The Open Source Zone

Lemur Consulting Limited is an award-winning search engine development company. With over ten years’ experience, Lemur specialises in all aspects of data management and is active in the development and support of many of today's leading information retrieval products. Based in Cambridge, UK, Lemur’s international clients come from sectors including academia, public relations, e-commerce, government and private businesses.

Lemur’s Flax™ technology delivers a cutting-edge enterprise search solution, using the power of open source software to drive down costs and provide world beating search performance with no software licence fees. Lemur is also the developer of Bamboo™, a collaborative, web-enabled, multimedia database and content management system used by academics and teams of researchers.

Through its range of search engine solutions, Lemur can help unlock the value of your organisation's information. We can tailor and develop software to fit customers specific needs, and are experts in (and contributors to) free and open source tools including Xapian, Apache Lucene, MySQL, PHP and Python.

Lemur provides outstanding assistance all the way from initial advice, through specification and development to ongoing support.