Microsoft Development Center Norway
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Microsoft Development Center Norway (known as FAST (Fast Search & Transfer ASA) before 2010[1]) is a Norwegian company, founded in 1997 and based in Oslo, with offices located in Germany, Italy, Sri Lanka, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Brazil, Mexico and other countries around the world. FAST focused on data search technologies.
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Industry | Information Technology |
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Founded | July 16, 1997; 26 years ago (1997-07-16) |
Fate | Acquired by Microsoft |
Headquarters | Oslo, Norway |
Area served | Global |
Key people | John M. Lervik (Former CEO), Bjørn Olstad (CTO) |
Products | Search engines, enterprise search, information access, knowledge management |
Number of employees | 750 |
Parent | Microsoft |
Website | www.fastsearch.com |
On April 24, 2008, Microsoft acquired FAST, which became known as Microsoft Development Center Norway.
FAST offered an enterprise search product, FAST ESP. ESP is a service-oriented architecture development platform which is geared towards production of searchable indexes. It provided a flexible framework for creating ETL applications for efficient indexing of searchable content. Fast also offered a number of search-derivative applications, focused on specific search use cases, including publishing, market intelligence and mobile search. The Search Derivative Applications (SDA) are built upon the Enterprise Search Platform (ESP). The company was developing PHAROS, a new European multimedia search engine.