Case Studies
Closing the Knowledge Gap: A Case Study - How Cisco Unlocks Communications
Cisco Systems set out to build a system that takes the search for knowledge beyond documents into the content of social network inside the enterprise. The resulting Cisco Pulse platform was built to deliver corporate employees a better understanding who’s communicating with whom, how, and about what. Working with Lucid Imagination, Cisco turned to open source — specifically, Solr/Lucene technology — as the foundation of the search architecture.
Solr Development Case Study: resolutionfinder.org
When a governing body like the United Nations passes a resolution, a critical component in its success is ensuring that the actual content of the resolution is known to citizens in the affected regions and relevant NGOs. Even for the countries that participated in the decision, it can be challenging to keep all affected government bodies informed and up to date about decisions and how they evolve over time.
The resolutionfinder.org data repository uses Solr to facilitate access to UN Resolutions, so that anyone interested in a particular resolution can readily find its text.
E-Commerce Case Study: DollarDays Cashes In After Move to Solr
- Successfully transitioned from database search to commercial search to Solr
- Scaled search features quickly and flexibly with the growth of the business
- Quick, convenient index updating without heavy hardware footprint significantly reduces TCO
Case Study: Comcast Chooses Solr For New Entertainment Search Platform
Comcast Corporation is one of the largest providers of entertainment, information and communication products and services, with over 24 million cable customers, 15 million high-speed Internet customers, and 6.5 million phone customers. Its Comcast Interactive Media (CIM) division is chartered to develop and grow the company's Internet businesses. CIM’s Fancast.com–an extensive on-line video collection of television shows, movies, trailers and clips–gets over 10 million unique users per month. Users can browse and search across the site’s 4M+ content items to find the entertainment they want.
Case Study: The Motley Fool Migrates from Google Search Appliance to Apache Solr/Lucene Open Source Search
The Motley Fool's award-winning website, Fool.com, publishes hundreds of articles each week, with over four million unique visitors and 11 million sessions per month. They chose to replace their Google Search Appliance with Solr -- and hired Lucid Imagination to ensure successful implementation. “Lucene and Solr can definitely do what any commercial or proprietary search tool can do - certainly as well, or better, “ says Chad Wolfsheimer, VP of Technical Operations, Fool.com.
Case Study: Boomi Unlocks the Cloud with Solr
- Fast growing cloud integration company delivers Platform-as-a-Service for integration of on-premise and cloud-based business process apps
- Solr-based search monitors and maintains customer application logs for service level and transaction tracking
- One instance of Solr utilized for multi-tenant platform, delivering application monitoring and analytics securely directly to Boomi customers
- Met aggressive speed and scale goals, with index commits of new data at 5 seconds or less and scale up to 20 million new index entries per day
Case Study: Online Auto Site uses Solr to find revenue
- Accelerated migration from legacy proprietary search solution to Solr in 30 days
- Optimized search strategy with help from Lucid Imagination by refining data and document structures, reducing search field count by 200x
- Fine-grained control of search relevance drives revenue increase by keeping customers on-site
Case Study: Streamlining and Standardizing Open Source Search
Lucid Imagination helped a large not-for-profit research institute streamline and standardize their Solr search implementation with:
- On-site benchmark and analysis of Solr search framework and custom code modules
- Best practices recommendations on scalable architecture and overall efficiencies
- Guidance and assistance on setting up a replicated search environment
Case Study: Solr Migration and Consolidation For Online Search and Advertising Company
Lucid Imagination helped an online search and advertising company move to Solr from a proprietary commercial search platform:
- Migrated search to Solr by replacing a commercial solution and returning search application support to in-house resources
- Consolidated search footprint from over 130 servers to about 2 dozen
- Provided guidance on integrating Web 2.0 data into search results, such as user comments, reviews, and location
Publishing Case Study: McClatchy Interactive Employs Open Source Search
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McClatchy Company, the 3rd largest newspaper publisher in the US, is tacking into online new strategies in the face of stiff economic headwinds. Open source technologies help drive McClatchy's business model by minimizing the both capital and operational costs without compromise in customer experience. Solr has already helped McClatchy Interactive properties reduce costs dramatically, while improving on the same high quality of service to its online readers.
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McClatchy Company, the 3rd largest newspaper publisher in the US, is tacking into online new strategies in the face of stiff economic headwinds. Open source technologies help drive McClatchy's business model by minimizing the both capital and operational costs without compromise in customer experience. Solr has already helped McClatchy Interactive properties reduce costs dramatically, while improving on the same high quality of service to its online readers.