Knowledge management refers to business processes and solutions that enable medium to large-sized corporations to fully leverage the knowledge and data that their company, and it's employees have. Knowledge management looks at wasy to efficiently share corporate knowledge across the company so all business units that need this information have ready access to it.

Knowledge management is a fairly recent trend, based on the realization that most companies of even a few hundred employees, up to the largest, are not making good use of the knowledge that their company has, since it is widely dispersed, and with limited access.