Likelihood to Recommend The user of Handshake takes a certain amount of user computer literacy and the user needs to be resourceful. When building our site, I needed to google quite a bit. On the contrary, if budget allows, Handshake developers will do it all for you.
Read full review Incredibly robust software for an enterprise organization to plug into their application. If you have a full development resource team at your disposal, this is great software and I highly recommend it. Largely, however, you won't be able to use this prior to the enterprise level. It's just too complicated and cumbersome of a product.
Read full review Pros The main reason we got Handshake was to display visual gadgets for our accounting systems. We always provided spreadsheet type reports, but pictures and more engaging. Attorney gets a dashboard in real time of where they stand financially. Additional use as FAQ's in different departments in the firm, that is, accounting, IT, and office services. Knowledgebase - How to's and software. Read full review Azure Search provides a fully-managed service for loading, indexing, and querying content. Azure Search has an easy C# SDK that allows you to implement loading and retrieving data from the service very easy. Any developer with some Microsoft experience should feel immediate familiarity. Azure Search has a robust set of abilities around slicing and presenting the data during a search, such as narrowing by geospatial data and providing an auto-complete capabilities via "Suggesters". Azure Search has one-of-a-kind "Cognitive Search" capabilities that enable running AI algorithms over data to enrich it before it is stored into the service. For example, one could automatically do a sentiment analysis when ingesting the data and store that as one of the searchable fields on the content. Read full review Cons Documentation is weak, but hopefully, since Aderant just acquired the company, that will improve Read full review It's an enterprise level product so you need to have the budget for it. Challenging-to-impossible for a non-technical administrator to implement. It further locks you into Microsoft's ecosystem and doesn't play well with non-Microsoft software. Depending on your point of view, this can be a pro or a con. Read full review Alternatives Considered None. Always need about Handshake's interface with Aderant, way before Aderant purchased them. Seemed like a natural fit.
Read full review As I've mentioned, the biggest competitor to Azure Search is actually
Azure SQL Database . It doesn't have as many features, but it's more economical and most .Net applications will have one already. As long as you can arrive at a schema and ranking strategy, it's a "good enough" solution. There are a variety of search technologies (Lucene, Solr,
Elasticsearch ) that implement a search service. Some of them are even open source, though I would only say "free" if you do not value your time. They most likely need to be hosted via Container (or VM if you're old school), so you're incurring DevOps costs to not only set them up but monitor and maintain them yourself.
If you're already on AWS, there is almost no reason to use Azure Search. Unless you're already multi-cloud, desperately need the cognitive abilities, and don't mind a potential performance hit from looking across datacenters (hey, it could happen), you should probably just use
Amazon CloudSearch .
Read full review Return on Investment Hard to say, but ultimately putting knowledge in the hands of fee earners immediately it is positive. Read full review Our internal market research illustrates that users are finding their desired information faster on account of autosuggest. Time spent on checkout page (for conversions) is significantly decreased. Clicks required on checkout page (for conversions) is significantly decreased. Read full review ScreenShots