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Participating Companies

Atilika Inc.

Atilika helps Japanese companies improve or transform their businesses using search and related technologies through business and technology consulting. We have expertise in search and recommendation engines, computational linguistics, data mining and in applying these technologies to business problems in news media, publishing and e-commerce. We also do our own R&D and we enjoy innovating in partnership with our customers and bringing these innovations to customer services and solutions. Our technology portfolio includes Microsoft/FAST ESP (Enterprise Search Platform), Apache Solr/Lucene, Hadoop, Mahout, Basis Technology’s Rosette linguistics platform, Java, Linux and other Open Source technologies. We are partners of Basis Technology, Rondhuit and Search Apps.

Endeca Technologies Inc.

Endeca is a leading provider of search applications. Search applications built on Endeca’s technology deliver the clearest visibility into information, driving hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings and increased revenue for our customers. Powering these solutions is Endeca’s Information Access Platform, a major enterprise search innovation based on a fundamentally new architecture for building high-ROI applications that let users access any data from anywhere any way they need it. With this improved information visibility, customers make better choices, and employees better decisions. More than 250 million end users around the world access information through Endeca solutions, which are in use at more than 600 leading organizations including: ABN AMRO, Boeing, Cox Newspapers, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Dell, Ford Motor Company, Hyatt, IBM, John Deere, the Library of Congress, Texas Instruments, and Walmart.com.

Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Endeca has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information: endeca.com, info@endeca.com, or @endeca on Twitter.

Lucid Imagination

Lucid Imagination is the first commercial entity exclusively dedicated to Apache Lucene/Solr open source technology. As an active participant in the enormous community using Lucene/Solr, Lucid Imagination offers certified distributions of Lucene and Solr, commercial-grade support, training, high-level consulting and value-added software extensions. The company’s web site serves as a knowledge portal for the Lucene community, with information and resources to help developers build and deploy Lucene-based solutions in a more efficient and cost-effective manner. The Lucid Imagination founding team consists of several key contributors and committers to the Lucene project, as well as experts in enterprise search application development.

NEC BIGLOBE, Ltd.

In this era of cloud computing, Biglobe is helping our customers realize their dreams through personalized Internet services. Through the development of three lines of business – ISP, broadband media, and infrastructure/service platforms – we are building a future Internet that fulfills our customer’s wants and makes life easier and more convenient.

NTT Resonant Inc.

“goo,” operated by NTT Resonant, is Japan’s first name in portal sites, receiving about 47.8 million unique visitors a month, (according to an NTT Resonant survey from April to June of 2009). Along with its core search service, NTT Resonant offers users a wide range of over 70 services including “Teach me, goo!” (a Q&A service) and “goo blog.”

RONDHUIT Co., Ltd.

Rondhuit helps companies introduce open source full text search with Apache Lucene and Apache Solr into an enterprise system. Rondhuit’s specialty is large-scale systems that need to search several million documents or products. We offer:

  • Subscription packages to support the development of Apache Lucene/Solr applications
  • Consulting and support services for the implementation of large-scale search engines based on Apache Lucene/Solr/Hadoop.
  • Training courses and seminars on the implementation of Apache Lucene/Solr