Platinum
BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE: BE) is one of the world's largest providers of management and technology consulting services to Global 2000 companies and government organizations in 60 countries worldwide. Based in McLean, Va., the firm has over 17,000 employees and major practice areas focusing on the Public Services, Financial Services and Commercial Services markets. For nearly 100 years, BearingPoint professionals have built a reputation for knowing what it takes to help clients achieve their goals, and working closely with them to get the job done.
Comperio delivers innovative search solutions based on the market leading technology platform from FAST Search & Transfer. We create value for our customers by matching our domain expertise on search with the real life business challenges faced by our customers. Comperio is a "Preferred FAST Partner" and delivers a complete end-to-end offering from solution, project, training, and support to application management. The key to effective search and retrieval solutions is Comperio [Latin: to open up, discover, to know with certainty]. Comperio - Customer Driven Search-Innovation
Gold
Accenture Information Management Services is a global cross-industry organization focused on bringing clients solutions to better manage their business, interact with customers and make strategic, financial and operational decisions. Working across Accenture's service lines and industry groups, the 10,000* consultants in this organization specialize in information management services including business intelligence, portals & content management and data management & architecture. Accenture Information Management Services was named Fast's 2005 Global Partner of the Year.
Founded in May 2002 and headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area, Search Technologies provides comprehensive search solutions based on the FAST product line. The company operates in North America, Central America and Europe. Equally at home in the public sector and commercial enterprises, we understand the needs of organizations as one of the world's leading solutions providers in the field of enterprise and image search. Our primary goal is creating solid business value and knowledge from the surplus of unmanageable data crowding today's decision making process.
Silver
Archivas is a digital archiving software company. Our products allow customers to store, protect and access fixed content of any type in an online repository. Files can be retained for a specified period of time, are protected from unauthorized access and tampering, and guaranteed to be authentic and accessible many years into the future.
bMenu is a new navigation technology powered by FAST. It allows the user to navigate up to five times faster and gives a dramatically better overview. It also increases page views for advertising sites and sales for e-commerce sites. Visit stand for live demo of your website. Now in presale.
Connectbeam is a leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions for global organizations. Social bookmarking, tagging and social networking from Connectbeam boost innovation, improve decisions, intensify collaboration, and deepen stakeholder relationships. Connectbeam integration with FAST search brings Web 2.0-style information-sharing to enterprise search. Privately held, Connectbeam is located in California's Silicon Valley.
Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ; dowjones.com) is a leading provider of global business news and information services that enable Financial, Corporate, Media and Government professionals to monitor and understand the latest news, market trends, and challenges they face every day. We leverage our innovative technology and industry expertise to create and manage customized solutions that insure information is available, actionable, and able to drive measurable results.
Groxis, developer of the Grokker ESM technology, is a pioneer in visual search and discovery. A robust information management and research platform, Grokker extends FAST ESP capabilities by providing visual navigation of hundreds of results on a single page, federated integration into other repositories, dynamic categorization/clustering and robust collaboration tools.
Using FAST technology, InfoSolutions finds creative, competitive solutions for client needs. The company offers broad, cross-industry experience, with a focus on commercial publishing and government verticals. Since 1991, InfoSolutions has specialized in designing user-friendly solutions for converting, indexing, searching, accessing, distributing, and updating online and offline information.
Kapow Technologies provides the leading Web 2.0 solution for enterprises who want to connect, collect and mashup data and services on the web. Our patented visual scripting approach allows developers to deliver new applications and services at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional software methods.
Lexalytics, Inc. is a product and service company specializing in unstructured information. LXA was created to help our customers address the basic problem of making loosely structured information more valuable. The company focuses on adding structure to unstructured information, so that it may be leveraged using traditional analysis and reporting mechanisms. This includes the ability to extract entities and relationships from content, summarize content and in the newest release determine the sentiment or tone of documents or even the tone of entities within documents.
New Idea Engineering helps companies make search work right. We focus on search best practices to help companies select, design, and deploy advanced enterprise search applications. Our methodology includes search 2.0 interactivity, periodic review of search activity and ongoing search data quality monitoring to ensure great relevancy and user satisfaction.
Beyond blogs and wikis, Traction TeamPage provides a dynamic, secure web collaboration platform with features needed most by knowledge workers and IT managers. Traction Software was funded by In-Q-Tel (venture arm of the CIA), named "Best Enterprise Wiki" by InfoWorld in 2007, and named a KMWorld Trend Setting Product of 2006.
Virtusa is a global provider of software development and IT services to Fortune 1000 enterprises and leading enterprise software companies in financial services, communications and manufacturing industries. We apply software platforming principles to Conceive, Transform and Optimize systems to improve business agility and efficiency.
Thanks to the active participation of over 1,000 thought leaders and influencers, FASTforward '07 was an enormous success.
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