OpenSearchServer Revealed

October 31, 2011

In an exclusive interview, Raphael Perez, chief executive officer of OpenSearchServer, explains how his firm will further disrupt the traditional enterprise search market. (The full text of the interview is available on the ArnoldIT.com enterprise search subsite.

OpenSearchServer project started in a French B2B media group in 2007. The company was looking for a search solution. The project emerged when a group of engineers became frustrated with the commercial search solutions.

Raphael Perez said:

Because no available solution was available at a decent price or offering all wished features, decision were made to create an in-house solution as an open source project based on Lucene. Emmanuel Keller, then the chief information officer, led the projects, and after two years of work more than 12 applications were installed and providing high value results. In December 2009, Emmanuel purchased the rights of the solution and formed a company to develop the community and offer them high level professional services, support, community management. It was the start of the story.

Today OpenSearchServer is one of a number of firms using Lucene as a component of a commercial enterprise search solution. One of the value adds his engineering team has crafted is a Classifier. He told me:

One a major module our Enterprise customers appreciate is called Classifier. It brings a very innovative set of features for applications with automatic classifications, matching and that are very appreciated in many businesses. Offering this module helps us to bring a nice differentiation for customers. Also we offer log reporting tools and a SOAP Web service.

The firm has a number of clients, including a rich media firm, an investment firm, and the vehicle information vendor ETAI, an Infopro group company.

You can read the full text of the exclusive interview in the ArnoldIT.com enterprise search service, Search Wizards Speak. Search Wizards Speak is the largest collection of first person narratives about search, content processing, and analytics available without charge. There are more than 50 interviews available in the series.

For more information about OpenSearchServer, navigate to the company’s Web site.

Stephen E Arnold, October 31, 2011

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.