Corporations have enormous investments in documents housed in file servers and intranets.
This investment goes untapped if these documents cannot be used because they cannot be found. An intra-company search engine can easily and inexpensively index a company's documents and unlock their enormous potential. The author may have no idea that relevant documents exist and are stored somewhere in the company. These documents may have been prepared in another department or division, or by someone who has since left the organization. Relevant information may have been purchased at considerable expense from a research company, perhaps in electronic format, specifically so that it could be easily accessed.