1.
S P E A K E R N A M E
S P E A K E R T I T L E
Introducing Lucidworks
Fusion 5.0

2.
Presenters
T I M P O T T E R
Chief Architect,
Lucidworks
A L E A A B E D
Director, Product Marketing
Lucidworks

3.
Agenda
Company and product overview
What’s new in Fusion 5.0
Fusion 5.0 Deep Dive
Q&A

4.
Lucidworks helps the world’s
largest organizations make
their valuable data work for
their customers and
employees.
250+E M P L O Y E E S
400+E N G A G E M E N T S A C R O S S T H E
G L O B A L F O R T U N E 2 0 0 0
S P O N S O R I N G
C O M PA N Y

5.
S A N F R A N C I S C O
United States
C A M B R I D G E
United Kingdom
B A N G A L O R E
India
H O N G K O N G
China
N O R T H C A R O L I N A
United States

6.
Personalization is
expected
I N D U S T RY T R E N D S
AI is a priority

7.
HYPER
PERSONALIZATION
Maximize the opportunities to tailor content that fits
each and every employee’s wants and needs.

8.
Better Outcomes
Customer
Care
Research Fraud
Detection
ComplianceRecruiting

9.
C A S E S T U D Y
Better customer support
Putting the right information in front of customers in fewer clicks
Improved support calls
Shorter wait times, and a more engaged support
Reinvestment of savings
200%I N C R E A S E I N C T R
50KF E W E R S U P P O R T T I C K E T S
91%R E D U C T I O N I N T C O

10.
HYPER
PERSONALIZATION
Tailor the shopping experience to match
each shopper’s wants and needs.

11.
Better Outcomes
ATC
Increased Add
to Cart
AOV
Improved Average
Order Value
CTR
Boosted Click
Thru Rate

12.
C A S E S T U D Y
Uses Fusion to handle search
across multiple B2B, B2C, SMB &
private sites, across:
88 countries
36 languages
170%I N C R E A S E I N S E A R C H - B A S E D
R E V E N U E
142%I N C R E A S E I N C T R
Fortune 500
Computer & Electronics Retailer

13.
Advanced connectors and AI enrichment,
delivered by intuitive applications created with App Studio,
deployed in the cloud or on-prem.
D ATA
Any format,
any platform
S O L U T I O N
Personalized
to meet needs of
each unique user
FUSION
Server
FUSION
Search AI
FUSION
App Studio
FUSION
Data AI
F U S I O N P L AT F O R M
Human
Generated
System
Generated
Application
Generated
Digital
Commerce
Applications
Digital
Workplace
Applications

14.
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Fusion 5
Microservices
Data Science Integration
Predictive Merchandiser

15.
What’s new in Fusion 5.0
• Cloud-native
• Kubernetes deployments (Cloud or on-prem)
• Autoscale capable
• Easier deployment, upgrades and management
• Native support for Python ML models

16.
Data Science Toolkit Integration
• Increased data science productivity
• Faster time to value
• Extend ML across entire experience w/
Python integration at index and query
time

17.
Lucidworks Predictive Merchandiser
• Visual interface to create and
manage rules
• Enables merchandisers to be
self-service
• Eliminates tedious workflows

18.
F US IO N 5 .0 FO R THE
D IGITA L WO R K PLACE
• More more apps, more data
sources, faster
• Reduced risk of downtime
• Manage resources & costs
• Higher relevancy, ML-powered
results

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F US IO N 5 .0 FO R
DIGITA L CO MME RCE
• Scale resources for events like
Black Friday
• Reduce risk of downtime and
lost revenue
• Seamlessly improve product
relevance
• Give merchandisers more
control over search & browse
experience

20.
20
Fusion 5
Deep Dive

21.
Cloud-native Architecture
Flexible
deployment
Deploy on any
private or public
cloud infrastructure
Microservices
Orchestrated by
Kubernetes
Reduced
TCO
Easier management,
Less DevOps
specialization
required
Autoscaling
policies
Expand capacity
where needed to
adapt to changing
business needs
Continuous
Delivery
Reduced risk of
downtime

22.
Kubernetes:
Beyond the Hype
• Best practices for operating distributed
systems baked into codified processes
and tools
• Better alignment with our customers’ goals
of running in the cloud and leveraging
microservices
• K8s ecosystem is growing fast!
• Installing + monitoring, scaling, complex,
HA distributed apps has never been easier
• Resource efficiency ~ less overhead
running containers, balanced pod
allocation across clusters

23.
Install / Upgrade via
Helm
• Package manager and template framework for Kubernetes
Apps
• Fusion 5 comes well-configured out-of-the-box via a Helm
Chart
• Add the Artifactory Helm repository:
helm repo add lucidworks https://charts.lucidworks.com
helm repo update
• Install Fusion cluster:
helm install --values default_fusion_values.yaml
-n f5 lucidworks/fusion
• Upgrade Fusion cluster:
helm upgrade --values default_fusion_values.yaml
f5 lucidworks/fusion
See: https://github.com/lucidworks/fusion-cloud-native

24.
Operational Efficiency /
Reduced TCO

25.
Query
Processing
with
Microservices

26.
Workload
Isolation

27.
THANK YOU

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Resources
Blog: Introducing Fusion 5
Fusion 5.0 Documentation
https://github.com/lucidworks/fusion-cloud-native
Webinar: Predictive Merchandiser Deep Dive (Oct 10)