World-class enterprise search for the most demanding applications

Key Benefits

• Shape Intuitive User Experiences
  Conversational search experiences will lead people to the most relevant information. These experiences can be tailored to meet the individual needs of your people and your business.
• Manage at Extreme Scale
  The extensible and customizable platform enables you to tackle challenging requirements. Scale up to meet any demand, while your business keeps control and is able to deliver relevant information through search applications.
• Deliver All the Content Users Want
  Combine structured and unstructured information. Access to information can be extended to sources outside your organization. Increase value for your customers, partners and staff by enhancement of the meaning and structure of information.

Key Capabilities

• Scalable platform
  Scale to extreme query loads and content volumes without compromising sub-second response times. Linear scalability for exceptional high-end price/performance.
• Robust content retrieval
  Structured and unstructured information can be aggregated and transformed across hundreds of document types. The Web crawler is flexible and can be configured to measure. There are also numerous content connectors available. FAST Unity’s federation framework extends FAST ESP to blend and manage content from multiple search indexes and includes support for over 85 languages.
• Configurable content pipelines
  
Out-of-the-box and custom modules will enhance and organize content at the time of indexing, and will help you increase the value of the information. Content extraction and entity extraction are some of the advanced linguistic capabilities that make this possible.
• Control over user experience: tune for your business
  Tune the user experience to your specific business needs with configurable relevancy models, query processing, and results processing. Manage the user experience through a search business console. Facilitate user conversation with navigators, taxonomies, and clustering. Promote popular and premium content and products.
• Programmable personalization
  Mix FAST recommendations and search. Use FAST Impulse for targeted promotions and personalized merchandizing. Customize and apply user rank profiles dynamically as users navigate through your site.
• Focused services and expertise: The partner ecosystem
  The Microsoft FAST ESP partner network provides you with outstanding technical expertise and industry knowledge. Powerful services and partner capabilities deliver best practice deployments and targeted vertical industry solutions.