AI assistant for internal knowledge management: How AI provides structure, speed and quality for companies!

What is an AI assistant for knowledge management?

An AI assistant for knowledge management, such as the CANCOM Assistant, is a company-internal, secure chat or search solution based on large language models. The AI assistant makes scattered company knowledge immediately usable. Based on your existing data and processes, a modern AI assistant helps to increase productivity, accelerate decisions and measurably improve processes

The AI assistant integrates seamlessly into existing systems (e.g. SharePoint, Confluence, DMS, ticket system, CRM), retrieves relevant content, summarizes it clearly and provides source documents. AI for companies thus makes knowledge contextual, findable and reusable.

Find out how else companies can benefit from AI assistants in the article "How AI can revolutionize companies".

Typical use cases: Where an AI assistant can be used immediately

Onboarding & enablement:
New colleagues ask questions ("How do I book business trips?") and receive reliable answers with links to guidelines, forms and relevant departments.

IT & HR self-service:
Guidelines, how-to and form processes as an interactive Q&A instead of a PDF desert. The AI assistant writes an email to the service desk on request or provides support when filling out a ticket.

Sales & Consulting Support:
Quickly aggregate product information, references, prices and security statements - including sources for the quote.

Project and lessons learned search:
Experience reports, retro results and architecture decisions can be found and summarized across Teams/Confluence.

Document IQ ("RAG on PDFs"):
Contracts, manuals, protocols: the AI assistant extracts text excerpts from large files, explains the content and links the location.

In our success story, we show how we introduced a customized AI assistant at a bank - for simplified processes and faster knowledge transfer.

Why AI pays off for companies

• Time savings: 20-40% less time spent searching and duplicating knowledge work.
• Quality & consistency: Answers come from your policies and documents - not from generic web knowledge.
• Faster onboarding: New employees are productive faster.
• Higher self-service rate: Fewer tickets, less workload for experts.
• Document compliance: Transparent source citations, audit trailing and deletion/retention rules.

conclusion: An AI assistant is not just another tool, but a productivity layer on top of your entire company knowledge. When set up correctly, AI becomes an accelerator for support, sales, projects and daily collaboration - measurable, secure and scalable.