This document discusses Apache Solr for TYPO3, a search engine solution developed by dkd. It describes how dkd helped engineering company Samson develop a product catalogue using Apache Solr and TYPO3. Samson's products are complex with many dependencies and variations, so dkd worked closely with them to model the domain and build a customizable frontend. The end result provides powerful, fast search of Samson's product data maintained in TYPO3, allowing for better user experience and sales.

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Apache Solr for TYPO3:
Apache Solr for TYPO3: More than a search engine

2. About us
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Olivier Dobberkau
49 years old
@TYPO3 since: 2001
@Apache Solr since: 2009
@dkd since: 1996
Email: olivier.dobberkau@dkd.de
Twitter: @T3RevNeverEnd

3. About us
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Timo Hund
33 years old
@TYPO3 since: 2003
@Apache Solr since: 2009
@dkd since: 2015
Email: timo.hund@dkd.de
Xing: https://www.xing.com/profile/Timo_Hund2
Github: https://github.com/timohund

4. Our team
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Olivier
Dobberkau
Timo
Hund
Ingo
Renner
Markus
Friedrich
Thomas
Janke
Development Development Development Management Management
Rafael
Kähm
Development

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Teamwork@dkd

6. How we started
Need for a search in TYPO3 with…
- Support of synonyms
Flugbegleiter <-> Stewardess
- Facetting
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Successful project
Why not share it?

7. Joining forces
Share costs
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Community
Bugfixes, features,
support, …
dkd - Solr Team
Roadmap, T3 compatibility,
bugfixes,
new features, R&D, community
management
Partner
Give money, feedback,
bug reports,
feature requests
Customers
Run & develop project
with our partners
Why?
One search solution instead of many
Complex field

8. What happened since then (EXT:solr)
Over 300 partners (35 in EB 2016)
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28 releases (2,630 code changes)
8 years / 10 person years spent
Dev costs 0.7 millions € (COCOMO method)
25,000 downloads (TER + Packagist)
Powerful search components for TYPO3

9. A product catalogue of a
different kind…
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SecretSauce…

10. Our customer
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I think you know SAMSON!

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Not me!

12. Our customer
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The fuel of your car or plane passes a Samson valve
Develops measurement and control technologies
Products:
valves, regulators, automation systems,
transducers, controllers & sensors

13. Our customer
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Around 4000 employees in 66 countries
HQ in Frankfurt
Website: www.samson.de
Early supporter of Eintracht Frankfurt
A legend: Jürgen Grabowski

14. Find a fitting valve….
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Where are the
products?

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Where are the
details?
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Find a fitting valve….

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Maybe this is
my valve?
Find a fitting valve….

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Lets check the
product sheet
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Find a fitting valve….

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Wrong valve…
:-( check the
next
Find a fitting valve….

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Find fitting
products is hard
The problem
Adding products
is hard as well

20. The requirements
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=> searchable Catalogue
=> filterable Lists
=> Products maintained in TYPO3
Better User Experience => Better sales
Self Maintenance => Faster Time to Market

21. Our solution
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Frontend based on EXT:solr & EXT:solrfluid
Indexing of product data with EXT:solr
Product data in TYPO3 records

22. The challenge…
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A complex domain:
Dependencies
(Tolerance)
Different possible usages
Different Markets
* Temperature ranges
* Pressures
* Volume flows
Media
Variant

23. … and how we addressed it
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Understand the customer products & domain
Implement product domain model step by step
Continued feedback with the customer
Find technical solutions for…
Initial data import
Indexing data into solr
Build a user-friendly frontend

24. The benefits & results
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Step by Step Implementation with the customer
Powerful & fast fronted
Data maintainable in TYPO3
Many out-of-the-box features used
Customisations done by dkd solr experts
Time to market

25. Overview
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Apache
Solr
TYPO3
Backend
Product
Catalogue

26. Impressions
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33. Contact us!
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Timo Hund
Email: timo.hund@dkd.de
GitHub: https://github.com/timohund
Xing: https://www.xing.com/profile/Timo_Hund2
TYPO3 Solr: http://www.typo3-solr.com
dkd: http://www.dkd.de/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dkd_de
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/www.dkd.de
Olivier Dobberkau
Email: olivier.dobberkau@dkd.de