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SquareShift Case Studies

Delivery experience across cloud, data and search platforms.

- Upgrade the ECE control plane from 3.1 to 4.0.x through a validated, version-by-version staging path.
- Re-platform all 20 hosts to RHEL 8 / Podman role by role, keeping the platform continuously available.
- Upgrade 100% of managed deployments to Elastic Stack 8.x ahead of the ECE 4.0 hard gate.
- Retire all legacy RHEL 7 infrastructure and validate the modernized end state.

Elastic Cloud Enterprise Platform Modernization for a Global Financial Services Firm

- Establish a centralized operational data platform to consolidate activity streams from all disparate hardware estates.
- Automate the identification and categorization of incoming data without requiring manual tagging by staff at the source.
- Standardize all incoming data into a uniform schema to function flawlessly across search, security, and monitoring applications.
- Deploy a resilient data architecture that the existing infrastructure team could easily operate without specialized expertise.

Unifying IT Operations: A Smarter Way to Track Network Health

- Replace managed legacy systems with a serverless architecture for better scalability.
- Leverage advanced ranking algorithms to achieve higher precision and lower search latency.
- Support a hybrid ingestion model for both legacy web pages and new Headless CMS content.

Swiftype to Elasticsearch Serverless Migration For An Airline Group

- Establish a secure, dedicated monitoring cluster.
- Resolve certificate-related security errors and configure TLS/SSL trust.
- Optimize cluster performance, snapshot reliability, and Logstash pipeline efficiency.

Securing and Optimising Hybrid Cloud Monitoring for a Global Financial Services Firm with Elastic

- Migrate only essential system indices (.watcher, .kibana, etc.)
- Implement dual writes with Logstash and Fleet
- Fix snapshot and template issues
- Set up SAML and API key authentication
- Optimize ILM for high-ingestion workloads

Zero-Downtime Elasticsearch Migration for a Global Video Commerce Leader

- Translate over 50 Kibana dashboards into 10+ languages
- Support custom visualizations and all field types
- Enable dashboard transfer between Kibana spaces
- Maintain full data privacy by executing translation internally
- Ensure compatibility across Elastic versions 7.17 and 8.5

Internationalization and Dashboard Migration for a Global IT Infrastructure Services Provider

- Upgrade from Elasticsearch 1.x to 8.x
- Migrate to Elastic Cloud
- Reduce operational costs and simplify upgrades

Elasticsearch 1.x to 8.x Migration for a Leading Logistics Company

- Improve ingestion throughput and multi-tenant isolation
- Optimize ILM strategies and reduce query latency
- Implement shard, replica, and resource scaling policies

Optimizing Elasticsearch for Multi-Tenancy in a Telecom Tech Company

- Establish search foundation (indices vs. streams)
- Enable proactive monitoring and alerting
- Integrate Azure and Elastic features for unified visibility

Enhanced Aviation Operations by Leveraging Elasticsearch

- Upgrade Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Azure Repository plugin from 7.17.10 to 7.17.15
- Maintain existing CCR and licensing configurations
- Execute with minimal disruption and full rollback capability

Cross Cluster Replication Upgrade for a Major Fintech Company in England

- Fix AppSearch crawler errors
- Improve indexing logic for 200K+ documents
- Migrate Swiftype configuration to AppSearch

AppSearch Crawler Improvement for a Japanese Electric Company

Create new instance of Elasticsearch on Elastic Cloud and deploy AppSearch.
Implement AppSearch feature and improve relevancy of search results.
Change ranking of search results to include sales volume and enable the marketing team to promote products.

A Web-to-Print Company Uses Elastic AppSearch to Improve Its Overall Search Experience

Implement SIEM that meets SOC2 compliance.
Proactively secure and monitor multi-cloud infrastructure.
Enable anomaly detection, endpoint security, and real-time alerting.

SOC2-Compliant SIEM Powered by Elastic Security for Asia’s Leading Bill Payments Platform

Deploy Elasticsearch for observability, APM, and SIEM.
Plan for 1.5 TB/day ingestion and 270 TB retention.
Implement HA across two geographically separate data centers.

Secure and scalable observability for a national digital identity program

Perform detailed health checks and identify root causes of performance issues.
Migrate legacy index templates to modern component-based templates.
Improve overall performance and availability.

Elasticsearch performance and availability improvement for a global financial services conglomerate

Develop a Gen AI chatbot to support vulnerability analysis using Vertex AI LLMs.
Build a pipeline that automates remediation suggestions and status handling.
Centralize data sources like Armorcode and external advisories into one actionable system.

Gen AI Chatbot and Pipeline Using Vertex AI and GCP for World’s Leading Semiconductor Manufacturer

Reduce raw material wastage by using prescriptive recommendations.
Detect scarps early in the process and save processing time and
money

Turkish wheel manufacturer reduces cost & material wastage using ML

Eliminate physical evaluation for minor accidents.
Accurately match the estimated claim with the final claim amount.
Send notification and expedite claims.

Remote damage assessment model to reduce frauds and speed up claims for Asia's top Insurer

Track learner transactions, enrollment, and course performance. Generate daily reports to drive content and business decisions. Enable accurate, scalable analytics using Domo and Looker.

Data Analytics Reporting Using Domo and Looker for a Technology Skilling Hub

Demonstrate BigQuery’s low-latency capabilities. Simplify pipeline architecture. Improve ETL freshness. Integrate existing Looker dashboards with BigQuery backend.

Migration of Analytics Workload from Snowflake to BigQuery

Make LXP accessible on various platforms. Improve user onboarding. Increase customer revenue and reduce dev cost.

Helping a SaaS Leader Launch a Customizable LXP Across Marketplaces

- Resolve reported data loss and enrichment gaps to maintain a reliable source of truth.
- Mitigate root causes of data lag occurring between local agents and the central cluster.
- Replicate legacy dashboard visualizations to ensure consistent business reporting.
- Implement real-time mechanisms to capture and analyze data ingestion failures.

Stabilizing Global Data Integrity and Performance After a Major Infrastructure Migration

- Create a single summary dashboard to give leadership a comprehensive view of overall security health.
- Continuously validate approximately 40,000 corporate device records against active security coverage
- Support a build verification logic into the data layer so reports are consistent and instantly ready for regulatory reviews.
- Scale the platform to onboard four additional subsidiary entities without needing parallel infrastructure.

From Days to Seconds: How a Global Aviation Leader Built a Faster, Audit-Ready Reporting System

- Deploy a highly available, multi-node production Elastic cluster.
- Establish a separate monitoring cluster for the main stack's health.
Configure a complete air-gapped ecosystem with local registries (EAR/EPR).
- Ingest diverse data (OpenShift, VMs, Cisco, Fortinet).

Deploying a production, air-gapped observability platform for critical compliance and visibility.

- Migrate to ECK 2.14 with zero downtime and no data loss
- Transition from custom Helm charts to vendor-maintained Helm
- Improve resource efficiency for large-memory nodes (up to 128GB)
- Implement ILM, CCS/CCR, and rack awareness
- Enable full-stack observability in Kubernetes

A Fortune 500 Tech Firm Future-Proofs Elasticsearch with Vendor Helm, ILM, and Cross-Cluster Resilience

- Migrate Elasticsearch from on-prem to Elastic Cloud
- Preserve data integrity using snapshot-based migration
- Limit total downtime to under 3 hours
- Streamline Azure subscription and billing
- Recreate roles, access, and ILM configurations

Elasticsearch Migration to Elastic Cloud for a Leading Canadian Energy Company

- Seamlessly migrate on-prem Elasticsearch to Elastic Cloud
- Ensure data integrity and near-zero downtime
- Transfer user access, alerting, and agent configurations
- Resolve hot node saturation and optimize performance

Seamless migration of Elasticsearch to Elastic Cloud for an AgriTech leader

- Migrate to Elastic Cloud for unified observability
- Implement synthetics and infrastructure monitoring
- Use ML jobs and Kibana alerting for real-time insights

Elastic-Powered Financial Monitoring for a Global Financial Services Leader

- Upgrade ELK across production and DR clusters
- Evaluate Amazon Linux as an alternate OS
- Improve shard usage, alerting, and cluster health

ELK Stack Upgrade from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 for a Global Investment Company

- Enable scalable data management using ILM
- Implement data streams and cluster sizing best practices
- Enhance performance through optimized mappings and transforms

Elasticsearch Optimization for a Leading Human Resources SaaS Platform

- Conduct audit of existing Logstash filters
- Identify parsing inefficiencies
- Improve maintainability and align pipeline structure with Elasticsearch and Kibana

Logstash Pipeline Optimization for a Canadian Multinational Bank

- Improve search result quality
- Ensure fast, accurate, and secure search
- Align queries to user intent with relevance ranking

Enterprise Search Query Tuning for a Big 4 Accounting Firm

Upgrade to ECE v1.12
Run cluster-wide health checks and resolve bottlenecks
Optimize storage via node role segmentation

Elastic Cloud Enterprise upgrade and storage optimisation for one of the largest private banks in Asia for global traffic monitoring

Migrate 2.4 TB of analytics data across 9000 indices and 2.2B documents.
Ensure zero downtime and no impact on live storefronts.
Train the LiveOps team post-migration.

Digital commerce platform migrates terabytes of sales analytics data from self-hosted Graylog to Elastic Cloud 8.3 in 8 weeks

Ingest 100GB/day log data from multiple applications.
Ensure 18TB retention across hot/warm/cold tiers.
Implement role-based access and support high-availability through replication.

Secure and scalable log management solution by leveraging bi-directional cross-cluster replication of Elastic for a leading German car manufacturer

Improve search relevancy and content discovery across 14 languages.
Comply with regional regulations like French language requirements in Canada.
Support search across 300 GB of content.

Search relevancy and content discovery across multi-language search with OpenSearch for a leading learning experience platform

Automate HR-related query handling via chatbot.
Enable employees to retrieve information like policies and benefits directly via Slack.
Reduce manual effort for HR and improve service responsiveness.

Leveraging Vertex AI Agent to Build a Gen AI Chatbot for the HR Department of a Global Technology Company

Decrease the time spent by risk analysts in doing manual research.
Apply ML and NLP capabilities to derive meaning and generate insight.
Develop user-friendly dashboards to share information.

Identifying emerging risk signals and automating manual tasks for a Global Insurance firm

Reduce the building plan review efforts.

Automate the manual verification process and keep it as per norms.

How a US Government Agency Accelerated Building Plan Reviews from Hours to Minutes

Create an Investment Management Data Lake with historical and incremental financial, economic, and research data for all asset classes.

Development of IM Data Lake for a top American bank

Build a data lake with time-series and summary analytics, enable ML use cases, and reduce TCO.

Migrations of Analytics Workload from AWS to GCP

Improve visibility and control over product metadata and tagging.
Automate FinOps reporting accuracy and data sync.

Self service tagging application for managing product metadata and project subscription for accurate FinOps reports

- Eliminate manual intervention by fully automating incident creation, deduplication, real-time updates, and closure synchronization.
- Deliver instantaneous clarity by automatically stamping asset metadata onto incoming operational logs, metrics, and traces.
- Ensure high availability and system resilience, preventing configuration database sync failures from blocking data ingestion.
- Standardize multi-node infrastructure execution to prevent concurrent database writes and secure predictable data management.

Data Cleanup to Automated Operations Migration For an Enterprise Bank

- Reduce the time required to identify and understand user friction.
- Remove analyst bias and ensure findings are 100% repeatable.
- Automatically prioritize and quantify the impact of novel issues and "hidden" friction.
- Establish a system for continuous detection of user friction.

How Pyze Reduced User Friction Analysis Time by 10x using Agentic AI

- Establish a new, best-practices ECK setup from scratch for all environments.
- Data Migration: Migrate all data from Solr to Elasticsearch using custom scripts, while also optimizing search workloads.

Building a Cloud-Native Search Platform: Solr-to-Elasticsearch Migration for a Global Enterprise

- Migrate Elasticsearch workloads from on-prem to Elastic Cloud
- Avoid any code changes to the legacy Microsoft-based stack
- Optimize for elastic scaling and cloud-native performance
- Ensure secure connectivity with AWS infrastructure

Elastic Cloud Migration and Cost Optimization for a Global Fashion Retailer

- Replace the custom Node.js ingestion app with a scalable Logstash pipeline
- Replace the proprietary search interface with Kibana dashboards
- Deploy the full solution on Kubernetes for simplified operations

Modernizing News Ingestion and Search Platforms with Elastic Stack for a Global Trading Firm

- Integrate ZIA and Okta logs with ECS
- Automate multi-node Elasticsearch cluster deployment
- Secure ingestion with CA-signed Fleet configurations

Log Ingestion Automation for a Global Cloud Security Company

- Migrate to Elastic Cloud using remote reindexing
- Consolidate and unify mapping schemas
- Resolve oversharding and improve ILM strategy

Remote Reindexing Strategy for a California-Based Travel Startup

- Migrate 7TB of data and 1,000+ indices
- Replicate security configurations, ILM policies, and agent setups
- Enable cost-optimized tiered storage
- Achieve near-zero downtime during migration

Seamless Migration to Elastic Cloud for a Leading IT Services Provider in the USA

- Cloud readiness assessment and deployment sizing
- Migrate 30TB+ of historical data
- Migrate existing ingestion pipelines, dashboards, and policies
- Integrate with Azure AD for secure SSO

Elastic Cloud Migration for a Century-Old Poultry Processor in the USA

- Comprehensive monitoring for network and devices
- Role-based access controls
- Efficient log and metric flow across SNMP, syslog, and accelerators
- Scalable storage with tiered indexing

AIOps and Monitoring for a Leading Government Healthcare Provider

- Upgrade Elasticsearch clusters from 7.17 to 8.x
- Ensure upgrade aligns with baseline security and eliminates known vulnerabilities
- Provide expert guidance on Terraform and ECK (Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes)

A 40+ Year Old American Commercial Bank Upgrades Its Critical Clusters from Elasticsearch 7.17 to 8.x

Identify root causes of latency and slow response post migration
Optimize hardware sizing and storage configuration
Improve query speed at scale

Performance Optimization After Elasticsearch Migration for Asia’s Largest Matchmaking Platform

Enable end-to-end observability.
Integrate legacy SNMP-based alerts.
Ingest logs from Pure Storage and VMWare vCenter into Elastic.

End-to-end monitoring with Elastic for a 120-year-old department store chain

Enable real-time content discovery and user analytics.
Process over 1 billion events per day.
Integrate data from RDBMS, InfluxDB, and partner systems.

Intelligent content discovery & real-time behavioural analytics with AWS OpenSearch for a leading learning experience platform

Supreme Court decisions are in pdf
Summarise the gist from the backend using Python.

Implement the judgement summarization and convert it into audio format inside the application.

Make sure that the documents and audio are secured in AWS service instances.

Legal Semantic Search for a Digital Law Firm

Decrease the time spent by Quality engineers in searching issues.
Increase customer satisfaction and better manage quality.
Resolve issues in both English and Japanese.

Japanese truck manufacturer gets faster issue resolutions using NLP

Do a TCO and UX analysis so the customer is clearly aware of the benefits of Looker reporting.

Enhance web page experience with rich visualization embedded in them.

Real-time analytics of all reports using the same golden data.

How Looker and GCP Helped an EdTech Platform Replace Lagging BI with Instant Learning Insights

Create centralized, custom dashboards for sales, partnerships, and training insights

Integrate training engagement data into visual, trackable formats

Enable real-time insights into training status for both internal and external stakeholders

Provide the business team with a scalable analytics solution they can easily maintain and extend

Sales and Training Analytics Modernization for a Semiconductor Manufacturing Giant Using Looker Studio

Optimize BigQuery setup to reduce computational cost and improve processing speed. Replace inefficient ETL operations with a more strategic and incremental data approach.

BigQuery Optimization for Global Cloud-Based Learning and Talent

Design and develop recommendations for trading foreign exchange and equity transactions. Decrease time spent by S&T Bankers on research. Increase revenue from trading.

FX and Equity Recommendations for a Top EU Bank

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