FAST and Delphi Group Featured in AIIM Webcast on the Direction of Enterprise Search in 2006

Business Wire, April 25, 2006

OSLO, Norway & NEEDHAM, Mass. -- Learn How Enterprise Search Can Help Organizations Avoid Information Overload

Fast Search & Transfer(TM) (FAST(TM)), the leading developer of enterprise search technologies and solutions, today announced a new webcast presented by AIIM, the enterprise content management association, entitled "Redefining Enterprise Search in 2006," featuring Delphi Group Research Director Hadley Reynolds and FAST Vice President for Channel Development Rob Lancaster.

Topic:         Redefining Enterprise Search in 2006
  Date:          April 26, 2006
  Time:          2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EDT / 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. PDT
  Registration:  http://www.aiim.org/webinar-events.asp?ID=3502

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."

Attendees will learn:

--Search as a key element of today's ECM infrastructure.

--Convergence of structured and unstructured data search.

--How enterprise search is changing the way organizations conduct, create and grow their business.

--The role of search within compliance.

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 world's best known companies with the most demanding search problems. FAST's 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. FAST's solutions are used by more than 2,600 global customers and partners, including America Online (AOL), Cardinal Health, CareerBuilder.com, Chordiant, CIGNA, CNET, Computer Associates, Dell, EMC Documentum, Factiva, Fidelity Investments, Findexa, IBM, Knight Ridder, LexisNexis, Merrill Lynch, 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 and Africa. For further information about FAST, please visit www.fastsearch.com.

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