New 'Beyond Search Research' White Paper

Email Server Search: A Mission-Critical Function for a Mobile Worker

You are at breakfast, and you need to find the details of a meeting and speaking engagement details in a PDF your partner sent you nine months ago. Your laptop is in your checked baggage. You need that email and attachment. Your BlackBerry does not have what you need. Sound familiar? What do you do?

Email: the true knowledge repository

For a majority of knowledge workers email has become the unofficial de facto file storage server, which it was not originally designed for. Email contains critical business information ranging from HR data to financial, compliance, transactions, engineering, marketing, sales, pricing, customer relationships, competitive intelligence, etc.

Email has become one of the largest corporate information repositories, and one of the fastest growing enterprise data corpuses. Email is the memory of knowledge workers and the "nerve center" of an organization.

Most organizations use blunt instruments to manage, search, and access essential information in email. Compliance and regulatory issues loom large. And the problem grows bigger each day as the volume of email grows.

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