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Company Overview

Fast Search & Transfer™, creator of high performance indexing and matching technology, was founded in 1997 from academic research within the pre-eminent scientific university NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). With now over a decade of research behind it, the FAST core technology has created breakthroughs in data analysis, content refinement, cleansing and retrieval, whilst driving innovation and business improvement with customers worldwide.

Execution excellence

With over 3500 installations, many at Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies, we have an illustrious pedigree. These blue-chip companies rely on us to help them achieve their business goals and they are loyal. Since we first started selling FAST products, no customer has ever left us for another vendor. If you ask our customers why they remain loyal, they will probably tell you how we exceed their expectations, provide an unparalleled level of service and show a demonstrable return on their investment. In many cases we have fundamentally contributed to their success.

In 2005 independent evaluations of our support organisation gave us a 98% satisfaction rating. We get tested quarterly. In 2005 we delivered more than 300 successful customer projects on schedule and within budget. We also ran over 100 Best Practices workshops across the world with extremely positive feedback. It helps that more than 60% of our work force are engineers and that close to 50 of our engineers have PhDs in relevant fields. They enable us to meet complex needs by delivering simplicity.

FAST clients are leaders in a number of dynamic markets including financial services, media and publishing,

Representative Clients in Natural Resources include BP, ING, Statoil. Petrobras, ENI, ENEL, and Dominion

Financial strength

We are the market leader in Enterprise Search and number one in revenue growth. We have no debt. We have been profitable, exceeding our projections, for every quarter during the last 4 years. And we have made these profits while investing a quarter of our income back into R&D. Performance like this gives us the freedom to invest in innovation and win on value and financial return.

FAST is publicly trading on the Oslo Børs stock exchange under the symbol “FAST”.

Partner power

Partners give us the ability to deliver total solutions and our FAST X 10 partner program plays a major role in our success. We have over 90 Systems Integrators and VARs on board, and over 30 OEMs embedding our search technology. We have also certified close to 1000 developers in FAST University, drawing on our best-of-breed approach to partnering. Quantity is less important than quality, of course. We only pursue a partnership if there is a mutually beneficial, lasting opportunity.

FAST maintains alliances with today's best-of-breed technology companies, including: EMC Centera, EMC Documentum, Oracle-Siebel, Computer Associates, Broadvision, Orchestria, Chordiant and others.

Global presence

We have been a globally minded company, with a global outlook, since our inception. Maybe it is because of our Norwegian roots. In fact, soon after we opened our doors we established an office in the United States. We now have offices in 6 continents and development centres in 4 of them. Our products support close to 80 different languages.

For more information please visit their website: www.fastsearch.com