The search multiplier: Driving revenue, productivity, and AI at scale

An IDC-commissioned business value study of 11 large enterprise Elastic customers found organizations using the Elasticsearch Platform for search and generative AI realized a 517% three-year ROI with an 11-month payback and $13.4 million in annual benefits per organization. Reported gains include a 40% reduction in time to minimum viable AI product, 35% faster AI product updates, 44% better search relevance, 27% higher developer productivity, and 150 hours saved per employee annually from improved internal search. The piece frames Elasticsearch as a unified foundation for keyword, semantic, vector, and hybrid search combined with RAG and agentic AI workflows.