LiftIgniter Real-time Personalization Platform vs. Lucidworks Platform

LiftIgniter is well suited for:

• Media companies without the resources to develop their own content recommendations systems.
• eCommerce companies who want to get product recommendations live onsite quickly.

LiftIgniter is less appropriate:

• Organizations with a shallow content set onsite.

Very well suited for out of the box enterprise search applications.

• It does a good job recommending content that is related to the current story a user is on.
• It does a good job not recommending content the user has already viewed.
• It does a good job being a recommendation engine for disparate sites with related content.

• Signals feature to boost search results helps search relevancy
• Business Rules feature for tuning search results
• Query pipeline design gives great flexibility in application development

• Manually controlling certain undesired results is not straight forward and seems to often result in a lower CTR or conversion rates.
• The LI Dashboard has limited features.

• Documentation can be improved

It is incredibly intuitive and so easy to use that business people can now complete functions that used to be limited to software developers only.

It has continued to improve over the years.

It's the best. Our only other option was rolling out our own and LiftIgniter was easier to implement and performed better for related content.

IDOL seems to be a blackbox solution. Fusion is much more flexible with more features and options for developers to choose from.

• Increased time on site
• Decreased bounce rate
• 5-15% CTR for users which saw recommendations

• Allowed us to move software developers from enterprise search to other customer focused applications due to built in signals processing and related popularity boosting out of the box.
• Enabled business experts to work directly with Fusion to influence search results and not be so dependent on developers.