Enterprise Search Offers Open Source Alternative

The enterprise search has been conquered by commercial vendors and their products. There are certain good open source alternative like Apache Solr and Apache Lucene which is the enterprise search based on server. It is an application of information retrieval technology to furnish information within organization. It includes different steps like collecting content, indexing the retrieved content and making it searchable.

1. ·         Gathering Content: The basic thing that is to be done is to make sure that the data that is required to be searched can be retrieved irrespective of its location. There are several open source tools but Lucene Connector Framework is the most reliable tool available. It can be used in crawling a website and other sources of information also.
2. ·         Data Extraction: After collecting relevant data the next step is to make it searchable this is done by altering the format of data by indexing with the help of search engine. There are many alternatives present to achieve this suiting the needs of the enterprise. The first alternative present is Lucene which is a tool kit designed for the extraction of metadata from different pattern? This enables to send data in natural form to Lucene and extracting the right content in indexed form.
3. ·         Searching the Content: The next step is to assure that the user can search the index source with the help of algorithms and ranking done by Lucene. The advantage of open source search is that it easy functionality of the default data with custom logic. It uses whole stock of functionality in addition to facetted navigation. It also attracts maximum number of user with minimum efforts.

The enterprise that uses enterprise search solutions should consider Lucene and the technologies related to it.  The basic advantage of using this is that it is an open source which does not includes license fees.

It is very helpful in management of the business process because in organization there are many files and documents and to get a particular document or a file is a difficult task. This application is used commonly in all domains like business, shopping, software etc. in business it is useful in maintaining records that enables finding data without wasting a second. Similarly in shopping it assists in handling queries about the products in no time. In travelling it guides in going through packages and tours. It is just like any universal search on Google or any other search engine.