FAST University

Extend Your FAST Search Knowledge with Training

FAST University is a structured learning service that provides technical training for customers and partners who want to gain an in-depth understanding of our search technology.

Customers: Make the Most of Your FAST Search Deployments

Your FAST search deployments are delivering value already. But it’s likely that you’re using only a fraction of their potential.

With its rich series of classroom and online courses, FAST University provides you with an insider’s knowledge of FAST technology, methodologies, and best practices so you can make the most of your FAST search deployments and improve your search experiences quickly and continually. The classroom instruction is tailored to your convenience – and can be delivered at your facilities or ours.

Stay ahead of the pack! Learn how to harness the power of the latest version of FAST ESP with two classroom courses for customer developers:

FAST ESP: Fundamentals of Developing Search Applications
This three-day classroom course provides students with a foundation for creating enterprise search solutions which leverage out-of-the-box FAST ESP components.
FAST ESP: Advanced Customization of Search Applications
This two-day classroom course prepares students for deep customization of FAST ESP-based enterprise search solutions via application development and configuration.

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Partners: Deepen Your Expertise, Prepare for Accreditation Exams

FAST University courses for partners prepare your staff for accreditation exams and give them deep insights that allow them to generate more revenue from FAST search solutions.

Our partner programs are hands-on, easy to follow, and easily tailored. Available worldwide, these courses can be conducted at your site or at ours.

Here is a glimpse of some of the courses we offer:

FAST ESP: Fundamentals of Developing Search Applications – This three-day classroom course provides students with a foundation for creating enterprise search solutions which leverage out-of-the-box FAST ESP components.
FAST ImPulse Business Manager – This one-day classroom course teaches business managers how to use the ImPulse Business Manager interface and introduces core search concepts and best practices.
FAST ImPulse for Application Developers – This two-day classroom course instructs students on how to configure key components in an ImPulse installation and how to use the ImPulse API for user interface integration.
FAST ESP Relevancy Tuning – This interactive online tutorial provides FAST partners, customers, and employees with a technical foundation on improving relevancy within FAST ESP to help ensure that search results closely match end users’ expectations. Students are introduced to software tools to perform relevancy analysis.
FAST ESP: Advanced Customization of Search Applications – This two-day classroom course prepares students for deep customization of FAST ESP-based enterprise search solutions via application development and configuration and prepares students for the accreditation exam. The FAST ESP: Fundamentals of Developing Search Applications course is a required prerequisite.

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MINI CASE STUDY: LexisNexis Sets New Standards for Managing Legal Data

The introduction of LexisNexis Total Search expanded knowledge-sharing for LexisNexis clients and decreased search times by allowing clients to search their internal databases as well as the volumes of data available at lexis.com. LexisNexis relied on FAST University to deliver personalized training and documentation to its developers, sales engineers, and customer support staff to ensure that the company was able to support and extend its investment in FAST technology. The new search solution is a big success for LexisNexis, and has won praise from clients and industry analysts alike.

Courses

Two Programs That Can Save You Money

FAST University Training Credit Units (TCUs)

Interested in training several people in your group? Want a discount to stretch your training budget? Then this is the program for you! FAST University Training Credit Units (TCUs) are pre-paid standard units of currency that serve as a convenient “bank” of funds that individual students can redeem for any FAST University public class. One TCU is redeemable for one day of public class held in a classroom or a live virtual class. The great news is that TCUs are discounted between 10 percent and 30 percent if purchased in quantities greater than 10. Start saving today! Please log in to the FAST University Learning Portal and search for TCU. If you prefer, you can contact a FAST University Education Consultant at fastuniv@microsoft.com or call +1 877-304-2594 or +781-304-2534 for more information.

FAST University Passport Program

Are you eager to learn all you can about enterprise search? Will you be taking several FAST University courses in the next 12 months? Then this program will save you money! The Passport Program enables you to pay one price and take as many FAST University public courses as you’d like. For example, if you attend FAST ESP: Managing the Search Experience (one-day course), FAST ESP: System Administration and Deployment (three-day course), FAST ESP: Fundamentals of Developing Search Applications (three-day course),and FAST ESP: Advanced Customization of Search Applications (two-day course) using the Passport Program, you will save thousands of dollars. Please log in to the FAST University Learning Portal and search for Passport. If you prefer, you can contact a FAST University Education Consultant at fastuniv@microsoft.com or call +1 877-304-2594 or +781-304-2534 for more information. Start saving today!

Classroom: FAST ESP

FAST ESP: Fundamentals of Developing Search Applications

Summary: A three-day classroom course that provides students with a foundation for creating enterprise search solutions which leverage out-of-the-box FAST ESP components.

Duration: Three days

Audience:

Software application developers and partner sales engineers who are configuring the FAST ESP product
Software application developers and partner system integrators are tasked with using one or more of the product APIs to customize a deployment

Prerequisites:

.NET or Java programming familiarity
Familiarity with XML
Enterprise Search Essentials (interactive tutorial)—included link in your registration confirmation e-mail
Getting Started with FAST ESP (interactive tutorial)—included link in your registration confirmation e-mail

Course Details: This course provides students with a foundation for creating enterprise search solutions which leverage out-of-the-box FAST ESP components. Students learn how to configure standard content connector applications, document processing stages, and the index profile. In addition, students learn how to build search clients leveraging the FAST Query Language and Search API.

Follow-On Course:

FAST ESP: Advanced Customization of Search Applications

FAST ESP: Advanced Customization of Search Applications

Summary: A two-day classroom course that prepares students for deep customization of FAST ESP-based enterprise search solutions via application development and configuration.

Duration: Two days

Audience:

Software application developers and partner system integrators are tasked with using one or more of the product APIs to customize a deployment

Prerequisites:

Fundamentals of Developing Search Applications (three-day classroom course)
.NET or Java programming familiarity
Familiarity with XML
Enterprise Search Essentials (interactive tutorial)—included link in your registration confirmation e-mail
Getting Started with FAST ESP (interactive tutorial)—included link in your registration confirmation e-mail
Familiarity with Python is required—included link to Python Study site in your registration confirmation e-mail

Course Details: This two-day course prepares students for deep customization of FAST ESP-based enterprise search solutions through application development and configuration. Content and Document Processing APIs are covered in detail. Customization of applications through relevancy tuning and linguistics processing are also covered. Finally, students learn how to design, deploy, and tune FAST ESP systems spanning multiple hardware nodes. This course prepares students for the partner accreditation exam.

Follow-On Course:

FAST University Online Library

FAST ESP: System Administration and Deployment

Summary: A three-day course on FAST ESP that covers installation and monitoring through recovery and troubleshooting.

Duration: Three days

Audience: System deployment operators, administrators, and managers

Prerequisites:

Basic knowledge of HTML and Web concepts
Experience with enterprise server administration is a plus
Enterprise Search Essentials (interactive tutorial)—included link in your registration confirmation e-mail

Course Details: This classroom course is a “must attend” for professionals who install, administer, monitor, backup, recover, or troubleshoot a FAST ESP application. It’s also helpful for managers and supervisors who need to know how FAST ESP works so they can plan their search systems’ design, configuration, implementation, and operation. Topics include: single-node, multi-node, and silent installation of FAST ESP; FAST ESP component architecture, scalability, and fault tolerance; managing the indexer; monitoring a FAST ESP deployment using the FAST ESP Monitoring Tool and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP); and using FAST ESP logs to identify and troubleshoot issues.

Follow-On Courses:

FAST ESP: Fundamentals of Developing Search Applications

FAST ESP: Managing the Search Experience

FAST ESP: Managing the Search Experience

Summary: A one-day course on how to use FAST ESP tools to implement business rules for a search application to improve the search experience.

Duration: One day

Audience: Managers, implementation specialists, and supervisors who will help implement and monitor business rules to improve search relevancy.

Prerequisites:

Basic knowledge of HTML and Web concepts
Enterprise Search Essentials (interactive tutorial)—included link in your registration confirmation e-mail

Course Details: This classroom course teaches students how to use FAST ESP tools to implement business rules for a search application to improve the search experience. Graduates of the course understand what can be searched and by whom. They are also able to define business terms and synonym relationships that help their customers find what they are looking for. This course covers a wide range of topics, including: use of the Search Business Center and other tools to tailor FAST ESP for your business; defining boosts and blocks to customize the ranking of results; accessing reports on search application usage; how to manage user access to search content and tools; and how to organize search results using document classification and clustering.

Follow-On Courses:

FAST ESP: Fundamentals of Developing Search Applications

FAST ESP: System Administration and Deployment

FAST ESP: Advanced Linguistics for Search Applications

Summary: This course presents a deep dive into FAST ESP's comprehensive set of linguistic features. Costs and benefits for each linguistics feature are explored. At the conclusion of the course, students will be able to determine which linguistic feature(s) can be employed to help solve a particular search application requirement. In addition, students will be able to enable, customize, test, and debug the linguistic features.

Duration: Three days

Audience: Project managers, developers, and integrators who are interested in learning how to maximize the benefits of the linguistic analyses available in FAST ESP for their search application.

Prerequisite:

ESP: Fundamentals of Developing Search Applications course

Course Details: In this course students explore Advanced Linguistics in ESP, language and encoding detection, tokenization and character normalization, entity extraction and custom matcher applications, vectorization and noun phrase extraction, lemmatization, synonyms, spelling framework, and phonetic analysis.

Follow-on Courses:

FAST Classifier

Rule-Based Classifier

CIK Support, Parts I & II

FAST University online library subscription

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Classroom: FAST ImPulse

FAST ImPulse Administration and Monitoring

Summary: A one-day course in which students can learn how to install, administer, and monitor ImPulse.

Duration: One day

Audience: ImPulse administrators and application developers

Prerequisites:

Experience in enterprise system management

Course Details: In this intensive classroom course, students learn how to install, administer, and monitor ImPulse. They discover how to identify ImPulse components and their functions and learn how to perform single-node installation; find out what is needed to add, delete, and modify content using EXLT; and become proficient in managing users and groups and in managing facet defaults, attributes, promotion templates, and synonym lists. Attendees also find that they can refine their skills in creating and configuring custom reports.

Follow-On Courses:

FAST ImPulse Business Manager

FAST ImPulse for Application Developers

FAST ImPulse Business Manager

Summary: A one-day course that teaches business managers how to use the ImPulse Business Manager interface and introduces them to core search concepts and best practices.

Duration: One day

Audience: ImPulse business managers

Prerequisites: None

Course Details: Business managers who complete this classroom course know how to use the ImPulse Business Manager interface. They are able to define basic search concepts; identify key components of ImPulse Business Manager; create, preview, and approve a new Promotion; create a new facet; display and modify facet order; create synonyms; perform a redirect; boost and block search results; and run standard ImPulse reports.

Follow-On Courses:

FAST ImPulse Administration and Monitoring

FAST ImPulse for Application Developers

FAST ImPulse for Application Developers

Summary: A one-day course on how to configure key components in an ImPulse installation and how to use the ImPulse API for user interface integration.

Duration: Two days

Audience: ImPulse application developers

Prerequisites:

FAST ImPulse Business Manager
FAST ImPulse Administration and Monitoring
Experience in enterprise system management is a plus
A solid grounding in Java is a plus

Course Details: This classroom course teaches students how to configure key components in an ImPulse installation and how to use the ImPulse API for user interface integration. Students graduate knowing core search concepts and best practices: they can explain the function of the Index Profile, describe the purpose of each of the pipeline stages, configure the Field Map Processor, configure the EcommLemmatizer to customize lemmatization, modify the Index Profile to change the rank profile, create a search interface using the Java Query API, and much more.

Follow-On Course:

FAST University Online Library

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Course Schedule

Upcoming Classroom and Live Virtual Course Offerings

FAST ESP
Authorized Learning Center Courses

FAST ESP

The FAST University course schedule is subject to change. Please consult the FAST University Web site for confirmation of scheduled classes, for more information and to register.

Key: CL – Classroom Learning, VL – Virtual Learning

Start Date	End Date	Course	Location	Continuing Education Units (CEU)
October 2009
October 26, 2009	Oct 28, 2009	ESP LWOW: System Administration and Deployment	Live Virtual	2.1
October 26, 2009	October 28, 2009	ESP CL: Fundamentals of Developing Search Applications	Boston (Needham), MA, USA	2.1
October 29, 2009	October 30, 2009	ESP CL: Advanced Customization of Search Applications	Boston (Needham), MA, USA	1.4
November 2009
November 2, 2009	November 3, 2009	ESP LWOW: System Administration and Deployment	Live Virtual	1.4
November 4, 2009	November 6, 2009	ESP LWOW: Advanced Linguistics for Search Applications	Live Virtual	2.1
November 9, 2009	November 11, 2009	ESP CL: Fundamentals of Developing Search Applications	London (Dufours), UK	2.1
November 12, 2009	November 13, 2009	ESP CL: Advanced Customization of Search Applications	London (Dufours), UK	1.4
November 16, 2009	November 18, 2009	ESP LWoW: Fundamentals of Developing Search Applications	Live Virtual	2.1
November 16, 2009	November 18, 2009	ESP CL: Fundamentals of Developing Search Applications	Boston (Needham), MA, USA	2.1
November 16, 2009	November 17, 2009	ESP CL: System Administration and Deployment	London (Dufours), UK	1.4
November 18, 2009	November 20, 2009	ESP CL: Advanced Linguistics for Search Applications	London (Dufours), UK	2.1
November 19, 2009	November 20, 2009	ESP LWoW: Advanced Customization of Search Applications	Live Virtual	1.4
November 19, 2009	November 20, 2009	ESP CL: Advanced Customization of Search Applications	Boston (Needham), MA, USA	1.4
November 22, 2009	November 26, 2009	ESP CL: Fundamentals and Advanced Development of Search Applications	Dubai, Saudi Arabia	3.5
November 23, 2009	November 27, 2009	ESP CL: Fundamentals and Advanced Development of Search Applications	Sydney, Australia	3.5
November 30, 2009	December 1, 2009	ESP LWOW: System Administration and Deployment	Live Virtual	1.4
December 2009
December 2, 2009	December 4, 2009	ESP LWOW: Advanced Linguistics of Search Applications	Live Virtual	2.1
December 14, 2009	December 16, 2009	ESP CL: Fundamentals of Developing Search Applications	Boston (Needham), MA, USA	2.1
December 14, 2009	December 15, 2009	ESP LWOW: System Administration and Deployment	Live Virtual	1.4
December 14, 2009	December 16, 2009	ESP CL: Fundamentals of Developing Search Applications	London (Dufours) UK	2.1
December 14, 2009	December 18, 2009	ESP CL: Fundamentals and Advanced Development of Search Applications	Beijing, China	3.5
December 16, 2009	December 18, 2009	ESP LWOW: Advanced Linguistics of Search Applications	Live Virtual	2.1
December 17, 2009	December 18, 2009	ESP CL: Advanced Customization of Search Applications	Boston (Needham), MA, USA	1.4
December 17, 2009	December 18, 2009	ESP CL: Advanced Customization of Search Applications	London (Dufours), UK	1.4

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Authorized Learning Center Courses

Start Date	End Date	Course	Location	Continuing Education Units (CEU)
October 2009
October 5, 2009	October 7, 2009	FAST ESP: Fundamentals of Developing Search Application	Comperio, Oslo, Norway	NA
October 8, 2009	October 9, 2009	FAST ESP: Advanced Customization of Search Applications	Comperio, Oslo, Norway	NA
October 27, 2009	October 27, 2009	FAST ESP: Managing the Search Experience	Comperio, Stockholm, Sweden	NA
October 28, 2009	October 30, 2009	FAST ESP: System Administration and Deployment	Comperio, Stockholm, Sweden	NA
November 2009
November 17, 2009	November 17, 2009	FAST ESP: Managing the Search Experience	Comperio, Oslo, Norway	NA
November 18, 2009	November 20, 2009	FAST ESP: System Administration and Deployment	Comperio, Oslo, Norway	NA

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Classroom Learning

Train at Our Location or Yours

FAST University instructor-led classes are conducted globally in major cities, such as Boston, Massachusetts, USA; San Mateo, California, USA; Oslo, Norway; London, England; Sydney, Australia; Singapore City, Singapore; Tokyo, Japan; Mexico City, Mexico; and Sao Paolo, Brazil. Courses also can be conducted at your location.

Classroom Formats

Teaching methodologies include demonstrations, hands-on labs, assignments, in-class discussions, and Q&A sessions to reinforce content and build practical experience. Courses are designed for individuals and small teams requiring personalized attention by FAST University’s highly knowledgeable, certified instructors and course developers.

Classroom Courses Currently Available

FAST ESP

Check Course Schedule for dates and locations of upcoming classes.

FAST ESP: Managing the Search Experience (one-day classroom course)
FAST ESP: System Administration and Deployment (three-day classroom course)
FAST ESP: Fundamentals of Developing Search Applications (three-day classroom course)
FAST ESP: Advanced Customization of Search Applications (two-day classroom course)
FAST ESP: Advanced Linguistics for Search Applications (three-day classroom course)

FAST ImPulse

Check Course Schedule for dates and locations of upcoming classes.

FAST ImPulse Administration and Monitoring (one-day classroom course)
FAST ImPulse Business Manager (one-day classroom course)
FAST ImPulse for Application Developers (one-day classroom course)

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FAST University Classroom in London

Self-Paced Learning

Learning That’s Flexible

Learn at your own pace, in the comfort and convenience of your own work space. To accommodate individual learning styles, these courses are modularized into specific tasks. Online interactive tutorials are ideal for students who require maximum flexibility in their learning environment. Available around the clock, all you need is an Internet connection to begin your FAST search education.

Self-Paced Learning Courses

FAST ESP
FAST AdMomentum
FAST ImPulse

FAST Recommendations
FAST Unity
Ask the Expert Series

FAST ESP

Enterprise Search Essentials
Getting Started with FAST ESP
Search 101—Precision, Recall, & Relevancy
Building a Business Strategy with Search
Improving Search with Categorization
Document Classification Using FAST Classifier
FAST ESP: Application Integration SDK
FAST ESP: Security Access Module
FAST ESP: CJK Support—Part I: CJK Languages
FAST ESP: CJK Support—Part II: Character Sets & Encoding Schemes
Linguistic Studio: A Tool for Dictionary Management
Configuring and Customizing Document Processing
Advanced Crawler Configuration
FAST ESP: Deployment Accelerator for SharePoint
FAST ESP SharePoint 2007 Connector
Featured Content
How Is FAST Search Different from Traditional Web Search?
Multi-Node Enterprise Crawler
FAST ESP Search Web Parts
FAST ESP: Feeding Proxy Architecture and Use Cases
FAST ESP: Relevancy Tuning
Exchange Connector
Analyzing Search Trends Using Query Reporting Framework
Building Custom Content Connectors
Automated Data Cleansing with Relevancy Matching
Advanced Content Feeding for Developers
Pattern Searching and Extended Wildcard
Real-Time Alerting
Disaster Recovery Scenarios
Rule-Based Classifier
FAST ESP: Enterprise Search Platform Technical Overview
FAST ESP: Large Installation Configuration Management
Field Guide to the Project Engineer's Toolkit - Part 1
WebAnalyzer - An ESP Module for Link Analysis

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FAST AdMomentum

FAST AdMomentum: Architecture and Installation
FAST AdMomentum: Advertiser User Interface
FAST AdMomentum: Back Office User Interface
FAST AdMomentum: Publisher

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FAST ImPulse

Building More Personal and Profitable Connections with Customers

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FAST Recommendations

Getting Started with FAST Recommendations
Integrating FAST Recommendations
Customizing FAST Recommendations

FAST Unity

Query Federation with FAST Unity
Configuring FAST Unity
FAST Unity Plug-Ins

Ask the Expert Series - Interviews and Courses

Ask The Expert: Barry Waldbaum on FAST ESP System Sizing
Ask The Expert: Dan Harrington on Enterprise Crawler
Ask The Expert: George Darcy on Advanced Linguistics
Ask The Export: George Darcy on the Index Profile
Ask The Expert: Jeff Fried on Federation versus Indexing
Ask The Expert: Jeff Fried on Fusion Centers
Ask The Expert: Jeff Fried on Search Center of Excellence
Ask The Expert: Jeff Fried on Search and SharePoint
Ask The Expert: Jeff Fried on Search as a Platform
Ask The Expert: Jeff Fried on Structured Data
Ask The Expert: John Felahi on Federation
Ask The Expert: John Felahi on Relevancy
Ask The Expert: Lee Eichelberger on Search Usability
Ask The Expert: Nathan Treloar on Search and Text Analytics
Ask The Expert: Nathan Treloar on Trends in Search
Ask The Expert: Paul Summers on Java Search API
Ask The Expert: Tim McKinnon on Monetization
Ask The Expert: Tim McKinnon on Topic Pages

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Subscribe to the FAST University Online Library

Would you like UNLIMITED access to the entire FAST University eLearning Library for you or your group for one year? Group library subscriptions are available for individuals or for your group. For details and pricing information, call us at +1 877-304-2594 or +1 781-304-2534 or email us at fastuniv@microsoft.com.

FAST ESP SharePoint 2007 Connector Tutorial

Learning Without Walls

FAST University offers you three ways to Learn Without Walls over the Internet in the comfort and convenience of your own office:

Live Virtual Classes offer the same great instructors and course materials from FAST University instructor-led classroom learning, but are conducted via the Internet. Guided virtual labs are included with live virtual classes.
Recorded Virtual Classes are virtual classroom playbacks ideal for students who require maximum flexibility in their learning environment. Virtual labs are included with email support from FAST University instructors.
Virtual Labs provide you with time to practice installing, configuring, and customizing FAST solutions. Email support from FAST University instructors is included with virtual labs.

Learning Without Walls provides the flexibility to take FAST University instructor-led courses at your desktop, without the need or expense of travel. When you register for a Learning Without Walls live or recorded virtual class, the course materials are shipped to you and a remote server running FAST products and course software is configured for your lab exercises. FAST University instructors answer questions throughout live virtual classes and offer guidance during lab exercises.

In recorded virtual classes, you view instructor-led recorded lectures and demonstrations, then break for lab exercises, and finally answer review questions to ensure your understanding. The cycle repeats for each module of the course. At any point, if you have a question, you will have access to a special email address that is monitored by FAST University instructors. Learning Without Walls enables you to pause the course or repeat sections as often as you like, anytime, anywhere.

Here are some of the courses that are available in the Learning Without Walls program:

FAST ESP: Managing the Search Experience
FAST ESP: System Administration and Deployment
FAST ESP: Fundamentals of Developing Search Applications
FAST ESP: Advanced Customization of Search Applications
FAST ESP Refresher: Developing Search Applications
Understanding the Differences Between FDS 4.x and ESP 5.3

Learning Without Walls Virtual Labs provide you with time to practice installing, configuring, and customizing FAST solutions. A remote server will be available for you to practice, learn, and test new ideas. We recommend this option for students that have recently completed a FAST University course and need time to practice what they learned on a remote lab system configured with FAST products.

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Authorized Learning Centers

Extending Our Reach

Select partners in the EMEA and APAC regions offer professional education services on our behalf in FAST University Authorized Learning Centers. These centers are certified extensions of FAST University.

FAST University Authorized Learning Center Education Partners

The Benefits and Opportunities of a FAST University Education Partnership

FAST partners understand the value of educating customers and providing them with the knowledge and skills to manage the world’s most flexible and scalable search engine. Our partners know that building a formally trained customer base can help reduce support costs and lead to repeat business. That’s why many are eager to form educational partnerships with us—to become certified to deliver training on FAST technology at their own Authorized Learning Centers.

Partners that want to become FAST University Authorized Learning Centers need to demonstrate their ability to manage and sell education services. By becoming Authorized Learning Centers for FAST, partners are certified to deliver FAST University courses.

Members of the FAST University Education Partner Program receive:

Regular updates on FAST University content and materials
Access to FAST University staff and instructors
Special pricing on FAST University instructor training

In addition, Certified FAST University Education Partners can grow their opportunities with:

Greater revenue potential from an increased number of service offerings
Stronger customer relationships
More opportunities to up-sell
Expanded expertise in FAST technology
Enhanced knowledge of the latest FAST technology and services

Interested?

To be considered as an Authorized Learning Center candidate, interested partners* must first fill out an application review form, submit a business plan, and agree to all terms and conditions. Your application will be reviewed, and you will be contacted regarding next steps within 30 business days.

Download a FAST University Authorized Learning Center application.

For questions or for more information about the program, please send us an e-mail at fastuniv@fastsearch.com.

*Note: A company that wishes to qualify as a FAST University Education Partner must be a member of the FAST Partner Program already.

FAST University Authorized Learning Center Education Partners

Øvre Slottsgate 27

0157 Oslo, Norway

Telephone: +47 22 33 71 00

Comperio is a FAST University Authorized Learning Center Education Partner located in Oslo, Norway. Classes can be taught in English or Norwegian. For a list of FAST ESP public class offerings, visit the Comperio Web site at www.comperio.no. For more information, please contact Camilla Vik at camilla.vik@comperio.no.

Comperio has grown rapidly into being a substantial player in the information access market, recognized for its deep FAST competence as well as having an understanding for customer needs in a broader perspective.

Comperio assists customers in advising, designing, implementing, and supporting information access platforms and solutions built on search with great value and high return on investment.

As a FAST Gold Partner, Comperio delivers solutions on all FAST technology platforms. Comperio offers a complete set of services including consulting, project deliveries, public education classes, and support.

Comperio – When Search Really Matters.

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A FAST University Authorized Learning Center