The document outlines a project by France Labs to implement an open-source search engine, Constellio, for the City of Antibes to address their 'big data' challenges and improve file accessibility. The project plan, spanning from installation to testing, faced delays but resulted in high user satisfaction due to its low-cost, open-source nature without the need for employee training. Future developments include expanding the system to crawl new data sources and integrating with existing city tools.

1. France Labs
Open source Search@Antibes:
from theory to practice
Patrick Duverger: CIO, city of Antibes
Cédric Ulmer: CEO, France Labs
15/05/2013

2. Agenda
City of Antibes: Why Search ?
 Current IT landscape
 Needs
 Requirements
France Labs: Why us ?
 What we do
 Proposed solution
 Project plan
 Project execution
City of Antibes: What next ?
 First outcomes and roadmap

3. Antibes – A great city !
Beach
Mountain
Many activities
Sophia-Antipolis

4. Antibes – IT Landscape
Authen-
tication
Sedit
(HR)
Hardware infrastructure
Netapp (NAS)
Oracle Servers
DMZ
Server farm
Virtualized servers
Local servers
~ 1400 PC
Réseau Local
VLAN1
VLAN2
VLAN3
VLAN4
VLAN5
Firewall
VPN
LoadBalancer
Switch & routersSwitch & routers
Web
site
ATAL
(ERP)
Fire
Wall
Exchange
(mail)
GIS
GLPI
(helpdesk)
AXEL
(ERP)
Intranet (EAI) Talend
Assets Mgt Web frontendCRM
Internal process B2C process
Internet
SGBD
BO Salamandre
Ciril
(Financial)

5. Antibes – Needs !
« Big Data » issue: 2.000 employees, 500.000 shared files, 15 tera
bytes of data and a growing usage of IT ressources…
Need to find the files
where they are.
Need to respect user
rights. Security and ACL
are mandatory.
Raise awareness of each
others activities

6. Antibes – Requirements
”Low cost“
 Search engine rather than CMS
High performance
 If it’s not fast, it’s not used
No training for employees
Open source (encouraged by prime minister)
 No License fee
 Visibility on the roadmap
 Large community of Lucene/Solr contributors/users

7. Antibes: Demo (video)
Time to see what it looks like

8. France Labs
INSTALLATION
Of enterprise search engines
Training
Lucene/Solr and Constellio
Consulting
Lucene/Solr and Constellio

9. Antibes: Proposed solution
Constellio 1.3 because:
 Open Source (LGPL)
 Can crawl file shares with ACLs
 Can be further extended to additional sources:
Nuxeo, Alfresco, SAP, DB, web, CMIS…
 Provides an extended web admin UI
 Leverages Apache Lucene/Solr:
reliable, scalable, autocompletion, spellchecker, multilingual
faceting…
Constellio 1.3 based on:
 Java
 Google Connector Framework
 Java Wickets
 Developed by Doculibre

10. Antibes: Project plan
September-October 2012:
 Constellio installation and configuration
October 2012:
 File share connectors configuration
 LDAP/AD connection
November 2012:
 Stability tests
 Usability tests
December 2012:
 Official release

11. Antibes: Project execution 1/2
September-October 2012:
 Constellio installation and configuration
September 2012 – January 2013: many unexpected issues
Very slow queries
Highlighting issues
Abnormally huge index
October 2012:
 File share connectors configuration
 LDAP/AD connection
January-March 2013:
No complete AD/LDAP query mechanism by default
Buggy ACL retrieval mechanism for the google file connector

12. Antibes: Project execution 2/2
November 2012:
 Stability tests
 Usability tests
March 2013:
Stability tests: no backup and monitoring scripts by default
Scalability tests: for up to 600.000 files, fine on a VM with 8
GB RAM, Index of 14 GB, dual-core,, 300 ms query time
Usability tests: positive feedback
December 2012:
 Official release
April 2013:
Internal release

13. Antibes: Outcomes and roadmap
Delays in the implementation but:
 Users satisfaction is high (for those who need documents!)
 « No training » required is true
 Open source = No license fees: youuuhouuuu !
 ACLs are respected
Roadmap:
 Crawl new data sources:
• Intranet
• Business Objects reports
• External sites (twitter, newspapers…)
 Analyse logs for usage statistics
 Integrate with the city network analysis tool (demo ?)

14. QUESTIONS ? (like, what does the France Labs logo represent?)
We’re at your disposal during this ESEU conference for any
question !
Otherwise, here are our contact details:
Twitter: @francelabs.com
Our website: www.francelabs.com
Email: contact@francelabs.com
Tél: +33 (0) 4 92 91 14 27
Adresse:
France Labs SAS
Business Pôle Bâtiment A
1047 route des Dolines, Allée Pierre Ziller
F-06560 Valbonne, France