Proving the Value of Fast Search
January 24, 2012
A growing number of companies are specializing Fast services for large companies committed to rolling out SharePoint 2010.
Search Technologies, the largest and best established of these apparently have more than 50 trained/qualified Fast engineers. A number of these were no doubt picked up during 2011, when Microsoft let a lot of them go. That said, Search Technologies were “Fast Alliance Partner of the Year” back in 2006, a while before Microsoft took an interest in the Scandinavian technology company. Since then, they claim to have since delivered more than 40,000 consultant-days of implementation assistance. That’s a significant amount of hands-on experience.
I note that they are actively promoting a Fast for SharePoint proof of concept service.
For large organizations on the edge of a decision, this makes a lot of sense, particularly because the proof of concept aims to show how Fast works with the customer’s own data sets, in a live environment, enabling a cost-effective comparison to be made with the alternative of staying with a base SharePoint search.
Worth a look.
Stephen E Arnold, January 24, 2012
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Of course there are alternatives to FAST for Sharepoint – Apache Solr can be hooked up to index Sharepoint using the open source Google Connector Framework, and Lucid Imagination have this all neatly packaged in their Lucidworks product. People should also be aware of potential cost issues: http://www.realstorygroup.com/Blog/1969-SharePoints-FAST-2010-is-not-as-cheap-as-you-might-think . There are also some things missing in FAST for SP 2010 such as alerting functionality.