MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Elastic N.V. (NYSE: ESTC), the company behind Elasticsearch and the
Elastic Stack, announced the honorees of the inaugural Elastic Search
Awards. This year’s honorees are Brazil Ministry of Health/DATASUS;
GuideStar by Candid; Jet.com; NowPow; SolveBio; and T-Mobile.
For 2019, we expanded the Elastic Search Awards, formerly known as the
Elastic Cause Awards, to recognize more than just those using the
Elastic Stack for the betterment of humanity. We’re also now celebrating
organizations implementing something original or impossible (“I never
would have thought of that use case”) in addition to organizations who
are transforming their business with Elastic’s technology. The awards
now fall into three categories: “Cause Awards,” “Cluster
Awards” (Technology Innovations), and “You know, for Search!
Awards” (Business Transformation).
Two honorees were named for each category. The program’s judges included Nancy
Gohring, industry analyst for 451
Research; Tom Davis, Executive Director and CISO of Indiana
University’s OmniSoc; Rich Horace, DevOps director at Nativo and Elastic
Los Angeles Meetup Group Community leader since 2015; Leah Sutton,
Elastic’s vice president of Human Resources; and Steve Kearns, Elastic
vice president of Products.
Exceptional Elastic Stack Use Cases
Gohring expressed high praise for the applicants: “We considered award
applications spanning a diverse range of public and private enterprise
and novel use cases,” said Gohring. “I was particularly intrigued by
solutions that promise a positive impact on quality of life. Apparently,
my fellow judges agreed, given that we ultimately included a
healthcare-related application among the top two in each award category.”
Shay Banon, chief executive officer and founder of Elastic, thanked all
the applicants and the honorees for showcasing their “exceptional use of
Elastic’s technology for impacting social change and helping their
organizations do the impossible with their data.”
“The level of creativity, innovation, and change these users are driving
for their organizations is amazing,” Banon said. “We are continually
humbled that our products play a part in it and hope that their work
inspires others to use the Elastic Stack for good and to solve whatever
complex problems arise in their organizations.”
The results of the Elastic Search Awards for the Americas were
officially announced at the Elastic{ON}
Tour San Francisco on February 28, 2019.
And the honorees are...
Cause Awards:
Our judging panel reviewed the applicants based on a project’s
measurable impact, reach, and inspiration for bettering the world.
Guidestar by Candid
GuideStar
by Candid helps people make better decisions about nonprofits and the
work they do. GuideStar maintains online profiles on 2.7 million
currently and formerly IRS-recognized nonprofits. The profiles are
populated with information from the IRS, directly from nonprofits, and
via other partners in the nonprofit sector.
The nonprofit’s search engine, powered by Elasticsearch, is core to
connecting people to the data to make informed decisions about the
social sector. Elasticsearch helps power the mission to revolutionize
philanthropy by providing searchable information that advances
transparency, helps users to make better decisions and encourages
charitable giving.
“We are honored to receive this award. We connect people to data that
informs their decisions about the social sector. The Elastic Stack is
integral to accomplishing this goal. Last year, more than 10 million
people found nonprofit information through the GuideStar website, in our
products and services, and on 200-plus websites and applications that
use our data,” said Shane T. Ward, senior director of technology at
Guidestar by Candid.
NowPow
NowPow
is a women-owned-and-led technology company that powers communities with
the knowledge people need to get well, care for others, and manage life
while living with disease. NowPow partners with health systems, health
plans, and community-based organizations to conduct screenings, identify
self-care needs, facilitate referrals, support bidirectional patient
engagement, and document referral outcomes in the United States.
NowPow uses Elasticsearch as the foundation for their search and
resource matching technology within its community-based resource
directory.
“We are thrilled to be an Elastic Search Awards honoree. As a social
impact technology company, NowPow works to connect patients to resources
in order to empower them in self-care, and to make resource knowledge
accessible to all,” said Mike Wolf, head of technology at NowPow.
“Elasticsearch is the core of our resource search technology and is
integral to supporting our work across health systems and patient
communities. “
Cluster Awards (Technology Innovation):
Our judging panel reviewed the applicants based on inspiration,
uniqueness, and whether the project required a leap of faith that
the Elastic Stack would be the engine that powered the successful
solution.
SolveBio
SolveBio
is at the intersection of technology and genomics. The startup describes
its field as “precision medicine.” SolveBio’s team of designers,
scientists, and engineers deliver solutions to large pharma companies
enabling them to leverage large amounts of complex molecular data for
exploratory research and clinical drug development.
The Elastic Stack is core to their enterprise molecular data platform,
which provides customers with a secure space for semi-structured data
from hundreds of sources. SolveBio’s goal is to get the right data to
the right people, across the vast multidisciplinary environment that is
the global pharma enterprise to enable the surfacing of new biological
insights necessary to discover and develop effective therapies.
“SolveBio is really excited to be a 2019 Elastic Search Awards honoree.
We’ve considered ourselves Elasticsearch power users since 2014 and have
been able to push the system to its limits,” said David Caplan, the
SolveBio chief technology officer and cofounder. “It is thanks to the
Elastic Stack that we’ve been able to accomplish so much with such a
small team working in the incredibly complex world of genomics.”
Jet.com
Jet.com
is an ecommerce company and subsidiary of Walmart. Elasticsearch has
been greatly helping Jet.com match customers’ textual queries with their
inventory of products. They have successfully built an end-to-end
Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system built on Elasticsearch.
With Elasticsearch, the company seamlessly integrates both textual and
visual product information into a single index. This leads to a natural
and coherent way to support multimodal searches.
The integration allows customers to express their interests in a variety
of textual requests (e.g., keywords, brands, attributes, price ranges)
jointly with visual queries. The visual querying is accomplished by
consumers uploading a picture of the product they like as part of their
product search.
You know, for Search! Awards (Business Transformation)
Our judging panel reviewed the applicants based on a project’s
importance, potential for growth, and whether the projects have fostered
the breakdown of data silos.
T-Mobile USA
T-Mobile
is a mobile phone network that recently launched a mobile app, combined
with backend services, and uses the Elastic Stack to monitor the app’s
dynamic/personalized customer experiences and system health in real time.
The Elastic Stack helps T-Mobile monitor the dynamic content that is
being served to customers, in addition to knowing where customers are
navigating in the app as well as whether they are getting a fast user
experience. Among other things, the Elastic Stack is also helping
pinpoint where customers are using the app in real time.
“We are thrilled to be a 2019 Elastic Search Awards honoree! At
T-Mobile, we're obsessed with listening to our customers and providing
them with the best experiences. Elastic helps us deliver on that goal by
giving us the tools to create personalized content for each customer,”
says Michael Mitchell, principal software engineer.
Brazilian Ministry of Health/DATASUS, through the work of Asper TI
DATASUS
is the Health Informatics Department of the Brazilian Ministry of
Health. It is the coordinator of the National Health Information System
and the guardian of the National Health Information databases. A
2017 law in Brazil required the creation of a list of those who were
waiting for any kind of procedure, exam, medical appointment or
surgeries in any healthcare facilities of the public health service of
the State of Santa Catarina.
Asper,
an Elastic partner, is contracted by the Ministry of Health to implement
and maintain their Elastic Stack services, was commissioned to make all
of that data available via a REST API in order to allow this data to be
consumed by any application, regardless of the programming language and
through textual searches.
“We’ve been entrusted to handle the healthcare data of millions of
Brazilian citizens, which means we have a duty of sensitivity and care.
The work we do helps improve the systems that the National Health System
relies on to help save lives,” said Jesse Peixoto, an Asper technical
leader on the project. “Being recognized as an honoree validates that
work. The Elastic Stack is an integral part of the smooth functioning of
the Brazilian health care system and we’re passionate about the
meaningful work that we get to do every day at DATASUS.”
Meanwhile, Elastic continues accepting
Elastic Search Awards submissions for the Europe, Middle East, and
Africa (EMEA) region through July 31 as well as for Asia Pacific and
Japan until later on in 2019.
Shoutouts to all the applicants and honorees!
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Elastic Corporate Communications
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