Name: Azure AI Search
Price: 0.101 USD
Rating: 8.1 (27 reviews)
Author: Microsoft

Communications Outsourcing

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Batch Management Software

Mind Mapping

Development

Online Learning

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Desktop Publishing

Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

Manufacturing Execution

Payment Facilitation

Project Portfolio Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Corporate Performance Management (CPM)

Online Trading

Payment Gateway

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Credentialing

HR Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

AI Governance

Cloud Storage

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

Fraud Detection

HTML Editors

In-Memory Databases

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Internet Security

M2M Application Development

Network Performance Monitoring

NoSQL Databases

Remote Monitoring and Management

Routers

Software Defined Storage (SDS)

Threat Hunting

Traffic Switching

Wireless LAN

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Content Management

Customer Reference Management

Digital Signage

Email Deliverability

Email Management

Email Marketing

Headless CMS

Marketing Automation

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Swag Management

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Point of Sale

Sales

Intrusion Detection

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)

Security

Auto Repair

Aviation

Building Information Modeling (BIM)

Construction Management

Emergency Notification

Home Health Care

Homeowner's Association (HOA) Management

Intelligent Document Processing

Legal Billing

OSS/BSS (Operations Support/Business Support)

Smart Cities

Vertical-Specific

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Azure AI Search (formerly Azure Cognitive Search) is enterprise search as a service, from Microsoft.

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Enterprise search is the organized retrieval of structured and unstructured data within an organization. Enterprise search creates an easily navigated interface for entering, categorizing and retrieving data securely, in compliance with security and data retention regulations. Products in this category can be made available to customers, partners or employees.

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BigCommerce

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Multi tenant

High security

Manual work

Enterprise level

Security concerns

Cannot be used

Non technical

Free tier

Non microsoft

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Search capabilities

Down time

Sentiment analysis

No down time

Back end

Managed service

Azure cloud

Retrieving data

Easily access

Robust set

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Azure AI Search is increasingly being utilized in the TV broadcast industry which address various challenges and enhance content delivery and management. We uses it for content creation and disribution. This helps us in managing workflows, quick dicision making , timely delivery of projects. This helps us to understand audience preferences , based on this content is being created considering individuals mood and interest.

Content recommendations, AI recommends shows and content as per viewer preferences , which enhances user experience.
This helps in managing workflows which makes decision making easier and time delivery of project.
with the help of Generative AI, it increased scalability of all AI applications.

Cross platform compatibility to integrate with various OS
Optimizing latency.
Nothing better than work on price, create more flexible options.

Service cannot be downgrade or upgrade after creation
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Azure Search is an incredibly robust component of Microsoft's Azure Cloud, which we use at our company for web hosting. We've integrated Azure Search into our website for the purpose of search queries and auto-complete suggestions when checking out via our e-commerce platform. Reducing friction to purchase on a checkout page is of paramount importance. When a user is logged in, we provide auto-complete suggestions based on their previous checkout information. This way, the user can easily tab through their ship-to/bill-to/billing information for minimum purchase friction.

Incredibly robust back-end infrastructure.
Streamlined integration into Microsoft's Azure Cloud.
From a user standpoint, it lets the customer easily access their data and provide useful search tips.

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.

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.

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Azure Search provides an intelligent, AI-powered discovery engine for content in LiveTiles Cloud - an Intelligence Experience Platform (IXP) that allows anyone to build a website for their organization.

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.

Like virtually all Azure services, it has first-class treatment for .Net as the developer platform of choice, but largely ignores other options. While there is a first-party Python SDK, there are only community packages for other languages like Ruby and Node. Might be a game of roulette for those to be kept up-to-date. This might make it a non-starter for some teams that don't want to do the work to integrate with the REST API directly.
In my opinion, partitions inside of Azure Search don't count as data segregation for customers in a multi-tenant app, so any application where you have many customers with high-security concerns, Azure Search is probably a non-starter.
To elaborate on the multi-tenant issue: Azure Search's approach to pricing is pretty steep. While there is a free tier for small applications (50MB of content or less) the first paid tier is about 14x more expensive than the first SQL Database tier that supports full-text search. For many applications, it makes a lot more economic sense to just run some LIKE or CONTAINS queries on columns in a table rather than going with Azure Search.

Azure Search enabled us to stand up a robust search capability with very few developer hours.
The fully-managed service of Azure Search means we get low cost of management (EG, DevOps) going into the future, even though the cost of the service itself definitely reflects the time saved.
Azure Search counts as a "Cognitive Service" for Microsoft Azure consumption and aligns our products with Microsoft's interests of driving an AI-first approach in the enterprise. Microsoft Partners, service and product companies alike, should be looking to align with this AI vision as it means favorable treatment from the Microsoft sales teams.

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Azure AI Search
Formerly Azure Cognitive Search

Overview

What is Azure AI Search?