Lucidworks: Apache Solr Powered SEO for Enterprise

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Will Hayes, CEO

Gradually and consistently, information has turned into a commonly recognized name at enterprises hoping to use data from an assortment of data sources to make progress through their web presence. Lucidworks provides organizations in these areas with search and discovery solutions that offer solidarity and quality, and create search engines that leverage Apache Solr along with AI and machine learning. The company has an extensive product suite that includes Fusion Server and Fusion AI which they use to deliver one of a kind search engine optimization for their clients. A notable issue that most organizations have is the way their data is scattered throughout their networks, and this makes it hard to follow and analyze. Lucidworks solutions are capable of bringing together multiple data sources of their clients under a single roof, and then use the collected facts to provide statistics to optimize search portals.

A timely-delivery of results to search queries is vital for organizations and enterprises to cipher if they are to offer help and support options to their users. The online ubiquity of an organization website relies upon the UI experience they warrant, and not having a relevant data feed can distort the analytics used in research of user needs. Fusion Server is a total solution for these types of clients that require analytics as well as pristine, highly scalable seeking options. The embedded NoSQL datastore that comes along is what enables Lucidworks clients to have access to all their information instantly.

A timely-delivery of results to search queries is vital for organizations and enterprises to cipher if they are to offer help and support options to their users

The platform is highly scalable and can interrogate trillions of documents from any organization networked data-source. It likewise offers sub-second seek question reaction times with end-clients accepting input on their inquiries in record times. Built on top of the open source, open core Apache Solr, and also leveraging Apache Stark, Lucidworks delivers a reliable, powerful search program through Fusion Server. Besides, the company also believes that security is a priority; they support a multi-vendor approach to authentication with role-based access controls for encryption and redaction at every level. To enable secure to use compact access controls across all API and UI functions Fusion Server is integrated with third-party client-server protocols such as LDAP, Kerberos, and Active Directory.

Europeana, commissioned by the EU in 2007, and tasked with the creation of a website built upon Europe’s rich multicultural and multilingual heritage was having a tough time scaling, and analyzing all the data from multiple feeds until they approached Lucidworks. Fusion Server was deployed, and its effective Solr integration made it effortless for the team at Europeana and Lucidworks to develop a database equipped with metadata harvesting. A decision that allows for high user scalability, and elimination of search-related redundancies within the website. Currently, the prototype website is up and running, and has for million pieces stored in their archive. The portal receives anywhere from 200,000 to a million visitors per day.

Having scaled heights, and acquired a multitude of customer gratitude the team at Lucidworks are hungry for more and have recently hired Amanda Berger as their new Chief Customer Officer to drive pristine customer excellence at the firm. Berger has more than 20 years of customer-focused experience and has formerly worked at leader roles in other Global 2000 organizations. CEO at Lucidworks, Will Hayes says, “I am incredibly excited for what Amanda’s addition means to the company, and our customers, as well as the impact the Customer Excellence organization, will have on our business as a whole.”