Original Research on Algolia

Algolia Case Study

Large Enterprise Consumer Products Company

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise consumer products company is based on an October 2021 survey of Algolia customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“The headless nature of Algolia made it a perfect set for our globally operating platform. As we access Algolia also from our own, proprietary Iot devices, it was a good choice to serve us on all our touchpoints.”

“The most valuable asset of Algolia is the Dashboard, which allows business stakeholders to optimise synonyms and dictionaries in their respective language.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Algolia:

Vendors or solutions they evaluated or replaced prior to selecting Algolia:

Elastic
SolR

Challenges they were experiencing with their previous solution before switching to Algolia:

Lack of flexibility
Lack of scalability
Difficult to use for business stakeholders

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Algolia that the surveyed company uses:

Business type/industry:
- E-Commerce

Results

The percentage improvement they saw in the following areas of their business after implementing Algolia:

Available features: greater than 75%
Compatibility with existing tech stack: greater than 75%
Security: 50 to 74%
Performance and scalability: 50 to 74%
Front-end libraries and available widgets: 25 to 49%

The organization has realized the following benefits since implementing Algolia:

Reduced time spent on operational activities (e.g. security management, learning new program languages, etc.)

The organization realized the value of Algolia within the first month

They were able to implement Algolia within 2 to 6 months

Because of Algolia…

They have more time to innovate and create and spend less time managing back end operations and business.
They have more flexibility in their operations by having visibility and understanding of their ranking strategy,
Allows them to quickly get a solution into production due to the ease of implementation.
They have a reliable software solution they can trust

Algolia Customer Research

Developers See a Notable Lift in Performance

After implementing Algolia, what percentage improvement did you see in the following areas of your business?

	Greater than 75%	50 to 74%	25 to 49%	up to 10%
Available features	44%	31%	19%	6%
Compatibility with existing tech stack	45%	30%	16%	9%
Security	35%	34%	20%	11%
Performance and scalability	53%	30%	12%	5%
Front-end libraries and available widgets	50%	29%	13%	8%

Algolia Customer Testimonial

Great for Business and Tech Users

Algolia is fast and provides accurate results. It gives our merchandising team the control of search, previously in the hand of developers only.

— Aurelio Ogliari, Engineer, On Inc

Algolia Customer Research

Developers Turn to Algolia to Solve these Challenges

What challenges were you experiencing with your previous solution before switching to Algolia?

Implementation and minor changes are too time consuming	44%
Lack of flexibility with previous solution	41%
Lack of scalability	31%
Lack of reliability	20%
Previous solution caused difficulty in hiring the right people or time to train was too long	8%
Needed a higher level of trusted security and privacy	6%
Unable to attract new developer talent due to working with outdated tools	5%
Other	20%

Algolia Case Study

Shaw Academy

Introduction

This case study of Shaw Academy is based on an October 2021 survey of Algolia customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“I have not found a better search as a service platform.”

“Because of Algolia, we were able to able advance our course search solution.”

“Time to production and ease of managing have been the most valuable results of implementing Algolia.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Algolia:

Shaw Academy evaluated ElasticSearch and SolR prior to selecting Algolia.

The Shaw Academy experienced the following challenges before switching to Algolia:

Lack of scalability
Difficulty in hiring the right people or time to train was too long
Implementation and minor changes being too time consuming

Use Case

Business type/industry: Software & Tech

Results

The Shaw Academy achieved the following results with Algolia:

Greater than 75% improvement was seen in the following areas after implementing Algolia:

Available features
Compatibility with existing tech stack
Security
Performance and scalability
Front-end libraries and available widgets

They realized the following benefits after implementing Algolia:

Improved productivity and faster time to production
Quicker and easier scale with the business
Increased pace of innovation
Reduced time spent on operational activities (e.g. security management, learning new program languages, etc.)

**The Shaw Academy realized Algolia’s value within the first day. And quickly implemented Algolia within the first month.

They STRONGLY AGREE with the following statements:

Because of Algolia, we have more time to innovate and create, and spend less time managing back end operations and business
Algolia helps us to have more flexibility in our operations by having visibility and understanding of our ranking strategy
Algolia is easy to implement, allowing us to quickly get a solution into production
Algolia is a reliable software solution that we can trust

Algolia Customer Testimonial

We simply love Algolia. We have become much better and faster in delivering meaningful search results to our users.

— CMO, Small Business Computer Software Company

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Large Enterprise Consumer Products Company

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

Company Profile

About Algolia

Developers See a Notable Lift in Performance

Great for Business and Tech Users

Developers Turn to Algolia to Solve these Challenges

Shaw Academy

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

Company Profile

About Algolia

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