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LucidWorks Fusion 3

LucidWorks Fusion is an application development platform for building search applications that data analysts and consumers use to index and search an organization's data. The system can scale to millions of users and billions of documents, according to the company.

The latest release, Fusion 3, provides a range of new capabilities that accelerate application development projects and processes. The Index Workbench helps teams manage and organize ETL processes, for example, while a new preview feature shows how different configurations will affect data collections before indexing.

The new release facilitates streamlined setup while the guided configuration tools provide faceting, field mapping and other transformations. The new Query Workbench makes it easier to adjust relevancy scoring and a new graphical administrative user interface simplifies development and deployment through a UI framework for rapid prototyping. Fusion 3 also includes full SQL compatibility.