LucidWorks Advances Open Source Search at Worldwide Events

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LucidWorks, the company transforming the way people access information, today announced a number of speaking appearances and product demonstrations taking place throughout June, 2013. As data types and demands become more complex, companies of all sizes increasingly rely on search-enabled applications to sharpen their competitive edge with data-driven insights. LucidWorks' experts will speak at online and offline events, share best practices and demonstrate product use cases in a continued effort to meet growing demand worldwide for knowledge about Lucene/Solr open source search.

"Most organizations now recognize they must deploy search-enabled applications if they want to successfully leverage data for competitive gain," said Paul Doscher, CEO of LucidWorks. "This makes it essential for developers to get the information they need to choose the right technology for deploying applications with the scalability and stability that's required to stand up against the rigors of full-scale deployment. Because LucidWorks is backed by the world's strongest and most active open source search community, developers can be confident their applications will stand the test of time."  

LucidWorks appearances in June, 2013, include:

Berlin Buzzwords, Kulturbrauerei, Berlin
June 3-5
Grant Ingersoll, chief technology officer and co-founder of LucidWorks, presents "Crowd-sourced intelligence built into Search over Hadoop"

Apache Solr/Lucene Community Meetup, Bangalore, India
June 8
Join Lucene/Solr and LucidWorks speakers for the very first Lucene/Solr meetup in Bangalore.

San Francisco Bay Area Apache Solr/Lucene Community Meetup, San Francisco, Calif.
June 10
Guest speaker Patricia Gorla, systems analyst at Opensource Connections, will join host LucidWorks to explore the benefits of pairing the distributed data store Cassandra with a full-text Solr search engine with the Datastax Enterprise Search platform.

Red Hat Summit, Boston, Mass.
June 11-12
LucidWorks will exhibit, offering live product demonstrations at the company's booth.

Lucene Meetup in São Paulo, Brazil
June 11
Erik Hatcher, senior solutions architect and co-founder of LucidWorks, and Leo Oliveira, co-founder of Semantix, will detail what's new in Solr 4.4.

DataStax Cassandra Summit, Fort Mason Conference Center, San Francisco, Calif.
June 11-12
LucidWorks will exhibit and sponsor this premier global conference for the Apache Cassandra community.

Operationalize Enterprise Analytics: Similarity Search at Any Scale Webinar
June 25
Grant Ingersoll, chief technology officer at LucidWorks, will join representatives from MapR and Knowlegent to address similarity search and share examples including:

• How to build a platform where enterprise analytics can be operationalized
• Why search and similarity analytics is foundational across the enterprise
• Which organizational capabilities it enables with broad applicability

Hadoop Summit, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, Calif.
June 26-27
LucidWorks will exhibit, sponsor and  provide product demonstrations at the leading conference for the Apache Hadoop community.

Additional Resources:

• Learn more about LucidWorks' enterprise-grade search development platforms at these industry events.
• Catch the replay of Yonik Seeley's most recent webinar on Solr 4, the NoSQL Search Server.
• See what all of the buzz was about at this year's #LuceneSolrRev conference. Follow  @LuceneSolrRev to find session content and get updates on next year's event, or visit http://lucenerevolution.org/
• Join our conversations on Twitter @LucidWorks and Facebook
• Watch the future of search unfold on the LucidWorks blog
• Read the latest information and views about Apache Lucene/Solr at http://www.SearchHub.org

About LucidWorks
LucidWorks transforms the way people access information to enable data-driven decisions. LucidWorks is the only company that delivers enterprise-grade search development platforms built on the power of Apache Lucene/Solr open source search. Employing one quarter of the Core Committers to the Apache Lucene/Solr project, LucidWorks is the largest supporter of open source search in the industry. LucidWorks Search delivers unmatched scalability to billions of documents, with sub-second query and faceting response time. LucidWorks Big Data tightly integrates key Apache projects needed to build and deploy applications requiring access to multi-structured data. Customers include AT&T, ADP, Sears, Ford, Verizon, Cisco, Zappos, Raytheon, The Guardian, The Smithsonian Institution, The Motley Fool, Qualcomm, Taser, eHarmony and many other household names around the world. LucidWorks' investors include Shasta Ventures, Granite Ventures, Walden International and In-Q-Tel. Learn more about the company at http://www.lucidworks.com/.

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