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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure AI Search

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AAzure AI Search (formerly Azure Cognitive Search) is enterprise search as a service, from Microsoft.

    $0.10

    Per Hour

    Coveo Relevance Cloud

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ACoveo is an enterprise search technology which can index data on disparate cloud systems making it easier to retrieve. It has integrated plug-ins for Salesforce.com, Sitecore CEP, and Microsoft Outlook and SharePoint.

    $600

    per month

    Pricing
    Azure AI SearchCoveo Relevance Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $0.101
    Per Hour
    Standard S1
    $0.336
    Per Hour
    Standard S2
    $1.344
    Per Hour
    Standard S3
    $2.688
    Per Hour
    Base
    $600
    per month
    Pro
    $1,320
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure AI SearchCoveo Relevance Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    User Ratings
    Azure AI SearchCoveo Relevance Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.6
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure AI SearchCoveo Relevance Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    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.
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    Coveo
    Coveo Relevance Cloud is a great solution to implement into Salesforce to provide Knowledge-Centered Support, Enhancements to a Customer Community, to provide sales aids, or to complement your customized app in Salesforce.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • 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.
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    Coveo
    • Coveo is fast, search results come up quick (though it's not always great).
    • Not much complexity to run.
    • Coveo is implemented within our portal and doesn't require extra steps to use it.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Cross platform compatibility to integrate with various OS
    • Optimizing latency.
    • Nothing better than work on price, create more flexible options.
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    Coveo
    • It would be great if Coveo 6 allowed you to rebuild indexes from a certain subtree instead of needing to rebuild the entire tree to see changes. This functionality was added in Coveo 7 and is very useful.
    • In Coveo 6, integration with Sitecore is more difficult than one would expect. This integration is much improved in Coveo 7.
    • I have seen cases where an exception thrown when crawling a specific document will cause the indexing to stop completely. I believe this only happens in implementations using custom faceting but it could be handled more efficiently if the trouble document was skipped and the indexing could continue.
    • Relevancy ranking editor is good but not as powerful as GSA. GSA offers a self-learning scorer which automatically analyzes user behavior and the specific links that users click on for specific queries to fine tune relevance and scoring.
    • We've ran into issues on multiple clients with Sitecore items being indexed multiple times in Sitecore 7 and Coveo 7. The fix Coveo suggested was to upgrade our Sitecore version and Coveo but unfortunately this didn't resolve our issue. After months of testing we were finally able to resolve this by implementing our own CoveoItemCrawler to get around the issue (based on https://developers.coveo.com/display/public/SC201404/Items+in+the+Same+Language+Gets+Indexed+Multiple+Times;jsessionid=3C1A2AE33540E0A0B8BB52BA3A64AF70).
    • Integration with RabbitMQ in Coveo 7 seems error prone. We often see the error "The AMQP operation was interrupted" and on occasion, need to restart the Coveo service to get this operating again. In some extreme cases, we have also had to restart the server because of issues when attempting to restart the Coveo service.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Coveo
    This question is not applicable to me
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Azure Search is a competitor against Google's own AI autosuggest a feature. We went with Azure because our network security folks found it to be more robust from a security standpoint, which is incredibly important when you have proprietary manufacturing information. Additionally, we're a Microsoft shop so it plugged into our cloud hosting package and client facing OS.
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    Coveo
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • 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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    Coveo
    • Quick to find things in a massive database when needed.
    • Results need to be more concise - sometimes we spend more time looking for the right file than if we were to just search amongst our own networks instead.
    • Coveo is not always the most useful but does its job when general information is needed.
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