High-end Search Solutions

Open Source Search Solutions

FAST ESP is operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft and has consistently been recognised by market analysts, such as Gartner, to be industry leaders in search technologies. High-end solutions, such as this, offer advantages over open-source solutions particularly with regard to support for advanced document processing, document security and connectors. It must be noted that a high-end solution such as this one, can only be recognised as such, if it caters for advanced search and retrieval over all systems (File Systems, Databases, ECM, etc.) regardless of platforms (Linux, Microsoft, etc.). Therefore these high-end solutions are an option for most organisations with advanced search requirements, whether they have specific Microsoft strategies or not.

Open source is playing an increasingly prominent role in business solutions. This is also true in the search industry with the emergence of open source search products such as Lucene/Solr, which have a wide development and user base. As far as the software has progressed there are still core functional parts required to deliver a fully functional, feature rich search solution which are missing. To a large extent Knowledge Focus can fill that gap with custom solutions and expertise which can ensure an implementation, utilising open source strategies, which are sleek, professional and deliver on requirements.