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    Azure AI Search

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

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    Island

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AIsland is an Enterprise Browser platform. Island also gives organizations control, visibility, and governance over security and search.N/A
    Pricing
    Azure AI SearchIsland
    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
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    Azure AI SearchIsland
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Azure AI SearchIsland
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    Azure AI SearchIsland
    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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    Island
    The only reason I didn't gave the maximum rating is because it's not cheap, if you have a smaller company you can use some plugins instead depending on what you need. But I completely understand it's not safer than the Island browser. However, it would be great to have a simpler version for small companies too, that wouldn't require much testing to setup. Besides that, Island is my first choice when thinking about safety for remote workers.
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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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    Island
    • The agent can still see the customer's data that they need to help the customers, but without the ability to screenshot, copy and download outside the Island browser, that also prevent data leaks
    • The organization also saves money without the need of hiring only local employees, people can download it on their personal desktops
    • Can replace setups with VPN that are expensive or virtual desktops
    • Blocks unsafe websites that can also copy the client and customer data
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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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    Island
    • Sometimes the advisors may experience some glitches to copy and paste the information they need even if they're still inside the Island browser
    • Sometimes some apps don't behave exactly the same and they would in other browsers
    • It takes some time to setup it accordingly with what the company needs and it requires some tests
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    Usability
    Microsoft
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    Island
    It requires some training but it's very easy to use, as it's much like other famous browsers and it behave just as them. Even if it needs to be set up, you can set different policies for different users, that can be quite useful for bigger companies. However, some employees can feel a bit restricted as it has it's limitations to download or copy and paste
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    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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    Island
    Chrome Remote Desktop is a good option to access the company desktop remotely, but it doesn't reduce the costs of the company since you'll still need to have two machines for it to work, you'll also need the same amount of IT staff and mantain a physical address. It can be a good option to companies that have only few agents remote but it's not good for hybrid or remote only employees
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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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    Island
    • There is some costs to training people to use Island, and also to test and setup the browser, if you're initiating a business, this should be considered
    • Some advisors may not have a compatible hardware, this can add to the migration costs
    • No need to have a physical address or servers, since everything is managed from the clould it can significantly lower the costs
    • You can reduce the IT staff and maintenance costs too
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