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Findwise is a vendor independent Findability and search technology expert. We have expertise in market leading search platforms as well as open source search technology. Findwise creates Findability solutions, utilising the full potential of search technology to assist our customers in making all desired information easily accessible to both employees and their customers. Our Findability solutions take a holistic approach to the challenge of creating business value from internal and external informationassets. With experience from hundreds of Findability solutions and a large customer base, our experts customize, based on open source components, Findability solutions, using market leading search platforms or Apache Solr as a base.

Comperio is a search solutions company. Founded in 2004 and spun-out of FAST Search & Transfer as a specialist consulting company, Comperio quickly grew into a leading player within the global search solutions marketplace. The company was founded with a vision of utilizing search technology to improve the way people interact with information, ensuring that the solutions understand people and context, rather than the other way round.

In July 2011, Comperio were recognized as 2011 Microsoft Search Partner of the Year, for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft’s FAST Search technology.

Founded in 2000 by search engine pioneers, Exalead is a global provider of information access software for the enterprise and the Web. More than 300 companies worldwide and 100 million unique users a month rely on Exalead's CloudView platform to search, discover, and manage their information assets, including the Sanger Institute, Jaspersoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sanofi-Aventis, Gefco, PSA Peugeot Citroën, ViaMichelin, AFP, CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation), Yellow Pages Group and the U.S. Department of Defense.

Today, Exalead is leading the Search Based Application (SBA) revolution, bringing new structure, meaning and accessibility to data across the heterogeneous enterprise information cloud and doing so with stunning ease and a low TCO. Exalead works closely on SBA development with partners including Capgemini, Sogeti, Logica, Keyrus, ST Groupe and Business & Decision.  

Exalead was acquired by Dassault Systèmes in June 2010. Exalead has offices in Paris, San Francisco, Glasgow, London, Amsterdam, Milan and Frankfurt.

Funnelback is a global search engine technology and services company which delivers leading edge information retrieval solutions coupled with quality customer support. The core products offered by Funnelback are Enterprise Search for search across multiple repositories, and Website Search for fast and effective searching of web-based content. Funnelback's global Enterprise Search client base includes Macmillan Cancer, Legal and General, UBM Medica, The Australian Government and University College London.

Search engine giants use Basis Technology's industry-leading natural language processing software to increase search accuracy in over 40 languages. Our Rosette® Linguistics powers search, business intelligence, e-discovery, text mining, and other applications. We provide linguistic technology to customers worldwide including Amazon.com, EMC, Endeca, Exalead/Dassault, Google, Microsoft/Bing, Yahoo!, and many governments.

Search Technologies is the leading IT services company dedicated to search engine implementation, consulting and managed services. We maintain expertise in a range of leading search products including SharePoint, FAST, the Google Search Appliance, Amazon CloudSearch, Autonomy, Attivio, Endeca, LucidWorks, Vivisimo, Sinequa, Solr and ElasticSearch.

Sinequa Business Search helps the employees of large Enterprises and Administrations find analyze and understand information within vast amounts of data from structured applications, unstructured information and people related data. By connecting to more than 100 enterprise applications, Sinequa Business Search creates a Unified Information Platform that can be used to deliver innovative applications (Search Based Application). Sinequa Business Search can be used for several usages such as: 360° views, expertise localization, extended BI or infrastructure optimization.

More than 250 of the world's largest and most information-intensive organizations rely on Sinequa to put business critical information at the fingertips of their employees, including Credit Agricole, Siemens, EADS, Mercer and Atos.

The IRSG is a Specialist Group of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. Its aims include promoting the use of IR methods in industry, supporting communication between researchers and practitioners, and raising public awareness. We provide a quarterly newsletter (The Informer), an annual European Conference (ECIR), and regular workshops and seminars.

With so many great search companies in Cambridge a Search Meetup has led to some very interesting discussions and networking. We run regular events where you can come and hear about exciting developments in enterprise search and related fields, talk about what you're doing and meet others in the field.

If you're working with, developing or planning to use any search technology, be it open source, commercial closed source, appliance-based or simply theoretical join this Meetup! Interest or experience in Lucene/Solr, Microsoft FAST, Endeca, Xapian, Autonomy, Exalead, Attivio, Grapeshot, TrueKnowledge, Google Search Appliance, Vivisimo, Muscat, Sphinx - or anything else to do with search - is all that's required.

ECM Plus – The Voice of Content, Collaboration & The Cloud - enterprise content management. At ecmplus.com, we’re proud to be first to your desk with the latest news and developments in content and business information, and provide you with insight into the current, hot topics and issues in the wider ECM space, plus thought leaders and leading-edge value-added information to help grow your business. www.ecmplus.com

Produced by Information Today, Enterprise Search Center is a web-based resource which brings together those who are seeking search solutions for their organisations with the vendors of search and related technologies.

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