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Fusion 5.9
    Fusion 5.9

    Commerce Studio versus Predictive Merchandiser

    This article provides a feature comparison of Commerce Studio and Predictive Merchandiser.

    Both Predictive Merchandiser and Commerce Studio provide features that help your organization enhance and fine-tune searches and discovery on your website. Insights about customer interactions enable personnel such as merchandisers, marketers, and product teams develop and refine queries and campaigns to optimize customer experiences.

    Feature Predictive Merchandiser Commerce Studio Notes

    Integration with Fusion

    ✅

    ✅

    Commerce Studio supports integrating with Fusion.

    Modern user interface

    ✘

    ✅

    The main dashboard is called Visual Editor in Commerce Studio, and is designed to be intuitive and easy-to-use.

    Rules management

    ✅

    ✅

    In Commerce Studio, rule management can be performed in either the:

    Head/Tail rewrites

    ✅

    ✅

    In Commerce Studio, this feature is called Underperforming Queries.

    Misspelling corrections

    ✅

    ✅

    In Commerce Studio, this feature is called Misspelling Detections.

    Phrase rewrites

    ✅

    ✅

    In Commerce Studio, this feature is called Phrase Detections.

    Synonym additions

    ✅

    ✅

    In Commerce Studio, this feature is called Synonym Detections.

    Remove Words

    ✅

    ✅

    In Commerce Studio, this feature is called Word Removal.

    Custom interface configuration

    ✅

    ✅

    Instead of Templates and Zones, Commerce Studio uses Pages and Sections that you can set up to contain facets, recommendations, and results.

    Analytics Studio compatibility

    ✘

    ✅

    Predictive Merchandiser uses analytics that are derived from signals collected and indexed in Fusion. Commerce Studio uses Inline Analytics on catalog item cards in the Visual Editor that are powered by Analytics Studio and the signals beacon.

    Simulate customer experience

    ✅

    ✅

    Commerce Studio features the Live Site Simulator, which you can access from the Visual Editor to test rule changes in real time.

    A brief overview of Commerce Studio features is available in this training course:

    Lucidworks offers free training to help you get started with Fusion. Check out the What is Commerce Studio? course, which focuses on how to tailor your user’s search and browse experiences through powerful rule building, merchandising, audience segmentation, and more:

    What is Commerce Studio?

    Visit the LucidAcademy to see the full training catalog.