You already know that technology
moves fast. Today's hero is tomorrow's goat. Sometimes companies promise
more than they can deliver. Sometimes companies *think* they understand your
business & can provide a solution, but upon deeper scrutiny, find out
they're not as well prepared, robust, or as enterprise-wide as initially
advertised.
Ok, I'll be the first to concede Market America has a
challenging and complex technological environment. Who's kidding who, right?
We've got millions of SKUs, thousands of products, thousands of partners and
millions of shoppers and hundreds of features. It ain't easy to support and
deliver that.
But in working out the kinks on our shopping Portal,
we found that not all of our solutions providers could keep up with us. (or
you!) Regrettably, we found that it was time to
renew our search for a partner who could deliver on their promises. Well, we found one.
And perhaps you might have heard
of them?
Just a little ol' startup tech firm out of Washington
state called "Microsoft."
And because we unfortunately have had to learn the
hard way, this time there will be no guesswork - we've been working with
Microsoft FAST (their search subsidiary) for months to ensure that they can
accommodate the millions of our products. We did this very quietly, because
if our needs couldn't be met, we didn't want to make a big splash.
But the good news is, it works.
We're ready. Please welcome our newest Portal search technology provider,
Microsoft FAST!
