Lucidworks Announces Lucene/Solr Revolution 2015

AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwired - Feb 10, 2015) - Lucidworks, the chosen search solution for the world's leading brands and companies, today announced its sixth annual Lucene/Solr Revolution, to take place at the Hilton Austin on October 13-16, 2015. The world's largest gathering of Lucene and Solr experts, users, developers and vendors, the two-day conference, preceded by two days of hands-on developer training, will discuss topics and trends of the next generation of search driving big data discovery and critical, everyday business decisions.

Conference sessions and tutorials will cover the latest developments in Lucene and Solr, providing developers and business leaders alike the opportunity to gain deeper understanding of open source search and the technologies surrounding it.

"As businesses amass more and more information, search is the only way to unlock Big Data's enormous potential, and Lucene/Solr Revolution brings together the experts who are bringing that future to life," Lucidworks CEO Will Hayes said. "Lucidworks founded the conference six years ago as part of its dedication to the Lucene/Solr community, providing a venue for users, developers and business decision makers to learn from leaders powering the next generation of search and big data technology."

Call for Speakers

Conference attendees will be able to take advantage of four days packed with in-depth professional training on Apache Lucene/Solr and a unique opportunity to learn from search experts in multiple educational tracks. The call for speakers opens this spring, and individuals are encouraged to submit proposals for technical talks that focus on Lucene/Solr in the enterprise, big data, case studies, large-scale search and data integration. For more information on abstract submissions, please contact revolution@lucidworks.com.

Lucidworks is the commercial sponsor of Lucene/Solr, one of the largest open source projects in the world. The company employs some of the foremost experts on Solr and has contributed 70 percent of the project's code, helping to improve and shape the direction of the most popular search software solution. Organizations like Macy's, American Express, Virginia Tech, ADP, Raytheon, Qualcomm, Ford, MapR, eHarmony and Cisco, among others, rely on Lucidworks to power search within their everyday operations.

Additional Resources

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About Lucidworks

Lucidworks builds enterprise search solutions for some of the world's largest brands. Fusion, Lucidworks' advanced search platform, provides the enterprise-grade capabilities needed to design, develop and deploy intelligent search apps -- at any scale. Companies across all industries -- from consumer retail and healthcare to insurance and financial services -- rely on Lucidworks every day to power their consumer-facing and enterprise search apps. Lucidworks' investors include Shasta Ventures, Granite Ventures, Walden International and In-Q-Tel. Learn more at lucidworks.com.