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Meeting Title:
Enhancing User Experience in Customer Facing Applications with Microsoft FAST Enterprise Search Platform (ESP) - lesson learnt from Best Buy, Getty Images, Bank of America, and Globrix

Event Overview:
Understand how next generation search is creating rich user experiences, driving better monetization of online assets, and combining structured and unstructured information to evolve websites into more meaningful information platforms.

Detailed Description:
Search has evolved beyond the simple keyword textbox. Users are demanding richer experiences on the web that tailor to their information needs and allow them to view and digest information in a variety of ways. Microsoft has introduced next generation search with the FAST Search portfolio of solutions and is enabling organizations of all sizes to start building their own next generation search experiences on their websites and inside their organizations. Come see real customer examples of search at work to drive business results, create richer experiences, and evolve the way you do business.

Featured Speaker:
Adam Morgan, Enterprise Search Lead, Southeast US, Microsoft: As Enterprise Search Lead for Microsoft in the Southeast US for the last four years, Adam Morgan has been responsible for managing the Enterprise Search business and ensuring overall client satisfaction. This includes understanding customer business challenges and designing enterprise search solutions that address these challenges and drive customer value. For the last two years, it has also included acquisition work of integrating Microsoft’s third-biggest acquisition in history of FAST Search & Transfer into the Microsoft field organization. Adam leverages over 19 years of technology experience to expand SharePoint, FAST, and Microsoft search related solutions awareness and adoption throughout the region and works with the product group daily to drive product strategy for FAST, SharePoint, market adoption, and best practices.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Adam worked as a Business Development Director for United Sourcing Alliance, as an Account Executive for Commerce One, and as a Management Consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers.