Intelligent search and data analytics for your business – tailored with OpenSearch.
OpenSearch is more than just search – it's a platform for logs, monitoring, and AI applications (RAG). We adapt the algorithms to your business – not the other way around. Thanks to open source, our OpenSearch solutions are future-proof and cost-optimized.
Solutions
- Concepts
- OpenSearch Migration Service
- Enterprise Search Relevance Tuning
- GenAI & RAG Integration
- Hybrid Search
- Security Analytics & Log Management (SIEM)
- Compliance Logging
- Support
OpenSearch concept
When conventional search fails: We analyze your existing data sources, performance bottlenecks and business goals and design a perfectly tailored OpenSearch architecture.
OpenSearch Migration Service
We migrate your legacy clusters (Elastic/Splunk/Solr) securely and without downtime. Includes TCO analysis.
Enterprise Search Relevance Tuning
Whether it's about custom search solutions for intranets, customer portals, or optimizing your e-commerce search for higher conversion rates: We fine-tune analyzers, tokenizers, and ranking models. For the best enterprise search experience.
GenAI & RAG Integration
Development of your internal company knowledge bot. We integrate OpenSearch as a vector database into your AI strategy. Our team implements RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) systems that help your AI find the right data.
Hybrid Search
We implement hybrid search solutions that combine classic keyword searches via databases with modern vector searches. The result? Precise results with every search.
Security Analytics & Log Management (SIEM)
OpenSearch as a central security platform: threat detection, GDPR-compliant archiving, SOC dashboards. Our experts support you in implementing an OpenSearch SIEM solution.
Compliance Logging
With our OpenSearch solutions, you have logs, metrics and traces at a glance – including end-to-end monitoring for microservice architectures or the development of audit-proof log management solutions for NIS2 and GDPR.
Support & Maintenance
We are here for you: Long-term support, monitoring setups, performance tuning and technical development.
OpenSearch is secure enough for the most sensitive data – we know how to implement it in a compliant manner.
CEO, Iphos IT Solutions
State-of-the-art OpenSearch search solutions
Why OpenSearch instead of SQL for application search?
Many legacy applications still use SQL databases for search. We'll tell you why migrating to OpenSearch makes sense.
Architectural difference
SQL databases use B-trees, which are optimized for exact matches. Full-text searches often require full table scans, which are extremely slow with large datasets. OpenSearch saves you time because this search solution uses inverted indexes, similar to a telephone directory. This enables search times in the millisecond range, regardless of the data volume.
Functional superiority
SQL struggles with linguistic challenges such as synonyms (Handy = Mobilfunk), word stems (laufen = lief), or complex relevance calculations (TF-IDF/BM25). In contrast, OpenSearch offers specialized analyzers and tokenizers that easily solve these problems.
Scalability
Especially with large datasets, scalability is a significant cost factor. While SQL databases often need to scale vertically (which results in a more expensive server), OpenSearch scales horizontally through sharding, i.e., multiple but less expensive servers.
The top business use cases for OpenSearch applications
Log Analytics and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Development of central logging platforms for compliance.
- Development of customized dashboards for Security Operations Centers (SOCs).
- Migration from expensive Splunk instances to OpenSearch to reduce costs (in some cases up to 90% savings through tiered storage).
Full-Stack Observability
The challenge
Modern microservices architectures require deep insight into system health that goes beyond simple logs. When a distributed system is slow, troubleshooting is often like looking for a needle in a haystack.
The solution with OpenSearch
By integrating trace analytics and metrics, OpenSearch can visualize the entire request flow through a single system. The use of Data Prepper enables the import and further processing of OpenTelemetry data – the industry standard for observability.
Our services
- Implementation of end-to-end monitoring solutions for DevOps teams.
- Building "Single Pane of Glass" dashboards that correlate logs, metrics, and traces.
- Consulting on the instrumentation of applications with OpenTelemetry.
Generative AI and Vector Search (RAG)
The challenge
Do you want to use generative AI to interact with your own data (e.g., "Summarize contract XY") without the data leaving the company or the AI hallucinating?
The solution with OpenSearch
OpenSearch serves as a vector database that semantically stores documents. In a RAG architecture, OpenSearch searches for the relevant information and passes it as context to a Large Language Model (LLM), which generates the response.
Our services
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Ingestion & Markdown conversion: Documents (PDFs, Word documents, wikis) are imported. A crucial step for high quality is the conversion to Markdown. Unlike plain text, Markdown preserves the structural semantics (headings, lists, tables), which helps LLMs to understand the content context of the "chunks" significantly better and respond more precisely.
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Chunking: The Markdown text is then broken down into meaningful sections ("chunks"). Tools like OpenSearch Data Prepper or AWS Lambda can be used for this.
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Embedding: Each chunk is transformed into a vector using a model (e.g., Amazon Titan, Cohere). OpenSearch can handle this directly on the cluster using ingest pipelines and the Neural Search plugin, simplifying the architecture.
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Vector memory: The vectors are stored in OpenSearch's k-NN (k-Nearest Neighbors) index. OpenSearch supports efficient algorithms like HNSW (Hierarchical Navigable Small World) for fast searches across billions of vectors.
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Hybrid Search & Re-Ranking: Pure vector search is sometimes imprecise with exact terms (e.g., product IDs). A professional solution uses "hybrid search," which combines results from vector search and classic BM25 search and normalizes them using "reciprocal rank fusion" (RRF).
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Development of internal company chatbots and knowledge management systems.
Enterprise Search and E-Commerce
The challenge
Customers today expect a Google-like search experience on almost all websites: with "Did you mean...?", autocomplete, personalized results, and numerous filtering options. SQL databases, however, cannot provide this.
The solution with OpenSearch
OpenSearch offers powerful full-text search, fuzzy matching for typos, faceting for filters, and "learning to rank" to automatically improve the relevance of results based on user interactions.
Our services
- Search Relevance Engineering: Fine-tuning your search algorithms can significantly increase your revenue in e-commerce projects. We would be happy to work with you on this.
- Development of individual search frontends and integration into existing shop systems or intranets.
searchit – the clever alternative for everyone who wants to reach their destination faster
Do you need a powerful enterprise search solution – but no time to build your own architecture with OpenSearch? Then take a look at searchit – our intelligent search engine for businesses. searchit It is based on proven OpenSearch technology and already covers many typical search applications out-of-the-box: from full-text search of your company data to GDPR-compliant information features and further modular extensions.
The solution is ready to use immediately, highly performant, reliable, and will easily scale with your business in the future. The search engine can be obtained as an appliance, a virtual machine, or via the cloud.
How much does your OpenSearch solution cost?
That depends heavily on your requirements. Contact us, describe your ideas, and we will provide you with a preliminary concept and a non-binding cost estimate for your OpenSearch solution.
Tel: 43 1 8698400
Email: office@iphos.com
Company
A strong international company - for the best IT solutions. Iphos IT Solutions offers its customers a full service in the areas of EDV / IT / ITSM, software development & web. – Faster, more cost-efficient & more competent.
IT infrastructure
As a holistic & sustainable service provider, we offer top IT solutions for maintenance, consulting, networks, Exchange, Linux & Windows servers and much more
Software Development
State-of-the-art software development from Vienna: as a sustainable & holistic IT company, we work on your best individual solution in the areas of application development, mobile software development, interface development & database development.
Web development
Web development rethought: We develop intranets & extranets, websites, e-commerce, online tariff calculators, newsletter systems & offer classic services such as SEO, SEM, etc. So that your business runs better.
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