LucidWorks Certifies on Pivotal to Accelerate Smarter Data Driven Applications with the Power of Enterprise Search

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- LucidWorks, the company transforming the way people access information, today announced the support of Pivotal HD by LucidWorks Search to help accelerate the adoption of Big Data initiatives across the enterprise. As organizations struggle to develop relevant data-driven applications, the integration will give customers the ability to leverage LucidWorks on Pivotal HD and quickly transform into data-driven decision makers regardless of the scale or velocity of data.

"Enterprises of all sizes continue to look for methods that balance quick access to relevant data with easy-to-develop data driven applications that give users new capabilities to drive their businesses forward," said Paul Doscher, CEO of LucidWorks. "Today's announcement bridges big data development efforts with end users' desire for simplified and streamlined functionality. Now there is a combined solution that unifies search and scalability with a robust data offering, making it easier than ever to build data-driven applications."

LucidWorks Search and Pivotal HD together provide more scalable and powerful search capability across the world's leading enterprise Hadoop distribution. The comprehensive solution enables customers to reduce the time to implement and offer enterprise search capabilities to customers. End consumers of these applications will be able to decrease the time it takes to gain insights from data, and focus more time on building growth and profitability in their core businesses.

Additionally, LucidWorks and Pivotal will deliver a LucidWorks reference architecture. This provides a more advanced set of features that are also much easier to use and implement for developers and administrators.

"Modern enterprises must leverage data, applications and analytics at increased velocity to effectively compete in today's business environment," said David Menninger, head of business development and strategy, Pivotal.  "Pivotal HD's focus to redefine the high-end of the big data marketplace is a perfect match with the linear scalability of LucidWorks Search, to search and deliver contextually relevant information instantly for better decisions."

About LucidWorks, Inc
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' investors include Shasta Ventures, Granite Ventures, Walden International and In-Q-Tel. Learn more about the company at http://www.lucidworks.com/. LucidWorks and Lucene/Solr Revolution are registered trademarks of LucidWorks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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