A showcase for search technology, the FASTforward conference is the perfect venue for our partners to spotlight their products and solutions. Be sure to visit our sponsors in the FASTforward’09 Partner Pavilion during the conference.

Partner Pavilion Hours

Monday, February 9
5:00pm - 7:00pm Welcome Reception

Tuesday, February 10
10:30am - 4:30pm
5:30pm - 8:00pm Exhibits Open/Partner Theater
Pre-Awards Reception

Wednesday, February 11
10:30am -12:00pm
2:30pm - 4:00pm Exhibits Open
Exhibits Open/Partner Theater

If you are a partner and have not secured your sponsorship opportunity, please email julie.paradiso@microsoft.com.



Comperio is a preferred FAST Gold partner. The company rapidly has grown into being a substantial player in the international search market with operations in both the European and the U.S. marketplaces, and is recognized for deep FAST ESP experience as well as having an understanding of customer needs in a broader perspective. We assist our customers in implementing search solutions with great value and high return on investment.

Our customers are leading players within their industry. They benefit from the combination of Comperio’s deep specialty competence and the functionality of FAST products to either: increase revenue through enhancing online search (Consumer Search) or increase productivity through search within the enterprise (Enterprise Search).

The core competence in Comperio is search. Comperio has a complete service offering on search solutions as well as our own value-adding components built on the Comperio Front™ framework.


Raytion is an information management and corporate communications consultancy. Since 2001 we have been developing and maintaining information management solutions and strategic communication platforms. Raytion’s special focus is on implementing company-wide enterprise search solutions and providing their effective integration into heterogeneous organizational and technical infrastructures. Clients include international companies and organizations with 1,000 to over 200,000 employees.

Our team includes experienced consultants, requirement engineers, analysts, information architects, usability experts, graphic designers, computer linguists, software developers, system engineers, and project and quality managers, all dedicated to delivering high-quality search solutions which work for your users and your business.

Raytion has been a FAST full-service partner since 2004. In addition to our services we offer a full range of enterprise search components complementing FAST’s product portfolio and which are available worldwide through selected partners.

Our family of enterprise search connectors enables you to natively index and search content from the SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP PLM DMS, SAP R/3, EMC Documentum eRoom, BEA WebLogic Portal, Open Text Livelink, and Symantec Enterprise Vault, among others. The Raytion Search & Retrieval Interface provides a flexible platform for delivering customized search interfaces to dozens of internal clients throughout the company and to millions of users on the Internet. A special edition for EMC Documentum allows users to search simultaneously metadata and full text across multiple Documentum installations and docbases with a single query, and to find virtual document roots based on the content of their component documents. Raytion Desktop Search integrates secure intranet search with the desktop search engine of your choice including Microsoft Windows Search.