The key to navigating all of these challenges is to first understand that they are connected. Fundamentally, each need is addressed by getting value out of an ever-growing, ever-evolving mountain of data in real time. So what’s search got to do with it? Search helps you to connect the dots and to put all that data to work.
When you’re shopping online, being able to search, sort, filter, and locate exactly what you were looking for (and what stores nearby have inventory in stock) is powered by search and its unique ability to continuously surface relevant results from product catalog data. When a site reliability engineer troubleshoots a service or application, search enables them to perform root cause analysis with unprecedented speed by correlating logs, metrics, and trace data. And when you discover a vulnerability, search is uniquely capable of mining through security events data at scale.
Let’s say that an end user experiences slow information retrieval speeds, and a site reliability engineer notices an application going offline, which prompts the security operations center team to discover a series of security events. Successful teams should be empowered to figure out whether these events are coincidental or connected to something larger happening in the infrastructure.
All of this is possible with a search platform — a centralized data store, search engine, and analytics solution that can ingest, store, search, and analyze data of any type, from any source, and provide results in milliseconds (or less). One platform, from one vendor, with one pricing model. (It’s us, Elastic. We’re that search platform.)
Search enables teams to break down the silos between the data and customers’ and employees’ day-to-day experiences. It helps us connect the dots, iterate, and work across use cases and business challenges. It ensures that we consistently exceed customer expectations, identify and resolve application and infrastructure issues before they happen, and helps protect and defend business investments.
With search, you turn business challenges into lucrative opportunities.
Check out the “Why Elastic” keynote to dive deeper into the power of search. Download the Forrester study to see how business leaders are using search-powered technology to solve data problems.
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