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FAST Data Search™ for Compliance – Provides organizations a single secure access point to find and retrieve all of the collections of documents, transactions, and e-mails pertinent to help monitor, identify and surface potential violations.

FAST Data Search™ 360 – Presents organizations with the most complete search solution for retrieving highly relevant information from their enterprise, be it from any number of global databases, their intranet, or the Web.

Search Derivative Applications (SDAs)

FAST ESP provides all the technology needed to create specialized search-dependent solutions called Search Derivative Applications (SDAs). "In addition to consolidating and vastly improving upon key business functions, such as site search, intranet search and eCommerce, FAST ESP technology can be deployed to create new and innovative SDAs to solve demanding business problems, such as brand and content protection, anti-money laundering, and market intelligence. FAST ESP presents new ways of attacking problems like these that simply have not been possible before," added Riaz.

Rather than requiring totally separate development efforts and implementation, SDAs can be rapidly developed based on the flexible framework of the FAST ESP platform. This focused flexibility results in very efficient use of development and support resources, and of investments in physical equipment.

FAST ESP simply marries a "no technical boundaries" approach with a clear understanding of real-world requirements: extraordinary performance, precise accuracy, broad reach, and high return on investment. For FAST, the search never stops.

About FAST
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 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. FAST`s powerful enterprise search technology solutions are used by a wide range of global customers and partners, including AT&T;, Cardinal Health, CareerBuilder.com, Charles Schwab & Co., Chordiant, CIGNA, CNET, Dell, Fidelity Investments, FirstGov.gov (GSA), Freeserve, IBM, LexisNexis, Nordstrom, Overture, Rakuten, Reed Elsevier, Reuters, Tenet Healthcare, T-Online, US Army, Virgilio (Telecom Italia), and Vodafone.

FAST operates globally with presence in the United States, Europe, and Japan FAST is publicly traded under the ticker symbol `FAST` on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Please visit www.fastsearch.com for more information.

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