K-Now provides platform and bespoke software solutions for knowledge managament. Our aim is to revolutionise business operations by empowering immediate and effortless sharing and intelligent reuse of business critical knowledge when needed.
K-Now focus upon bringing knowledge and power to organisations with improved IT platforms. We offer solutions which draw from the latest research (we are actively involved in multiple knowledge based research projects under, JISC, TSB, SBRI and the European framework office). We commercialise and deploy the latest advances from within the fields of Semantic Web, Information Retreival, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation and other research communities to operate seamlessly with existing IT infrastructures. The commercial deployments of our research endevours to focuses technologies for representing, extracting, integrating and searching knowledge sources for improving business operations. We specialise in corporate deployment of technology to transform legacy unstructured knowledge into a cutting edge corporate platforms. Our emphasis is on supporting the entire knowledge life-cycle, from its creation and capture, through to its final use in driving critical business decisions.
Our key specialties focus upon the following aspects of knowledge management:
We deliver fully engineered end-to-end solutions using our own and third party technologies that best solve complex knowledge management tasks.
With K-Now's advanced technology and knowledge, it is possible to easily link, query, visualise and interpret vast amounts of organisational knowledge to optimise and support business decisions.
Our extensive background and continuing involvement in knowledge management research has produced a vast array of technologies for tackling the challenges organisations face in transforming legacy data systems into workable knowledge solutions. Our techniques enable the automated creation of advanced structured data which can be easily queried, extended and linked to existing internal and external sources of data.
K-Now is a spin out company of the University of Sheffield, Department of Computer Science. It was created in 2007 by academics and researchers of the Natural Language Processing and Organisations, Information and Knowledge group. The primary aim of K-Now is to commercialise state-of-the-art technology created from within the academic realm and apply it to real world knowledge organisational problems.
K-Now has since been active in many industry and research projects and has expanded its technology and scope of operations into several additional sectors. For more details about the history of K-Now please contact press@k-now.co.uk
