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FAST Executives to Present Three Sessions on Enterprise Search Solutions at AIIM 2006

Sessions Showcase the Game Changing Impact of Search Solutions in the Enterprise Today

OSLO, Norway and Needham, MA 09 May 2006 Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), the leading developer of enterprise search technologies and solutions, today announced the company is speaking at three separate sessions during the AIIM Conference & Exposition, the leading industry event for enterprise content and document management, to be held May 15-18, 2006, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.
The sessions include:

Embedded Search Panel Discussion
Tuesday, May 16, 11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
Rob Lancaster, VP, Channel Development, FAST

Contextual Business Intelligence
Thursday, May 18, 11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
Andrew McKay, VP, Product Marketing, FAST


Redefining Enterprise Search

Thursday, May 18, 12:45 p.m. 1:45 p.m.
Carl Frappalo, Delphi Group and Rob Lancaster, VP, Channel Development, FAST


Additional session information:
Embedded Search Panel Tuesday, May 16, 11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
As content repositories expand and proliferate, information access and findability is becoming an increasingly critical piece of the management puzzle. But despite the obvious synergies between the worlds of search and ECM, they have generally existed in their own separate and distinct universes. Presented in a no-hype, moderated panel format, the panelists will examine the critical elements of technology selection, functionality and other critical aspects of large-scale enterprise search deployment. Attendees will learn how to identify the right organizational readiness, how to set realistic user expectations and how to create a more intuitive and productive search experience.

Contextual Business Intelligence Thursday, May 18, 11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
The ability to enable BI systems to analyze a wider range of data and information and provide context around the metrics they provide is regarded as one of the most important success factors for BI vendors. Today, vendors seek the functionality that will allow these systems to be extended more broadly throughout the enterprise, and ultimately to become intelligence platforms that span the entire organization. By associating the metrics that the BI system derives based on structured data analysis with relevant internal reports and memos, users can quickly understand the history and cause of the metrics. This contextual BI enables users to bridge the gap between insight and action. Correspondingly, the analysis of unstructured information can also provide new sources of insight and information for BI systems to report on and enable predictive analytics.

Redefining Enterprise Search Thursday, May 18, 12:45 p.m. 1:45 p.m.

The world of search technology is changing. As Google's reach has expanded on the Internet - from Web search to books, chat, shopping, and geographical search a parallel trend has emerged with enterprise search. Defined as finding a complete set of information from across the enterprise, premium content, and propriety data sources, enterprise search is becoming a core element of the enterprise content management infrastructure, enabling knowledge workers to interface with the worlds of both structured and unstructured electronic information, avoiding what the Delphi Group refers to as information thrash.

About AIIM The ECM Association

AIIM is the international industry association connecting users and suppliers of enterprise content management (ECM) technologies tools and methods used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content in support of business processes. For more than 60 years, AIIM has been a neutral and unbiased source for education and industry information, standards, advocacy, and community.

About FAST

FAST is the leading developer of enterprise search technologies and solutions that are behind the scenes at the worlds best known companies with the most demanding search problems. FASTs flexible and scalable enterprise search platform (FAST ESP) 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. FASTs solutions are used by more than 2,600 global customers and partners, including America Online (AOL), Cardinal Health, CareerBuilder.com, Chordiant, CIGNA, CNET, Dell, Factiva, Fidelity Investments, Findexa, IBM, Knight Ridder, LexisNexis, Overture, Rakuten, Reed Elsevier, Reuters, Sensis, Stellent, 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, Asia Pacific, Australia, South America, and the Middle East. For further information about FAST, please visit www.fastsearch.com.

Source: FAST

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