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 capable open-source technologies like Elastic Search, the demand for fast, efficient, and scalable search capabilities is skyrocketing.
Elasticsearch helps organizations search large data sets and return relevant results quickly. This guide examines how different sectors use the technology and the effect 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:
- Influence Health used Elastic search - Moving from SQL to Elasticsearch allowed Influence Health to run the same queries that used to take hours in 7-8 milliseconds.
- Pfizer used Elastic as a Fundamental Core to Pfizer’s Scientific Data Cloud
- UCLA Health has chosen Elasticsearch as its tool of choice to index, search, and produce more thorough, actionable results for clinicians and researchers.
Retail & eCommerce: changing 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 direct, 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 capable 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 use the full potential of Elastic to achieve their goals.