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Escalate adds Apache Solr Search to e-commerce platform

September 20, 2010

Escalate Retail, provider of solutions that help retailers reinvent the shopping experience for their customers, today announced that the newest version of its Blue Martini Commerce Platform will include functionality based on Apache Solr Search.

Apache Solr is a popular, fast-growing open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Powering the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest retail websites, Apache Solr is highly scalable and provides distributed search and index replication. Its major features include:

• Powerful full-text search
• Hit highlighting
• Faceted search
• Dynamic clustering
• Database integration
• Rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling

Employing multiple search strategies simultaneously, Apache Solr ensures high product relevancy, often resulting in an increase of over 80 percent in per-search value. Additionally, Apache Solr can dramatically reduce retailers’ TCO for search and also requires only 20 percent of the hardware that leading proprietary search solutions require. Finally, Apache Solr can help online merchants increase sales conversion by providing their customers with powerful faceted search (including spell check) to enhance the overall shopping experience.