SWIRL Blog

July 22, 2025

Agentic Search—Your Antidote to Tool Chaos

Technology companies love tools. Internal wikis, chat threads, versioned code, scattered docs, ephemeral insights—every system solves a problem, until it becomes one. Then the search begins. Your engineer needs a deployment script. Is it in Notion? Buried in a GitHub gist? Maybe in that shared Drive folder from last quarter? Good luck. Multiply that friction...

March 11, 2025

Know With Confidence: Why Confidence-Based Ranking is Essential for AI Search

Not all search results are created equal. In traditional enterprise search, users are often buried under a mountain of results, forced to manually sift through irrelevant documents to find what they actually need. Worse, AI-generated summaries can pull from unreliable or low-quality data, leading to misinformation and confusion—as Google so vividly demonstrated when it told...

March 11, 2025

Unlocking Hidden Insights: Chain-of-Thought AI and Your Enterprise Data

Imagine uncovering hidden patterns in your customer data that lead to a breakthrough new product idea, a true “Eureka!” moment. Or finding the root cause of a persistent operational inefficiency that has been costing your company valuable time and resources for months. These game-changing insights are often buried within the vast amounts of data your business generates...

March 10, 2025

SWIRL Named One of KMWorld’s 100 Companies That Matter in 2025

SWIRL Recognized for Innovation in AI-Powered Knowledge Management We are excited to share that SWIRL has been named one of KMWorld’s 100 Companies That Matter in 2025! This annual recognition highlights organizations that are making a significant impact in the knowledge management (KM) industry through innovation, adaptability, and delivering real-world value to businesses worldwide. This...

March 6, 2025

How AI is Redefining Enterprise Data Discovery in 2025

Find What Matters—Instantly, Securely, and Without Moving Data The modern enterprise is drowning in data. But finding the right insight at the right time? That’s still a massive challenge. Siloed systems, slow search processes, and overwhelming data volumes create information bottlenecks that slow decisions, limit productivity, and cost businesses revenue. In 2025, AI-driven data discovery...

March 4, 2025

Unlocking Knowledge Without Moving or Exposing Data — The Top Five Trends in AI Search for 2025

AI-driven enterprise search is rapidly evolving, reshaping how businesses access and leverage knowledge. As organizations deal with fragmented data, operational inefficiencies, and increasing AI adoption, the need for smarter search capabilities has never been greater. In 2025, AI-powered search isn’t just about finding information—it’s about delivering precise, contextualized insights that drive decisions and innovation. ...

March 3, 2025

Making AI Work for Your Business: SWIRL and the Rise of On-Premises Intelligence

Imagine having the power of ChatGPT, but completely under your company’s control – working securely within your own systems, securely accessing your data, and tailored to your specific needs. That’s the promise of on-premises AI, and it’s becoming a reality thanks to the rapid advancements in open-source AI models. Open-source AI models give businesses the ability to download, customize,...

February 27, 2025

Unlocking the Power of Metadata: SWIRL’s AI Profiler Turbocharges AI Search

The modern enterprise is drowning in data. Every email, document, Slack message, database entry, and meeting transcript adds to the flood of new information. Yet, when it comes time to retrieve that information, we struggle to find what we’re looking for. Traditional web search assumes that data is optimized to be found, but what if...

February 25, 2025

The Database of Babel: Confusion in Three Letters

SQL has been the language of database access since time immemorial, which, in computer industry terms, means since the 1970s. Like the story of Babel, SQL has divided into numerous dialects, each one subtly different from the others. PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle—each has its own rules, syntax, and quirks. Getting the data you need...

February 18, 2025

AI Search Without the Hassle: Why Zero ETL is the Future

What if AI could search data where it already resides? From AI to AI Search is a small jump in concept, a giant leap in reality. Although AI web search has been around for a few years, organizations have struggled to implement effective internal (enterprise) AI search because of one major obstacle: ETL (Extract, Transform,...