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eGain Corporation (NASDAQ: EGAN) is a Sunnyvale, California software company that helps enterprises automate customer and employee experiences with AI-powered knowledge management. Founded in 1997 and public since 1999, eGain's platform - anchored by its AI Knowledge Hub, Conversation Hub, and Analytics Hub - turns fragmented enterprise content into a single, trusted source of answers for contact-center agents, self-service portals, and AI systems across regulated industries like finance, insurance, government, and utilities.