Search Platforms and Integration

Enterprise search represents a unique systems integration challenge. In its attempt to improve an organization's information access capabilities, it exposes a multitude of interfaces, formats, and vendor domains. A comprehensive and fundamental understanding of information technology is required to deliver solutions in modern information technology environments.

Lightcrest helps customers leverage a multitude of search technologies depending on budget, available technical staff, and features. You're not alone in choosing a platform to fit your organizations needs.

Choosing the appropriate platform and technologies for your enterprise search solution is a complex decision involving many variables and a host of considerations. As an independent enterprise search solutions provider, Lightcrest acts first and foremost as an advisor and advocate for the client to assist in the evaluation, implementation, and ongoing support of market solutions. In addition to evaluation and implementation, Lightcrest acts as a trusted partner in the development of custom software to solve domain-specific or industry-specific problems that do not yet have commercially available off-the-shelf solutions.

Lightcrest's advisory role is one not taken lightly. Lightcrest consultants and engineers bring a diverse set of backgrounds in information technology, including software engineering, high performance network engineering, enterprise systems architecture, and applied mathematics. However, this focus on technology is a means to an end, which is to serve the business requirements of Lightcrest's clients.

Lightcrest helps customers build a roadmap for their search needs regardless of where they currently are in their deployment path. From customers with newly purchased search engines, to organizations who are actively assessing available technologies and need expert backing, Lightcrest works in lock-step with IT managers and business stakeholders to provide services such as: