July 10, 2026

open source, eim, ecm, enterprise search, standards

Piergiorgio Lucidi

Beyond the Silos: Announcing the Open Ingestion ...

Introducing the Open Ingestion Standard (OIS) and the reference implementation OpenCrawling.

July 2, 2026

enterprise search, open source, software development

Piergiorgio Lucidi

Huge Milestone & Call for Vote! Apache ...

I’m thrilled to share some massive modernization changes coming in the upcoming Apache ManifoldCF 2.31 release! Even better the official call for vote is now open to release this brand new version!

June 28, 2026

open source, software development, spring framework

Piergiorgio Lucidi

From Monolith to Modern: Re-architecting Apache ...

How Spring-Manifold Next-Gen modernizes the legacy Apache ManifoldCF framework by adopting Spring Boot 4.0, Java 25 Virtual Threads, and a decoupled Kafka architecture to support highly scalable, AI-ready vector ingestion pipelines.

June 22, 2026

open source

Piergiorgio Lucidi

The Next Gen of Data Crawlers: Java 25 Virtual ...

For years, Apache ManifoldCF has been the reliable workhorse of enterprise document ingestion. It handles complex security mappings, diverse repository connectors, and outputs to search engines with incredible depth.

December 23, 2021

tai

Piergiorgio Lucidi

Farewell TAI Solutions

After 4 years this is my last day in TAI Solutions and starting from January I’ll join in a new family in Zia Consulting.

ecm

Piergiorgio Lucidi

April 23, 2012

ecm, enterprise search, open source

Apache ManifoldCF 0.5-incubating released

Piergiorgio Lucidi

April 23, 2012

ecm, enterprise search, open source

We are proud to announce that the latest version of Apache ManifoldCF is released. Apache Community and Apache Incubator signed off on the 0.5-incubating release.