Innovent Solutions Blog

Great Search & Merchandising with SAP Commerce and Solr

We have worked with many SAP Commerce (Hybris) clients over the years who have had success using Adaptive Search to address relevancy issues and perform merchandising but felt limited, particularly considering Adaptive Search is very focused on category results. To increase conversion rates, enhance order values and provide the experiences... Read more →

Avoid the Parent/Child Trap: Tips and Tricks for Denormalizing Solr Data

Solr has multiple ways of dealing with parent-child relationships, and each have their own features and drawbacks. Classic Joins have well documented performance issues, especially on larger datasets. Block-Joins require additional indexing work and still increase document count which affects performance to a lesser degree. Full denormalization (having only parents as Solr documents) can be difficult to implement without losing functionality. Recently, we engaged with a client to move them from a Block-Join configuration to a full denormalized solution. Here are some of the tips and tricks to consider if you are looking to make a similar move. Read more →

Searching for Online Grocery: You Got Your Chocolate In My Peanut Butter

At a Glance Consumers are pushing the grocery industry into digital retail. Mirroring the in-store experience creates significant challenges for online grocery. Organizing products with emergent and flexible taxonomies can better serve new consumers. Great search and navigation, with precise and powerful merchandising, create dynamic and rewarding consumer experiences and... Read more →

Edismax Queries in a post-Solr 5.5 World: The AND, the OR, and the Ugly

I was recently helping one of our many FindTuner clients to address an issue that had been discovered after updating to Solr 6.2. Originally a search for a product, where products were being added through merchandising strategies into the results, would return 50 results (49 organically, and 1 artificially added).... Read more →

FindTuner v2.4.0 Release

In early October we released FindTuner version 2.4. There are quite a few new features including more precise targeting of merchandising actions, LDAP and Active Directory integration, and increased usability particularly in the area of rule testing. I'd like to highlight these in this post. Nearly every release of FindTuner... Read more →

FindTuner v2.3.0 Released

Following our commitment to a quarterly release cycle, earlier this month we released FindTuner version 2.3.0. As with previous releases, feedback from clients has been instrumental in focusing our efforts on important features and enhancements, as well as continuing to make usability improvements. As always, no release would be complete... Read more →

FindTuner for Lucidworks Fusion

Innovent Solutions has enjoyed a long partnership with Lucidworks going back to the days when Lucidworks was known as Lucid Imagination. Over the years we have worked together seamlessly to provide a high level of service and solutions to customers in the areas of Solr consulting and implementation, Solr training... Read more →

FindTuner v2.2.0 released

Today I'm happy to announce that we have release FindTuner version 2.2.0. The release, which was shaped by a lot of great feedback from our clients, provides some powerful new features which I'll describe below, as well as improvements for usability and deployment of the system. We also squashed some... Read more →

Amazon CloudSearch Magento Incremental Indexing

Recently we released version 2.0.1 of of our Amazon CloudSearch extension for Magento, called Amazon Cloudsearch Connect and this new release provides for incremental updating of the CloudSearch index. Many retailers, particularly those with larger product catalogs, do not want to have to perform an entire index update when only... Read more →

FindTuner Merchandising for Solr Search

Merchandising is a cornerstone for many ecommerce sites and empowers online retailers to provide better customer experiences, improve product discovery, increase conversion rates and enhance order values. Broadly speaking, merchandising an ecommerce website involves creating, implementing and measuring strategies that get the right products in front of the shopper with... Read more →