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KnowledgeOwl Overview

What is KnowledgeOwl?

Clean, simple and intuitive, KnowledgeOwl takes the complication out of building and maintaining a knowledge base for your customers and employees. No distractions or cumbersome setups - just no-nonsense knowledge base software, ready to improve knowledge retention and customer satisfaction. And if you do need us, our friendly support team is always here to help you get the most out of your KnowledgeOwl subscription. Our customers' favorite features include: - Full Branding and Theming Control, plus private domain at all subscription tiers - WYSIWYG Editor plus the ability to edit source HTML - Embeddable contextual help widget to surface your knowledge base content in your site or app - Flexible Table of Contents organization and navigation - Advanced Security and Restricted Access options - All themes are mobile responsive out of the box - ElasticSearch-based search functionality - Glossary with automatic highlighting and pop-over definition of glossary terms

KnowledgeOwl Details
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Product Description

Knowledge base software

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

KnowledgeOwl is standalone knowledge base software, which means we only focus on features for knowledge bases unlike many all-in-one help desk solutions with ticketing and community forums. For us, knowledge bases are our core product offering rather than a peripheral feature.

As a knowledge management solution, we are one of the most powerful, customizable, and affordable paid software tools on the market. We love helping small businesses, non-profit, and government organizations share information with customers and employees without breaking the bank.


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Year Founded
2015
HQ Location
Broomfield, CO
Twitter
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LinkedIn® Page
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9 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

KnowledgeOwl is a knowledge management software platform designed to help businesses create, manage, and share documentation and knowledge bases. The platform offers user-friendly tools for building online help manuals, FAQs, and internal wikis, enabling organizations to streamline information sharing and improve customer support. KnowledgeOwl caters to various industries, providing customizable templates and robust analytics to enhance knowledge accessibility and user engagement. For more information, visit their website at https://www.knowledgeowl.com.


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Recent KnowledgeOwl Reviews

Ceres Abril R.
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Ceres Abril R.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Information at your fingertips"
It is a very intuitive platform that allows for the creation of quick and efficient knowledge bases.
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Knowledge owl"
It is a place to store process docs and information for agents
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Andrea H.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"KnowledgeOwl for your knowledge base needs"
When we were looking for a knowledge base platform, we wanted the following features: SSO, customize branding options, ability for multimedia, and ...
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KnowledgeOwl Demo - KnowledgeOwl Base Editor
Organize your articles in categories in your Table of Contents using intuitive drag-and-drop functionality
KnowledgeOwl Demo - KnowledgeOwl Article Editor
Powerful and familiar WYSIWYG editor, with full control of your content's source HTML
KnowledgeOwl Demo - KnowledgeOwl File Library
A library for all uploaded files - any image or document embedded in any of your articles can be found here. Recover deleted files, too!
KnowledgeOwl Demo - KnowledgeOwl Reporting and Analytics
Get a bird's eye view of your content and user feedback
KnowledgeOwl Demo - KnowledgeOwl Security and Restricted Permissions
Protect your content using shared passwords, IP protection, SSO integration, or individual logins
KnowledgeOwl Demo - KnowledgeOwl Theming Tool
A powerful theme editor with intuitive controls, allowing you to create a beautiful, on-brand knowledge base with ease
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What do you like best about KnowledgeOwl?

KnowledgeOwl seems to have an incredible keen sense on what people are looking for in a knowledge base tool. They make a point of doing this really well, and not clouding it with other services/solutions that impact their ability to offer a great tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KnowledgeOwl?

If there's anything we dislike, we reach out to them and they have a solution for us quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering KnowledgeOwl:

Reach out to them! They're very happy to help assist with any questions you have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is KnowledgeOwl solving and how is that benefiting you?

We wanted to offer our users the ability to find answers to many questions they were looking for, without necessarily requiring reaching out to our support team. This helped expand our self service option so that we could focus our time on other areas of our business. This helped tremendously as we are a small team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about KnowledgeOwl?

Good controls and ability to link knowledge bases to each other so you only have to update once and have changes reflected on all Kbs. Also good customer service and support when I got stuck or needed advice Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KnowledgeOwl?

FAQ and index pages - could be prettier! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is KnowledgeOwl solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed to provide an online knowledge base to support our web platform in realtime as we are an agile tech company who release updates and changes almost weekly. Our solid state solutions weren't able to keep up and weren't scalable so it was time to move our help online.

Using Knowledge Owl has enabled us to make regular updates to our platform support documents as the site develops and new release are launched, in a professional, easy to manage way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about KnowledgeOwl?

Relatively easy to use, logging into the editing portal is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KnowledgeOwl?

I do not like that pasting is not a seamless process and keeping/changing formatting upon doing so is very difficult. Countless times I've lost work when creating content because I've had to move away from Knowledge Owl and was logged out and this work was not recovered. This is extremely frustrating. I've also noticed that the formatting has changed in articles I've created in the past where the anchor and links are no longer showing up as they should. I will have to go back into all of my articles and make changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is KnowledgeOwl solving and how is that benefiting you?

Knowledge owl has allowed us to create articles to use internally allowing staff to self serve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about KnowledgeOwl?

The team at KnowledgeOwl is one of the best I've worked with! They are quick to respond, always helpful and going above and beyond to offer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KnowledgeOwl?

Nothing! I think everything I've used so far has been great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering KnowledgeOwl:

I'd definitely recommend KnowledgeOwl. Everyone is so helpful and the system is a wonderful way to share knowledge with customers. We've been very happy with the customer support especially, but also the software itself. It's easy for customers to use and easy to input our data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is KnowledgeOwl solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using KnowledgeOwl to offer a service that helps families navigate the college process. The system makes it easy to support clients and provide all kinds of knowledge and information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about KnowledgeOwl?

Easy to use.

Extensible.

Data collection.

Linked articles are really useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KnowledgeOwl?

When I copy and paste text, KO adds spans with formatting info. I want to be able to copy and paste without any formatting (CTRL-SHIFT-v).

Synonym library doesn't allow spaces, so I can only add single words. I want to be able to add multi-word phrases (for example: end user).

Ability to use related article feature without autogenerated related articles (I want to choose which articles are in the related articles category).

Ability to convert categories to articles.

Search could be a lot better.

Better wiziwig - easier access to source/output comparison.

Need better versioning options for categories.

Ability to bulk edit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is KnowledgeOwl solving and how is that benefiting you?

Problems with previous tool:

It lacked support for many standard product documentation authoring and user features.

It lacked support for implementing modern web features.

The search sucked.

Benefits of KO:

It is a help-authoring tool, designed for technical writers, which means it has:

A simple editor as well as access to topic source

Standard editor/writer/review workflow for content

Topic versioning: multiple versions of a topic can be in draft form.

Content reuse: dynamic templates, snippets to keep all content in-sync.

Semantic styling: tagging of content bits for easy restyling.

It is a modern web tool, which means out-of-the-box we get:

Cloud hosting for the tool and docs

Instant publish/build/re-index of the entire doc site

SEO tools (refine categories, related articles, recommend pages, search phrases, synonyms, exclude-from-search, a Google Custom Search option)

Responsive design (try it on your mobile device!)

Standard reports, Google Analytics option

User comments, ratings, search suggestions, other self-help stuff

Contact form with search integration

Link by topic ID, not topic title (to prevent broken links)

Easy access to the power of web programming (e.g., REST APIs, site-wide and topic styling and scripting) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about KnowledgeOwl?

The team -- they helped a lot with customizing their interface for our needs, and are super helpful with custom coding work and so on. Also, the look is "fresh" and the interface is easy. They've also been very responsive when we've run into issues.

The solution is great, simply put - it works. I love that it's web-based and that there is no XML or download required, and that anyone can log in and figure out how to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KnowledgeOwl?

I dislike that other users require extra payment. I think you should allow at least 2 users (one to write, one to edit/approve).

The integration with Zendesk broke at one point, so we had a lot of tickets going to "nowhere" and didn't know it. We only found out when we started receiving comments about not responding to help requests. Once we found out, the team at KnowledgeOwl was super fast in looking into what happened and ultimately we removed the integration altogether. There was no way to review the tickets sent/forms completed, so that is something they could add - an internal storage somewhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering KnowledgeOwl:

If you need a lightweight solution, no software or XML required, and have a single product offering, it's a great tool. You pay for every "knowledgebase" you offer though, so if you need multiple solutions you may want to look into the heavy hitters in this space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is KnowledgeOwl solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's our help system for the users of our product. We also use a hidden category for our internal release notes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Susan S.
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Loan Production Appraisal Analyst
Banking
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What do you like best about KnowledgeOwl?

The technical support I receive is outstanding. As for the system itself, I'm not a very technical person, but the system is very easy to use. Customizable to whatever your heart desires. From a user perspective, it is very easy to navigate around and find sources of information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KnowledgeOwl?

I would like to see the glossary function updating to the articles working better. I would also like to see a way we can easily link a document from a drive to an article, either a word, PDF or spreadsheet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is KnowledgeOwl solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using this piece as a central location for all company documentation including policies, procedures, contacts and will use this for training purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amber S.
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SEO Specialist
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What do you like best about KnowledgeOwl?

Knowledge Owl creates an easy to create and share platform for information, articles, manuals and resources. Our company uses it to develop standard practices and share articles like How-Tos, Helpful Links and other informational resources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KnowledgeOwl?

The menu format doesn't allow for much creative variation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering KnowledgeOwl:

Good platform for creating an in-house resource. Some knowledge of we'd development required Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is KnowledgeOwl solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being able to create, share, update in-house articles. Able to export PDF versions or share links. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jay S.
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Digital Learning Manager
Education Management
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about KnowledgeOwl?

The company is responsive in a timely manner and works to make adjustments to meet our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KnowledgeOwl?

Nothing at this time is disagreeable from my perspective. I'm not involved with invoicing, network implementation, etc. so can't speak to that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is KnowledgeOwl solving and how is that benefiting you?

Provide an accessible site for our staff to read articles and get help. It's a clean, searchable interface that is more modern and flexible than our previous space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lisa D.
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Senior Business Analyst
Computer Software
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What do you like best about KnowledgeOwl?

Pretty easy to set up initially. There are a lot of features that we are not yet using I'm sure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KnowledgeOwl?

In the past I have felt that the editor was limited and not overly easy to use but now that I am used to it, it is OK. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering KnowledgeOwl:

Great customer service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is KnowledgeOwl solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Knowledge Owl to build our product Knowledge Base (help information). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.