s. A knowledge management
             systems is an integrated multifunctional system that can support all main knowledge
             management and knowledge processing activities.
             Knowledge management systems are difficult to understand because the business
             processes it strives to computerize doesn't exist in the real world for most organizations.
             Unlike replacing a machine such as a typewriter or an office procedure such as document
             control, businesses have been trying unsuccessfully throughout the 20th century to make
             knowledge management a reality. Excluding those companies whose entire business is
             knowledge management, there's no obvious, proven model to follow. However,
             knowledge management can be described by stepping back from technologies and
             products and taking a high-level view of the business issues before jumping into
             A Knowledge management system is a program that provides companies the ability
             to gather its collective expertise. Valued at $1.5 billion in 1996 and slated to increase to
             $5 billion annually by 2000, the development of knowledge management systems is big
             business. The appeal of knowledge management reaches all types of firms, including
             automakers and consulting firms. With the decentralization of many businesses the focus
             on knowledge management has increased. Many of today's managers fear that corporate
             knowledge is being wasted because no one knows what vast knowledge exists.
             Knowledge Management software helps support its users in their efforts to collect
             information, to organize it, to collaborate around it, thus allowing a means to search and
             discover knowledge contained in the group memory, so that it can be reapplied or
             extended, and reused. It does this by using a server to capture information from various
             electronic information sources This allows individuals and groups to capture information,
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