Lucidworks Beats Elasticsearch for Enterprise Search and Workplace Search
The Lucidworks Platform offers a stunning improvement for enterprise search vs. Elasticsearch. Lucidworks offers quicker pathways to implementation and less work to maintain programs. Lucidworks is built on open-source technology, providing a transparent and composable approach for better ROI.
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Lucidworks Platform
Ready-to-go Modules
Enterprise search programs start with best-practice modules from Lucidworks to help teams get up and running quickly. Learn More
ML and AI in Lucidworks Platform
Lucidworks has advanced search capabilities using AI and ML ready-to-go. Learn More
Flexible at Every Stage
Transform and modify query and index pipelines, even self-hosted and DIY search Learn More
Simple Updates
Built on open-source technology Apache Lucene, the Lucidworks Platform offers multiple deployment options and support, making owning and operating easy. Learn More
High ROI
391% ROI according to Forrester Research Total Economic Impact (TEI) report 2023. Learn More
Elasticsearch
Build from Scratch
Framework only: Elasticsearch is a framework that requires teams to build from the ground up.
Lack of Integrated AI
Search-based generative AI solutions lack substantive commercial adoption compared to Lucidworks.
Beware of Potential Limitations
Agility to make changes to query and index pipelines could limit program success.
Burdensome Maintenance Required
Users face the complexities of managing their search and maintenance updates over time in tandem with maintenance costs.
Investment Clarity Limits
Management of development teams and technology could stifle overall ROI.
“Lucidworks’ strong platform appeals to business users and application developers…Lucidworks’ superior strategy is to offer enterprises a high-quality and customized search platform that can be leveraged both by developers and business users to deliver complex search applications.”
—Forrester, 2023
Lucidworks Delivers Superior ROI at Scale
- 6-month payback + 391% ROI lift
- $1.8 million in savings from developer reallocation
- Personnel time saved on search totaling $8.9 million
Global B2B Commerce Success
- 24% improvement in facets
- $9.5M annualized lift projection
- +5.28% sales conversion
- +3.60% average order value
- 2.35% revenue per visitor
“Lucidworks has revolutionized the way we approach search and discovery”
—David Lee, VP of Technology
Lucidworks is superior to Elasticsearch for enterprise search in multiple use case applications, including:
Lucidworks makes workplace, knowledge management, and services search easy with these proven solutions:
- Workplace and employee search and knowledge management search
- Customer support search, gen AI chat, and call center case deflection
- Self-service portal search and gen AI chat
- Commerce/e-tail
- B2C and B2B
- Catalog search, browse, buy, and dynamic pricing
- Product discovery
- Searchandising, merchandising
Fusion Advantages
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Own Your Data While Using Generative AI Securely
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