FAST ESP

FAST ESP is the world’s leading enterprise search platform, helping millions of consumers and business users find answers and make decisions–fast. With more than 4,000 installations worldwide, FAST ESP can tackle even the most demanding search and information access challenges.

As the volume of digital data continues to grow exponentially – both on the Web and inside the enterprise – today’s users spend inordinate amounts of time trying to locate the information they need. As a result, businesses lose revenue, customers, productivity, intelligence, and competitive advantage.

FAST ESP delivers to users the relevant, accurate and timely answers and insights they need to make smart, fast decisions. Online businesses win by helping their customers and visitors find relevant content, products, services and communities, building loyalty and driving revenue in the process. Corporations and government organizations win by helping knowledge workers more quickly discover authorized information and analyze results, improving productivity and uncovering business intelligence.

FAST ESP offers the following Key Capabilities:

Enables new levels of search precision and experience: With FAST ESP and its Contextual Insight capability, your search users get precise results in context and contextual dynamic navigation for exploring related data. Advanced linguistics and relevancy management capabilities further improve users’ search experiences.
Delivers end-to-end security: Provides easy access to available information and delivers the information securely at all critical levels: content, server environment and search application. FAST ESP integrates easily into your organization’s security fabric.
Offers holistic search management and analysis for maximum usability: Provides rich search management and analysis and tuning capabilities that help minimize total cost of ownership and enable a complete user-centric search experience.
Provides access to a wide variety of data sources: Helps harness existing information assets and taps sources as varied as structured databases and unstructured information in Web pages, e-mail, blogs, and so on. FAST ESP supports 81 languages and more than 400 document formats.
Offers built-in scalability and high performance: FAST ESP’s core architecture scales simultaneously in three dimensions: data volume, queries per second and freshness of data. Your search-driven services and application systems can support millions of users and search terabytes of data with sub-second response times.

Our business is literally built on search – we need to connect our advertisers with the right candidates quickly. FAST was the only platform that could scale with our business and ensure that we are making the right connections between job advertisers and candidates. Tam Vu, CIO and director of business transformation, SEEK

Online newspaper Times Online did not want to just keep up with the times, but to set the pace.
It needed a robust, highly flexible enterprise search platform to support its aggressive digital business strategy, offer its users better search relevancy and create new opportunities for advertisers. FAST ESP quickly delivered innovative search-driven contextual advertising solutions for the advertisers of the News International business.

You’ve got the data you need to make the decisions your investors expect. But have you got the tools to connect the right decision-makers to the right data when they need it?

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