Intranet Search – Flax http://www.flax.co.uk The Open Source Search Specialists Thu, 10 Oct 2019 09:03:26 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 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/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:46:00 +0000 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 the … More

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]]> 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.

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]]> Open source intranet search over millions of documents with full security http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2011/01/26/open-source-intranet-search-over-millions-of-documents-with-full-security/ http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2011/01/26/open-source-intranet-search-over-millions-of-documents-with-full-security/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:03:34 +0000 http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/?p=489 Last year my colleague Tom Mortimer talked about indexing security information within an open source enterprise search application, and we’re happy to announce more details of the project. Our client is an international radio supplier, who had considered both closed … More

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]]> Last year my colleague Tom Mortimer talked about indexing security information within an open source enterprise search application, and we’re happy to announce more details of the project. Our client is an international radio supplier, who had considered both closed source products and search appliances, but chose open source for greater flexibility and the much lower cost of scaling to indexes of millions of documents.

Using the Flax platform, we built a high-performance multi-threaded filesystem crawler to gather documents, translated them to plain text using our own open source Flax Filters and captured Unix file permissions and access control lists (ACLs). User logins are authenticated against an LDAP server and we use this to show only the results a particular user is allowed to see. We also added the ability to tag documents directly within the search results page (for example, to mark ‘current’ versions, or even personal favourites) – the tags can then be used to filter future results. Faceted search is also available.

You can read more about the project in a case study (PDF) and Tom’s presentation slides (PDF) explain more about the method we used to index the security information.

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]]> http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2011/01/26/open-source-intranet-search-over-millions-of-documents-with-full-security/feed/ 5 Enterprise search – for free http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2009/07/10/enterprise-search-for-free/ http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2009/07/10/enterprise-search-for-free/#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:06:13 +0000 http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/?p=172 We recently helped a small marine consultancy, running a Windows network, implement a completely free enterprise search solution. Even SMEs are now finding it hard to keep on top of the information they produce, and there are few low-cost options … More

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]]> We recently helped a small marine consultancy, running a Windows network, implement a completely free enterprise search solution. Even SMEs are now finding it hard to keep on top of the information they produce, and there are few low-cost options for searching their documents. Read the case study here (PDF).

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]]> http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2009/07/10/enterprise-search-for-free/feed/ 0 Perl client for Flax Search Server http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2009/07/01/perl-client-for-flax-search-server/ http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2009/07/01/perl-client-for-flax-search-server/#respond Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:54:05 +0000 http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/?p=160 Flax Search Server now has a Perl client, thanks to the guys at Cognidox, who have blogged about why they needed to improve the search facility for their powerful document management system.

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]]> Flax Search Server now has a Perl client, thanks to the guys at Cognidox, who have blogged about why they needed to improve the search facility for their powerful document management system.

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