News and Events

August 22, 2010

  • ACIS Consulting becomes among the first to be Microsoft Certified with Search Competency in FAST ESP.
  • ACIS Consulting showcases advanced integration of FAST ESP with multimedia processing technologies to enable indexing and search of live TV and Radio programs broadcast in English and French languages.
  • ACIS Consulting develops an advanced “social network inference engine” mid-layer product that extends the capability of the FAST ESP relevancy ranking engine to learn from user interaction patterns to return highly relevant and targeted results.
  • ACIS Consulting demonstrates FAST ESP integration with BING Maps for delivery of highly interactive, location aware, search experience to end users.
 

Why FAST Enterprise Search?

August 22, 2010

  • FAST has unparalleled capabilities to enable enterprises to connect people with the information they need to make informed decisions.
  • Enterprises that need to manage multiple website properties or multiple content repositories and shared folders can leverage the powerful capabilities of FAST to deliver a unified access to all of their information assets.
  • FAST offers a highly scalable and secure search platform that delivers highly relevant, timely and accurate answers that enable organizations to use information to gain competitive advantage and operate more efficiently.

FAST for ShaePoint Features

Highlights of Key Advanced Features include:
■ Enterprise content processing – index and merge content from multiple content sources, not just html/pdf
■ Managed search results sorting – control what is palced in top 10 results based on business rules, not popularity
■ Contextual search – information returned on sales section of your website must be presented differently from support side of your website.
■ Deep refinement – returns accurate counts on navigator elements, based on entire index content
■ Customizable search – you can add any custom extensions to extract entities, mash up with other content etc.
■ Extreme scalability -  hundreds of millions of documents indexed while maintating excellent performance and smaller server footprint.
■ Rich web indexing – integration with multimedia content processor plug-ins for indexing video, audio and even image color extraction.
■ Similar results – very powerful document vector based searching useful in profile based matching
■ Thumbnails and Previews
■ Tunable relevance with multiple rank profiles – search results ranking profile for news information is time sensitive, for ecommerce it may be lower price or high inventory.
■ Visual best bets – content spotlighting related to entered searc hkeywords.

All of these advanced features can be leveraged to help you deliver the right information
that is tailored to match needs of each user group.

The cumulative effect of these advanced features can make the difference between satisfied customers coming back for more information and those who might abandon the website in frustration.

 

FAST for SharePoint Enterprise Search Expertise

August 22, 2010

ACIS Consulting is a Toronto based Microsoft Certified Partner that provides Enterprise Search and Knowledge Discovery technology services that help enterprises better organize their information assets to make it more accessible and deliver more value to their customers.

ACIS is the first Canadian reseller and systems integrator of FAST Enterprise Search (FAST ESP) products with extensive experience and a track record of successful delivery in various industries with most demanding search requirements.

ACIS specializes in systems integration of Microsoft FAST Search products including FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint, FAST Search for Internet Sites (FSIS), FAST Search for Internal Applications (FSIA).

ACIS has developed several search based applications, and an extensive library of functions and features that can be quickly leveraged to deliver any custom solution to meet the business requirements of our customers.

Above and beyond technology expertise, ACIS brings to the table its vast experience in understanding the business level intent and objective of our customers and the commitment to do whatever is necessary to help meet and exceed these objectives.