Fast Search & Transfer, a developer of enterprise search and real-time alerting technologies, has signed a joint sales and marketing agreement with Sakhr Software Company, an Arabic IT company specializing in developing Arabic technologies. Through this agreement, Sakhr will become a FAST reseller. In addition, FAST will license and integrate Arabic linguistic analysis tools from Sakhr into FAST ESP, FAST's enterprise search platform.

FAST ESP is offered though the FAST Data Search suite of enterprise search solutions, which includes FAST Data Search for Site Search; FAST Data Search for Compliance; FAST Data Search for eCommerce; FAST Data Search for Intranets; and FAST Data Search 360. The FAST Data Search product suite supplies an information retrieval solution for vertical markets and applications including ecommerce and internet portals,

financial services; government; life sciences; media and publishing; and telecom.

(http://www.fastsearch.com), (http://www.sakhr.com)