Enterprise Integration for FAST
SeeUnity’s Enterprise Integration for FAST (EIF) enables Microsoft
FAST, a powerful enterprise-class search engine, to be integrated external
repositories. EIF extends
all of the benefits of Microsoft FAST, including performance, filtering,
and relevancy ranking – and makes it available to use against external
repositories. For more information, please contact us using our online
form,
or call an account manager directly at 970.776.8300.
Business Benefits
SeeUnity’s Enterprise Integration for FAST (EIS) provides measurable
business value:
- Improved performance. FAST was developed for maximum performance,
even in the most volume intensive environments. Adopting FAST can measurably
improve search speeds – even for high volume federated searching
- Relevance
Ranking. With powerful search algorithms, FAST goes far beyond traditional
searching to bring users content with the information they need
- Targeted
Searching. Extensive filters ensure that users can narrow their search
to eliminate unwanted distractions and find results faster.
- Unlock Siloed repositories. FAST can access previously unavaible content
silos, unlocking potentially valuable information.
- Secure searching. By mapping security models to FAST, your organization
can ensure that as content becomes available, it remains accessible
only to the right users.
- Expand access to more users. FAST's lightweight, web-based search interface
means that enterprise content can be made securely available to customers,
partners and remote employees.
Technical Features
SeeUnity’s FAST Search Services for SharePoint (FS) offers compelling technical
features:
- Easy deployment with out-of-the-box tools allow FAST
to easily connect and ingest large volumes of external content.
- Graphical user interface – easily set up mapping between Fast and external ECM
- Security Mapping enables existing security to be mapped to the FAST
SAM
- Indexed-based crawling with incremental
caching ensures rapid performance for users.
- Repository agnostic searching supports FAST searches against multiple external platforms, including
EMC Documentum and eRoom, Open Text eDOCS and Livelink, HP TRIM, Vignette
VRD – as well as file shares and databases.
- Federated searching allows
content to be uniformly searched, regardless of source location.
- .NET
architecture leverages SeeUnity’s Core Integration Services (CIS).