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What do you like best about KnowledgeOwl?

It is a place to store process docs and information for agents Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KnowledgeOwl?

I have not found anytring I do not like abouit this program it is very user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

all importan info for agents is listed on this site and we can some stats Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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
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9 employees on LinkedIn®

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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 Media

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?

When we were looking for a knowledge base platform, we wanted the following features: SSO, customize branding options, ability for multimedia, and option to add authors. KnowledgeOwl gave it all. We implemented SSO to continue offering security throughout all of our platforms. We were able to customize the page to our brand standars with logo, colors, fonts, layout, etc. You can upload videos, PDFs, and other multimedia. And we pay a price per author or depending on your subcription type instead of paying for number of articles published. It gave us all the items were were looking for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KnowledgeOwl?

Something I would like to see implemented is a video library option. Instead of adding a video to an article, we want a spot where it is just videos. I can see that the KnowledgeOwl website has one and wish that was a feature for users as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

KnowledgeOwl is giving us the option to have a one-stop-support location for our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Catherine H.
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What do you like best about KnowledgeOwl?

I like that KnowledgeOwl is such an intuitive piece of software, anyone can use it. Despite its simplicity, it's packed with technical features to help you create the knowledge base of your dreams. I have received compliments on the Information Architecture of my site, catherineheathstudios.com, hosted with love by KO.

The customer support team is unparalled. I have a strong wish to join the KO support team. If there are any job openings, I hope to apply and be considered as a freelance contractor for their support army :)

If you need to implement KO, the team will set up everything for you. They even have designers who will customize your knowledge base. Mine looks a bit simplistic right know, but they have said they can integrate my WordPress site, awaywithwords.co.

Honestly, the possibilities are endless. As a former contractor with KnowledgeOwl, I can safely say I would follow Marybeth to hell and back. It's a frightening thought, really. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KnowledgeOwl?

Nothing, really. Sometimes there is a slight issue with icons, but I know the team is working hard to fix it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

KnowledgeOwl solves the problem of hosting a website securely that can be used as a knowledge base. For me, that means bringing together my creative content and organising so that others may share and enjoy. In no way do I consider myself any kind of artist, but I love to make, draw and write. When I was part of the KO team, we went on wonderful trips around the world to #WriteTheDocs conferences. We had so much fun and they are treasured memories I will take with me. I am kindly allowed to use KnowledgeOwl for my creative practice by Marybeth, and I couldn't recommend the software and her team any more than I already have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Beth H.
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What do you like best about KnowledgeOwl?

KnowledgeOwl gives us the opportunity to keep all our policies and procedures in one place for all our different departments and locations. It's super convenient to be able to update documents or processes in real time and know our agents and managers can reference up-to-date articles with the latest policy change. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KnowledgeOwl?

Some employees are not technologically smart, but that is on them and not the product. Otherwise, if you don't know code, the product is not as easy to customize as some other software (such as font size, style, etc). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Keeping all departments and employees updated with policy and procedure changes has always been a challenge. We have never had a knowledge base until now. We also needed a knowledge base for our customer service agents to reference for common customer questions, etc. We have not used it long, but we are hoping to provide better customer service and higher performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about KnowledgeOwl?

The way in which you can re-use content. We have lots of content that surfaces in multiple articles. With KnowledgeOwl, you can update it in one place, and it will update everywhere. It saves a lot of time. Also, it's enabled us to create a central knowledge base, by sharing multiple knowledge bases maintained by various business units to a central one, giving our users a single entry point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KnowledgeOwl?

I think the search can improve. It struggles especially if the search queries are long, with too much emphasis on non-essential key words. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It enables our users to find answers themselves, thereby reducing call volumes in our contact center and to our subject matter experts. It's ease of use makes it a differentiator for our company, with financial advisers saying it's one of the best things our company has launched in the last year or two. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sandi O.
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What do you like best about KnowledgeOwl?

KnowledgeOwl provides complete customization from look and feel to the organization and presentation of article content. Their support staff are readily available and willing to provide guidance and expedient assistance. Not to mention, the service is extremely affordable, considering the ROI it provides our company in onboarding, support, and customer education. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KnowledgeOwl?

I wouldn't necessarily say it's a downside but more so the inherent nature of knowledge base creation and maintenance - you need to create the content and write the articles with their various teaching elements, which can take time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's a one-stop shop for our customer experience. Knowledgeowl affords us the ability to provide onboarding guidance, support, release updates, continuing education and more to our clients all in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about KnowledgeOwl?

First and foremost, I like that it makes us a good profit for what is realistically a very minimal investment of time after the initial setup. The features for creating articles, redirects to urls or files, reccomended articles, and the ever relevant search bar and tag system helps a great deal for its ease of use for both administrators and users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KnowledgeOwl?

The analytics on something like this are always important, and while I do think there is a robust system in place, it's not perfect. Because of this, we often turn to some additional sources of information to supplement what KnowledgeOwl does already, but it's not nearly as convenient as it would if it were all in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I'm part of a company that primarily offers the creation of training materials and them subsequently conducts that training for clients as needed. On occasion, our clients have outsourced their training department to us and in those cases, we've found a knowledge base like KnowledgeOwl to be incredibly helpful for our employees on gaining access to information quickly and conveniently without needing to bother management, whilst also providing analytics on potential areas to train on next. Very useful indeed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about KnowledgeOwl?

We were switching from an in-house knowledge base and looked at everything from a wiki-style system to doing everything in-house again. When I found KnowledgeOwl and set up a demo account, everything felt different from the start. It was easy to use, the customization level is through the roof, and the support from the demo phase all the way through our signing up and beyond has been phenomenal. Anytime there has been an issue, whether an issue with the platform (very few and far between) or something I've broken myself, the support group has been absolutely amazing.

When we started using KnowledgeOwl it was very easy to get everyone moved over to it and we've been able to integrate it into many of our day-to-day functions as uses, especially in our NOC. We use it daily for policy and procedures as well as a place to document all of our internal company information. The ease of use of the platform has been great as even some of our more "seasoned" employees have had no issues navigating our using KnowledgeOwl.

Overall we've been extremely happy with KnowledgeOwl in the65+ years that we have been a customer. If you are looking at knowledgebase solutions, at least give them a demo. I am glad we did. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KnowledgeOwl?

Honestly, I don't have a single thing that I dislike about it. I am an admin for the platform and use it daily as a lead in our NOC. I have never had a single issue that has come up that has made me ever dislike the service. I suppose if there is one thing that is maybe a "wish it had" would be that there was always a history to see previous revisions after a page is saved. There are times when I'll go to a page and see that someone might have added something and when I go look there's no version or revision history to see who the user was that made the change. I know if you choose to make a new version of the page you can see previous versions, but when you are just making changes and click "Save" it would be great if there was always a revision history other than it just saying "Last Saved: 10/23/2023 1:06 pm MDT" and not knowing who the user was that made that change. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We needed to replace our outdated and horribly mismanaged internal knowledge base and KnowledgeOwl is doing so in spades. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about KnowledgeOwl?

The great flexibility built into Knowledge Owl permits us to customize the style and pages without fighting with an overbearing CMS that rewrites our code. The staff is also *extremely* responsive to any issues we report. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KnowledgeOwl?

The latest editor revision added some line breaks and changed image alignment on many pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We keep all customer-facing documentation on our Knowledge Owl site, including knowledge base content, videos, help for new features, status of the system, available training options to purchase, announcements, and customer community participation opportunities. This product solves all the necessities of our customer content needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tal B.
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Knowledge Center Manager
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What do you like best about KnowledgeOwl?

KnowledgeOwl is a fantastic knowledge-based software with an intuitive interface and extensive customization options.

The excellent customer support further enhances the user experience, making it highly recommended for businesses of all sizes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KnowledgeOwl?

While KnowledgeOwl is a robust and user-friendly knowledge base software, one potential drawback is its limited out-of-the-box integrations compared to some competitors. This might require additional development work for businesses that rely heavily on multiple third-party tools and need seamless integration without extensive customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

KnowledgeOwl is used as a knowledge base for our external documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.