Fast Launches 'Fast Track Technology Partner Program' and Executive Seminars On the Benefits of Integrating & Deploying Industrial Strength Search.Business Editors OSLO, Norway--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 2002 Program and seminars will assist ISV (Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. partners and their end customers in leveraging enterprise search applications to increase revenues, lower total cost-of-ownership and improve customer loyalty Fast Search & Transfer(TM) (FAST), a leading developer of search and real-time filter technologies, today announced the unveiling of its 'FAST Track Technology Partner Program'. This program is designed to educate independent software vendor (ISV) partners and their customers on how incorporating FAST's high performance, 'under-the-hood' search and real-time filter solution improves the flexibility and efficiency of the ISV application, resulting in reduced total cost of ownership and improved return on investment (ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ). The newly launched program empowers FAST's current and future ISV partners to generate new business opportunities by offering to their customers the most powerful and flexible data management and 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. technology. The program allows FAST to further develop and maintain its strong relationships with key partners, and the first educational webinar entitled "Win Business and Increase Revenue with Private Label Search" will take place on Thursday, September 12th, at 2:00 p.m. EST. "At FAST, we focus on building the most innovative and highest quality information retrieval solutions in the world," stated Dr. John M. Lervik, FAST's chief executive officer. "The value of document management, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. , and Supply Chain Management applications, and other horizontal and vertical enterprise applications within markets such as e-business/e-tailing, 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. , and media/publishing, can be significantly improved by integrating FAST's search and real-time filtering solutions. Specifically, our partners can both extend the feature set and improve the cost effectiveness of their existing applications, gaining a unique value proposition through greater competitive differentiation, and providing customers reduced total cost of ownership." The FAST Track Technology Partner Program offers partners the ISV version of FAST Data Search(TM), an enterprise-wide software platform designed for companies faced with the challenges of managing huge volumes of business-critical data being accessed by a large number of users, often with real-time demands. From smaller installations to the most demanding cases where frequent 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. updates and a large numbers of users exist, FAST Data Search supplies a complete information retrieval solution enabling both the intelligent proactive serving of information and profile-based real-time information distribution (push). Built with an open and modular API architecture, FAST Data Search ensures partners easy integration with a wide range of enterprise applications, as well as databases, file servers (both open and secure), and Web servers. FAST Data Search is efficiently administered through XML-based configuration files allowing for flexible integration with other admin applications, as well as application monitoring, logging, and diagnostics. Handling both unstructured and structured data, custom processing for each data collection is available through the open modular data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a pipeline framework. The powerful query language A generalized language that allows a user to select records from a database. It uses a command language, menu-driven method or a query by example (QBE) format for expressing the matching condition. fully supports Boolean queries, natural language queries, and parametric queries. Furthermore, a flexible and powerful relevancy tuning toolkit enables businesses to customize the result ranking presentation according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. business needs. Combined with a broad suite of advanced computational linguistics computational linguistics (CL) Use of digital computers in linguistics research. The simplest examples are the use of computers to scan text and produce such aids as word lists, frequency counts, and concordances. technologies handling orthographical, morphological, syntactical, and syntactic variations, FAST Data Search efficiently connects applications or users to the information they seek. Key features include integrated support for 49 languages (including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean); automatic categorization; dynamic supervised and unsupervised results clustering; dynamic teaser/summary generation; and language-specific processing (including automatic phrasing, lemmatization lem`ma`tiz`a´tion v. t. 1. The act or process of lemmatizing; conversion into a lemma . , and natural language queries). The FAST Track Technology Partner Program is focused on attracting companies that desire an easily integrated, fully supported search solution. To kick off the program FAST has designed a flexible and aggressive technology program that meets the needs of a wide variety of partner situations. In addition to gaining access to leading enterprise search tools, increasing opportunities for winning new customers and building revenues, the FAST Track Technology Partner Program offers partners numerous benefits, including software, training, joint marketing and promotional support. FAST Track Technology Partner Program Seminars FAST will host several online and in-person seminars throughout the year aimed at demonstrating the growing need for industrial strength search solutions, and detailing how these solutions can be used to increase revenue opportunities, provide measurable ROI and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. ) of existing IT assets. On Thursday, September 12th, at 2:00 p.m. EST, FAST will be hosting a free webinar entitled, "Win Business and Increase Revenue with Private Label Search". In this webinar, noted search industry analyst Sue Feldman of IDC and Linda Sonne of BroadVision will join FAST's executives in discussing the future of enterprise search, the value of deploying search technology within enterprise applications, and real-world examples of successful search integrations using FAST's technology. Further details about this webinar and information on how to register can be accessed at: http://www.fastsearch.com/Private_Label_Search/. Additionally, FAST will be hosting live breakfast seminars entitled, "Tasting Success with Private Label Search," which will be held in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Chicago, and San Francisco on October 23rd, 24th, and 29th, respectively. At these seminars, search technology experts Matthew Berk of Jupiter Research, and Avi Rappoport of Search Tools Consulting, will discuss the growing need for enterprise search and the importance of finding information in a variety of formats and languages. FAST's Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , Ali Riaz, will also demonstrate how some of the world's largest companies are successfully using FAST's enterprise search solutions to develop new business opportunities. Further information on these breakfast seminars can be accessed at: http://www.fastsearch.com/eb/. About FAST Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) creates the real-time search and filter technology solutions that are behind the scenes at some of the world's best known companies with the most demanding search problems. FAST's flexible and scalable integrated technology platform spans both Internet and enterprise customers, and elevates search 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. FAST search technology is currently deployed by a wide range of global customers and partners including AT&T, BroadVision, CareerBuilder, Chordiant, Dell, 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) , InfoSpace, Reed Elsevier (Scirus.com), Reuters, T-Online, Terra Lycos, and Tiscali. FAST has operations in the United States (Boston, San Francisco), Europe (Norway, France, Germany, Italy, UK), and Japan, and is publicly traded under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors 'FAST' on the Oslo Stock Exchange Oslo Stock Exchange An exchange founded in 1819 and trading stocks, bonds, and stock options that is considered the options market of Norway. . Please visit www.fastsearch.com for more information or see FAST in action at our technology showcase www.alltheweb.com. (c) 2002 Fast Search & Transfer ASA Asa (ā`sə), in the Bible, king of Judah, son and successor of Abijah. He was a good king, zealous in his extirpation of idols. 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