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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

    Searchspring

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASearchspring headquartered in Denver offers intelligent site search for customer facing web pages and ecommerce, providing product discvoery tools, navigation viacategory page, and other features to improve site navigation. In February 2020, Searchspring merged with Nextopia to expand its product capabilities, and customer base. Nextopia customers will continue to receive the same services, under the SearchSpring brand.

    $599

    per month

    Pricing
    Azure AI SearchSearchspring
    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
    Essential
    $599.00
    per month
    Advanced
    $799.00
    per month
    Expert
    $999.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure AI SearchSearchspring
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Azure AI SearchSearchspring
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure AI SearchSearchspring
    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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    Searchspring
    Search Spring offers strong options for search customizations: synonyms, redirects, query replacements, spell corrections, etc. We enjoy the ability to boost and unique product display options. We were 4Tell customers prior to the Search Spring acquisition and we're looking forward to both being part of one console. Search Spring is a really solid, stable search/merch platform that I would recommend for any mid-market business.
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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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    Searchspring
    • SearchSpring can pull in products that match specific terms according to your customizations in their dashboard.
    • SearchSpring can change the main image of products to reflect what is being searched for, such as a specific color.
    • SearchSpring can account for misspellings and typos in the search bar by using search customizations.
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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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    Searchspring
    • Developing 'cocktails' of different ranking criteria. At the moment we can only serve results based on either 'relevancy' or 'sales performance'. It would be great to not only have the ability to blend these two options (by search term), but also add additional facets into the mix, such as stock quantity, margin, sponsorship factor etc...
    • Provide financing reporting on results - so we know how much revenue/conversion has been driven from specific search terms. For example, "Baby Milk" drove 50 searches, 6 direct conversions (customers that searched went on to buy an item(s) that were recommended), 16 indirect conversions (customers that searched went on to buy other item(s) not severed).
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Searchspring
    We have a monthly phone call with our account manager, and she is available for calls in between as well. She has always been accessible. Working with her has been easy and she has provided training where needed. She is proactive in making sure we have everything we need and feel comfortable with the platform.
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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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    Searchspring
    Nextopia’s features were on par or better than consideration set at a lower cost and with an easier implementation. Contract terms were also more favorable.
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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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    Searchspring
    • Increased our site search speed.
    • Increased conversion rate.
    • Increase in sales by boosting best sellers and relevant items throughout the year.
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    Screenshot of Autocomplete helps shoppers find products.Screenshot of Keep shoppers engaged by highlighting relevant promotions, sales, and content as they scroll by easily adding Inline Banners to your ecommerce site.