Elastic App Search Ready for On-Premise Deployment
July 29, 2019
One of the most successful enterprise search companies, Elastic, is bringing its cloud-based App Search platform down to Earth. The company announces this development in its blog post, “Elastic App Search: Now Available as a Self-Managed Download.” Their director of product marketing, Diane Tetrault, writes:
“Empowered with valuable feedback from the community over the last few months’ beta program, the team has worked hard to bring the simplicity and power of the Elastic App Search Service to any infrastructure. It’s now available to download and deploy at scale, alongside the default distribution of Elastic Stack 7.2 (or later), anywhere.
We noted:
“While Elastic App Search has been around for over a year as a cloud-based solution, this release represents an important milestone. It highlights our commitment to offer the greatest flexibility in how and where developers deploy next-generation search experiences. Whether it be an online store, a geolocal directory, a vast music collection, or a SaaS application, Elastic App Search is the quickest way to build fluid and engaging search experiences. … “It is no secret that Elasticsearch is a powerhouse for search use cases of all kinds. That said, with great power comes great configurability. Our team worked relentlessly to channel the limitless potential of Elasticsearch into a streamlined package, purpose-built for application search use cases. In other words, you can now bring the relevance, scale, and speed of Elasticsearch to any application you’re building.”
App Search is free to use alongside the default distribution of the Elastic Stack. Naturally, the platform includes features Elastic users have come to rely on, like schema-free indexing, language-specific text analysis, pre-configured algorithms, relevance tuning, astute analytics, and impressive APIs and UI frameworks. In addition, they are introducing new user-management features that allow for easy-to-use role-based access controls or the built-in user management. Interested readers can check out the free trial.
Elastic began as Elasticsearch Inc. in 2012, simplified its name in 2015, and went public in 2018. The company is based in Mountain View, California, and maintains offices around the world. It also happens to hiring for quite a few positions at the time of this writing, in case any readers are interested.
Cynthia Murrell, July 29, 2019