FAST Enterprise Search Platform (FAST ESP) Adds Key Capabilities to TietoEnator's Digitalizing Framework
Oslo, Norway (ots/PRNewswire)
- Partnership Integrates FAST's Powerful Enterprise Search Platform with TietoEnator's Information Management Solutions
Fast Search & Transfer(TM) (FAST(TM)), the leading developer of enterprise search and real-time alerting technologies, today announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with TietoEnator, the largest IT services company in the Nordic region. As part of this partnership, FAST will integrate its enterprise search platform (FAST ESP(TM)) into the TietoEnator Digitalizing Framework to enhance existing functionality in the areas of content management, document management and portal solutions.
TietoEnator's best concepts, solutions, and working practices, along with the latest technological innovations of technology partners, such as FAST, are being brought together in the Repository portal of Digitalizing Framework. Furthermore, Digitalizing Framework includes a testing environment called Reality Laboratory, where TietoEnator's customers can test how well its technology partners' products can be integrated with, and adapted to their digital self-service solutions.
By developing standardized solutions that address common business issues, such as increasing online revenues or enabling collaboration between internal departments, TietoEnator is developing streamlined information management systems that allow companies to concentrate more on their core business rather than on managing complex IT projects. By partnering with best-of-breed technology solution providers such as FAST, TietoEnator can offer its customers a digital services platform based on tried and tested software solutions.
"The integration of FAST's platform with the Digitalizing Framework brings TietoEnator a critical step closer to fulfilling its vision of enabling operational efficiencies for customers by streamlining information management and communications solutions. The enterprise search platform enable users to quickly find the relevant information they need within company systems," said Michael Wittwer, General Manager, TietoEnator Digital Innovation, DFS.
"FAST ESP has become a key enabler in bringing disparate data sources together into a single point of information access for enterprises. We are very pleased to be working with TietoEnator as a key part of its Digitalizing Framework Solution, as both our companies are clearly focused on new ways to improve the end-user digital experience, whether that is within the company network or on the public Internet," said Ali I. Riaz, FAST's chief operating officer. "In addition to providing TietoEnator with the best enterprise search solutions for their Digitalizing Framework project, this partnership also enables FAST to further expand its global customer reach."
FAST has transformed enterprise search from a powerful, yet narrowly perceived function, into an enterprise-wide strategic and tactical capability of pivotal importance. FAST ESP and FAST's portfolio of solutions and SDAs supply a complete information retrieval solution ideal for a growing number of key vertical markets and applications including e-Commerce and Internet Portals, Financial Services; Government; Life Sciences; Media and Publishing; and Telecom. 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 more than 1,500 global customers and partners, including America Online (AOL), AT&T, Cardinal Health, CareerBuilder.com, Chordiant, CIGNA, CNET, Dell, Factiva, Fidelity Investments, Findexa, FirstGov.gov (GSA), 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.
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