Overview

Lucid Imagination provides expert consulting for Lucene and Solr technologies focused on architecture and design reviews, training, enablement, performance optimization and best practices. The Lucid consulting team consists of senior search technologists intimately familiar with Lucene/Solr technologies as well as have extensive experience in field-tested search solutions in diverse deployment scenarios.

By leveraging Lucid's deep domain expertise, you can achieve rapid transfer of knowledge on Lucene and Solr technologies, faster application development cycles, and assurance of utilizing well tested sound architectural design principles. Our customers also gain economic efficiencies by avoiding lengthy ramp-up times and costly design errors due to inexperience.

Finally, by utilizing the Lucid team you can be rest assured that your application will be designed for optimal performance, which can have a direct positive impact on your business. Lucid has designed its support and consulting services to address your business and technical goals. A range of support offerings is available to meet most companies' needs, with optimally packaged combinations of support and consulting services. If you have more demanding or unique situations, we can also create custom packages to meet your specific needs.

The majority of available services are provided remotely to maintain cost-effectiveness.

When should Lucid Consulting be utilized?

Consulting services can be beneficial at many points in the lifecycle of your search project.

Early Stage Evaluation: Key to the success of any search application is ensuring that the architectural design and configuration are grounded in best practices and align with the business and functional requirements. Lucid Solution Architect consultants can provide advice and recommendations for rapid and optimal development as well as deployment that ensure:

• The search application design meets business objectives
• The search application effectively meets functional/technical requirements
• Best practices for indexing, searching and performance are utilized

Diagnostic Services: Lucid Consulting services can cost effectively and rapidly analyze, troubleshoot and recommend fixes to complex application issues that arise from misconfigurations or bugs introduced by application revisions. Some specific areas where diagnostic services can be extremely effective:

• Indexing assessment
• Query analysis
• Configuration and performance analysis

Search Health Checks: By having Lucid's search experts perform a periodic assessment of your Lucene/Solr based application, you know that the application is performing optimally to meet your business objectives. Lucid's Search Health Checks provide a consistent, disciplined methodology of analysis designed to deliver optimum performance for search effectiveness. The services include:

• Analyzing and optimizing Query response times
• Verifying accuracy and performance of data analysis and transformation
• Validating the search index integrity

Please note that the Lucid Search Health Check is not an open-ended consulting agreement and has limitations in scope. For details, please contact our sales team.

Typical Lucid Consulting Engagement

Consulting services can be employed for early stage evaluation & prototyping of Lucene and Solr, initial application design & implementation, or to address your specific production problems. Engagement recommendations are made after an initial requirements discovery session. A typical engagement could consist of:

• Diagnostic/Assessment session (1-2 days)
• Architecture/Design review (1-3 days)
• Best practices recommendations (1-2 days)

Lucid consulting services focus on design, analysis and recommendations with the majority of the implementation typically performed by customer development staff or a certified Lucid Imagination development partner.

Expert Link packages inclusive of consulting hours are offered as a continuation of an initial project engagement. You can choose from the various support packages to assist you during development, deployment and in production.

How to Get Started

To determine which consulting package is best suited for your situation, please contact Lucid at consulting@lucidimagination.com to arrange an initial requirements assessment. Once the discovery session is completed, Lucid will propose the consulting package for services and on-going support that best meet your needs and requirements.