Lucid Imagination Names Search and Open Source Expert Paul Doscher CEO
(firmenpresse) - REDWOOD CITY, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/20/11 -- , the commercial company for Apache Lucene and Apache Solr search technology, today named search and open source expert Paul Doscher the company's new chief executive officer. Doscher brings nearly 30 years of technology management experience to Lucid Imagination, including a focus on open source and search technologies at Exalead S.A. and Jaspersoft Corporation. Doscher will lead Lucid Imagination to its next phase of growth, as the world's leading commercial open source platform that accelerates and simplifies the development of highly accurate, scalable and cost-effective search applications.
"With its use of Lucene and Solr in its LucidWorks search platform, Lucid Imagination is helping to drive a sweeping transformation of the enterprise search and retrieval market," said Ravi Mohan, Lucid Imagination board member and Managing Director at Shasta Ventures. "Paul Doscher combines a deep background in open source and search technologies with a stellar track record of executive management success, making him the perfect individual to take Lucid Imagination to the next level."
Doscher's mission will be to build Lucid Imagination into a world class commercial open source search and solutions provider. Prior to joining Lucid Imagination, Doscher led Exalead and Jaspersoft. Earlier, Doscher held key roles as Executive Vice President Worldwide Sales at VMware, General Manager for the Americas at Business Objects and Vice President Channels, Americas for Oracle.
"With the recent acquisitions of the leading commercial enterprise search vendors Lucid Imagination is poised to become the independent market share leader using this new wave of technology that enables enterprises to manage massive amounts of information with super speed and efficiency to improve decision making," Doscher said. "The mature and broadly used open source technology under Lucid Imagination means new search enabled applications will scale more cost effectively and deliver solid returns for the long term."
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Lucid Imagination is the commercial company exclusively dedicated to Apache Lucene/Solr open source enterprise search technology. It provides search solution development platforms built on the power of Lucene/Solr open source search via enterprise-grade subscriptions. The company's LucidWorks Search Platform makes the power of Solr/Lucene open source search more accessible to the broad range of application developers and slashes the learning curve for search solution development. Unlike "black box" products, the LucidWorks Search Platform allows organizations of all sizes and types to continuously tune their search to fit the ongoing needs of their users and achieve a consistently lower cost of growth. Lucid Imagination also offers free software for developers, documentation, commercial-grade support, high-level consulting, and comprehensive training. Customers include AT&T, Sears, Ford, Verizon, Cisco, Zappos, Raytheon, The Guardian, The Smithsonian Institution, Salesforce.com, The Motley Fool, Qualcomm, Taser, eHarmony, and many other household names around the world. Lucid Imagination is a privately held venture-funded company. The investors include Shasta Ventures, Granite Ventures, Walden International, and In-Q-Tel. Learn more about the company at .
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