consumer-focused companies across numerous industries to differentiate through service excellence.

Autonomy (autonomy.com)--the technology allows computers to harness the full richness of human information, forming a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data, including unstructured information, such as text, e-mail,Web pages, voice or video.

BP Logix (bplogix.com)--Web-based products address the needs of users to manage, automate, track, audit and report on critical business processes. The solutions incorporate workflow, rules-based business logic and forms processing and integrate with many on-demand applications and most databases.

Cabinet NG (cabinetng.com)--document management and workflow software for a variety of industries in the small enterprise. Its document management software moves manual paper-based processes into efficient electronic workflows.

CACI International (caci.com)--professional services and...

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