Lucidworks Platform vs. Forma, now part of Snapchat

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

Very good for smaller stores, very easy to start and expand. Swimwear is a good use case, people want to know what they look like in swimwear. Also it works best on phones so it's good if customers shop on mobile. Not good if you are not on Shopify, it won't work. Also maybe not good for very high-end luxury brands, users who upload photos use their camera phones and not beautiful like models.

• 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

• Keep customers on my site for longer
• Easy to try and expand, they use my existing product photos
• Free unless you want a special design
• Good support

• Documentation can be improved

• Takes a couple days to add products. Would be better if it were instant.
• Only on Shopify. I told a friend who sells on Woo Commerce and it wouldn't work.

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.

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

We heard of 3D Look but needs 3D cameras, too expensive so didn't really try. True Fit is what many bigger companies use but it's expensive and doesn't work well

• 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.

• Very big impact on session time
• Helps with getting store visitors. But I use the virtual fitting room in marketing
• Any new business is good since it's free