Systems were spin-offs from academic research in information retrieval. Today, numerous companies have emerged and created a niche in the marketplace, offering enterprise search products packed with special features; it provides many more functions other than simply indexing and query processing.

Present-day enterprise solutions boast a wide range of open-source platforms that enhance or ultimately replace older proprietary search solutions, giving way to software that more sophisticated and yet easier to use. Natural language processing, machine learning, and image processing are all becoming an integral part of these cognitive search solutions—an emerging context-based approach that transforms the way employees interact with enterprise systems.

 Together with that, cognitive search also improves accuracy by considering the context of each query. By examining and learning from past searches, these modern enterprise search systems can identify the person who is looking for the information and understand what type of content the person is expecting to find.

With the objective of helping organizations zero in on the best enterprise search solution, a distinguished panel comprising CIOs, CEOs, CTOs, analysts and the CIO Applications’ editorial board has reviewed numerous companies and selected the outstanding ones. The featured firms demonstrate exception ability to innovate and customize solutions to suit clients’ requirements.

In this edition of CIO Applications, we present to you “Top 10 Enterprise Search Solution Providers – 2019.”