Building bridges in the Cloud with open source search
We’ve just published a case study on our work for C Spencer Ltd., a UK-based civil engineering company who take a pro-active approach to document management – instead of taking the default Sharepoint route or buying another product off the shelf, they decided to create their own in-house system based on open source components, hosted on the Amazon AWS Cloud. We’ve helped them integrate Apache Solr to provide full text search across the millions of items held in the document management system, with a sub-second response. Their staff can now find letters, contracts, emails and designs quickly via a web interface.
C Spencer are known for their innovative and modern approach – they’re even building their own green power station on a brownfield site in Hull. It’s thus not surprising that they chose cutting-edge open source technology for search: tracking and managing documents correctly is extremely important to their business.