Lucene/Solr Revolution 2017

In the past, Sandia National Labs has used several COTS products for enterprise search. A few years ago the decision was made to abandon all COTS Enterprise Search products and use Solr and custom in-house developed applications for our enterprise search needs. The enterprise search marketplace has changed since that decision was made and the expectations of our search users have grown dramatically, making it hard for us to keep up with expectations. Lucidworks Fusion looked to us like a viable product that could be used to help us achieve our enterprise search goals at a reasonable cost. We conducted a three month "Proof of Concept" study to evaluate Lucidworks Fusion against our current and projected future requirements. This talk will discuss how we evaluated Lucidworks Fusion, what we looked at in terms of our requirements, and the results of our evaluation.