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Transforming Data-Driven Decision Making with AI and SWIRL

In today’s fast-paced business world, decision-making needs to be quicker, smarter, and more precise. Data-driven decision-making (DDDM) has become essential for organizations seeking to make strategic choices rooted in accurate, actionable insights rather than intuition. Leveraging data to guide business decisions not only helps companies remain competitive but also enables them to adapt quickly to market changes and customer needs. This article explores how AI enhances DDDM and where SWIRL, an AI-driven search and decision support tool, is crucial in driving business success.

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SWIRL v3.9 Community Release

The SWIRL team is thrilled to release the SWIRL AI Connect 3.9, Community Edition, a significant upgrade that enhances functionality, user experience, and compatibility.

Reassessing Knowledge Worker Productivity in the Age of AI and Private Data

In the modern enterprise, productivity is hindered by time spent gathering data instead of analyzing it, especially as AI raises new concerns about private data security. SWIRL offers a groundbreaking solution with privacy-first, federated search that transforms how organizations access insights. Instead of centralizing data, SWIRL brings AI to existing repositories, ensuring secure, contextual understanding across public, private, paid, and personal data. By respecting data sovereignty and eliminating siloed information, SWIRL empowers knowledge workers to truly focus on analysis. Discover how SWIRL redefines productivity in the age of secure AI.

It Really Is Possible to Save Time With AI

Tools are labor saving devices. From washing machines, dishwashers, stoves, calculators, computers, and, of course, coffee makers, we’re surrounded by gadgets whose function in our lives is to make it easier for us to get things done quickly, easily, and more effectively. Some of these tools replace annoying or difficult physical labor (ever wash clothes […]

The Power of SWIRL AI Providers: A Deep Dive

AI Providers are SWIRL’s way of enhancing your queries with generative AI (GAI) models and large language models (LLMs). They are key to integrating external AI-powered systems—like OpenAI, Anthropic, or Azure OpenAI—directly into your search flows. With these providers, SWIRL goes beyond traditional search, enabling enterprises to incorporate real-time generative responses, summarize large datasets, and […]

The Power of SWIRL SearchProviders: A Deep Dive

SWIRL SearchProviders are the key to SWIRL’s zero-copy federated search approach —bridging data sources, re-ranking in real-time and ensuring you don’t have to start with a huge ETL project.Whether you’re working with Google APIs, Elastic, Solr, or proprietary systems, SearchProviders empower organizations to connect without friction, eliminating data silos and making information accessible in the […]

SWIRL Authenticators: Key(s) to the Kingdom

In this post, we’ll explore what a SWIRL authenticator is, break down its core components, and show you how it automates complex authentication flows across a wide variety of data sources. SWIRL Authentication: The Big Picture SWIRL’s mission is to fetch the most relevant data from all your systems—cloud, on-prem, or external SaaS platforms. To […]