What is Azure AI Search?
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Azure AI Search is Microsoft’s cloud service for turning raw, multi-format data into fast, intelligent search results. It combines vector, full-text and semantic ranking so users get answers that match intent, not just keywords. Whether they’re browsing a product catalogue or mining millions of documents. Fully managed in the Azure Portal, it plugs directly into Azure OpenAI and other LLM workloads, making it the enterprise backbone for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and custom Copilot experiences.
Pain-to-Opportunity
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Cut Server Costs, Not Ambition
Running your own search servers means endless patching and hardware bills. Azure AI Search is fully managed, scales automatically and frees your engineers to build new features.
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Find Everything in One Place
Teams waste hours hopping between SharePoint, network drives and cloud apps. One unified search puts every document in one place and gives those hours back.
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Goodbye Copy-Paste
Key details often hide in PDFs, scans and old systems, so staff copy-and-paste into spreadsheets. AI reads every file type and makes it instantly searchable.
Our Solution
We deliver Azure AI Search solutions that pair Microsoft’s best-in-class retrieval platform with modern Gen-AI techniques (vector search, semantic ranker, Retrieval Augmented Generation).
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Data & Content Engineering
We bring every PDF, image, database table and SaaS record into a single Azure AI Search index. A managed pipeline handles ingestion, applies OCR, detects language, extracts entities and even runs your own Python enrichment skills, all in one pass. The result is a clean, strongly-typed search index that unlocks previously hidden knowledge and gives your teams a consistent foundation for analytics or machine-learning projects.
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Intelligent Search Experience
Your users enjoy human-like relevance no matter where they work. Keyword, semantic and vector search are blended behind the scenes, while ready-made UI components deliver facets, geo-filters, autocomplete and adaptive ranking in web portals, mobile apps, Teams, or any embedded widget. The same API powers every channel, so enhancements roll out everywhere at once.
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RAG & Copilot Integration
We connect Azure OpenAI (or your own GPT model) to the search index so generative answers are grounded in your data and returned with clickable citations. Streaming tokens keep conversations fast, and the system automatically falls back to classic search when confidence is low. Whether you need an internal Copilot, a public Q&A bot or an IDE plug-in, the solution respects the same access controls you already have in place.
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Security & Governance
A zero-trust architecture keeps traffic on private endpoints, enforces Azure AD role-based access and protects data with customer-managed keys in hardware security modules. Row-level permissions in the index make sure users see only what they are cleared to see, and pre-built blueprints align the deployment with HIPAA, ISO 27001, FINMA and FedRAMP requirements—satisfying both security officers and auditors from day one.
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Why Enlighten Designs
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As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, we build Azure AI Search solutions that find the right answer in milliseconds. Partner with us for straight-talking guidance, open collaboration, and search experiences that turn every query into decisive action—and real business value. Check out our Insights & Discovery Accelerator (IDA) that harnesses the power of Microsoft Azure AI to speed and scale investigations and research, so you can find critical content in a sea of data
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We're proud to be a member of the AI Forum of New Zealand
A nationwide network dedicated to advancing ethical, innovative, and impactful artificial intelligence. Our involvement connects us with industry leaders, strengthens our voice in shaping responsible AI across Aotearoa, and enables us to deliver cutting-edge, human-centred solutions for our clients and communities.
We have a Few Packages to Get You Going:
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Dashboard in a day
Our one-day workshop is designed to help you analyse your data in a rich and compelling way using Microsoft's Power BI. Learn more about our Dashboard in a Day Workshop
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Insight and Discovery Accelerator
The Insights and Discovery Accelerator uses Microsoft AI to speed and scale investigations and research by helping journalists find critical content in a sea of data. Learn more about the Insight and Discovery Accelerator
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Data Solution Assessment
Use our data specialists to maximise your data analytics landscape. Create a data optimisation strategy for the future state of your data and reporting platforms. Learn more about our Data Solution Assessment
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FeaturedDiscover the Future of AI with Enlighten Designs at the 2025 Aotearoa AI Summit
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Enlighten Designs has Joined the AI Forum of New Zealand
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