Sponsors

Lucid Imagination is the commercial company dedicated to Apache Lucene technology. The company provides value-added software, documentation, commercial-grade support, training, high-level consulting, and free certified distributions, for Lucene and Solr.

Lucid Imagination's goal is to serve as a central resource for the entire Lucene community and marketplace, to make enterprise search application developers more productive. Customers include AT&T, Sears, Ford, Verizon, Elsevier, Zappos, The Motley Fool, Macy's, Cisco, eBay and many other household names. Lucid Imagination is a privately held venture-funded company.

http://www.lucidimagination.com/

SHI has been providing enterprise search technology expertise and search driven solutions to industries, institutions and publishers for more than 15 years. SHI delivers consulting, implementation, migration expertise (from FAST ESP to Solr/Lucene) and support from embedded Lucene up to large business information portals and federated search solutions.

SHI implements knowledge management and ECM solutions with document-based workflows boosted by intelligent information search. For more information, visit www.shi-gmbh.com.

http://www.shi-gmbh.com

Sourcesense is the European Open Source consultancy and systems integrator that make sense of Open Source, with offices in UK, Netherlands and Italy.

Built around a number of well-established European players in Open Source, with a strong background in providing enterprise-class solutions based on Open Source components and a proven track record of participation in the most prominent and effective Open Source communities, Sourcesense helps customers leverage the advantages of Open Source with particular focus on Enterprise Content Management, Enterprise Search, Business Intelligence and Application Lifecycle Management.

By employing as many Open Source contributors as we can from Apache members to top JBoss Community contributors "We create customer value by and while contributing to the ecosystem".

http://www.sourcesense.com/en/events/eulucene2011.html

Headquartered in London, UK, Ixxus is a leading consultancy and system integration company specialising in the design, development and operational support of enterprise content management and search solutions, with a modern and innovative approach to project delivery.

Ixxus has designed and delivered websites, portals, intranets and document management systems to some of the world’s largest commercial organisations, and to both Central and Local Government in the UK.

http://www.ixxus.co.uk

Basis Technology provides software solutions in over twenty languages that power search, business intelligence, e-Discovery, and other enterprise applications. Our linguistic plug-ins for Solr and Lucene provide language support to rapidly create multilingual search-based applications.

Over 250 major firms -- including Amazon.com, Cisco, EMC, Fujitsu, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Microsoft, NEC, Oracle, and Symantec – rely on our suite of Rosette® linguistic components for language identification, multilingual search, entity extraction, and identity resolution.

Company headquarters are in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and offices are in the Washington DC area, San Francisco, and Tokyo.

http://www.basistech.com/

Findwise enables you to reach your business goals by maximizing the Findability of desired information. We have an impressive track record with over one hundred Findability customer solutions based on enterprise search technology. We have successfully implemented advanced user centric solutions such as: Knowledge management systems, Intranet and Extranet Findability, Federated search and more. Our current customers are located in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Dubai, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the UK.

Findwise is a vendor independent search expert with deep knowledge and experience from Apache Solr/Lucene as well as the leading enterprise search technology platforms: Autonomy IDOL, FAST ESP (a Microsoft subsidiary), Fast for Sharepoint, Google GSA, IBM OmniFind, Microsoft SharePoint and LucidWorks Enterprise. We take pride in offering a large number of unique search related skills in areas such as usability, linguistics, information management, Findability effect analysis and security. By combining our technical expertise and unique skills we can help you avoid common pitfalls, tailoring your Findability solution to create true user and business value, today and in the future. Will you be next to benefit from Findwise expertise?

http://www.findwise.com/

The Germany-based Retresco GmbH offers innovative solutions in the field of Semantic Search, Information Extraction and Content Classification. Retresco combines cutting-edge search technology with the latest semantic solutions. Our products automatically extracting relevant pieces of information from your content. We offer integrated, individual solutions for named entity recognition, keyword extraction and content classification problems.

http://www.retresco.de

Smartlogic is a software company that specializes in Content Intelligence. Smartlogic's Semaphore is a Content Intelligence Platform which complements an organization’s investments in Enterprise Search, Business Intelligence and Content Management to provide effective, rapid and accurate control of, and access to, unstructured content with a speed, accuracy and intelligence not achievable today through existing systems that are strained from soaring information volumes. Semaphore endows these systems with capabilities, such as taxonomy & ontology management, automatic classification and contextual navigation, so that organizations can better find, organize, process, monetize, control and govern unstructured content.

http://www.smartlogic.com/

EMC Corporation is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. We can help you design, build, and manage flexible, scalable, and secure information infrastructures. And with these infrastructures, you'll be able to intelligently and efficiently store, protect, and manage your information so that it can be made accessible, searchable, shareable, and, ultimately, actionable. In short, with an information in frastructure, you can avoid the potentially serious risks and reduce the significant costs associated with managing information, while fully exploiting its value for business advantage.

http://www.emc.com

IBM, with sales totaling $99.9 billion in 2010, is one of the world’s largest providers of information technology (hardware, software and services) and B2B solutions. It currently has a payroll of almost 400.000 employees and is active in over 170 countries.For more about IBM, visit: ibm.com/de/ibm/unternehmen/index.html
http://www.ibm.com