Elastic commissioned an independent IDC business value study of 11 large enterprise customers, revealing that organizations using the Elasticsearch Platform achieved a 517% three-year ROI and $13.4 million in annual benefits.
Aug 20, 2026
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- IDC interviewed 11 large enterprise customers across financial services, healthcare, retail, and government with average annual revenue of $15 billion.
- Calculated a three-year discounted benefit of $31.2 million per organization against $5.06 million in investment costs, achieving an 11-month payback period.
- Organizations reduced time to minimum viable AI products by 40% (nearly eight weeks faster) and accelerated AI product updates by 35%.
- Participants reported a 44% improvement in search relevance, 27% higher development team productivity, and 150 hours saved per employee annually.
- The Elasticsearch Platform unifies vector search, semantic search, hybrid search, Jina AI models, and context layers with integrated RAG capabilities.