ESR Technology Overview
Enterprise Search Today
Enterprise Search is no longer just a search box on a web page - it is a platform on which companies are building advanced applications for both internal and external use. Enterprise Search today has become a key driving factor and is frequently used to meet the following business objectives:
- Help employees collaborate and work efficiently
- Grow partner business and royalties
- Generate revenue and grow customer base
- Meet compliance and regulatory requirements
- Provide timely competitive market and customer information
- Increase customer loyalty
- Provide 360 degree business intelligence
- IP and brand protection
- and many more applications that address business problems in all verticals
ESR Technologies offers comprehensive and advanced Enterprise Search and Retrieval solutions by leveraging a proven open source search platform, Lucene & Solr; and the open source community. In addition, the ESR Technologies R&D team is passionate about building the next generation search experience. ESR has developed innovative add-on technologies to the Lucene & Solr search platform - ESR Inductive Learning Engine (ILE) and ESR Data Integration Studio (DIS). Combining the power of ILE and DIS, ESR empowers developers from all industries to create their industry specific search driven applications.
Benefits to customers:
- Solidly architected, feature rich Enterprise Search that offers proven reliability, scalability, performance, and availability for your enterprise.
- Easy and fast configuration, installation, and integration.
- Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Total Cost of Acquisition (TCA) than commercial proprietary Enterprise Search products.
- Great leverage on open source community for better quality, future roadmap, and innovations to solve industry specific search related problems.
- Total transparency in the technology and product roadmap.
- End-to-end solution and service delivery.
In the current challenging economic conditions, companies are more cost sensitive. Many analysts have reported increasing momentum in the adoption of open source technologies in the Enterprise IT environment to meet demanding ROI requirements. With open source, large numbers of programmers unite to produce high quality code more quickly, getting high quality software faster to their respective markets at a significant reduced cost. In addition, open source solutions tend to offer a flexible, cost-effective alternative to proprietary applications.
Lucene & Solr, the open source technologies for Enterprise Search, have reached maturity and can offer a comparable feature set and functionalities to the existing established proprietary commercial enterprise solutions.
Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication, a web administration interface and many more features. It runs in a Java servlet container such as Tomcat. The Lucene search library currently ranks among the top 15 open source projects and is one of the top 5 Apache projects, with installations at over 4,000 companies. Lucene/Solr downloads have grown nearly 10x over the past three years, with a current run-rate of over 6,000 downloads a day . The Solr search server, which provides application builders a ready-to-use search platform on top of the Lucene search library, is the fastest growing Lucene sub-project. Apache Lucene/Solr offers an attractive alternative to the proprietary licensed search and discovery software vendors.
Here are some examples of Solr customers:
eTrade, Goldman Sachs, Disney, Apple, AT&T, CNET Channel, Mindquarry, VuFind
CNET Channel uses Solr for keyword and faceted search of its catalog (paid subscription required)
Mindquarry: an Open Source collaborative software for file sharing, task management, team collaboration, and Wiki editing.
VuFind: an Open Source Discovery Portal for libraries. Installations have been known to hold up to 25 million records.
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