SWIRL Blog

November 20, 2025

The Confidence Economy: Don’t Be The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

The problem is no longer lack of data. It’s no longer an inability to retrieve data. Today’s problem is knowing which data to trust. It’s like the sorcerer’s apprentice commanded the broomstick to bring buckets of bits instead of buckets of water, but the result is much the same: data, data everywhere, with no time to stop and think.

August 20, 2024

Using Unified Search Solutions for Knowledge Management in the Enterprise

Knowledge Management (KM) helps organizations capture, organize, and use their collective knowledge. Unified search takes KM to the next level by breaking down silos and allowing employees to access all authorized data from one interface. This boosts productivity, improves decision-making, and enhances collaboration while maintaining security. Discover the benefits, challenges, and business value of unified search as part of a modern knowledge management strategy.

August 15, 2024

How You Can Use AI to Accelerate Library Research

Finding relevant research literature has shifted from trudging through stacks of journals to navigating a flood of online information. While digital access has improved availability, it has also created an overload problem. SWIRL’s AI infrastructure software solves this by unifying search across multiple sources, enhancing results with Retrieval Augmented Generation, and allowing interactive refinement. This means faster, more relevant results, improved research quality, and less time wasted on irrelevant material.

July 31, 2024

Keeping Data Safe in the Age of AI

Advanced AI models introduce unique challenges around intellectual property, confidentiality, compliance, and fairness. From preventing IP leakage to managing third-party data risks, companies must adopt robust security measures, transparency practices, and bias mitigation strategies. This guide explores how organizations can balance data needs with minimization, establish retention policies, vet third-party providers, and secure multi-cloud AI deployments—ensuring responsible, ethical, and compliant AI systems.

July 26, 2024

How You Can Use AI to Grow Retail Business

Retailers use AI for recommendation engines, demand forecasting, dynamic pricing, chatbots, fraud detection, and more. But scaling AI across the enterprise is challenging when valuable data is locked in silos across apps, databases, and collaboration tools. This article explores how SWIRL AI Connect brings AI to the data—eliminating costly data movement, unifying search, securing sensitive information, and enabling flexible, model-agnostic AI deployments—helping retailers make better decisions, boost efficiency, and drive customer satisfaction.

July 23, 2024

Find What You Need, Faster: The Power of Generative AI in Search

Search technology is the hidden driver of generative AI’s next evolution. SWIRL Metasearch enables AI to work across multiple platforms without data duplication, cutting costs and reducing hallucinations. By integrating search with RAG and prompt engineering, SWIRL delivers accurate, relevant answers from diverse enterprise data sources—unlocking productivity in real-world workflows like supply chain management.

July 18, 2024

How Companies Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Boost Their Business

Companies using AI have seen a 25% increase in productivity on average. Artificial Intelligence is changing how businesses work, from small startups to big companies. Let’s look at how AI is changing business and why it matters. AI Predicts Business Trends AI helps businesses guess what might happen next. It looks at old information to...

July 16, 2024

AI Infrastructure Enhances the Power of Generative AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

You can’t build a house without a foundation. However, if you had enough people constantly repairing it and putting supports under the house, it would stand for a while—at least until the first woodpecker comes along. Living in that house wouldn’t be much fun as you’d never know when you were about to fall through...

July 15, 2024

How You can Unlock Hidden Business Value: Using LLMs & RAG to Transform Data Into Insights

Data determines a company’s success. However many businesses struggle to use data effectively. Enter large language models (LLMs) and Retrieval Augmented Generation. These two technologies are changing how companies extract valuable insights from their data. The Problem with Scattered and Unused Data Businesses often have data dispersed across various departments and systems, creating “data silos.”...

July 14, 2024

Overcoming the Challenges and Understanding the Benefits of Using AI Infrastructure Software to Accelerate Gen AI Adoption in the Enterprise

Integrating Generative AI (GAI) into enterprises offers businesses a transformative opportunity to revolutionize how information is processed and utilized. Enterprises can reshape their operational landscape by leveraging advanced systems capable of generating content and insights from large datasets. However, this transition is accompanied by significant challenges that must be addressed to maximize the benefits and...