Ardans Knowledge Maker® (AKM) was created in response to a simple question: how can we help organisations to identify, structure, manage, map, protect, utilise and thus capitalise on their knowledge? Decision-making is a crucial challenge, and our tool’s mission is to support you over the long term in a way that rises to the challenge.
For over 25 years, we have been enhancing and enriching our AKM solution based on operational feedback, yet its core DNA remains unchanged. It leverages your knowledge assets through its relevance and robustness, while its intuitive interface makes that value readily accessible. Your knowledge stays alive and easily available to those who are duly authorised.
Using formalisms derived from AI (ontology, taxonomy, binding, inheritance, learning, etc.), the tool supports a pragmatic knowledge engineering methodology within a secure, industrial-grade IT architecture. This provides you with a platform that complies with the requirements of the ISO 30401 standard.
Tomorrow’s challenges won’t wait – we’re ready to support you in tackling them.
Date of first version
Users worldwide
Companion Modules
- Capitalization of knowledge elements:
- Design of knowledge models (ontology),
- Viewing, creating, modifying, and deleting knowledge elements,
- Management of access and validation rights,
- Linking to various perspectives (taxonomy),
- Management of related knowledge elements (cross-links, direction of links),
- Mapping of selected knowledge elements,
- Version and edition management,
- Management of justification elements (attached files, url, … ), etc.
- Combined searches:
- Multiple standpoints,
- By metadata : Date, Author, Model, List, Status, range,
- By group (community),
- By full text search,
- By business or user context,
- By combinations of criteria.
- Artificial Intelligence:
- Prompt engineering,
- Searching for proximity between knowledge elements,
- Assessing the relevance of linking a knowledge element,
- Assistance with drafting knowledge element titles,
- Assistance with drafting content summaries,
- Knowledge utilization via RAG and GraphRAG.
- Administration environment:
- Knowledge models,
- View trees,
- Approval workflows,
- Access rights groups,
- Profiles and users,
- Priorities or orders, etc.
- Knowledge Element display:
- Layout based on composition templates,
- Formatting according to the desired visual identity,
- Export to XML/XKM or multilingual office software formats.
- To foster buy-in and ownership of a knowledge management initiative—and to make knowledge sharing a natural, spontaneous part of your employees' daily work—we tailor our training programs so they can confidently achieve their mission objectives.
- 01 /04The construction of the solution through workshops, as well as the extremely fast and relevant feedbacks with the Ardans Knowledge Maker tool, created confidence and assurance for the entire project team.Véronique BÉRANGER - ANDRA