Updated: August 2, 2020 (February 23, 2009)

FAST Search Promoted for SharePoint

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The FAST ESP acquisition will play a bigger role in Microsoft’s latest roadmap for enterprise search, and SharePoint customers can now get steep discounts on the FAST product to enhance search in their installations. FAST ESP is Microsoft’s most capable product for enterprise search, which helps organizations find information in a wide variety of data sources, including file systems, e-mail systems, and business applications. The new roadmap and promotion promise enhanced enterprise search for SharePoint customers overall but also could signal less Microsoft development effort on SharePoint’s built-in search platform after its next release.

FAST Promoted for SharePoint

For enterprise search, Microsoft currently offers two distinct technologies.

SharePoint search platform. A platform maintained by the Microsoft SharePoint team enables search in the SharePoint and Search Server product lines. Variants of this platform also enable full-text search in SQL Server, Exchange Server, the Windows Desktop Search client, and other products.

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