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LucidWorks Selected as 2009 Trend-Setting Product by KMWorld Magazine
Lucid Imagination Honored for Redefining the Enterprise Search Market
| Source: Lucid Imagination
SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwire - August 26, 2009) - Lucid Imagination, a commercial
company dedicated to supporting open source Apache Lucene and Apache Solr search technologies,
today announced that LucidWorks, the company's certified distribution of
Solr, has been selected as a "2009 Trend-Setting Product of the Year" by
KMWorld Magazine. The recognition from KMWorld further validates that open
source Lucene/Solr search technologies continue to gain momentum as
enterprise search solutions. Competitive performance, functionality and low
price-point of Lucene/Solr offer a compelling alternative to expensive
traditional search products on the market.
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"This year's award program was extremely competitive, as more than 800
products were assessed by our judging panel, which consisted of analysts,
system integrators, vendors, line-of-business managers and users," said
Hugh McKellar, editor-in-chief, KMWorld. "Products honored as part of the
awards program clearly demonstrate identifiable technology breakthroughs,
and we are pleased to honor Lucid Imagination and its efforts in bringing
open source search to enterprises as part of this group."
Lucid Imagination's LucidWorks for Lucene and LucidWorks for Solr certified distributions are created to help
the application developers design and deploy Lucene/Solr based search
solutions quickly and cost-effectively. They include tested versions of the
Apache Lucene and Solr software based on the most recent stable releases,
with additional value-add components and tools, bug fixes and performance
enhancements. The LucidWorks certified distributions are not only free but
also come with a free 30-day Get Started program. When coupled with one of
Lucid Imagination's commercial SLA-based support subscriptions, and
Expert-link consulting services, certified distributions offer a risk-free
environment to develop, deploy, and maintain commercial-grade search
applications.
"We are honored to be recognized by the KMWorld's '2009 Trend-Setting'
awards program, especially at this early stage of our company," said Anil
Uberoi, CMO, Lucid Imagination. "We are committed to facilitating broader
adoption of Lucene/Solr technologies in enterprises by providing value-add
software and services to help them get the most out of Lucene/Solr -- the
world's most popular open source search software."
Over 4,000 organizations currently use Apache Lucene/Solr for their search
solutions, including companies like AOL, Apple, Netflix and Zappos.
Lucid Imagination also offers other value-add software and tools for Lucene
and Solr, free, such as:
LucidGaze for Lucene, a performance monitoring tool for Lucene
developed by Lucid Imagination. It uses innovative technology to reverse
engineer characteristics of the Lucene application and provide a framework
for developers to retrieve detailed data and statistics to improve
application management.
LucidGaze for Solr, a performance monitoring tool developed by
Lucid Imagination. It provides a framework to capture, store, interactively
view and compare various Solr performance metrics.
Both can be downloaded as part of the LucidWorks certified distributions or
standalone, free from the company's web site: www.lucidimagination.com
About Lucid Imagination
Lucid Imagination is a commercial company dedicated to Apache Lucene
technology. The company provides free certified distributions,
commercial-grade support, training, high-level consulting and value-added
software for Lucene and Solr. Lucid Imagination's goal is to serve as a
central resource for the entire Lucene community and make them more
productive. Lucid Imagination is a privately held venture-funded company.
The investors include Granite Ventures, Walden International and In-Q-Tel.
About KMWorld
KMWorld (www.kmworld.com) is the leading information provider serving the
Knowledge Management systems market and covers the latest in Content,
Document and Knowledge Management, informing more than 50,000 subscribers
about the components and processes -- and subsequent success stories --
that together offer solutions for improving business performance. KMWorld
is a publishing unit of Information Today, Inc. (www.infotoday.com)