Lucene Solr Revolution Lives up to the Name
April 2, 2013
The upcoming Lucene/Solr Revolution Conference is highly anticipated by open source devotees. Sponsored by LucidWorks, the spring conference will focus on interactive experiences with developers and IT leaders. Market Watch gives the full details in their story, “Lucene/Solr Revolution Catalyzes Open Source Search Industry.”
The article begins:
“LucidWorks, the company transforming the way people access information, today announced that leaders from Linkedin, bitly and the Lucene/Solr Project Management Committee (PMC) will keynote the sixth annual Lucene/Solr Revolution Conference. The event will take place April 29 – May 2, 2013 at The Westin in San Diego, California. As the world’s largest gathering of Lucene/Solr innovators, the conference helps set the agenda for breakthrough uses of search. Unprecedented attendance is anticipated, reflecting the ever-accelerating adoption of Lucene/Solr. “
LucidWorks offers LucidWorks Search and LucidWorks Big Data, both built on the power of Lucene and Solr. By capitalizing on open source infrastructure, LucidWorks can provide agile and cost effective solutions. In addition to sponsoring professional development opportunities such as this conference, LucidWorks also employees one quarter of the committers on the Lucene/Solr development project. Their commitment to the future of open source is sincere and longstanding.
Emily Rae Aldridge, April 2, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
XTIVIA Sponsors Gartner Portals
April 1, 2013
The Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit 2013, is just around the corner. Taking place in San Diego, this year’s theme is “Engage at the Nexus of Social, Mobile, Information and Cloud.” PR.com offers the full press release in, “XTIVIA, Inc. is a Proud Silver Sponsor of the Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit 2013.”
The release begins:
“XTIVIA, Inc., a Liferay Platinum Partner and the 2012 Liferay North America Partner of the Year, is a proud Silver Sponsor of the Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit 2013, Booth 411, taking place in San Diego, CA on April 29 – May 1, 2013. XTIVIA has been providing content management, collaboration, and web portal solutions to its customers for over a decade, leveraging best-of-breed products and technologies. XTIVIA has been working with Liferay Portal since 2006.”
Liferay Portal has been making headlines lately for their innovation and collaboration efforts. However, some users just need a simple out-of-the-box solution to get their immediate enterprise needs in order. For those organizations, LucidWorks might offer a strong option. Ready to go without lengthy customization or implementation, LucidWorks is still highly customizable. Perhaps most importantly, LucidWorks backs up their offerings with top-notch customer support and training.
Emily Rae Aldridge, April 1, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
Sinequa Hosts Big Data Roundtable
March 18, 2013
Sinequa will participate in Documentation 2013 at La Défense in Paris, France. This conference is a nexus for professionals and senior managers who are looking for ways to improve their information systems. The focus is on Big Data. Sinequa is located in Booth G12.
At the show, Sinequa will be demonstrating its unified information access platform. The co9mpany’s solution is based on a powerful search engine. The system is designed to handle larger volumes of data from various sources.
Participating in the Big Data Roundtable in the Thematic Conference room on Wednesday 20 March at 11h30 pm for a debate on the subject of “Enterprises facing Big Data: How to deal with vast volumes of heterogeneous data and extract useful information from it?”
Participants will be Hans-Josef Jeanrond, Marketing Director, Sinequa; Frédéric Brajon, Digital Information Strategy Director, CGI Business Consulting; and Mountaha Ndiaye, Regional Channel Sales & Alliances manager, EMC².
Sinequa is one of the leaders in the market of Enterprise Search and Unified Information Access, one of the technologies included the emerging Big Data market. The company provides large enterprises and administrations with the means to tame the complexity of their structured and unstructured data and to extract value from large volumes of very heterogeneous data. More information about Sinequa is available at www.sinequa.com.
Stephen E Arnold, March 18, 2013
Sponsored by HighGainBlog
Conference Brings Cloud Startups to Paris
March 5, 2013
Open source themed conferences are surging in popularity. In addition to the strong open source community maintained by online communities like SearchHub, conferences are another meaningful way to get like-minds together and innovate quickly and effectively. A similar cloud computing themed conference is making its way across the pond with the CloudConf this summer in Paris. Rude Baguette gives the highlights in, “CloudConf brings Heroku, Elastic Search, dotCloud, and Hadoop to Paris June 7th.”
The article says:
“The latest event brought to you by dotConferences, CloudConf brings together speakers form the world’s leading cloud startups to speak about the most important topics in Cloud Computing. The event will feature Noah Zoschke of Heroku, who came out to Paris last month as well for UXD4Startups, as well as Shay Banon, the creator of Elastic Search, which just announced a $24 Million fundraising. Solomon Hykes, founder of dotCloud, will also be present, with dotCloud being (one of) the only French startup(s) to have gone through Y-Combinator.”
Last week, North American open source fans enjoyed one of the best conferences available at ApacheCon. LucidWorks is a recurring sponsor. As a major player in the open source enterprise solution field, LucidWorks recognizes the value of investing in the developer community. Stronger code leads to stronger value-added solutions.
Emily Rae Aldridge, March 5, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
Get An Oracle Education
March 1, 2013
Oracle developers will be glad to know that there are a lot of educational opportunities in 2013. Eon: Enhances Online News posted, “Oracle Applications Users Group Announces Educational Series 2013.” The Oracle Applications Users Group is the world’s largest database on Oracle Applications generated by users. The group is launching two virtual e-learning series: “Oracle EBS A to Z: A Deep Dive Educational Series,” Feb. 18-22, and the “Best of OAUG Connection Point® – EPM/BI,” Feb. 25-March 1.
The Best of OAUG Connection Point focuses on content discusses at the 2012 ORAUG conference, including: Oracle Analytic Applications, Oracle BI, and Endeca. If you would prefer something newer and about Oracle E-Business Suite, the Oracle EBS A to Z has what you need:
“OAUG members are invited to ask questions and discuss their concerns directly with Oracle developers and executives during this five-day interactive series. Each day highlights new topics, including Oracle Projects, Oracle E-Business Suite Human Capital Management, Oracle E-Business Suite Technology Certification Primer and Roadmap, Oracle E-Business Suite integration best practices, Oracle E-Business Suite Extensions for Oracle Endeca Information Discovery, Oracle E-Business Suite maintenance, Oracle Advanced Procurement and security.”
Take note that OAUG is incorporating Endeca into these two series. The main goal of the 2013 OAUG Educational series is to help developers locate information and support on issues they will handle on a daily basis. Endeca, as one of Oracle’s newest acquisitions, is one of those.
Whitney Grace, March 01, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
ApacheCon North America Begins This Week
February 25, 2013
ApacheCon North America begins tomorrow, one of the most exciting events in open source each year. An annual event since 1999, this year’s conference is in Portalnd, Oregon. LXer gives a preview in their story, “ApacheCon North America 2013 Only a Few Days Away.”
The article begins:
“The main conference and expo takes place 26 February-28 February 2013. The conference theme is “Open Source Community Leadership Drives Enterprise-Grade Innovation. Conference highlights include keynotes (http://na.apachecon.com/keynotes/) by open source authorities:
• 26 February @9:15am: Theo Shlossnagle, OmniT – Scaling: Lessons Learned and Their Applications to Apache Culture • 27 February @9:15am: Steve Holden, The Open Bastion – Building New Communities • 28 February @9:00am: Luke Kanies, Puppet Labs – Growing Authentic Communities”
In addition to the keynotes listed above, there will be hands-on trainings and conference sessions to cover topics such as Big Data, Hadoop, CloudStack, and the Apache HTTP Server. To view the complete schedule, visit http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/. LucidWorks is a major sponsor of this important annual event. Follow @ApacheCon on Twitter for live happenings.
Emily Rae Aldridge, February 25, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
ApacheCon Keynotes Announced
February 12, 2013
ApacheCon is the premier open source software conference, highlighting the Apache Software Foundation. This year’s conference will be held from February 24th to March 2nd in Portland, Oregon. Exciting keynote speakers have just been announced for this year’s upcoming conference. Read more in the MarketWatch article, “ApacheCon North America 2013 — Conference Keynotes Announced.”
The article begins:
“The Apache Software Foundation announces ApacheCon Keynotes (http://na.apachecon.com/keynotes/) by thought leaders Theo Shlossnagle, OmniTI; Steve Holden, The Open Bastion and Luke Kanies, Puppet Labs. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), established in 1999, oversees 150+ Apache projects led by a volunteer community of over 350 individual Members and 3,000 Committers across six continents. Apache powers half the Internet, terabytes of data, teraflops of operations and billions of objects. Its aim is to shepherd, develop, and incubate Open Source innovations.”
Sponsors of this year’s conference include: Citrix, Hortonworks, Red Hat, IBM, and LucidWorks among others. LucidWorks is a consistent investor in the Apache Software Foundation, offering support, training, and value-added software for Apache Lucene and Solr. LucidWorks also employs a record number of Apache Lucene/Solr committers. Regardless of your needs, LucidWorks has a solution that will benefit your enterprise.
Emily Rae Aldridge, February 12, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
Strata Conference Focuses on Big Data
January 21, 2013
Big Data is going to be the focus of 2013, particularly when it comes to open source innovation. O’Reilly Strata Conference 2013 is devoted to Big Data and pressing complimentary issues like: enterprise IT, design, Hadoop, open source and law, and applications. Read more at the official conference promotion site, “Tap into the Collective Intelligence of the Best Minds in Data.”
The conference promises the following:
“The future belongs to those who understand how to collect and use their data successfully. And that future happens at Strata. The breadth and depth of expertise at Strata is unsurpassed—with over 120 speakers and 100 presentations and events, you’ll find solutions to your most pressing data issues. The conference program covers strategy, technology, and policy.”
The conference will take place February 26 – 28, 2013 in Santa Clara, California. Register now for the early discount. For those who cannot attend, still check out the options to connect with the community via the website. Also, for those who are interested in the best Big Data solution for their organization’s enterprise, a deeper look into LucidWorks Big Data may be in order. It is leading the field in Big Data for enterprise, standing firmly on the trusted name of LucidWorks, a leader in open source for enterprise for years.
Emily Rae Aldridge, January 21, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
ApacheCon 2013 Not to be Missed
December 18, 2012
The 25th edition of ApacheCon North America will take place in late February of 2013. The conference exhibits and celebrates the work of the Apache Software Foundation. The conference’s theme will be, “Open Source Community Leadership Drives Enterprise-Grade Innovation.”
Read more about the program offerings of the conference in the Global Newswire piece, “ApacheCon North America Announces ‘Open Source Community Leadership Drives Enterprise-Grade Innovation.’”
The press release says:
“The 25th edition of the ASF’s popular conference and community series will take place 24 February-2 March 2013 at the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower in Portland, Oregon, with the following agenda:
24-25 February: pre-conference trainings, BarCamp, and Hackathon activities
26-28 February: main conference + expo, evening events, BOFs, and MeetUps
1-2 March: post-conference sprints, workshops, and team building events”
ApacheCon is not to be missed by those who understand the importance of open source software and its effects on the rest of the technology industry. The importance of open source cannot be understated. Open source components are the building blocks of the next generation of technologies. Also, companies like LucidWorks make open source immediately beneficial to the masses through intuitive out-of-the-boxes solutions.
Emily Rae Aldridge, December 18, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
Lucene Revolution Headed for San Diego
December 12, 2012
The fourth installation of the open source search conference Lucene Revolution is headed to San Diego in 2013. LucidWorks continues to be the primary sponsor of the event. The call for speakers is still open and details are included in the full announcement, “Lucene Revolution 2013 to be held in San Diego.”
The release begins:
“Lucene Revolution 2013 will take place at The Westin San Diego on April 29 – May 2, 2013. Many of the brightest minds in open source search will convene at this 4th annual Lucene Revolution to discuss topics and trends driving the next generation of search. The conference will be preceded by two days of Apache Lucene, Solr and Big Data training. The call for speakers opens on November 12, 2012.”
The program will focus on Lucene and Solr training as well as tackling the issue of Big Data in the enterprise. Open source software has a key role to play in these discussions, make sure you are a part of this networking opportunity for developers and end-users alike. Register, or find more details about the event, at LuceneRevolution.org.
Emily Rae Aldridge, December 12, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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