Flax Blog » sharepoint http://www.flax.co.uk/blog Open source & enterprise search Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:56:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Building bridges in the Cloud with open source search http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2011/11/23/building-bridges-in-the-cloud-with-open-source-search/ http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2011/11/23/building-bridges-in-the-cloud-with-open-source-search/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:46:00 +0000 charlie http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/?p=667 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…

]]> 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.

]]> http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2011/11/23/building-bridges-in-the-cloud-with-open-source-search/feed/ 0 Not so FAST… http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2009/02/12/not-so-fast/ http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2009/02/12/not-so-fast/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:58:09 +0000 charlie http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/?p=35 Microsoft have announced a roadmap for their enterprise search products: none of this is very surprising. How successful they’ll be at integrating the FAST technology (which comes from a Linux background) with Sharepoint, .NET etc. remains to be seen.…

]]> Microsoft have announced a roadmap for their enterprise search products: none of this is very surprising. How successful they’ll be at integrating the FAST technology (which comes from a Linux background) with Sharepoint, .NET etc. remains to be seen. More coverage here.

They’ve also released an ‘Express’ (i.e., free but feature limited) version of Microsoft Search Server. We’re going to take a deeper look at this soon.

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