It requires arming developers with the knowledge of those most familiar with the users - marketing, content curators, and domain experts. Flax can help you build an effective search team from across the business, develop a search strategy and tune your site search. A series of guest blog posts written by Karen Rensha...
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A common complaint from our clients is how difficult it is to find staff with experience of search applications and in particular Apache Lucene/Solr or Elasticsearch. With the explosive growth of open source search over the last few years, there simply aren't enough people on the market with the right skills and...
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This week's London Lucene/Solr Meetup was hosted by asset management company BlackRock who also provided our first speakers. BlackRock manages an astonishing $4.7 trillion in assets (that's more than the GDP of Germany) and operates 90 different websites with around 250,000 content items, so a good and accurate website search engine is essenti...
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Arachnys provides instant worldwide due diligence with risk, KYC and AML information in over 200 countries refined, consolidated and translated in real time.
"Flax came into our search-overhaul project at a crucial moment, when most approaches we'd tried had turned out to be dead ends. After one day we had a new direction we hadn't considered and proof that it could perform. After a few weeks we had a working skeleton of our new search...
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Flax, working with our partners Intranet Focus Ltd, assisted the Office for National Statistics (ONS) with a strategic review of their website search facility as part of a major redesign project. The ONS blogged about the process here (including a Read more
If you're planning a new search project or migrating from a legacy search engine and need to decide which technology might be appropriate, let us help.
As Flax is independent of any vendor, we can provide an entirely neutral viewpoint, backed by decades of experience. We can help you evaluate technologies such as Apache Lucene, Apache Solr and Elasticsearch and decide on the best choice for your use case. If you'd like to know more about the current search market you can watch a brief ...
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Flexible support and training for Lucene/Solr and Elasticsearch delivered by experts
We can provide classroom-based training either on-site or at a venue convenient for you. We can customise the content for developers, management and support staff. We can also provide detailed one-to-one training from our expert developers, for those starting an open source search project. Training is delivered by domain experts who are active in the open source community.
When you ask Flax for supp...
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We can develop customised solutions to fit your requirements perfectly, working as a key part of your team.
We can design and build a complete search solution for you, or develop components as part of a larger system. Our consultants are highly experienced and have a wide range of experience of programming languages, platforms and hosting solutions. We are happy to work independently or in larger teams.
If you are upgrading an existing search engine we are confident we can match and...
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Although it's still high summer here in the UK (which means it's probably raining) we're already looking forward to the autumn and the events across the world we're attending. In early September we're running another free to attend London Lucene/Solr Usergroup Meetup, sponsored this time by Blackrock who are talking about using Solr for websites. At the end of Septem...
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