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Microsoft Unveils New Enterprise Search Road Map: Atidan Certified to Implement FAST ESP for SharePoint Portal Server

PHILADELPHIA, PA. February 11, 2009 - Microsoft Corp. today disclosed a detailed road map for its enterprise search products, including the introduction of FAST Search for SharePoint and FAST Search for Internet Business.

FAST Search for SharePoint, a new search server that will add the high-end search capabilities of FAST ESP into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, will be available as a part of the next release of the Microsoft Office system. For customers who are interested in the product, Microsoft also announced ESP for SharePoint, a special offering that allows customers to purchase high-end search capabilities today, with a defined licensing path to FAST Search for SharePoint when it becomes available.

“These two new products offer compelling, new choices for our customers”, said Kirk Koenigsbauer, general manager for the Office Business Platform Group at Microsoft. “FAST Search for SharePoint will combine high-end search with the broad portal, collaboration, content management and business intelligence capabilities of SharePoint. And FAST Search for Internet Business will deliver search capabilities tuned to drive more revenue through Web sites”.

“Microsoft’s high-end FAST search technology combined with the strengths of Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server equals a very powerful integrated collaboration, productivity and business management solution”, said David J. Rosenthal, CEO of Atidan, LLC.  “Today’s announcement gives customers an incentive to implement enterprise search technology to maximize productivity and drive revenue”.  Atidan is proud to be one of the select partners implementing the FAST ESP technology with Microsoft’s SharePoint Portal server.

A New Choice in Business Productivity Search
Businesses of all sizes have historically been forced to choose between powerful, high-end search platforms or more mainstream, out-of the-box infrastructure solutions. FAST Search for SharePoint gives customers a new choice: a search server that integrates the high-end search capabilities of FAST ESP into SharePoint Server. By enhancing SharePoint’s portal, collaboration and content management capabilities with sophisticated search, FAST Search for SharePoint will enable a whole new range of business productivity applications.

A Powerful Platform for Building Search-Driven Web Sites
FAST Search for Internet Business will extend FAST ESP and will provide a flexible platform for building engaging, search-driven Web site experiences. The product will be available in beta in the second half of this year and will feature new capabilities for content integration and interaction management, helping enable more complete and interactive search experiences.
“With companies generating terabytes of data in the course of their daily operations, information has become the lifeblood of business”, said Rita Knox, Gartner Inc. “The ability to find and retrieve information that’s buried in back-office file servers or scattered across unstructured caches of content to identify a business trend, qualify a sales lead, answer an urgent customer query or identify an internal expert is an indispensable business capability”.

Resources:

Microsoft’s Enterprise Search Website
http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/

FastSearch
http://fastsearch.com/

Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology
(Gartner Research, Sept. 30, 2008) Microsoft is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner, Inc.'s 2008 Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology. This report assesses vendors with capabilities that go beyond enterprise search to encompass a range of technologies. Their capabilities include search; federated search, content classification, categorization and clustering; fact and entity extraction; taxonomy creation and management; information presentation (for example, visualization) to support analysis and understanding; and desktop search to address user-controlled repositories in order to locate and "invoke" documents, data, e-mail and intelligence.

About Atidan
Atidan, LLC is a global software solutions provider and IT consulting firm specializing in business analytics, collaboration solutions and custom business applications. The company's client list includes Global 2000, middle-market and small companies. Atidan is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a software and technology development center in Mumbai, India, and consultants across the U.S.A. For more information, please visit http://www.atidan.com


Media Contact:
David Rosenthal
President & CEO, Atidan LLC
(215) 825.5045 Ext: 5001

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