Community Edition - eccenca Web

Lucene based search: The easy first step on your way to becoming a semantic enterprise!

New to search?

Start finding the right information today. There is no need to look any further. eccenca's community edition (CE) offers instant results for today's search requirements. You want openness, scalability and flexibility? Then  eccenca CE is the right place for you to start. This edition lays out a roadmap for your starter search projects in no time.

  • 5 min. to success starter package
  • Web, fileSystem and DB crawlers ready to go
  • Web client to manage the built in Lucene search engine
  • 25+ Document and file formats supported for fulltext indexing
  • Openness:    
    APIs and Interfaces based on SMILA
    Open Code Options
  • Flexibility:
    OSGI-based Architecture
    Component Marketplace for added features and vendor independence
  • Compatibility with }}} eccenca Enterprise Edition (EE)

Are you a Search Build Veteran?

You are already using open source search technologies like Lucene and want to cut internal maintenance and support cost. Try to substitute your proprietary implementations with eccenca CE if you are satisfied with the result, simply upgrade to eccenca EE and select the maintenance and support SLA that suits your needs.

Ready to Become a Semantic Enterprise?

You wish to gradually transform your organization towards becoming a semantic enterprise? Then you will want to set up a robust and open standards based information logistics architecture. Eclipse SMILA based eccenca provides you with an open, scalable, vendor independent (Open Code Options, API and interface adherence to SMILA standards) and free starting point..

Simply plug and play additional components from our component market place or enhance your projects security and reliability by subscribing to some of our professional service offerings.

Your organization becomes a genuine semantic enterprise with eccenca's Community Edition (CE) in play. Our professional service offerings will help you stay on top of this process.

Test drive eccenca CE. Within 5 minutes you will have your first  eccenca and lucene-based enterprise search application up an running.
Enterprise Search from eccenca - the Easy Way
The foundation for successful search applications can be found in eccenca Community Edition (eccenca CE). It is a standards-based enterprise search platform that is available totally free of charge. With connectors and 26 supported  document types for indexing, it offers instant gratification and a maximum ease of use.

eccenca CE was designed with an eye on how organizations grow--from setting up  relatively simplistic search projects to large global findability systems tasked within a semantic information logistics architecture.

Upgrading Available With Button Click
eccenca Community Edition is a strict subset of eccenca Enterprise Edition, and  upgrading  from one to the other is as simple as purchasing a subscription and entering  a license key.

The OSGi model allows users to upgrade their eccenca CE installation with  additional features from our component market place. Accept our guarantee to adhere to the interface standards set forth within the SMILA project, and switching between products is now a snap. Fully leverage investments made for eccenca CE implementations when you are ready for eccenca EE.

Testdrive and Beta Build Today

eccenca CE and EE recognize that in today's world it is important to testdrive software, and beta build applications.   Flexibly adapt your configuration before making commercial commitments.

With eccenca Editions Come Basic Standards of Excellence

We believe that with eccenca CE we provide you with a great way for getting started. It is fully  based on the Eclipse SMILA architecture standard and leverages a lot of the Eclipse code. In addition it embeds the Apache Lucene search engine and provides the often missing  document conversion capabilities for full/text indexing of up to 26 document formats. We realize that our partners want to get up and running quickly. That is why we have equipped the eccenca CE with sample search UI components and a web based administration interface for the installation process of product features. Sample documentation ensure that eccenca CE is your best choice for getting started with search.
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