Lucene/solr - For Simple and Powerful Enterprise Searches

Legacy commercial search applications can only add to hidden costs and constraints, thereby making it cumbersome for organizations to innovate and adapt. Today, since organizations are becoming global in their operations they require strong control over their enterprise searches. This can help to acceleration in scale and diversity of their data and documents.

In order to cover up all the disadvantages enterprise users are now looking up to Apache Lucene or Solr open source search engines. These tools are highly useful to gain competitive advantage by building enterprise search applications that deliver high speed, highly versatile, and relevant enterprise search results.

The enterprise open source search Solr has rich interfaces and comfortable server packaging of the underlying Apache Lucene search libraries into web service interfaces coupled with limitless customizability. This helps users to take control of their own searches. The open source Apache Solr search engine is able to provide highly efficient, proficient search application development technology that allows enterprises to take full control of their enterprise search needs.

Solr has been touted as the best tool to manage ever growing volume and variety of data and documents to the advantage of enterprise business. Solr has great functions available for use to boost relevance based on the content of a field. Solr is actually the right tool for enterprises that specialize in e-commerce to content management.

It is widely understood that it is highly critical for all enterprises to find the right information at the right time to be able to create a winning investment strategy using an enterprise search engine. Recently a multimedia financial-services company, The Motley Fool, worked with Lucene solution providers to efficiently migrate from a closed commercial solution to the versatile and efficient Apache Lucene and Solr open source search.

It has been reported that this financial services was able to completely take control of their search technology as soon as they migrated to Lucene/Solr open source search - and were able to dramatically improve search relevancy, speed, versatility and costs.