BE FAST, BE Smart: Enhancing your FAST Search-and-Navigation Experience with Semaphore, the Leading Enterprise Semantic Platform from Smartlogic

BE FAST, BE Smart:  Enhancing your FAST Search-and-Navigation Experience with Semaphore, the Leading Enterprise Semantic Platform from Smartlogic

Enterprise search is now a top priority for most organizations. Typical choices for enterprise search are the Google Search Appliance, open source Lucene/Solr and Microsoft FAST.

Prior to the acquisition of FAST by Microsoft, FAST was implemented in over 3500 corporations as a high-end search engine.  Today, many of these organizations continue to use FAST. In addition, Microsoft‘s SharePoint platform has gained in popularity as a central portal for organizing and storing content within a collaborative framework.  Microsoft has integrated the FAST search engine with SharePoint because it delivers a better search experience out of the box.  However, FAST can be very complex to administer and maintain.  Its rules based engine, makes it difficult and time-consuming to implement and keep tuned. 

Companies such as UNICEF, NHS Information Centre, Herold and others have turned to Smartlogic to augment and enhance their FAST implementations, whether it is for Enterprise Search or SharePoint
Search.