Name Organization URL Short Description80-20 Discovery http://www.80-20.com/ An enhanced search engine for internal databases including natural language query parsing and a Web browser client interface. Assistum Higher Level Systems Ltd. http://www.assistum.com A suite of knowledge management tools which rely on artificial intelligence and fuzzy logic to deepen the user's understanding of commercial and practical issues affecting an important decisions. Autonomy Autonomy Systems www.autonomy.com/ Integrates and operates on sources as diverse as email, Word documents, PDFs, voice and video extracts, (unstructured information) XML and metadata, (semi-structured information) and the information held in databases (structured information). Concept Maps Joseph D. Novak. Groove Groove Networks P2P groupware that provides a platform for direct interaction among users in shared spaces. Hypviewer Allows a user to layout and interactively navigate node-link graphs in 3D hyperbolic space. IHMC CmapToolkitInstitute for Human and Machine Cognition, University of West Florida http://cmap.coginst.uwf.edu Allows its users to construct, navigate, share, and criticize knowledge models of any domain represented or organized as concept maps Inspiration Inspiration Softwarehttp://www.inspiration.com/ A visual learning tool that inspires students to develop and organize their ideas. It supports visual thinking techniques, enabling students to easily create and update graphic organizers, concept maps, idea maps and other visual diagrams. Inxight Star Tree Tool Inxight Software http://www.inxight.com/ Provides a method for quickly navigating a website whose contents lend themselves to a hierarchal layout. The star tree representation allows a large hierarchy to be traversed while maximizing the use of the display space. jake (Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment) Yale University, Simon Fraser University http://jake.lib.sfu.ca/ To facilitate access to and integration between contents of many e-resources by appropriately relating metadata about e-resources and their content. KAON AIFB/ Uni Karlsruhe http://kaon.semanticweb.org/ An open-source ontology management infrastructure targeted for business applications. It includes a comprehensive tool suite allowing easy ontology creation and management, as well as building ontology-based applications. An important focus of KAON is on integrating traditional technologies for ontology management and application with those used in business applications, such as relational databases. KMTool Jennie Starrwww.kmtool.net/ A knowledge management tool for professionals who are responsible for design, implementation and evaluation of knowledge management Lotus Discovery IBM/Lotus http://www.lotus.com/products/discserver.nsfSearch or browse for information and subject matter experts from multiple locations, collaborate with colleagues instantly, increase knowledge sharing and decrease time spent looking for needed resources MindManager MindJet http://www.mindjet.com/ MindManager provides tools to store, organize, and retrieve knowledge. Mondeca Intelligent Topic Manager Mondeca Publishing http://www.mondeca.com/english/product_services.htm Offers a solution for the integrated management of a wide variety of content organization systems (thesaurus, classifications, semantic relations between subjects, process modeling, ordering of publications, etc.), thus ensuring efficient, intuitive and personalized access to all the relevant information. Northern Light http://www.northernlight.com/ a sophisticated search engine distinguished by its ability to present search results not only as a complete group of findings, but also organizes the information into "folders" that allow the user to focus in on one part of the search and eliminate matches that do not meet the searcher's criteria. Northern Light also features an extensive library of additional exclusive materials (the "Special Collection") that are available for a fee. Practicity Web-based knowledge sharing environment QuickView Micromedia Technologies http://www.qview.com/ A report storage and retrieval system to allow companies to store large amounts of written information (on the order of millions of pages) on laserdiscs in a way that permits people to make use of them over a network. Verity Verityhttp://www.verity.com/ Integrates comprehensive search tools to discover information, accurate content organization to put information in context, and personalization features to automatically recommend documents, locate experts and create user communities.
Additional Pointers to KM Tools
The following links provide additional information on KM tools.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Knowledge_Management/Software/ Google Web directory on knowledge management software
http://programming.idg.net/crd_information_9-52588.html
A product comparison of knowledge management solutions; it was done in 1997, however, and does not reflec the state of the art.