FAST ESP Continues to Gain Rapid Market Acceptance for Superior Integration and Management

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(EON:Enhanced Online News)--Fast Search & Transfer™ (OSEAX: FAST.OL) (FAST™), the leading global provider of search technologies, today announced that more than 500 organizations globally have implemented the FAST Enterprise Search Platform™ (FAST ESP™) as their information access layer of choice. This rapid adoption since the product’s inception last year validates FAST’s vision that search delivers exponential business value by intuitively connecting people to the information they need to make better business decisions, find new sources of revenue and transform the way they solve business problems. In short, forward-thinking companies that realize the value of using search technologies to effectively manage information access are choosing FAST.

“We at FAST recognize that search must constantly evolve, and to this end, we consistently lead the market in R&D investment and in introducing innovations in search – widening the gap with our competitors in the process”

As the market leader and only search technology provider to offer bullet-proof, service-oriented architecture (SOA-based) integration, FAST ESP quickly embeds into existing and evolving infrastructures. The platform offers unparalleled scalability and flexibility, running on a wide variety of hardware and operating systems, including RedHat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise. The latest offering, FAST ESP 5.1, enriches administration, search, content feeding and integration with services available out of the box, including a SOA-based framework for developing and deploying custom services that further extends the platform. All FAST ESP 5.1 services can be accessed as Web services, allowing for flexible, standards-based integration with existing and future services, applications, business process and third party SOA tools, shortening the platform’s time to value.

In addition to integration, FAST ESP 5.1 boosts the power of search by helping managers quickly enhance the user experience through in-document hit highlighting, a dashboard relevancy tuning and monitoring system, more intuitive GUI-based categorization tool for easier navigation of content and enhanced linguistic support. FAST ESP already supports 80 languages, more than any other enterprise search platform on the market, and this latest version provides enhanced Asian language support and GUI-based dictionary management.

“We at FAST recognize that search must constantly evolve, and to this end, we consistently lead the market in R&D investment and in introducing innovations in search – widening the gap with our competitors in the process,” said FAST CEO and Co-founder John M. Lervik. “By working closely with our customers and aligning our development efforts with their needs, we have learned how to turn the burden of the exponential increase in information into significant business advantage. FAST ESP is helping hundreds of organizations to make sense of data, to connect people to the right information, products, services, communities and expertise – ultimately increasing their productivity and the organization’s bottom line.”

About FAST

FAST is the leading global provider of enterprise search technologies powering some of the world’s best known companies. FAST helps its customers deliver applications and services that connect their users to the right information, the right products, and the right people. By making search a central part of business infrastructure, FAST’s customers leverage search to drive business results. FAST’s solutions are used by more than 2,600 global customers and partners, including America Online (AOL), Cardinal Health, CareerBuilder.com, Chordiant, CIGNA, CNET, Dell, Factiva, Fidelity Investments, Findexa, IBM, Knight Ridder, LexisNexis, Overture, Rakuten, Reed Elsevier, Reuters, Sensis, Stellent, Tenet Healthcare, Thomas Industrial Networks, T-Online, US Army, Virgilio (Telecom Italia), Vodafone, and Wanadoo.

FAST is headquartered in Norway and is publicly traded under the ticker symbol 'FAST' on the Oslo Stock Exchange. For further information about FAST, please visit www.fastsearch.com.

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