Elastic named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: WW General-Purpose Knowledge Discovery 2025

Elastic enables enterprises to ingest, search, analyze, and act on data in any form — structured, vector, or multimodal — and is a leading platform for unstructured data. We believe IDC recognized Elastic for its open source, unified, and AI-native platform that empowers organizations to discover and operationalize knowledge across all data types.

Key differentiators

• Proven business impact: Enterprises such as Docusign, NHS, and Comcast rely on Elastic to drive measurable outcomes, from 99% faster incident resolution to intelligent document management and multimodal search at scale.
• Leadership in relevance: Elastic's hybrid, semantic, and reranking models ensure that AI systems are grounded in the most relevant, accurate context, a concept Elastic has pioneered for more than a decade.
• Developer-empowered innovation: Elastic's open APIs, Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL), and intelligent tools like Semantic_Text give organizations the flexibility to adapt search and AI experiences to their unique needs. Developers can innovate rapidly, while business teams benefit from intuitive, natural-language exploration and faster time-to-value, turning data into insights that drive measurable outcomes.

Additional resources

• Start implementing search for your knowledge base with Elasticsearch
• Docusign brings the power of generative AI to customers worldwide with Elastic
• Elasticsearch named a Leader in Forrester Wave: Cognitive Search Platforms, Q4 2025

Disclaimer

IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures supplier product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of supplier strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Supplier market share is represented by the size of the icons.