Insights on federated AI search, enterprise AI, and agentic systems.
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Read article →A home dashboard with workspaces, canonical answers, three-pass local relevancy, a first-class MCP server, and a hallucination warning - all without copying your data.
Read article →An honest, source-checked comparison across naive vector-DB RAG, LangChain, LlamaIndex, and SWIRL 5. Where SWIRL wins, and where it doesn't. Includes a one-page study you can download.
Read article →Five years ago my Forbes trilogy named the marks and mapped the four vaults of enterprise data. Here is the same story, told now that the crew is finally assembled: SWIRL 5.
Read article →Most AI demos skip the part where the model makes something up. SWIRL 5 checks every answer against its cited sources and flags what isn't supported.
Read article →Your LLM is only as good as what it can retrieve. SWIRL feeds it live, ranked, permissioned, approved context - so the same model returns better answers, without copying your data.
Read article →A better interface on top of fragmented data doesn't fix the problem. It hides it. The real issue is the knowledge layer.
Read article →The legal AI front end is commoditizing. The knowledge authority layer - which version is official, which answer is authoritative - is not.
Read article →The same document exists in fourteen places. SWIRL clusters versions and lets organizations ratify which one is authoritative.
Read article →Confidence isn't the same as correctness. If an AI answer can't be traced to its sources, accuracy doesn't matter. You have exposure.
Read article →Legal search isn't just about finding information. It's about establishing trust in how information is surfaced, summarized, and supported.
Read article →The bottleneck has shifted from processing data to finding it. A new layer is required - and it isn't another copy.
Read article →LLMs have vindicated federation as the right enterprise search architecture. The single index never worked. Here's why.
Read article →M365 compliance infrastructure covers audit trails, retention, and eDiscovery. Copying data to a vector database voids all of it.
Read article →PDF export for search results, Connect All in AI Search Assistant, Kubernetes auto-scaling fixes.
Read article →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...
Read article →Enterprise AI keeps running into the same wall: fragmented, stale, inaccessible knowledge. Here's why federated AI search is the missing piece.
Read article →Every day, your people lose the equivalent of a full feature movie just searching for information. Employees want to do meaningful work....
Read article →From Novelty to Necessity Chatbots and copilots have captured the imagination of business leaders and employees alike. They can draft an...
Read article →You don’t have a “data problem.” You have hundreds of them… one for every app, spreadsheet, and silo your teams rely on. On the surface,...
Read article →CTOs already see what’s coming: agentic AI will be embedded in core business processes, not just chatbots or copilots. But the leap from...
Read article →Lock the AI Assistant onto a single document, PII detection via Microsoft Presidio, one-click Connect All OAuth2.
Read article →AI deployment doesn’t require centralization. It requires access. The common guidance is simple: Your infrastructure is too messy for AI....
Read article →Think about all the starving zombies. Seriously, it’s Halloween and are the zombies happy? No! They’re hungry. They’re looking for brains...
Read article →Your M-Files content is powerful - but it becomes a ‘Super Power’ when connected securely to everything else your teams rely on. Most...
Read article →The trouble with life sciences isn’t a lack of information. It’s the shape of it. SOPs live in SharePoint folders no one’s touched in three...
Read article →Shadow IT isn’t just a security risk. It’s a strategy killer. Remote and hybrid work have fueled a boom in team-level tool buying....
Read article →Manufacturing systems weren’t built for flexibility. They were built to last. MES, ERP, QA, maintenance logs, part libraries, inventory...
Read article →How is a raven like a writing desk? Actually, I have no idea. But I do know how an LLM is like a genie. It’s all about wishes. Remember all...
Read article →The myth is persistent: before you can build AI, you have to centralize your data. Clean it. Transform it. Move it into some gleaming new...
Read article →You don’t need to rebuild your information stack to use AI. You need to stop letting your stack run the show. Every time a company tries to...
Read article →It’s been a rough time for vector databases. A wonderful, hot technology that’s suddenly run into some headwinds. Or maybe a small...
Read article →Sharepoint. Tableau. Snowflake. MongoDB. Salesforce. The list goes on and on. Maybe your business uses only some of them, maybe it uses all...
Read article →You’re driving down the highway at high speed. Suddenly, everything you see is delayed by 2 seconds. What happens? If you’re lucky, you...
Read article →Data centralization promises simplicity. In theory, you put all your data into one vector database, a lakehouse, or an advanced data...
Read article →Bank tech stacks are beautiful monsters. Mainframes still process your mortgage payments. Cloud-native AI models screen for fraud. There’s...
Read article →Logistics runs on timing. Supply chains collapse when information moves slower than inventory. And yet, every logistics operation is buried...
Read article →It sits there. A dream of the future in the center of Data Lake. It promises tomorrow, always tomorrow. Mastery of AI, access to knowledge,...
Read article →They say you should centralize your data. Of course, they’ve been saying that for decades now and how’s it worked out? Pretty well if...
Read article →Technology companies love tools. Internal wikis, chat threads, versioned code, scattered docs, ephemeral insights - every system solves a...
Read article →Agentic AI is hungry. Not just for compute power or clever prompts, but for clean, connected, context-rich data. If that data is siloed,...
Read article →Do you want the foundation of your AI future to be built on concrete or quicksand? AI models are getting better every day. But when...
Read article →AI isn’t the bottleneck. Infrastructure is. AI Infrastructure That’s the quiet killer of most enterprise AI efforts. You’ve got a...
Read article →For far too long, your data has lived under the tyranny of outdated assumptions and ETL processes that frustrate your efforts to use it....
Read article →Agents are everywhere these days. Finding them the data they need is a problem that is all too often glossed over or treated as a Simple...
Read article →AI agents are advancing fast - but they’re still only as effective as the information they can access. And without intelligent, real-time,...
Read article →In enterprise AI, finding the right information is no longer the end, it’s just the beginning. Getting a correct answer to a question is...
Read article →AI agents are quickly becoming a centerpiece of enterprise transformation strategies. They promise to handle routine tasks, retrieve...
Read article →When we talk about building AI agents, most of the focus is on infrastructure: how to connect agents to the right systems, how to manage...
Read article →You’ve got the vision. The pilot runs beautifully. Everyone’s excited about automation, AI-powered productivity, and the promise of agents...
Read article →Everyone wants AI agents, whether to create multi-step automation, automatically update wikis and other information repositories, generate...
Read article →It’s a bit like evolution in action. In nature, evolution favors traits that help organisms thrive. But when the environment shifts...
Read article →Ever feel like there’s some critical piece of information that you just can’t find? That there’s something important, something that would...
Read article →ETL and other data remodeling projects are, quite possibly, the biggest blockers of AI agent development. According to BCG, 74% of...
Read article →Hansel and Gretel had it easy. They were only lost in the woods once. And despite some awkwardness with a witch and a candy house, it ended...
Read article →It’s time to stop searching in a foreign language. Working with computers forces people to think like a computer and communicate in a...
Read article →There’s a common misconception in enterprise AI: If your AI agent needs access to internal knowledge, you first need to build a vector...
Read article →“The first amendment, the second amendment, the third amendment, the fourth amendment, the fifth amendment…” “Stop!” “The sixth amendment,...
Read article →Put on a blindfold at home, and you'll probably manage just fine - barring the occasional stray Lego. Familiarity can carry you a long way,...
Read article →It’s no secret in the world of enterprise software that what doesn’t scale doesn’t work. When software doesn’t scale, performance degrades...
Read article →Knowledge work frequently leaves us feeling like we’ve been navigating a particularly complex train system without the benefit of a...
Read article →It’s time to stop searching in a foreign language. Working with computers forces people to think like a computer and communicate in a...
Read article →When the President needs advice, he has his Cabinet, his Council of Economic Advisors, the Joint Chiefs, and so on (I wouldn’t be surprised...
Read article →The promise of enterprise search was simple: type a query, get what you need, and move on with your work. The reality? Endless results,...
Read article →AI is evolving at an unprecedented pace. Every few months, a new model emerges - faster, smarter, more specialized than the last. Businesses...
Read article →How do you feel about turning your data over to someone else? What happens if that company gets acquired or goes out of business? What...
Read article →The hardest thing about finding internal enterprise information is that the number of places we need to look multiply like rabbits....
Read article →Traceable citations, automatic AI Provider failover, SearchProvider JSON config block, and improved SQL support.
Read article →How can enterprises leverage AI without exposing sensitive data? Your sensitive data gets exposed when you are using a third-party...
Read article →AI search is simultaneously transforming how enterprises access internal information and demonstrating that there is nothing new under the...
Read article →Quantum AI search technology anticipates your questions and is ready with helpful answers. SWIRL’s new Quantum AI Search feature takes...
Read article →Data democratization is a persistent dream: The goal of every person in an organization being able to access the data they need when they...
Read article →Search is noisy and it’s only getting worse. Look for anything more than a few days or weeks old and you end up with a flood of documents...
Read article →Steve, our marketing manager, needs to compile a comprehensive report on the performance of a recent product launch campaign. He knows the...
Read article →Data, data everywhere AI finds what you seek Data, data everywhere The AI has sprung a leak (with apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge )...
Read article →Customer behavior and markets are changing faster than ever. Businesses need to be agile to keep up. How well a business responds to...
Read article →Imagine uncovering hidden patterns in your customer data that lead to a breakthrough new product idea, a true "Eureka!" moment . Or finding...
Read article →Not all search results are created equal. In traditional enterprise search, users are often buried under a mountain of results, forced to...
Read article →SWIRL Recognized for Innovation in AI-Powered Knowledge Management We are excited to share that SWIRL has been named one of KMWorld’s 100...
Read article →Find What Matters - Instantly, Securely, and Without Moving Data The modern enterprise is drowning in data. But finding the right insight at...
Read article →AI-driven enterprise search is rapidly evolving, reshaping how businesses access and leverage knowledge. As organizations deal with...
Read article →Imagine having the power of ChatGPT, but completely under your company's control - working securely within your own systems, securely...
Read article →The modern enterprise is drowning in data. Every email, document, Slack message, database entry, and meeting transcript adds to the flood...
Read article →SQL has been the language of database access since time immemorial, which, in computer industry terms, means since the 1970s. Like the...
Read article →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...
Read article →The goal of enterprise AI Search is to make it easier for us to find important information - while not making it easier for unauthorized...
Read article →Google does it, Apple is doing it, and so are OpenAI and Perplexity. They're all leveraging AI summaries - bringing together the most...
Read article →Re-ranking is the process of refining the order of search results to ensure the most relevant information appears at the top. It’s a...
Read article →SWIRL 4.0 debuts two renamed and redesigned core experiences plus any-dialect query generation in the AI Assistant.
Read article →Information on the internet is meant to be found - that’s the goal of putting up a web page, posting an article, a blog, substack, video, or...
Read article →Ambiguity in wordplay can be the source of a great deal of humor, as in the classic Ronnie Corbett sketch, My Blackberry Is Not Working....
Read article →I recently received an email from a well-respected AI company telling me that their system could help me find information in my personal...
Read article →AI has the potential to transform business operations. However, deploying AI across the enterprise is a difficult and challenging task....
Read article →The promise of AI tools is seductive: streamlined workflows, automated insights, enhanced productivity. Yet as our collection of AI...
Read article →Meeting prep can be more of a time sink than the meeting itself - unless it doesn’t get done, in which the meeting itself often becomes a...
Read article →I worked with a team that was rolling out a state-of-the-art AI tool for customer service. Everyone was thrilled. The system was efficient,...
Read article →Box is a robust and secure content management platform that is widely adopted and user-friendly. However, if you’ve interacted with Box’s...
Read article →In my article Three Numbers Spell Burnout , I discussed how our information diet went from 10 pages worth of information each day back in...
Read article →Memory is the first thing to go. I can’t recall what comes next (source forgotten). As our information diet accelerates from 10 to 50 to...
Read article →What is Data-Driven Decision Making? Data-driven decision-making involves analyzing data to guide strategic business decisions, eliminating...
Read article →When I wrote the article, “ Reality Check: Still Spending More Time Gathering Instead Of Analyzing, ” in 2019, we had high hopes for the...
Read article →Tools are labor saving devices. From washing machines, dishwashers, stoves, calculators, computers, and, of course, coffee makers, we’re...
Read article →You’ve got questions - like “How do I configure VPN on my Mac?” or “How do I order a mobile device?” But the answers might be spread across...
Read article →Three numbers say it all. 10. 50. 150. In 1986, the average person working in a data intensive task might consume 10 pages worth of...
Read article →To listen to the discussion on AI you’d be forgiven for thinking that it is simultaneously the best, most innovative idea to come along in...
Read article →All data is not created equal. As the amount of data increases exponentially, knowledge workers find themselves overwhelmed with data,...
Read article →If you’re like me, the first few times you heard the term “RAG” (Retrieval Augmented Generation), you might have thought that someone was...
Read article →To the old saying that three can keep a secret provided two of them are dead, we can add that three can keep data organized provided three...
Read article →A slick AI demo isn't the same thing as a production system. The gap between the two is usually filled with PDF curation, brittle workflows, and stale answers - and that's where most pilots stall.
Read article →AI agents are the latest buzzword to hit the rapidly evolving world of AI tools. What are they and why do we care? Let's start with the...
Read article →Research is a search and data relevancy problem. Granted, that may not match the popular image of research, which is often portrayed as a...
Read article →Perhaps the most frustrating part of writing my dissertation was searching for papers. Writing the literature review itself wasn’t an...
Read article →When the President needs advice, he has his Cabinet, his Council of Economic Advisors, the Joint Chiefs, and so on (I wouldn’t be surprised...
Read article →Want to Increase Productivity With AI? Be a Centaur or a Cyborg (Or Use AI Infrastructure Software)! Does AI actually increase...
Read article →When we think about data products, most people think about downloading apps on their mobile devices or to their computers. While apps are...
Read article →Efficient information retrieval is crucial for businesses and individuals. With data scattered across various platforms and sources,...
Read article →While having AI write your paper is a definite no-no, AI can still provide valuable assistance. Here are 5 ways to take advantage of AI to...
Read article →Knowledge Management (KM): What It Is and Why It Matters Ever wondered how big companies keep track of all the stuff their employees need...
Read article →Far too often, registering for classes is considerably more - let’s say exciting -than it needs to be. Registration should be simple, but as...
Read article →Finding research literature has come a long way. Once upon a time, finding papers for a literature review, dissertation, grant proposal,...
Read article →Artificial intelligence, particularly Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), is reshaping industries with its ability to generate...
Read article →Retailers are taking advantage of AI in a variety of ways, including: Recommendation engines and personalized marketing Demand forecasting...
Read article →In the world of technology, search capabilities often go unnoticed. However, they play a crucial role in shaping applications and...
Read article →Companies using AI have seen a 25% increase in productivity on average. Artificial Intelligence is changing how businesses work, from small...
Read article →You can’t build a house without a foundation. However, if you had enough people constantly repairing it and putting supports under the...
Read article →Data determines a company's success. However many businesses struggle to use data effectively. Enter large language models (LLMs) and...
Read article →Integrating Generative AI (GAI) into enterprises offers businesses a transformative opportunity to revolutionize how information is...
Read article →Consider a world where computers can write stories, create art, and converse like humans. This is the reality of generative AI, which is no...
Read article →Finding data can feel like an episode of the X-Files. The truth is out there, but no matter how much you search it’s always just out of...
Read article →Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is set to revolutionize how businesses use their data. But implementing RAG in big companies isn't as...
Read article →In the rapidly evolving landscape of modern business, artificial intelligence (AI) is both a beacon of progress and a source of...
Read article →Future of AI is no UI ~ Naval Ravikant Will AI mean the end of applications as we know them? It's a provocative thought, and the reality...
Read article →People often ask me, "What does SWIRL do?" Over the years, I've given numerous explanations. I frequently hear from others that "SWIRL is...
Read article →The integration of Generative AI (GAI) into the business operations of large, regulated enterprises has accelerated rapidly, yet...
Read article →The rapid rise of Generative AI (GAI) has captured the imagination of technologists, businesses, and the general public. Initially heralded...
Read article →In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, enterprises face a formidable challenge: scaling their artificial intelligence...
Read article →In today's fast-paced business environment, the ability to make swift, informed decisions can mean the difference between market leadership...
Read article →Introduction Finding the correct information in the vast internet landscape can sometimes feel like searching for a needle in a haystack....
Read article →In the dynamic landscape of search engine technology, the challenge of delivering highly relevant and personalized search results remains...
Read article →People like using their skills to get work done. What they don’t like is spending hours on tasks that are frustrating, boring, and...
Read article →Data, data everywhere AI finds what you seek Data, data everywhere The AI has sprung a leak with apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge The...
Read article →In recent years, generative AI has emerged as a transformative force in business, offering unprecedented capabilities in content creation,...
Read article →We live in the era of Generative AI (GAI), a time characterized by unprecedented advancements in artificial intelligence. GAI promises to...
Read article →“Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” Perhaps the most memorable line in 2001: A Space Odyssey was...
Read article →Banks can benefit from artificial intelligence (AI), provided they can keep their data secure and trust what the AI tells them. AI has the...
Read article →Risk can be quantified, uncertainty cannot. Financial institutions deal with uncertainty by turning it into risk and then quantifying and...
Read article →AI is revolutionizing financial services, but there are genuine risks to data security and decision accuracy. To maximize effectiveness, AI...
Read article →A merger or acquisition can trigger a data scavenger hunt that leaves everyone frustrated and exhausted. Mergers and acquisitions in the...
Read article →Knowledge workers have access to more data than ever. Yet answering even a simple question can turn into a data scavenger hunt that...
Read article →Introduction Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a groundbreaking AI architecture that combines the power of large language models with...
Read article →AI is transforming businesses by driving data-driven decisions, automating tasks, and opening new growth opportunities. As companies...
Read article →In the rapidly evolving domain of artificial intelligence (AI), data is the bedrock upon which intelligent systems are built. A...
Read article →What is AI Infrastructure Software? AI infrastructure software is essential for deploying on-premises AI solutions. It performs various...
Read article →Meta just launched open-source LLMs like Llama, claiming it as the most powerful open-source language model out there. It's a huge step...
Read article →A Reader Large Language Model (LLM) is an AI designed to understand and analyze text. Unlike LLMs that generate text, Reader LLMs focus on...
Read article →Bring the AI to the data, not the data to the AI. AI Infrastructure Software is an umbrella term for a software infrastructure that...
Read article →In the Artificial Intelligence (AI) world, the traditional approach has been to "put the data into the AI." Like the database model, this...
Read article →In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, businesses are aggressively turning to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to gain a...
Read article →Generative AI is a rapidly evolving field with the potential to revolutionize how businesses operate. By harnessing the power of machine...
Read article →Knowledge is a powerful asset for any organization. Collecting, organizing, and sharing knowledge can drive innovation, improve...
Read article →In Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as game changers. Cambridge announced "Hallucinate" as the word...
Read article →Cosine similarity is a metric that measures how similar two entities (vectors) are irrespective of their size. Commonly used in...
Read article →“You Do Not Need a Vector Database” is the provocative title of a recent blog post (with code) by Dr. Yucheng Low, co-founder of XetHub. In...
Read article →Enterprises today face an ironic challenge - drowning in data yet starved for insights. As information silos proliferate, locating the...
Read article →The modern enterprise sits atop a vast amount of data. Yet unlocking the value within remains an elusive quest for most organizations....
Read article →Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to transform our world incredibly. The concepts of Generative AI, Machine Learning, and Deep...
Read article →Knowledge management (KM) is the process of creating, sharing, using, and managing the knowledge and information of an organization. It...
Read article →Semantic similarity measures how similar two pieces of text are in meaning rather than just the words used. It is a branch of artificial...
Read article →Introduction In today's world, applications must understand complex data like text, images, and sounds. This is where traditional databases...
Read article →In today's data-driven landscape, organizations generate an unprecedented amount of information. This data has immense potential, but...
Read article →The sheer volume of enterprise data necessitates precision in search results. Search relevancy is the essential technique that filters...
Read article →A search index is a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations by providing quick lookups to the data records....
Read article →Introduction Cloud computing has undeniably transformed the way organizations approach IT infrastructure. Among the prevalent cloud models,...
Read article →Introduction Machine learning (ML), a transformative branch of artificial intelligence, has transitioned from theoretical realms to...
Read article →Introduction In the modern business environment, characterized by abundant data, the capability to efficiently mine and leverage this...
Read article →Introduction Search engines have become the gateway to the vast expanse of information on the Internet. From trivial questions to critical...
Read article →AI-Powered Enterprise Search: Reimagining Information Retrieval for the Modern Business In today's digital age, businesses are amassing...
Read article →As businesses scale, managing vast amounts of information becomes increasingly complex. Enterprise search solutions enable organizations to...
Read article →Data resides in numerous, often isolated, repositories within the vast expanse of modern enterprises. Employees need streamlined ways to...
Read article →Artificial intelligence is constantly evolving, and one of the latest advancements is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). This...
Read article →Imagine all your business data - every file, email, and database entry - trapped in separate rooms. Searching means running from room to...
Read article →A metasearch engine is an information retrieval solution that connects to multiple search engines to fetch results for the same query and...
Read article →In modern enterprises, data is often dispersed across various repositories, including applications, databases, data warehouses, and silos....
Read article →What is Unified Search? Unified Search combines results from multiple sources (databases, documents, systems) into a single searchable...
Read article →The API is King According to CloudZero[1], most enterprise workflows are now executed in the cloud as of 2024. The average department uses...
Read article →Swirl's team is working hard to create a simple, safe, and user-friendly way for businesses to search for information. We’re creating a...
Read article →AI-powered enterprise search for secure private cloud retrieval augmented generation! Certified to run in your Azure private cloud , Swirl...
Read article →As we say farewell to 2023, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on Swirl’s journey over the past nine months and celebrate the launch of...
Read article →Summary Across industries, organizations are integrating AI solutions, whether through partnerships with consulting firms or technology...
Read article →Enterprises are large companies. The difference between your average startup and an enterprise is the scale of people, processing, and data...
Read article →Usually, the cookie-cutter enterprise search approaches make you lift and shift all of your data into another search engine. Then, they...
Read article →With apologies to Yoda … Matter LLMs, Why? At the Enterprise Search & Discovery 23 conference, several speakers (Sid Probstein, Jim Ford,...
Read article →As the expression goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and this is often multiplied when demonstrating software solutions. While I...
Read article →The Problem with Traditional Search The traditional approach is the lift and shift of data from one container to another. It is a big...
Read article →Founded in 2022, Swirl Search is an advanced, AI-driven search engine and platform designed to address and...
Read article →This is the third blog in the series where we will be checking in with the best practices to deploy Swirl. Swirl's Azure-hosted...
Read article →This blog covers the second part of Swirl Security Overview (User Data, Metadata, and Credentials). This is a three-part series that guides...
Read article →This series of blogs will give you a security overview of Swirl. What is Swirl Search? Swirl is an open-source search platform software...
Read article →Software companies can reduce churn and increase engagement by adding generative AI. However, challenges such as lack of data, security...
Read article →Generative AI is exciting because it provides what users want: answers, not documents. And more than that, expertise. Large language models...
Read article →Curious about Metasearch and why your company should be using it to solve cross silo search problems? In this video Sid Probstein, creator...
Read article →A patch release that resolves a positional argument error in the OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, and PostgreSQL connectors. No database migration required.
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