Type Private Founded 2005 | Website searchtechnologies.com | |
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Industry Information technology
Information access Headquarters Herndon, VA, United States Key people Kamran Khan (CEO)
John Steinhauer (VP)
Dennis Tran (VP)
Paul Nelson (Chief Architect) Founders John Steinhauer, Kamran Khan, Dennis Tran | ||
Search Technologies is a privately held IT services company whose main business involves search engines, big data, consulting and implementation services. The company specializes in a range of search engines including Microsoft SharePoint, the Google Search Appliance, Elasticsearch, Amazon Cloudsearch, and Apache Solr. Search Technologies provides a wide range of services from experts-for-hire to managed services. The company is headquartered in Washington DC's Dulles Technology Corridor and has offices in Costa Rica, California, Kentucky, the UK, Germany and the Czech Republic.
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History
Search Technologies was founded in 2005 by three former executives of search engine software companies, Kamran Khan (CEO), John Steinhauer (VP technology) and Dennis Tran (VP Sales), all of whom remain employees of the company.
In 2008, Search Technologies recruited Paul Nelson, a pioneer in the search engine industry since 1989 and the original author of RetrievalWare. Paul Nelson is currently Chief Architect at Search Technologies, and a minority shareholder in the company.
Growth
Search Technologies serves various markets including media & entertainment, publishers, government, and consumer products & services. Their customers include Booz Allen Hamilton, Library of Congress, Lenovo, U.S. Government Printing Office, and Unilever.
The company has experienced steady, rapid growth since its founding which is attributed to their sole focus on implementing search solutions for clients.
In December 2009, Search Technologies acquired InfoSolutions Inc., a Cincinnati-based company also focused on search engine solutions.
In January 2015, Search Technologies acquired INCAD, a Prague-based provider of enterprise search solutions.
Awards
Search Technologies has been a Microsoft GOLD certified partner since 2008, with specific competencies in Search and Digital Marketing. The company is also a certified Google Enterprise Partner, a worldwide implementation partner of Elastic, and Cloudera, and has been listed in KMWorld’s “100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management” since 2007. More recently, Search Technologies was honored as one of Virginia’s Fastest Fifty companies, based on growth over the last three years.
In 2011 Search Technologies was named to the Washington Business Journal's "List of Top 20 Small Technology Companies"
They also hold spots on the Inc. 500|5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list.
Search Technologies was named Google Enterprise North American Innovation Partner of the Year in February 2013.