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MindHeap Technology Inc. provides technology strategy and system architecture consulting at high levels in client organizations worldwide. We consistently and successfully tackle the toughest problems under extreme conditions; be that scale, complexity, or other factors haunting a project.
MindHeap provides pragmatic answers and creative thinking to large data processing and data retrieval problems.  Our approach has led to rapid development of some of the most formidable Solr and Endeca implementations on the planet.  
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Expertise
Search (Endeca, Solr, Lucene, ElasticSearch)
Cloud and Distributed Computing
Scalability, Throughput and Performance
Java, PHP, and .NET Platforms
SQL Databases, NOSQL and Key/Value Stores
Traditional IT and Grid Deployments
E-Commerce and Security
Agile Processes and Infrastructure
Proof of Concepts
Current Clients
ProQuest Ann Arbor, MI, USA 
ProQuest provides seamless access to and navigation of more than 125 billion digital pages of the world's scholarship, delivering it to the desktop and into the workflow of serious researchers in multiple fields, from arts, literature, and social science to science, technology, and medicine.
Architecture and technology consulting on large scale strategic projects and product infrastructure.
SerialsSolutions: Summon Seattle, WA, USA 
The Summon™ unified discovery service allows the researcher to quickly search, discover and access reliable and credible library content. It goes beyond federated search, beyond next-generation catalogs to create an all-new service for libraries. Through one simple search, it provides instant access to the breadth of authoritative content that's the hallmark of great libraries - digital and print, audio and video, single articles to entire e-journals, and every format in between.
Architecture and development of large scale content ingestion and secure search system currently at over 650 million documents and growing.  During this project, customized and tuned Solr to scale beyond 1 billion documents with full per-user to document rights management; built XQuery based high-throughput document ingestion system; and created high scale match/merge technology backed by custom partitioned blob store and distributed query engine.  Also revolutionized the REST-style API by designing a command-system to offload UI developers from needing to maintain state or carry search business-logic in their code.
Previous Clients
Endeca Technologies Boston, MA, USA 
Endeca IAP implementations for strategic clients as a subcontractor to Endeca Services.  Also created the MetaEndeca Solutions Engineering product for building, managing and querying Federated Indexes.
Our resources have developed many Endeca implementations ranging from E-Commerce to Enterprise Search.  Typically working on the cutting edge projects that push Endeca to new limits; particip