February 20, 2025
As the volume of digital music data continues to grow, Copyright Management Organizations (CMOs), Performing Rights Organizations (PROs), and Mechanical Rights Organizations (MROs) face increasing pressure to manage, analyze, and retrieve content quickly and accurately. That’s where intelligent tools like Azure Cognitive Search come into play—especially when integrated into a purpose-built platform like Spanish Point’s Matching Engine.
At Spanish Point Technologies, we’re continually evolving the Matching Engine with new modules and powerful features to meet the changing needs of the music rights industry. One of the most impactful additions is our integration with Azure Cognitive Search, Microsoft’s AI-powered cloud search solution.
Azure Cognitive Search is a fully managed, enterprise-grade search engine built on top of Apache Lucene, a proven open-source indexing technology. It enables full-text search across structured and unstructured data, with deep capabilities for natural language processing, text indexing, and AI enrichment.
Unlike traditional SQL-based full-text search, Azure Cognitive Search offers a smarter and faster way to query large data sets. Whether you’re searching across millions of song titles, usage records, repertoire metadata, or streaming logs, Azure delivers results with precision and speed.
Key features include:
For CMOs and related organizations, these features are critical. Azure Cognitive Search allows teams to search vast libraries of musical works, usage logs, member data, and distribution records in real time—enhancing transparency and speeding up processing.
The Matching Engine is a modern, cloud-native application specifically built for the needs of copyright management organizations. Designed by a team with more than 14 years of experience in the music rights space, it brings together best-in-class Microsoft technologies to help ensure that creators and rights holders get paid accurately and on time.
The Matching Engine includes a range of integrated modules, such as:
Now, with Azure Cognitive Search embedded into the platform, users can navigate all of this data more efficiently than ever. Whether you need to retrieve specific usage logs, audit metadata, or validate member registrations, search becomes a fast and intuitive experience.
