Fast Search & Transfer ASA

Torggata 2-4-6
N-0181 Oslo, Norway (Map)
Phone: +47-23-01-12-00
Fax: +47-23-01-12-01
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http://www.fast.no

Overview

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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Company Type Subsidiary of Microsoft
Fiscal Year-End December
Sales (mil.) £40.1
Employees 228
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Chairman Thomas J. Fussell
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CEO Bjørn Olstad
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President and COO Joseph K. (Joe) Krivickas
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