Artificial intelligence has officially crossed from buzzword to business imperative. Across the Fortune 1000, AI is reshaping how organizations manage knowledge, drive innovation, and make decisions with speed and confidence. Nowhere is this transformation more evident than in knowledge management (KM), where generative AI is reducing time-to-insight, boosting research reuse, and making strategic content instantly actionable.
Disconnected systems, duplicate research, and fragmented access to insights cost enterprises millions in lost productivity, delayed decisions, and missed opportunities. Traditional knowledge management platforms were built to store information—not to surface strategic insights or drive timely action. In today’s dynamic environment, storing knowledge isn’t...
The pharmaceutical industry faces a paradox: more data and opportunity than ever before, yet more pressure to innovate quickly, reduce costs, and beat the competition. In a heavily regulated, research-intensive environment, innovation is often slowed by inefficiencies, duplicate work, and siloed knowledge. The solution isn’t just more information; it’s...
Consulting firm Accenture talks about technology “reshaping our relationship with knowledge.” In a paper entitled “ Technology Vision 2024 ”, Accenture says: “The search-based ‘librarian’ model of human-data interaction is giving way to a new ‘advisor’ model. Rather than running searches to curate results, people are now asking generative AI chatbots for...
When Northern Light recently announced its EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework certification , it was just the latest example of the company’s decades-long emphasis on network and data security. Security is in Northern Light’s DNA Security is in Northern Light’s DNA. For over 20 years, we have provided knowledge management systems optimized for market and...
BOSTON , Feb. 13, 2024 -- Northern Light ® today announced it has received certification for the European Union (EU)-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), U.K.-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, providing assurance to its European clients that personal information about users contained within Northern Light SinglePoint™...
[The following is a " Brain Candy" post from technology industry research firm Intellyx] When we last covered Northern Light in January 2018 , it was using machine learning to summarize documents for its competitive and market intelligence knowledge management platform. Today, the company has improved upon this use of AI by incorporating generative AI for...
Thursday, February 29th, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET --- How to get the best business research answers from Generative AI Presented by Northern Light CEO David Seuss Generative AI is proving to be a game changer in enterprise knowledge management — for example, as a front-end to answer market and competitive intelligence research questions. But gen AI’s...
Internet search engines have been around since the early 1990s, and over those 30 years they have remained largely the same from a user experience perspective… until recently. The advent of generative AI has effectively created a new interface for search engines – you see it commercially on Bing and Google, and in a growing roster of search-enabled...
Tuesday, February 13th 11:00 AM PT, 2:00 PM ET --- The Top Trends in KM for 2024 In today's fast-paced business world, where quick and precise access to information is crucial for success, companies cannot continue to be hampered by data silos, inefficient methodologies, and antiquated knowledge management tools. The current requirements for agility,...
BOSTON , Jan. 17, 2024 -- Capping a year marked by the advent of commercial generative AI applications, Northern Light ® reports most of its enterprise clients have committed to deploying the embedded gen AI-based "question answering" capability of SinglePoint™ in their market and competitive intelligence research portals or are testing it at the present...
You’ve no doubt heard many theories about what artificial intelligence (AI) may mean for the future of work, like whether computers will replace people in some (or many) jobs. In 2024, with generative AI catching fire and enterprises aggressively exploring ways to productively (and securely) use the new technology, the topic is garnering even more interest....
Northern Light is the Intelligence Engine built for global enterprises—unifying your internal research, licensed content, and real-time market signals in a single AI-powered platform.