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whitepaper Citigroup Uses FAST to Accelerate Delivery of Customer On-Boarding Application2009-10-23 Microsoft
  Citi had invested significant time and resources in creating its certified 'Gold copy' customer database. This was not merely a technology challenge. The team wanted to create an intuitive, easy to use search system that by reducing the time spent searching for customer records, would re-enforce the value of the 'Gold copy' investment. Citi chose to work with the Microsoft FAST Search technology and Search Business Consulting (SBC) team to rapidly integrate two customer information repositories used for customer on-boarding, to ensure consistency with the company's 'Gold copy' database. This project had to satisfy the information requirements of a diverse group of users within the global trading, back office, compliance, and risk teams.   
whitepaper Talent Management Firm Recruits FAST Search Technology2009-06-19 Microsoft
  Hudson is one of the leading specialist recruitment and talent management companies in the world. The company employs more than 3,300 professionals, serving clients and candidates in more than 20 countries. Hudson prides itself on providing unparalleled service and value to its clients. From single placements to outsourced solutions, the diversity of Hudson's assignments, client base and global presence has enabled the company to build the richest, most extensive recruitment data source. This is particularly true for the Australia and New Zealand - based business, which, over eleven years, has evolved a complex data repository that holds records for more than 2.6 million candidates.   
whitepaper Staffing Company Simplifies, Automates Search to Efficiently Place Candidates2009-06-18 Microsoft
  Allegis Group, the largest privately held staffing company in the United States, manages a database of more than 11 million job candidates. Its 8,000 employees connect more than 60,000 contract employees with customers worldwide. To successfully place qualified people, Allegis needed to enable recruiters to efficiently search candidate information. To this end, the company redesigned its applicant tracking system and integrated FAST enterprise search technology. Now, recruiters can search data from across enterprise systems to draw on a broader range of information. FAST also enables Allegis to automatically filter search results, eliminating the need to build complex search queries. With its new solution, recruiters spend less time on data entry and query building, and more time fostering long-term relationships with clients and candidates.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Northern Trust Increases Accuracy and Relevance of Intranet Searches With the Google Search Appliance and User-Added Results2009-05-30 Google
  Northern Trust is a global leader in delivering investment management, asset and fund administration, and fiduciary and banking solutions to corporations, institutions, and affluent individuals. Northern Trust's need to deliver the latest information and forms was especially important for compliance with government regulations. Risks escalated when employees created and stored personal libraries of information and then referred to those libraries rather than repositories that might contain newer versions of forms. Northern Trust deployed Google Search Appliance (GSA) which resulted to search accuracy improved immediately. User-Added Results also reduced content management burdens for staff.

Tags: Internet and Web, Internet and Web		   
whitepaper MTCSC Google Search Appliance Deployment2009-05-27 Google
  MTCSC specializes in applying integrated logistics support, enterprise solution development, engineering, technical and managerial expertise to solve the unique and complex challenges associated with Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operations. A MTCSC customer required rapid access to relevant data from 2500+ of data sources in a highly distributed and complex network environment. The network spans multiple countries and continents which are all interlinked in the global war on terrorism. MTCSC deployed Google Search Appliance to simplify search for the organization's analysts. The solution provided an enterprise search mechanism across a complex data sharing environment that can quickly be adapted to the emerging and asymmetric threat.

Tags: Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Enterprise Search 360: Achieving a Single Search Platform Across the Enterprise2009-05-25 Microsoft
  Like many growing companies, National Instruments had accumulated a wide range of data sources over time, both structured and unstructured. There were at least four search platforms to access its array of data sources and different search engines were used for internal and external requests which was hampering customers' search results and sales opportunities. National Instruments saw that a single search solution was needed to gather and integrate different content connectors quickly, reliably and would be easy to support. National Instruments was quickly attracted to the FAST platform's versatility, flexibility, and capability to expand. Inside four months the FAST Enterprise Search Platform solution was fully implemented by National Instruments' team without the assistance and added cost of professional services personnel for the installation.   
whitepaper The Nature Conservancy Opens Up Information to User Communities, Speeding Search and Cutting IT Costs, With the Google Search Appliance2009-03-17 Google
  The Nature Conservancy (TNC), now a million members strong, works around the world to protect and preserve ecologically important lands and waters. TNC manages an extensive intranet to help employees conduct research, consolidate organization-wide communications, and run the organization with utmost efficiency. Visitors to the public website and employees using the intranet couldn't reliably get the results they needed when they used search. TNC deployed Google Search Appliance; units immediately began reliably indexing pages and returning relevant results.

Tags: Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Circle-E. Reduces Costs, Cuts Waste, and Redefines the Productivity of Field Service Maintenance Professionals With the Google Search Appliance2009-03-12 Google
  Circle-E. has become one of Texas' most competitive and successful facilities service maintenance companies. Circle-E had an informal way of sharing information. It wanted to differentiate its services, improve efficiency and reduce costs by creating a centralized, searchable repository of information about customer facilities that field personnel could access using their Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). Circle-E. deployed Google Search Appliance (GSA), which easily addressed all forms of content in the company's SQL Server database, and could make the information there easily accessible to employees from any browser or via field representatives' PDAs.

Tags: IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Reuters.com Increases Search Use by 500% and Counting; Delivers Real-Time News, Stock Quotes, Images, Video and More With the Google Search Appliance2009-02-05 Google
  As the world's largest multimedia news agency, Thomson Reuters produces trusted text, graphics, video, and pictures for media organizations, financial institutions, and consumers across the globe. Reuters.com required a robust search solution with the ability to search multiple sources of content and to query constantly-updated news databases in real-time. Reuters.com deployed Google Search Appliance (GSA), the Reuters search team enabled end users to view relevant information from multiple sources, including databases that are populated from ongoing news feeds and continuously updated stock market data.   
whitepaper FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) Brings Speed and Pinpoint Accuracy to Website Search With the Google Search Appliance2009-01-22 Google
  The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is the largest non-governmental regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States overseeing nearly 5,000 brokerage firms, 174,000 branch offices, and approximately 676,000 registered securities representatives. One of FINRA's biggest challenges is helping its many diverse audiences find the content they need, quickly. FINRA team wanted to increase access to its growing body of site-based applications. FINRA deployed Google Search Appliance (GSA) and its KeyMatches capability to ensure targeted search accuracy for each of these user types.