FAST Search
Enterprise Search Platform (ESP)
When executives have to make a critical business decision quickly, the executives want every piece of supporting data and they want it fast. Useful data is stored in volumes of information – in product catalogues, e-mail archives, data applications, and in every form of digital media – creating the challenge of finding an efficient way to consolidate and access it all. FAST have a system that provides the right “roll-up” overviews across the organisation and along the extended supply chain, one that intuitively understands each user request so that precise results are delivered quickly. Using FAST's enterprise search solution, employees can unearth decision-critical information locked inside the enterprise quickly and easily.
Basic things you should know about ESP
Enterprise search technology is rooted in the discipline of information retrieval, which is all about developing frameworks that can represent documents, queries and the many relationships between them. Today’s state-of-the-art technology enables a wide range of applications: real-time alerting, market and trend analysis tools, data clustering, advanced mobile services, and automatic video and audio broadcast monitoring, to name a few. It is also an essential tool for business intelligence. Search provides the platform for sophisticated real-time analytics of very large data sets. By slicing, dicing and intelligently augmenting structured, unstructured and rich media data, these highly contextually aware applications can maximize information use for everyone from simple Web users to the most demanding knowledge workers.
FAST ESP is the world’s leading enterprise search platform. It provides linear scalability, a set of real-time characteristics and highly relevant search results without compromising performance. It offers sub-second responses to vast numbers of simultaneous queries through an easy-to-maintain, flexible Web-based architecture that uses low-cost, high-performance computers to enable scalability in three key dimensions: volume of data, queries per second and freshness of data.
FAST ESP provides the following key capabilities and benefits:
- A new search experience for users. FAST ESP’s advanced search precision lets users quickly find facts and answers to their questions—and expand their searches into related information areas.
- A state-of-the-art, personalized user experience. FAST ESP’s rich management functionality, tuning capabilities and end-user tools maximize ROI and enable truly user-centric search.
- A more seamless search experience. The high performance, linear scalability and fault tolerance of FAST ESP lower the TCO of an enterprise search environment and guarantee superior quality of service even during peak loads.
- Greater flexibility. FAST ESP’s easy integration and modularity allow organizations to seamlessly integrate FAST ESP into their pre-existing data sources, application systems and security fabric.
- Holistic security. Users depend on easy and secure access to information.
This section of the website shows how FAST ESP can provide significant benefits to organizations in a wide range of demanding scenarios. By focusing on FAST ESP’s rich array of capabilities, it is also gives a helpful guide to some of the new and intriguing areas in the world of enterprise search.
Source: FAST ESP Brochure 2007