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Findwise Joins Lucid Imagination Global Partner Program for Enterprise Search

New partnership highlights growing adoption of Apache Lucene/Solr search technology around Europe

London, UK – May 12, 2010 – Findwise, a Scandinavian IT consultancy focused on search-driven Findability solutions utilising enterprise search technology, has expanded its solutions portfolio by joining the Global Partner Program led by Lucid Imagination, the commercial company for Apache Lucene/Solr search technology. This partnership agreement further demonstrates the growing momentum for Apache Lucene/Solr technology in Europe. Findwise has been selected as one of the seven inaugural reseller partners for Lucid Imagination worldwide and will offer Lucid Imagination’s products and support services across Scandinavia.

Findwise enables its customers to reach business goals by maximising the ‘Findability’ of information. Utilising the full potential of enterprise search technology, Findability creates value by enabling easy and secure access to desired information. The open source search technology offered through Lucid Imagination solutions enables Findwise to offer new and innovative search-enabled applications that deliver competitive advantage, scalability and cost economies to end customers. Companies such as The Halland County Council (Sweden), Kretsloppsrådet (The Ecocycle Council from Sweden), and Västra Götalandsregionen (second largest health care organisation in Sweden) have already benefitted from increased usability, functionality and performance of Apache Lucene/Solr.

“As a company specialising in Findability, it was a natural progression to join forces with Lucid Imagination. Our Northern European customers are mainly large, blue chip organisations with complex search demands. Their interest in open source search is growing rapidly; by working with Lucid Imagination we can now guarantee enterprise-class support for Apache Lucene/Solr solutions,” said Helge Legernes, Founding Partner, Findwise.

“Lucid Imagination has invested significant resources to develop local partnerships and grow its customer base in Europe.  We are therefore pleased to see a growing interest in the economics and the technological power of the Lucene/Solr enterprise search platform in the region. Findwise brings its unique expertise to the Lucene/Solr marketplace. With a reliable foundation of training, support subscriptions and support from Lucid, our partners can help their customers get competitive advantage from search,” said Eric Gries, CEO, Lucid Imagination.

Findwise is Platinum Sponsor of the Apache Lucene EuroCon 2010 presented by Lucid Imagination. The event takes place 18-21 May 2010 in Prague and is Europe's premier Lucene and Solr user conference. For more information please visit http://lucene-eurocon.org/.

About Findwise
Findwise enables you to reach your business goals by maximizing the Findability of desired information. We have an impressive track record with over sixty Findability customer solutions based on enterprise search technology. We have successfully implemented advanced user centric solutions such as: Knowledge management systems, Intranet and Extranet Findability, Federated search and more. Our current customers are located in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.

Findwise is a vendor independent search expert with deep knowledge and experience from Apache Solr/Lucene as well as the leading enterprise search technology platforms: LucidWorks Enterprise, Autonomy IDOL, FAST ESP (a Microsoft subsidiary), Google GSA, IBM OmniFind and Microsoft SharePoint. We take pride in offering a large number of unique search related skills in areas such as usability, linguistics, information management, Findability effect analysis and security. By combining our technical expertise and unique skills we can help you avoid common pitfalls, tailoring your Findability solution to create true user and business value, today and in the future. Will you be next to benefit from Findwise expertise?

About Lucid Imagination
Lucid Imagination is the commercial company dedicated to Apache Lucene technology. The company provides value-added software, documentation, commercial-grade support, training, high-level consulting, and free certified distributions, for Lucene and Solr. Lucid Imagination’s goal is to serve as a central resource for the entire Lucene community and marketplace, to make enterprise search application developers more productive. Customers include AT&T, Sears, Ford, Verizon, The Guardian, Elsevier, Zappos, The Motley Fool, Macy’s, Cisco and many other household names. Lucid Imagination is a privately held venture-funded company. The investors include Granite Ventures, Walden International, In-Q-Tel and Shasta Ventures.

Contact: 

For Findwise:
Helge Legernes
helge.legernes@findwise.se
+46 (0)31 288 400

For Lucid Imagination:
Alenka Gobec
AxiCom
alenka.gobec@axicom.com
+44 (0)20 8392 4058