Fast Search Company Description
This company likes to be enterprising about the way it helps keep its customers on the fast track. Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) develops a variety of enterprise search and filtering applications that access data across corporate networks. Once a provider of consumer search technology, the company has exited that market in order to solely focus on enterprise search applications. FAST has more than 1,500 customers and partners including AT&T, Cardinal Health, LexisNexis Group, and Reed Elsevier. In 2008 Microsoft purchased the company for about $1.2 billion.
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