MicroLink Offers "FAST Exit" for Convera and FAST Customers Concerned About FAST Search and Transfer's Corporate and Financial Stability
| Source: MicroLink
VIENNA, VA--(Marketwire - August 9, 2007) - MicroLink, a leading provider of information
technology services and products to both the government and commercial
sectors, today announced that it is offering a safe-passage program to
customers of Norwegian FAST Search & Transfer who are facing uncertainty in
the wake of FAST 's recent announcement of its change in revenue
recognition policy (http://www.fastsearch.com/news.aspx?m=329&amid=10146)
and yesterday's earning announcement which exposed a plummet in revenues
and earnings
(http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2007/08/08/afx3997901.html).
Dubbed FAST Exit, the program is immediately available to all Convera¹ and
FAST customers. MicroLink has worked successfully for years with many
companies and government agencies implementing Autonomy's (LSE : AU ),
Meaning-Based Computing platform, IDOL which provides a flexible framework
incorporating the essential attributes of an enterprise infrastructure
platform, including scalability, mapped security, global language support
and support for future technologies.
"Analysts had already expressed concerns about FAST's accounting procedures
-- particularly its aggressive recognition of revenues (by banking money
due but not yet received) -- and today the firm revealed the details of its
underperformance." -- Alistair Reed, Thompson Financial.
The questions regarding FAST's corporate stability and the likely resulting
changes in its structure due to its earnings loss and fall in revenues are
of grave concern to all customers. FAST Exit is designed to help companies
examine options and ensure they have a solid future information management
strategy and enterprise search platform. The program offers many benefits,
including collaborative forums, educational initiatives, reference
materials, a no-fee customized migration support assessment, credits for
current investments in existing systems, transition support services as
well as enterprise search best practices workshops to learn about how to
get the most out of their information assets to successfully support their
short and long term needs.
"Organizations rely heavily on accurate real-time information and analysis
everyday," said David Truitt, president of MicroLink. "Having an effective
and scalable enterprise search platform and information management strategy
is critical to the success of every company, especially government
organizations who combat terrorism. More importantly, customers must choose
a financially secure vendor they can trust in order to ensure that they
continue to receive the most innovative products on the market, continuous
services and support."
MicroLink has a proven track record in delivering leading enterprise search
solutions to many government agencies, including the U.S. Air Force, the
U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the
U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency's Global Disease Sentinel Network, the
Federal Reserve Board, the Joint Special Operations Command, the U.S.
Library of Congress, NASA, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. State Department, the
U.S. Strategic Command and the U.S. Secret Service. To learn more about
MicroLink's solutions and how we can help FAST customers, please contact
info@microlinkllc.com or call Dave Truitt 703-462-2020.
About MicroLink
MicroLink provides a full range of information technology services and
products to both the public and commercial sectors. Our primary focus is
helping organizations meet their needs involving teamwork and productivity
by providing collaboration and knowledge management solutions, related
products, training, and the change management services required to ensure
their success together with the core services required by the underlying
technology infrastructure.
Central to helping our clients achieve striking gains in teamwork and
productivity is our underlying hope and belief that achieving such
environments for ourselves, our clients, and our communities makes a
measurable contribution to improving how we all treat and work with each
other: that by improving how well we are all able to work together, we will
improve and enrich the lives of all whom our solutions and services touch
including our own.
¹April 1 2007 FAST announced the acquisition of the Convera Retrievalware
Business.