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LexisNexis Integrates FAST Data Search to Power LexisNexis Total Search.


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Enterprise Search Technology to Drive LexisNexis Knowledge

Management Product, Enhance Efficiency and Productivity for the

Customer

LexisNexis(TM) U.S., a leading provider of news and business information services See Information Systems. , and Fast Search & Transfer(TM) (FAST(TM)), the leading developer of enterprise search and real-time alerting technologies, today announced that LexisNexis has integrated FAST Data Search(TM) with its recently launched LexisNexis(TM) Total Search.

FAST's scalable and flexible enterprise search technology is powering the search functionality of LexisNexis Total Search, enabling its users to quickly and easily find highly relevant legal information, including existing pleadings, depositions, memos and other motions written by internal experts, together with trusted information from LexisNexis - in one search all through the familiar lexis.com user interface.

"With restricted budgets and a greater demand for efficiency and productivity, legal firms today are demanding solutions that enable them to quickly access and share information, save time, and make the most of their internal resources," said Jim Peck Jim Peck (born June 5, 1943, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was an American game show host. Early career
He got his start in the form of a contract with ABC to host three game shows (he also occasionally substituted for David Hartman on Good Morning America).
, chief product officer of LexisNexis Group. "After carefully reviewing many competing solutions, LexisNexis found FAST Data Search to be the 'best-of-breed' search technology to work in conjunction with the LexisNexis search engine to power LexisNexis Total Search. Its efficiency in maximizing existing architecture and systems, as well as its linear scalability, flexibility and extreme stability made the decision to integrate FAST Data Search with our technology an easy one."

LexisNexis Total Search is a Web browser-based application designed to provide added value Added value in financial analysis of shares is to be distinguished from value added. Used as a measure of shareholder value, calculated using the formula:

Added Value = Sales - Purchases - Labour Costs - Capital Costs
 to legal researchers and expand knowledge sharing within and across previously disconnected boundaries - a firm's internal knowledge base and the vast amount of information residing on LexisNexis at lexis.com.

"LexisNexis is an extremely well-respected organization that provides companies and individuals worldwide with accurate news, legal and business resources from massive amounts of stored data," commented John M. Lervik, FAST's chief executive officer. "Their decision to deploy FAST Data Search with LexisNexis Total Search is further evidence of FAST's ability to provide the most relevant search results from enterprise work product in conjunction with the power of traditional lexis.com research. We are very pleased that LexisNexis has chosen FAST to power the search functionality of LexisNexis Total Search, and look forward to building a strong relationship with them into the future."

The FAST Data Search suite of enterprise search solutions offers the most comprehensive combination available of powerful real-time search technology, business search management tools, and information analysis capabilities. FAST Data Search enables organizations to develop information transparency and utilization across organizational units and geographical areas. This results in improved efficiency and 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).  through collaboration, information sharing, and real-time data monitoring and filtering. The FAST Data Search product suite supplies a complete information retrieval solution ideal for key vertical markets including Financial Services; Government; Media and Publishing; Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals; and high-end e-Commerce applications.

About LexisNexis

LexisNexis Group (www.lexisnexis.com) is a global leader in comprehensive and authoritative legal, news and business information and tailored applications. A member of Reed Elsevier Group plc (NYSE NYSE

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; NYSE; RUK RUK Reserviupseerikoulu (Hamina, Finland, Reserve Officers' School)
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) (www.reedelsevier.com), the company does business in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide. In addition to its flagship Web-based research service, LexisNexis, the company includes some of the world's most respected legal publishers such as Martindale-Hubbell, Matthew Bender, Butterworths, Les Editions du Juris-Classeur, Abeledo-Perrot and Orac.

In the U.S., LexisNexis Total Research System offers an extensive range of online and print legal and regulatory information products, tools, customized Web applications and critical filing services that help legal professionals reach confident decisions and comply with the law.

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, 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) , LexisNexis, The National Library of Norway The National Library of Norway (Norwegian: Nasjonalbiblioteket) is the national library of Norway. The library is located in Oslo. Since 1994, another branch has been located at Mo i Rana. It was opened and restored in 2005. , Overture, Reed Elsevier, Reuters, SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002.  Communications, and T-Online currently use FAST's powerful enterprise search technology solutions.

FAST operates globally with presence in the United States (Boston, Washington DC, Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco), Europe (Norway, France, Germany, Italy, UK), and Japan. FAST 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.

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