Our insurance industry client required a search solution with high availability to meet their business needs. SearchStax had the expertise and experience in delivering disaster recovery in different cloud regions that satisfied our client's rigorous business requirements.
Project Manager | TH_NK
TH_NK is an independent digital transformation agency based in London, Liverpool and Newcastle. They work with clients like Vue, Adecco Group, Shop Direct, LV= and Liverpool Football Club to set and realize their digital ambitions.
The agency uniquely blends the skills and talent from the three kinds of partner clients typically need today. They combine the business focus of consultancies, the customer centricity of agencies and the tech capability of systems integrators – making it a true partner for change. TH_NK is also one of the few Sitecore Platinum Partners in the UK.
TH_NK’s client, a leading UK insurance brand, needed a search solution to power search and personalization of their Sitecore implementation. They needed to enable the following use cases both from a search and personalization perspective:
Search is being used to index all content across the site to make it easier for people to find what they are looking for, including: FAQs, articles, guides, production information, glossary, contact numbers, and more.
The solution needed to be hosted on a high availability cluster in the Microsoft Azure Cloud with Disaster Recovery (DR). This separate DR deployment must be deployed in another region and remain in sync with the production deployment. This requires substantial in-depth knowledge of both search and Azure operations.
TH_NK initially considered Azure Search as an option. However, it did not support some of the key use cases that were required for the solution being developed. In addition, Azure Search could not meet their needs for high-availability, low latency, and relevance.
They instead decided to use to Apache Solr for their Sitecore implementation. Solr has been supported by Sitecore for many years and has become their de facto standard. Solr is now recommended by Sitecore as the best searching and indexing component for Sitecore solutions. Apache Solr is not one of TH_NK’s core offerings, so their preference was to partner with experts in this field. TH_NK realized they needed a Solr-as-a-Service solution for their searching and personalization component for this premium customer.
TH_NK looked at a number of hosted Solr-as-a-Service offerings and quickly decided on SearchStax Managed Search for the following reasons:
Managed Search
Sitecore
EMEA
Financial Services
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