Ektron Announces Expanded Support for FAST Search for Microsoft SharePoint 2010

NASHUA, N.H., Dec. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ektron, empowering organizations to fully realize their website's marketing and revenue-generating potential, today announced expanded support for FAST Search for Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

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FAST Search for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is an enterprise search platform that delivers relevant, accurate and timely answers that help organi­zations use information for a competitive advantage. It helps people search intelligently, which reduces costs and risks with flexible, closed-loop enterprise search and security features. FAST Search for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 also helps harness the power of existing information assets and IT invest­ments through flexible, standards-based enterprise integration.

Key benefits of Ektron's expanded support for FAST Search for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 include:

• Metadata driven navigation – enables users to narrow or expand the search results, allowing users to navigate to the right content faster
• Dynamic topic page generation – automatically creates dynamic pages without the need for manual content tagging and page assembly
• Tunable relevancy model –  ensures each user receives relevant search results based on their unique needs
• Personalization and recommendations – drives business outcomes through increased relevancy 
• Search federation – connects a single search to multiple content repositories
• Enterprise scalability – supports hundreds of millions of assets

"WCM vendors have an opportunity to meet these customer needs by improving their implicit targeting tools to move beyond rules-based functionality and into semantic search- and location-based targeting," according to the Forrester Research, Inc. report "Web Content Management Is Alive And Well in 2011 Thanks To Online Customer Experience" (March 17, 2011).

"Microsoft is excited to partner with Ektron to deliver the world-class search capabilities of FAST Search for SharePoint into the Ektron family of solutions," said Adam Morgan, ISV business development manager, Microsoft Digital Marketing Platform group.

FAST Search for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 support is available as a Release Candidate today, with final release scheduled for the first quarter of 2012.

Follow this link for a video discussing FAST search and the Microsoft/Ektron partnership. 

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About Ektron 

Ektron simplifies the creation, management and delivery of digital experiences for global organizations that are looking to drive revenue growth and improve customer satisfaction. Ektron software powers corporate websites, extranets, intranet portals and social communities.  Ektron helps companies deliver customer experiences to their audiences through all digital channels – including websites, mobile devices and social networks – by using content to engage consumers, drive business outcomes and further revenue growth. Headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire, with offices in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, Ektron has thousands of worldwide customers including:  Kodak, Las Vegas Sands, Microsoft, NASDAQ and National Health Services UK. For more information, please visit www.ektron.com, www.ektron.co.uk or www.ektron.com.au. 

SOURCE Ektron