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FAST Introduces Full-Featured OEM Enterprise Search Solution

Oslo, Norway (ots/PRNewswire)

- FAST InStream Enables ISVs to Differentiate Their Market
Offering, Generate New Revenue Opportunities and to Provide
Best-In-Class Search Experiences for End-Users
Fast Search & Transfer(TM) (FAST(TM)), the leading developer of
enterprise search and real-time alerting technologies, today
announced FAST  InStream(TM), an OEM enterprise search solution
developed specifically for  independent software vendors (ISVs).
Based upon FAST's powerful Enterprise  Search Platform (FAST
ESP(TM)), FAST InStream enables ISVs to empower their   users, extend
and strengthen their applications' functionality, and  accelerate
their competitive advantage.
FAST InStream is designed to increase the value of enterprise
applications and boost ROI for the ISV's customers by extending the
power of FAST ESP within OEM environments. Supporting both structured
and unstructured data, FAST InStream provides unique value across all
types of software applications, including:
  • Enterprise Portals
  • Content and Document Management systems
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions
  • Business Intelligence (BI) suites and applications
  • Storage and Archiving solutions.
For content- and information-intensive application environments
such as these, FAST InStream is an ideal fit based on a combination
of best-in-class scalability, market-leading relevancy, and a
completely modular and flexible architecture which allows ISVs to
easily integrate only the components that they require.
The unmatched scalability and performance of the product provides
ISVs the ability to handle tens of millions of documents (or data
records) and hundreds of queries per second per commodity server,
creating a very low total cost of ownership (TCO). Furthermore, FAST
InStream provides high quality information retrieval and on-the-fly
analytics - both statistical and linguistic - for effective search
querying, as well as for specialized search and alerting
functionalities.
"FAST's accelerating growth in the alliances sector has been
driven by our focus on creating an embeddable solution that focuses
on the needs of our partners. The introduction of FAST InStream
supports our strategic direction to deliver innovative search
solutions through an extended network of partners," said Ali Riaz,
FAST's chief operating officer. "As other vendors realign their
enterprise search business models and expand product portfolios away
from search, they inherently create channel conflict with key OEM
customers. In contrast, FAST InStream and the FAST Channels
infrastructure have been developed specifically to meet the unique
technical and support requirements of ISVs."
FAST's open and modular architecture provides ISVs the utmost
flexibility when selecting and deploying search solutions - from
specialized search and alerting applications to complete multilingual
enterprise search platforms which support 77 languages. FAST InStream
has been designed to support OEM readiness through characteristics
such as:
  • Simple integration with a broad range of enterprise solutions
  • Easy migration from existing OEM search solutions
  • Stable and reliable platform design that integrates easily into existing security fabric
  • Modular and configurable system to accommodate a range of customers, markets and functions
  • Well documented global support and upgrade capabilities to reduce resource needs and costs
  • The widest array of supported platforms, including being the only enterprise search platform to support HP-UX 11i Itanium 2
"The advanced functionalities of search software are beginning to
be incorporated in new intelligent applications across a broad range
of industries and business processes," commented Hadley Reynolds, VP
& Director of Research at Delphi Group, Boston, MA. "This trend to
advanced search functionality is transforming the traditional OEM
relationship from a passive licensing function to an active
partnership in addressing new business requirements. The InStream
application from FAST offers ISVs a number of facilitators that
should help them speed delivery of business value in intelligent
applications."
FAST InStream has been architected expressly to meet both the
technical and business requirements of leading ISVs. FAST has taken
into consideration the needs of the different users that interact
with OEM solutions - product managers, sales, developers, and the
ISV's end-users - and has fine-tuned FAST InStream to provide
user-specific benefits including accelerated time-to-market,
well-documented integration and migration tools, incremental revenue
opportunities for sales, competitive differentiation, ease of use for
developers and end-users, improved end-user TCO, and lower
development costs.
Central to the success of FAST InStream and the FAST Channels
organization is its commitment to delivering not only innovative
partner solutions, but also the dedicated support infrastructure
required to ensure mutual success. FAST is exclusively focused on
delivering enterprise search solutions that either directly deliver,
or enable the delivery of, exponential innovation and improvements in
overall business process at the world's leading enterprises. FAST's
enterprise search solutions allow partners to generate new business
opportunities by offering their customers a powerful and flexible
search and information retrieval technology that extends and
complements our partners' platforms, solutions and market viability.
Partners including BroadVision, Chordiant, LexisNexis, Orchestria,
among others, have developed, licensed and integrated FAST's powerful
search technology to improve the flexibility and efficiency of their
application, reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), and improve their
return on investment (ROI). Feedback from these partners has been
instrumental in the development of the FAST InStream application.
FAST continues to provide best-in-class search technology to
leading enterprise software vendors. FAST InStream stays true to the
flexible framework of the FAST ESP platform, and extends world class
search capabilities to ISVs around the globe. FAST's suite of
enterprise search solutions supply a complete information retrieval
solution ideal for key vertical markets and applications including
e-Commerce and Internet Portals, Financial Services; Government; Life
Sciences; Media and Publishing; and Telecom. For FAST, the search
never stops.
For further information about FAST InStream, please see
http://www.fastsearch.com/InStream.
About FAST
FAST creates the real-time search and filter technology solutions
that are behind the scenes at the world's best known companies with
the most demanding search problems. FAST's flexible and scalable
integrated technology platform elevates the search capabilities of
enterprise customers and connects people to the relevant information
they seek regardless of medium. This drives revenues and reduces
total cost of ownership by effectively leveraging IT infrastructure.
FAST's powerful enterprise search technology solutions are used by a
wide range of global customers and partners, including AT&T, Cardinal
Health, CareerBuilder.com, Chordiant, CIGNA, CNET, Dell, Fidelity
Investments, Findexa, FirstGov.gov (GSA), IBM, Knight Ridder,
LexisNexis, Overture, Rakuten, Reed Elsevier, Reuters, Sensis, 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. The FAST Group
operates globally with presence in Europe, the United States, and
Japan. Additionally, the FAST Group has business partners and
customers in a number of other locations, such as Brazil, Canada and
Australia. For further information about FAST, please visit
www.fastsearch.com.
(c) 2004 Fast Search & Transfer ASA - Fast Search & Transfer,
FAST, FAST ESP, FAST Data Search, FAST Marketrac, FAST AdVisor, FAST
InStream, and the FAST four-colored logo are trademarks of Fast
Search & Transfer ASA. All rights reserved. FAST disclaims any
proprietary interest in the marks and names of others. All other
trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their
respective owners.

Contact:

Peter Gorman, Director of Corporate Communications (US), tel
+1-781-304-2495, Peter.Gorman@fastsearch.com

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