Posts tagged with "Cognitive Search"

Microsoft renamed Azure Cognitive Search to Azure AI Search in late 2023 and added substantial vector, semantic, and agentic-retrieval capabilities. Manufacturing teams running legacy Cognitive Search deployments need a structured migration plan — not a like-for-like upgrade, but a targeted modernisation of the features that matter most.

Manufacturing document processing is a high-volume, high-format-diversity problem. Azure AI Search (formerly Azure Cognitive Search) is the Microsoft-native platform that fits it well when configured correctly. This post walks through the architecture patterns that actually ship at industrial scale.