In our connected world, collecting and analyzing data is easier than ever. But turning the data into actionable intelligence to solve business problems is no easy feat. That’s where Azure Cognitive Services comes in. It offers a surplus of 100 valuable APIs that work with popular developer platforms and data sources. Cognitive Search is an integral part of the Azure Cognitive Services offering. Azure Cognitive Search is a robust cloud-based search service that can rapidly help you find and analyze the data you need with its integrated AI features. The search engine ingests content from sources besides internal data, including websites, documents, images, PDFs, and more. It then creates a semantic index based on pre-defined concepts. With Cognitive Search, it is possible to develop applications based on this data with robust enterprise search functionalities.

In simple terms, Cognitive Search provides organizations a way to search structured and unstructured data from a single search box. Afterward, it provides organizations with tools to do useful things with the data. For instance, you can use Cognitive Search for automated content curation, document classification, and predictive analytics. Also, using custom code makes your applications understand and learn from your content. Cognitive Search also provides natural language processing (NLP) to extract key elements from your content and categorize them while learning more about your data. In addition, you can also use it to search for phrases, entity mentions, and concepts in texts. Lastly, a significant benefit is that Cognitive Search can scale with you to help you extract value from ever-growing data.