Presentation of Norwegian based search consulting company Cominvent AS, focusing on Apache Solr/Lucene/ElasticSearch and other enterprise search and big data technology.

1. enterprise search specialists
Jan Høydahl

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Cominvent AS
Business critical search
Lucene, Solr, ElasticSearch
Domain knowledge, best practices
Consulting SupportTraining

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Jan Høydahl
1995: Developer telecom
1998: Java developer
2000: Search - FAST
2006: Lucene
2007: new Cominvent()
2009: Lucene/Solr
2011: Lucene committer
2012: Lucene PMC
> 100 projects

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Consulting
– Cominvent delivers independent search consulting
• Technology advice/evaluation
• Solution architecture, design & implementation
• Staff coaching
"For us, he gave a very valuable contribution to our
research on migration from commercial to open
source-based search technologies, providing first-
hand expert knowledge on the subject."
Kent Vilhelmsen, 1881.no

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Training
– Cominvent delivers training public and on-site
– Certified Solr and FAST instructor
www.solrtraining.com
www.lucenetraining.com
"Jan Høydahl's teaching had a good mix of
instruction and hands-on exercises. In particular we
would like to emphasize Jan Høydahl's ability to
include our own issues in the course. The training
session has been very beneficial"
Allan Forsberg, DBC

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Commercial Support
– Professional support agreement for Lucene/Solr
– Delivered in cooperation with OpenESN partners
– Read more: http://www.cominvent.com/support/

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Case study: e-Commerce
– Norwegian online book-store
– Microsoft based (EPI/SQL..)
– Selected Cominvent + Solr
– Designed new relevant search:
• Balanced relevancy between
author, title, metadata
• Best sellers and new-comers
compete for top-10
– Advanced auto-complete avoids
misspellings, shortens path to
target
– Helped increase conversion rate

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Case study: Archive search (FAST-Solr)
– Archiving product enabling search
in document archive
– Many huge installations (100m+)
– Used Microsoft FAST InStream as
OEM component on Linux
– Came to Cominvent when FAST
discontinued Linux support
– Helped them with pre-study,
architecture spec for migrating to
Solr including
• Multi lingual, adv. linguistics
• Parsing 100's of doc.formats
• FIXML->Solr without re-feed
• Much smaller index footprint!

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Case study: Online newspapers
– NHST Media Group (www.dn.no)
– News search for Norway's
leading financial newspaper DN
and seven other publications.
"Jan helped us migrate our
FAST based news search to
Solr, including solution
architecture and adapting our
Java based search middleware.
The new Solr powered search
performs better on less
hardware and has proven to be
a stable and robust solution."
Petter I. Gustafson

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Case study: Intranet & web-crawl
– University of Oslo (www.uio.no)
– 26 web sites crawled
– 48 web sites pushed from CMS
– PageRank™ and AnchorTexts
– Rank tuning tools
– Security filtered CMS results
– All common Office doc formats
– 100% open source
– Joint project with Atilika Inc.

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Thank You
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