Lucidworks Platform vs. Luigi's Box

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

Luigi's Box helps
to increase sales and conversions by providing visitors of web with the best possible shopping experience. There are also tools that helps increase sales and improve customer experience such as Recommender (shows customers relevant products) or Campaign banners (helps promoting new products in search results). The tool is most appropriate for eCommerce, especially internet shops with thousands of products. It is not suited for smaller webs.

• 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

• search merchandizing
• analytics - data for searches with no/low conversions
• synonym suggestions
• custom keyword enrichment for specific products
• boosting of specific brands/categories
• query reqrites

• Documentation can be improved

• integrating the feed with Channable (feed management tool) was a bit complex at first, but once that was done, it was much simpler.
• more personalised product recommendations

Incentivized

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.

The user interface, especially for their analytics modules is not always very intuitive and they have their very own definitions for some metrics that are not coherent with widely used analytics tools like Google Analytics.

It has continued to improve over the years.

Their support is excellent. Quick and helpful.

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

Easier to implement and use in daily, the search engine is faster and better, to be honest is the best. We have one solution for recommenders, searching, and listings. We managed to agree to favorable contract terms + Communication with tool support is perfect. We have solved our main problem very quickly and flexibly

Incentivized

• 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.

• Highly increased conversions from search
• Increases the speed of bringing a new product to the market
• Reducing costs of search engine optimization