Enterprise Search

Workers spend considerable amounts of time filing electronic documents and looking for those documents. Well organised teams may create complex folder trees to structure their storage to help them locate the documents later. This can reduce time wasted in looking for documents but the management overhead can be high. Well organised individuals may take exactly the same approach with their email folders.

Taking a clean sheet of paper approach, the ideal situation would be to have access to any document you are entitled to have, anytime, anywhere, irrespective of where it may be located and the device you may happen to be using.

Enterprise search tools index and locate documents across the enterprise. Security is managed and the worker does not need to waste time managing filing structures or looking for documents. Coupled with Web 2.0 technologies and document management facilities, this can provide a powerful knowledge management solution.