Google search appliance could be the way to go on a small scale, and most likely temporary, solution.
The real questions are:
How valuable are your documents ? How much money do they generate ? What is the cost for not being able to locate a document ? What kind of processes are these documents used in ? How distributed is your user base ? How close to the your business core are these documents.
You certainly need a document management solution (or ECM), which one will depend basically on the answers to the previous questions.
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Google search appliance could be the way to go on a small scale, and most likely temporary, solution.
The real questions are:
How valuable are your documents ?
How much money do they generate ?
What is the cost for not being able to locate a document ?
What kind of processes are these documents used in ?
How distributed is your user base ?
How close to the your business core are these documents.
You certainly need a document management solution (or ECM), which one will depend basically on the answers to the previous questions.