New York, NY, November 17, 2006 - Masthead Consulting Corp., the business and technology consulting firm, today announced an agreement with FAST (Listed on Oslo Stock Exchange) to deliver search solutions to enterprise customers.  

Masthead and FAST together provide powerful enterprise search solutions that leverage Search-Oriented Architecture. Masthead compliments FAST's search platform with Financial Services industry domain experience by offering companies customized search solutions. Masthead delivers Situtational Awareness about your customers and deep Client Discovery building upon a Search Framework. Masthead refines search queries and search results by improving relevancy, enduser personalization and corporate security and visibility rules.

Robert Iannone, Managing Director of Masthead Consulting explained, "Masthead sees a continued expansion of search technology throughout large organizations and in ways that it can empower your workforce. We feel it is the wave of the future where producers and all end-users will use 'search' to navigate through the maze of client data and corporate applications."