LucidWorks Positioned in the “Challengers” Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Search

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Redwood City, Calif., April 29, 2013 – LucidWorks, the company transforming the way people access information, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Challengers” quadrant of the 2013 Enterprise Search Magic Quadrant.

“The LucidWorks product suite transforms the technical and distribution innovations of open source into a cost-effective, commercial-grade solution for building the next generation of business-critical applications,” said Paul Doscher, president and CEO of LucidWorks. “We believe that being named in the ‘Challengers’ quadrant of the Gartner Enterprise Search Magic Quadrant validates the capabilities and flexibility of our existing suite and the business and product roadmaps we are implementing.”

Redefining the way people search for information, the LucidWorks product suite consists of two development platforms: LucidWorks Search and LucidWorks Big Data. Users conducting searches powered by these platforms can uncover real-time insights from any data source, structured or unstructured, regardless of its location. The company’s rich portfolio of enterprise-grade solutions is based on the most broadly deployed search technology worldwide, Apache Lucene/Solr open source technology. LucidWorks also hosts two of the largest open source search events: Lucene/Solr Revolution and Lucene/Solr Revolution Europe.

About LucidWorks

LucidWorks transforms the way people access information to enable data-driven decisions. LucidWorks is the only company that delivers enterprise-grade search development platforms built on the power of Apache Lucene/Solr open source search. Employing one quarter of the Core Committers to the Apache Lucene/Solr project, LucidWorks is the largest supporter of open source search in the industry. LucidWorks Search delivers unmatched scalability to billions of documents, with sub-second query and faceting response time. LucidWorks Big Data tightly integrates key Apache projects needed to build and deploy applications requiring access to multi-structured data. Customers include AT&T, ADP, Sears, Ford, Verizon, Cisco, Zappos, Raytheon, The Guardian, The Smithsonian Institution, The Motley Fool, Qualcomm, Taser, eHarmony and many other household names around the world. LucidWorks’ investors include Shasta Ventures, Granite Ventures, Walden International and In-Q-Tel. Learn more about the company at https://lucidworks.com/.

LucidWorks and Lucene/Solr Revolution are registered trademarks of LucidWorks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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