City of Chicago Deploys Fast Data Search Across Its Public Information Site.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers OSLO, Norway--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 2003 Powerful Enterprise Search Solution Enables Public to Instantly Retrieve Highly Relevant Information About Chicago and Its Government from City of Chicago Portal Site Noun 1. portal site - a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet; "a portal typically has search engines and free email and chat rooms etc. Fast Search & Transfer(TM) (FAST(TM)), the leading developer of enterprise search and real-time alerting technologies, today announced that the City of Chicago has deployed FAST Data Search(TM) on its government portal site (http://www.cityofchicago.org), enabling residents and users to quickly search and retrieve highly relevant public information. Currently fully deployed on the Department of Procurement Services page, the City of Chicago is expanding its use of FAST Data Search across all of the 46 departments on the portal. FAST's powerful and scalable enterprise search solution was deployed as part of the City of Chicago's transparent government initiative, which is intended to increase public visibility into city operations, make city services The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. more accessible and convenient, and enable Chicago residents to more easily search and retrieve information about their city. "The City of Chicago's portal site provides the public with a wealth of information from all of the city's departments, including the Mayor's Office, the Department of Health and the Chicago Public Library," said Christopher C. O'Brien, Chief Information Officer for the City of Chicago. "While scalable enough to handle the large amounts of data offered by each of these departments, FAST Data Search has also proven to be flexible enough to link the wide variety of data sources with data we have stored in Oracle databases. We are very confident in FAST's capabilities and look forward to having it quickly deployed across the entire site." The unique, single-platform approach of FAST Data Search is setting new, enterprise search standards for customers and partners worldwide by providing them with scalable, industrial strength search solutions that address their needs and allow them to migrate from smaller installations to enterprise-wide deployments, as required, without changing software platform. "FAST Data Search offers an ideal solution for enterprise customers, such as the City of Chicago, where there is a need to provide instant access to highly-relevant information from disparate locations in a variety of data formats," commented John M. Lervik, FAST's chief executive officer. "The performance levels that the City of Chicago has seen from their deployment of FAST Data Search demonstrates yet again our technology's ability to handle the most complicated search situations with ease." Ideal for smaller installations to the most demanding search and retrieval cases, FAST Data Search enables companies and organizations to develop information transparency and utilization across organizational units and geographical areas. This results in improved efficiency through collaboration, information sharing See data conferencing. , and real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. monitoring and filtering. With advanced linguistic technologies, categorization, dynamic result clustering, and support for over 225 file formats and 54 languages, the FAST Data Search product suite supplies a complete information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. solution ideal for key vertical markets including Financial Services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. ; Government; Media and Publishing; Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals; and e-Commerce applications. About FAST Fast Search & Transfer (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 enables enterprise customers to elevate their search capabilities to unprecedented levels. FAST closes the gap between information and action, connecting people to the relevant information they seek regardless of medium, in turn driving revenue and reducing total cost of ownership by effectively leveraging IT infrastructure for our clients and world-class partners. A wide range of Global 3000 customers and partners, including AT&T, Cardinal Health <includeonly></includeonly> Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) is a premier, global healthcare company dedicated to making healthcare safer and more productive. Overview Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. , CareerBuilder, Chordiant, CIGNA CIGNA CG (Connecticut General Life Insurance Company) INA (Insurance Company of North America) , Dell, FirstGov.gov (GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM. ), Freeserve, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Matrix (Italia Telecom), Overture, Reed Elsevier, Reuters, and T-Online (Deutsche Telecom) currently use FAST's powerful enterprise search technology solutions. 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