Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced the availability of the FAST Enterprise Search Platform (FAST ESP), FAST ESP 5. The platform’s new Contextual Insight capability delivers answers to questions, and provides users with an intelligent search experience. FAST ESP 5 provides organizations and both their external and internal users with a secure, unified point of access to all structured, unstructured, and rich media data. FAST ESP applications include risk management, surveillance, information management, eCommerce, online publishing, and mobile search. New in FAST ESP 5 is Contextual Insight, a the fusion of information retrieval and information analysis. At the heart of FAST ESP 5 is the new FAST Search Business Center providing a new and holistic view for search management. Using the FAST Search Business Center, a non-technical user can set up and tune a number of different search applications running from a single FAST ESP installation. The FAST Search Business Center provides a workflow-based user interface to enable centralized search management, tuning, configuration, monitoring, and reporting. The FAST platform is an open information retrieval system, vendor agnostic, and supports all major platforms and operating systems, development and interface languages, storage configurations and content sources and destinations. http://www.fastsearch.com