391%
ROI Improvement (Forrester)
DATA ACQUISITION
Secure enterprise data connectors
Every AI experience starts with connected data.
Lucidworks Data Acquisition gets all your enterprise data — wherever it lives — indexed, enriched, and ready to power search and AI in real time. No custom pipelines. No stale results. No data left behind.
The data layer that powers everything else.
Data Acquisition sits at the foundation of your Lucidworks platform — ingesting from any source, transforming on the fly, and delivering a unified data stream that makes AI and search dramatically more effective.
Built for enterprise scale from day one
Four core capabilities that make Lucidworks Data Acquisition the most complete foundation for intelligent search and AI — without the integration tax.
Real-time indexing
Eliminate data latency with real-time or near real-time ingestion.
Search results always reflect your most current information — critical for e-commerce pricing, live inventory, and dynamic content. No more stale results costing you conversions.
150+ pre-certified connectors
Deploy in minutes, not months.
Every connector is pre-tested against production-grade enterprise data structures. Maintenance, API updates, and schema changes are handled by Lucidworks — not your engineering team.
Advanced data transformation
ormalize disparate data into a unified format without writing ETL code.
Intelligent field mapping, content enrichment, and AI-driven classification happen automatically in the pipeline — so your search index is always optimized for relevance.
Flexible REST APIs
Connect Anything. Build Everything.
Our API-first design means you can build custom integrations for any proprietary system without being blocked by connector availability. Well-documented, versioned APIs connect anything Lucidworks doesn’t cover out of the box.
Your entire stack. Already connected.
150+ Pre-built, pre-certified connectors Every major enterprise system, e-commerce platform, cloud data store, CMS, and LLM — ready to plug in. Updated continuously by our engineering team as APIs change.
E-commerce Platforms, CRM Systems
Magento
Salesforce Commerce Cloud
BigCommerce
Shopify
SAP CommerceCloud
Salesforce
Microsoft Dynamics 365
Data Storage Management, Content Management Systems (CMS)
Amazon S3
Google Cloud Storage
Azure Blob Storage
Databricks
Snowflake
Adobe Experience Manager
Drupal
Sharepoint
Collaboration, Productivity, Gen AI & LLMs
Slack
Confluence
Google Vertex AI
ChatGPT
Mistral
Hugging Face
Build vs. buy vs. Lucidworks. The honest comparison.
Every enterprise faces this choice. Here’s what the real trade-offs look like — because your integration infrastructure shouldn’t be a distraction from your product.
| Capability | Custom ETL / DIY | Generic tools (MuleSoft, Fivetran) | ✦ Lucidworks Data Acquisition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first connector | Weeks–months | Days–weeks | ✓ Under 15 minutes |
| Search-optimized indexing | ✗ Build yourself | ✗ Not designed for search | ✓ Native, automatic |
| AI enrichment in pipeline | ✗ Manual integration | ✗ Separate tooling required | ✓ Built-in chunking, classification, summarization |
| Enterprise connector maintenance | ✗ Your team’s problem | ~ Vendor-dependent | ✓ Lucidworks maintains all connectors |
| Real-time indexing | ~ Complex to build | ~ Varies by connector | ✓ Standard across all connectors |
| No separate search middleware | ✗ You manage the stack | ✗ Separate search layer needed | ✓ Data Acquisition + Search in one platform |
| Ongoing cost at scale | High (engineering time) | Medium (licensing + eng) | Predictable, platform-included |
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Enterprise-grade security. Not an afterthought.
For regulated industries — financial services, healthcare, government — data security is a deal requirement, not a feature. Here’s exactly what Lucidworks Data Acquisition provides.
SOC 2 Type II
Certified compliance
Independently audited and certified for security, availability, and confidentiality. Our SOC 2 Type II report is available under NDA for enterprise procurement teams.
Encryption
Data encrypted in transit & at rest
TLS 1.2+ for all data in transit. AES-256 encryption at rest. No plaintext data ever persisted in connector pipelines. Your data stays yours.
Access control
Role-based access & audit logs
Granular RBAC controls who can configure, read, or modify connector pipelines. Every action is logged with full audit trails — ready for compliance review.
Data residency
Regional data residency options
Choose where your data is processed and stored — US, EU, or APAC. Critical for GDPR compliance, data sovereignty requirements, and government deployments.
Zero trust
No persistent credential storage
OAuth 2.0, service accounts, and secret manager integrations mean credentials are never stored in plaintext. Rotate keys without disrupting live connectors.
HIPAA ready
Healthcare & government ready
BAA available for HIPAA-covered entities. FedRAMP-aligned deployment options for government customers. Trusted by Northwell Health, Cincinnati Children’s, LANL, and the EPA.
First connector live in under 15 minutes.
No professional services required to get started. Our onboarding is designed for your team to move fast — and our expert team is there when you want to go deeper.
1
~2 minutes
Select your connector
Browse 150+ pre-certified connectors and find your source system. Salesforce, SharePoint, S3, Snowflake — pick and authenticate.
2
~5 minutes
Configure field mapping
Auto-detected schema with intelligent field suggestions. Override and customize with a visual editor — no code required.
3
~3 minutes
Run a test crawl
Preview exactly what data will be indexed before going live. Validate fields, check transformations, confirm record counts.
4
~5 minutes
Go live & monitor
Enable real-time sync. Your data flows into the Lucidworks index and is immediately available to power search, AI agents, and recommendations.
<15
minutes to first live connector
vs. weeks for custom ETL pipelines
Average time savings reported by customers
Integration setup time
↓ 94%
Engineering hours per connector
↓ 87%
Data freshness lag
↓ Real-time
Connected data drives measurable outcomes.
These results were enabled by Lucidworks Data Acquisition connecting the right data to the right experiences — in real time.
95%
Revenue growth from search
Connectors used
Salesforce Commerce Cloud + SAP product catalog → Lucidworks search index, real-time sync
“We’ve had some dramatic growth. The results that we’ve had with Lucidworks are nothing short of astounding.”
Marc Desormeau — Global Search Lead, Lenovo
26K
Agents now find client info instantly
Connectors used
ServiceNow + SharePoint + 12 internal websites → unified search index for agent portal
A leading life insurance company gave 26,000 agents instant access to unified client information — eliminating the multi-system lookup that previously took minutes per call.
Life Insurance Company — Enterprise Customer
391%
ROI over 3 years (Forrester)
Finding
Integration time savings + search relevance uplift + engineering hours recovered = payback in <6 months
Forrester’s Total Economic Impact evaluation found organizations implementing Lucidworks solutions recovered their initial investment in under six months.
Forrester Research — Total Economic Impact Study
Your deployment. Your terms.
Data Acquisition works identically across all Lucidworks deployment models — so you’re never locked into a configuration that doesn’t fit your security or infrastructure requirements.
SaaS
Fully managed, auto-updated, zero infrastructure to maintain. Connectors and pipeline updates happen automatically. Ideal for teams who want to move fast without ops overhead.
Self-Hosted
Full control over your infrastructure. Deploy in your own VPC or data center. Required for air-gapped environments, data residency mandates, or maximum customization.
Hybrid-SaaS
Connectors run on-premises or in your private cloud. The Lucidworks AI and search layer runs in SaaS. Best of both worlds for organizations with mixed data sensitivity requirements.
Ready to connect everything?
See how Lucidworks Data Acquisition can unify your enterprise data
and power search and AI experiences your customers will notice.
391% ROI measured by Forrester · First connector live in <15 minutes · SOC 2 Type II certified