Even in today's economic climate, free software is not enough. LucidWorks Enterprise helps make open source search cheaper than free by lowering your cost of growth. With its unique combination of scalability, flexibility, and reliability, LucidWorks Enterprise unlocks the true potential of highly-scalable, time-tested, widely-adopted Lucene/Solr technology.
How does LucidWorks Enterprise lower the cost of growth to cheaper than free?
Fast, Scalable Open Source Search
With LucidWorks Enterprise, full, transparent access is built in for the full set of Solr tools and APIs, unconstrained by closed commercial legacy licenses (or hidden behind opaque proprietary interfaces) – along integration of the best of Solr innovations, as curated and integrated by the experts at Lucid Imagination. Integrated scaling and availability management capabilities help run your search seamlessly in a distributed infrastructure, gives you the features you need to handle the ever-growing volume and diversity of documents, and eliminates barriers to growing your search application to open new market opportunities
Flexibility
With the unrelenting changes in documents and formats, LucidWorks Enterprise lets you build search applications quickly and streamline how you adapt your search solutions to new opportunites and new markets.
ReST APIs offer simplified reliable integration of search into enterprise infrastructure, ensuring that search applications can become a reliable, extensible component of business-critical technologies
A convenient, well-organized admin and configuration UI streamlines and accelerates addition of new data and tuning search features can be tuned more easily and quickly, eliminating time-consuming, mundane tasks and freeing developer cycles for building search solutions tailored to your business
A broad selection of client libraries lets you integrate your search solution with a range of client environments and developer skillsets, including JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, PHP, Java, Python, Perl , Forrest/Cocoon, C#, and ColdFusion. And, the server runs across any platform supporting Java, including Linux, Solaris, Windows & Mac, with search indexes portable across platforms.
The security model is built in into the foundations, and integrates with your existing infrastructure so that you can apply your policies to the search infrastructure of data, documents and roles
Reliable, timely services and solutions
Turn to the world-leading experts in Lucene/Solr open source and enterprise search at Lucid Imagination, for the advice, architecture, best practices, tuning and performance assistance, all ensure that you can continue to make the most of your investment in your search application, and consistently drive down the cost of growth.
Too many legacy commercial search vendors are costing too many companies too much money – with big hardware footprints, per-query and per-document charges, extra charges for unnecessary features and exorbitant license fees that penalize you as your content and user base grow. Now, with LucidWorks Enterprise, built on the power of Lucene/Solr open source search, there is a better way.
What could be safer than doing nothing?
After all, the software is free. Yet how can you manage the risks and make your open source search application development with Lucene/Solr predictable and reliable?
By offering the adaptive resilience of open source in a predictable solution tailored to the enterprise, Lucidworks Enterprise combines freedom and confidence in a cost-effective search solution platform. It integrates the full power, flexibility, and innovation of open source Apache Lucene/Solr in a well-organized, to address the needs of modern technology-driven organizations for stability, security, robust integration interfaces, smart defaults, predictable release schedules, and timely expert support resources available 24x7x365.
Go with proven technology
After almost 10 years of development to the exacting standards of open-source peer review and innovation, with deployment in a large, diverse, and demanding set of application use cases, Lucene is mature and proven technology. Over 4,000 companies have adopted Lucene/Solr to date, with successful Solr and Lucene deployments in mission critical environments including MySpace, AOL, Apple, Netflix, Zappos, Yelp, Comcast, AT&T, Salesforce.com, Macy's, Sears, Ford and thousands of others.
Build in reliability
With LucidWorks Enterprise, you get Lucene/Solr's multi-node, multi-core configurations redundant, for a distributed architecture that creates a solid foundation for development and deployment, plus management and monitoring interfaces unique to LucidWorks Enterprise, and robust interfaces that simplify change management and integration into your IT infrastructure.
Work with the experts
Whether you are ready for deployment of your application or need help in ensuring a rigorous, productive application development process, Lucid Imaginations subscriptions offers gives you access to Lucid Imagination’s deep bench of technical consultants, and our unmatched domain expertise across enterprise search and open source search technologies. The Lucid Imagination team has broad experience with large-scale website search applications reaching into billions documents across hundreds of customers, helping them leverage Lucene/Solr technology to meet requirements for high query volume, subsecond faceting response time, distributed indexing and searching, replication and high availability, and even with deploying search in a cloud environment. Our team also brings to the table significant hands-on experience in search optimization, fine tuning result relevance, deployment configuration, and retrieval performance.
Lucid Imagination has developed a rich portfolio of best practices, such as optimizing search result relevancy, based on a broad, diverse real-world deployments. We help customers with best practices consulting, assessments, and expert support to ensure your Lucene/Solr search applications meet and exceed your business and technical requirements. For your external-facing sites, better performance and relevancy help boost your conversion rates – and revenue generation – and keep you ahead of your competition. For internal sites, your users will get better and faster access to the information they need, unlocking productivity and giving your human capital a competitive edge.
With a LucidWorks Enterprise subscription, you get timely access to Lucid Imagination's deep expertise, adding critical depth to your efforts to build a search solution unique needs.
With our help, your Lucene/Solr search application development and deployment efforts can deliver optimized performance and achieve high-quality search results.