Lucid Imagination and ISYS Search Software Enter into Strategic Partnership

Lucid Imagination, a company dedicated to supporting open source Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies, and ISYS Search Software, a global supplier of information access and discovery solutions for mining intelligence and corporate knowledge have entered into a strategic partnership.

 

The partnership is expected to help Lucid Imagination to provide enterprise-class solutions that combine its core Lucene and Solr expertise with the ISYS File Readers document filtering technology.

 

“The ability to use ISYS’ document filter technology offers a significant advantage to organizations considering open source Lucene/Solr to build reliable and scalable enterprise search solutions,” said Eric Gries, CEO of Lucid Imagination, in a statement. 

Gries said that search is a mission critical application for many organizations. The combination of ISYS File Readers and Lucene/Solr offers a best of breed solution for enterprises that do not want to be held back by lack of functionality and the high costs associated with proprietary search products from infrastructure and platform vendors. 

ISYS officials said that more than 4,000 organizations worldwide are already using the technology in a wide range of applications and markets.

 

With the enhancements made over the past three years, Lucene/Solr has emerged as a compelling alternative to proprietary licensed search and discovery software products. In addition to lower TCO, the flexibility of the architecture allows enterprises to develop highly sophisticated purpose-built search solutions to address their unique business challenges.

 

“The Lucid Imagination team has some of the most well-known committers to the Lucene/Solr project, and it is clear they are one of the driving forces in the development and growing popularity of open source search,” said Scott Coles, chief executive officer, ISYS Search Software.

 

Coles said that he sees the partnership with Lucid Imagination as a key win and a strategic move that provides the company’s customers with a wider, more robust range of development options for sophisticated information access, management and re-use.