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AI Knowledge Base – Company Knowledge Centrally Available and Intelligently Utilized

Industry: Defense | Duration: 3 months | Team size: 3 consultants

In decentralized organizations, valuable company knowledge is often scattered across personal email inboxes, local folders, and the minds of individual employees. As a result, information, documents, and templates are difficult to find, lack consistent version control, and are only partially accessible to the entire team. A modern AI knowledge database creates a central repository where content can be captured in a structured manner, searched, and used in context. With Enterprise Search and RAG-powered search, questions can be answered directly, and relevant documents can be found across locations. In addition, a personal AI assistant supports employees with everyday tasks such as drafting texts, taking minutes, and planning. For a decentralized corporate structure, this represented a shift from haphazard use of artificial intelligence (AI) to standardized, digital knowledge management. Through the Ventum AI Hub, distributed repositories were consolidated and made easily accessible to all relevant user groups.

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Michael Schobel-Thoma

Managing Expert

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Satisfied customers from small and medium-sized businesses and large corporations

Challenge: Dispersed knowledge and a lack of digital support & Building an AI knowledge base

  • Distributed corporate knowledge: Relevant information is scattered across people’s minds, email inboxes, and local folders at individual locations; employees spend a great deal of time trying to find the content they need.
  • Lack of access to central information: Employees at different locations cannot reliably access central documents and templates; as a result, separate versions and workflows develop in parallel.
  • Inconsistent document versions: Differing templates, process descriptions, and documents lead to varying work practices and make it difficult to collaborate consistently.
  • No Centralized Enterprise Search: Without digital search and research functions, relevant data and content remain hidden; questions must be forwarded manually to experienced individuals.
  • Incidental Use of AI: A lack of tools for automated responses, text generation, and planning prevents the standardized use of AI in day-to-day work.
  • Significant coordination effort: The decentralized organization makes it difficult to transfer knowledge, maintain documentation, and ensure consistent knowledge management across all locations.

Success Journey: Implementing an AI Knowledge Base in Three Steps

01

Analyzing and Consolidating Knowledge Bases
Scattered documents, templates, and information from central and decentralized repositories were identified, structured, and consolidated via the SharePoint integration.

This created a robust database for consistent, cross-location knowledge management.

02

Establish an AI-powered search and knowledge base
The Ventum AI Hub was used to build an RAG-based enterprise search solution that makes existing content discoverable in context and answers questions based on available company knowledge.

Retrieval mechanisms ensure that employees can find relevant documents and information more quickly and use them with confidence.

03

Empowering Employees and Integrating AI into Everyday Life
A personal GenAI assistant, practical tools, and change and enablement measures support employees with texts, minutes, planning, and other daily tasks.

This means that AI is not only being introduced as a technical solution, but is being established as an integral part of collaboration and everyday work.

Impact At Launch: A Centralized Knowledge Base and AI Support for the Entire Organization

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Michael Schobel-Thoma

Managing Expert

Summary: A risk-based verification and validation strategy with clear release management as a key success factor

Building an AI knowledge base centralizes distributed corporate knowledge and creates a common foundation for employees and teams. Through enterprise search, RAG & retrieval, and the integration of existing documents, information is found more quickly and questions are answered directly. The personal AI assistant extends these benefits by providing concrete support for writing, meeting minutes, and planning. The combination of technology, structured knowledge management, and change management and enablement was crucial to the project’s success. As a result, individually stored information was transformed into an accessible, unified, and sustainably usable knowledge base for the entire organization.

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