Exploring what services will be used as part of a Cognitive Search solution

Cognitive Search solutions are an amazing way to quickly enrich documents in just about any workload in Azure, on-premises, or in another cloud. You will need to understand, however, the common components required beyond Cognitive Search to deploy a complete solution. In this section, we are going to explore those additional services as Ocean Smart deployed them for the Cognitive Search portion of their KM solution.

For simplicity's sake, all that's really required to deploy the service is a storage account and the Cognitive Search service to have a working solution. After deploying the asset and loading your files into the storage account, you can point your indexer at that storage account and begin an indexing process. This is a fine process for testing the service and understanding how it works, but as you'll see in Chapter 7, Pulling It All Together for a Complete KM Solution, more services...