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Writer's pictureArvind Venkatesh

Why Search Technology is Revolutionizing Industries: A Look at Elastic's Pioneering Role


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Search is ubiquitous now. People search on google, website and even voice search nowadays with your IOT devices.  To give a context into the volume of search. Google caters to 8.5 billion searches every day,  which is equivalent to 99,000 search queries every second. This is Google search alone. In today’s digital age, nearly every organization relies on search technology to make sense of the immense amount of data they manage. Whether it’s through custom-built proprietary search engines for internal use or by leveraging powerful open-source technologies like Elastic Search, the demand for fast, efficient, and scalable search capabilities is skyrocketing.

Elastic Search, the most widely adopted search engine across industries and sectors, is a game-changer. It enables organizations to sift through vast amounts of data, offering quick, accurate, and insightful results. But how exactly is Elastic Search transforming industries? Let’s take a deep dive into how various sectors are using this technology and the impact it's having on their operations.

Healthcare: Elevating Patient Care with Search

The healthcare industry, with its enormous repositories of patient records, diagnostic data, and treatment histories, demands an accurate and compliant search solution. Whether it’s physicians searching for a patient’s medical history or researchers looking through databases of clinical trials, efficient search is critical to ensuring timely, life-saving decisions.

Elastic has emerged as a leader in healthcare search, providing regulatory compliance such as HIPAA and offering solutions that make vast healthcare data easily searchable.

Here are a few leading healthcare organizations leveraging Elastic Search:

Retail & eCommerce: Transforming Customer Experiences

For the eCommerce and retail sectors, the search bar is often the first place customers go when they visit a website—studies show that over 43% of customers head straight to the search function. In this fiercely competitive space, businesses need their search engines to provide relevant, lightning-fast results to keep users engaged and drive sales.

Elastic Search delivers just that, enabling businesses to build seamless, visually appealing, and high-performing search experiences.

Here are some examples of how leading retail and eCommerce companies are using Elastic Search:

  • Shopify needed a powerful search engine for the documentation section of their website, they needed a solution they could implement fast without the need to maintain a back-end infrastructure

  • eBay uses Elastic to search across 800 million listing in sub-seconds

  • Walgreens created an end-to-end search platform for its website powered by Elasticsearch

Manufacturing, Finance, Media, and Beyond

Elastic’s impact isn’t limited to healthcare and retail—it’s becoming a foundational technology across many other industries, providing cost-effective solutions for search, observability, and security.

  • Reed uk  helps people find the jobs they love and want with Elasticsearch

  • Asian Food Network leverages Elastic Site Search to double website ad revenue

  • Ingram Micro chooses Elastic to bolster search, sales on ecommerce site

  • Airbus ADNS: Powering the Search for Near Real-Time Access to Aircraft Technical Documents

Elastic’s Unbeatable ROI: The Business Case

The business benefits of Elastic go beyond just speed and accuracy. A Forrester Consulting study revealed that organizations using Elasticsearch saw a 293% ROI over three years, along with $12 million in net benefits. This includes increased profitability, improved productivity, and reduced costs for licensing and recruiting.

For organizations across verticals, the low total cost of ownership (TCO) and high adoption rates of Elastic Search make it the go-to choice for implementing search solutions that drive real value.

SquareShift and Elastic: A Winning Partnership

At SquareShift, we are proud to be a trusted partner of Elastic Search. Our expertise in implementing, managing, and optimizing Elastic Search solutions allows us to deliver world-class search experiences tailored to our clients' unique needs. Whether it's healthcare, retail, manufacturing, or any other industry, we help businesses harness the full potential of Elastic to achieve their goals.

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