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Lookeen 8 is finally here!
A year ago, as we presented Lookeen 3.7, real-time indexing was only a feature in the beta version. Lookeen 8 now has all the latest technological advances in one convenient package! >> Indexing Highlights The new upgrade integrates real-time indexing into each edition. We are especially proud of the development of an entirely new and innovative indexing strategy: Hybrid indexing allows for uninterrupted use of the index and access to stored data, while simultaneously processing new data,[A…]
A year ago, as we presented Lookeen 3.7, real-time indexing was only a feature in the beta version. Lookeen 8 now has all the latest technological advances in one convenient package!
>> Indexing Highlights
The new upgrade integrates real-time indexing into each edition. We are especially proud of the development of an entirely new and innovative indexing strategy: Hybrid indexing allows for uninterrupted use of the index and access to stored data, while simultaneously processing new data, without compromising computing power.
>>Manage Large Volumes with Lookeen Group Policies
With the complete integration of Group Policies in the Business and Enterprise editions, we offer companies, large volume customers and other licensees, the ability to control the installation and use of Lookeen. For more information about Group Policy, we’ve made our GPO guide available to our customers.
>>Lookeen 8 is compatible with Windows 8
Thanks to the Microsoft ® publishing of beta versions for Windows 8®, Lookeen 8 is ready for the future! We’ve put our e-mail search tool on a path for the future, by developing compatibility with all beta versions of Windows 8 ® and Microsoft Office® - so you can always rely on Lookeen.
>> Try the full version for two weeks-free!
Anyone can try the full version of Lookeen 8 for free. In addition, we offer customers that bought Lookeen 3.7 (or order) a 30% discount on the upgrade to Lookeen 8. Customers that bought Lookeen between the 1st of December, 2011 and the 28th of March, 2012, will receive a free upgrade to Lookeen 8!
Lookeen wins Reader’s Choice Award (again)!
We are very happy to have won the Reader’s Choice award for the second straight year! The readers at www.about.com have spoken, and for the second time we have been chosen to hold the “Best Outlook add-in 2011” award, proving[A…]
We are very happy to have won the Reader’s Choice award for the second straight year! The readers at www.about.com have spoken, and for the second time we have been chosen to hold the “Best Outlook add-in 2011” award, proving that Lookeen remains an efficient solution when companies and individuals need to manage their Outlook data.
“For the second year in a row, we’ve been selected for this coveted international award and we couldn’t be happier. This validates all of the hard work we’ve put into Lookeen to make it as user friendly as possible for companies and individuals,” commented Martin Welker, CEO of Axonic.
Quick and reliable searches
The Outlook add-in Lookeen has once again convinced users through its performance, that it is a great value for money. Lookeen is quickly becoming the go-to desktop search tool, not only will it search Outlook folders, but it will also comb through hard drives and servers to find all the files that might be of relevance to the user. The clarity of the search results, whether they be e-mails, documents, pictures or other files, facilitates easier access and even makes e-mail correspondence more transparent.
Lookeen is the perfect solution
Lookeen has been continually improving its product over the last year and continues to make huge strides with corporate clients. Individual users have also benefited greatly from the new and improved Lookeen this year. Lookeen allows companies and individuals to weather the email storm and manage their data effectively, with a clear and quick search tool. Installation and operation are also smooth and seamless.
Get a feel for what Lookeen can do for you by downloading this free test version:
http://www.lookeen.net/download/
Over the last years, e-mail inevitably became the most often used internet-service worldwide. The Cisco 2008 Annual Security Report states that, around the globe, the incredibly high amount of 220 billion e-mails are sent and received on a daily basis. Based on the vast number of e-mails, every user is confronted with a sheer, flood like, e-mail chaos – also on a daily basis. At least if one does not use the small but excellent search expert for Outlook, named Lookeen.
The board of the Annual Security Report estimates the number of globally sent e-mails by reference to the figures of e-mail users and active e-mail accounts. Following new estimations the spiking amount of 220 billion e-mails will in fact double within the next years, due to the growing importance of social-media channels. In practice results are as follows: the average user receives an average of 150 e-mails a day. No matter if the concerning e-mail account is used for private or business purposes.
Faster, more precisely, more comfortable
The needed time to sort out and separate spam from relevant and important e-mails can easily add up to several hours. Searching for the wanted e-mail or attachment not included. To avoid that unnecessary waste of time only a quick glance on Lookeen is necessary and worthwhile. The installation of the add-on for Microsoft Outlook takes only a moment and pays out immediately, by putting an end to the endless searches. After the installation of Lookeen only a short indexing of the data is necessary to search mail-folders and -archives faster, more precisely and more comfortable than ever before. Even e-mail folders in the most remote network drive are included in the Lookeen based search. To Lookeen the amount of data is absolutely indifferent. All it takes to get it started is a search entry in the search mask. At a record time any information you want will be delivered to you, no matter if e-mail, attachment or both combined – neatly arranged, central and ready to hand. The final highlight is the convenient preview that allows you as a user to look at the contents of and read every data file without opening it.
The business day of the future therefore can be re-modelled into a more relaxed version that is free of negative stress and unenjoyable useless labor – at least if Lookeen is put to use. You will never miss an e-mail again, over are the days of data loss – no matter if document, table or picture – and overwrought nerves.
Successfull cooperation with asknet
From the worldwide renown University of Karlsruhe in Germany a Spin-off named asknet originated in 1995. Born out of a study project, asknet made it within ten years to the market leader in the section of electronic software distribution on the stock exchange.
The small firm was the first company in Germany to sell software through the internet and specialized in individual outsourcing solutions for software marketing. Asknet offers a wide spectrum of multi-channel-solutions for software companies as well. The asknet AG supports their customers with established B2C- and B2B-processes, eProcurement, eMarketing and the assistance with handling of payments. The online shop for asknet AG which specialized in support and advisory service of academies, colleges and government agencies is the most successful in the whole of Europe.
Fast and precise search with Lookeen!
The developer and distributor of Lookeen, Axonic Information Systems GmbH works very close with asknet AG. Because of this partnership, Lookeen is also listed on softwarehouse.de. Just like asknet AG, Axonic Information systems GmbH is versed in cooperation with government agencies, colleges and universities
Agencies and colleges have to deal with large amount of electronic data that can become difficult to manage. Additionally, these institutions often use exchange servers and other networked structures to function. Lookeen is able to search through these engines fast and efficiently Because of this, a cooperation of the two companies was obvious.
Lookeen is offered on www.softwarehouse.de as independent software. But because it is a perfect addition to Microsoft Outlook, it is also offered in various different product bundles.
Ever had canned meat in your in-box?
Canned meat, aka Spam, is in every mouth, unfortunately in every in-box too. Therewith the unrequested and unwanted Spam Emails have a lot in Common with the canned meat..
Sounds absurd?
It makes more sense if you look closer at the derivation of the word Spam. Even though the word Spam means nothing else, but litter, garbage or refuse, something the unwanted Mails indeed are, it doesn’t explain why Spam is the word everyone uses for them, while it could have been trash or waste too.
A sketch of the world famous Monty Python group is to be blamed that out of all things, the word Spam gained its questionable fame. The Comedians made fun out of the double meaning of the word Spam in said sketch. Spam is in the English language not only the word for waste and trash, but is also the unflattering synonym for an American canned meat product, called (Spiced Ham).
In the mentioned sketch the guest of a restaurant was offered meals solely containing the word Spam. To make it even more absurd, some of the dishes named contained the word Spam more than once, like “Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Bacon and Span Beans Spam”.
The strange accumulation of the word Spam during the Sketch became a basic principle. As the first trash Emails appeared, the word Spam became the general term of that, what is today in everyone’s in-box. And in everyone’s mouth.
To escape this flood of unwanted and even more so unneeded Emails, a lot of users use the help of Spam-Filters that automatically filter the Spam-Mails out of the in-box. Spam-Filter are programs which are capable of learning. They use typical search criterion’s, Email addresses and domains, to try and spot the unwanted Emails and sort them out.
But Spam-Filter do have a great deficit; they simply overlook a lot of Spam-Mails, which then still find their way into the in-box. Even worse is the opposite case. This means, the Spam-Filter recognizes a “good” mail from Friends, family, colleagues or customers as spam and sorts it out.
To avoid this, Lookeen offers a comfortable and safe solution. Luckily Spam-Mails always distinguish themselves by the same keywords.
Here the search history of Lookeen proves to be a very useful feature. Simply look for the corresponding keywords and ban the unwanted Emails via drag&drop into the recycle bin.
To keep the Emails of the future clean, simply call up the past queries from the history. Instantly you have a tidy in-box that is free of Spam.
That way you are safe from unwanted Spam – and luckily from canned meat too.
In Situations where the success of certain projects is depending on a number of participants, it is important that all information is highly available and without redundancy.
For many years companies use the so called groupware in such matters. Groupware is supposed to alleviate the working process in the teams and enable the project coordination on a timely and spacial basis. One of the most famous exponents of the groupware application is the Microsoft exchange server.
The Microsoft exchange server offers a wide spectrum of functions which allow a various number of operators to use different systems to work in cooperation together.
The most often used features of exchange servers are:
-E-Mails
-Appointments and calendars
-Tasks
-Contacts and addresses
-Notes
-Documents
All of the above mentioned elements are stored on a central server and are made available to a user-defined number of operators. Therefore the information’s are always without redundancy and up to date.
The benefit of this architecture is obvious.
Let’s assume, that you have a support section in your company and use for the contact address support@yourcompany.com an exchange inbox. Now all of your associates can see, which E-Mails have already been answered, what cases still wait for a reply and they can even see the proposal for solutions that have been made.
But the working day has changed a lot in the past years. May it be that projects are realized at the customer’s location, companies use more and more outwork or that companies have structures reaching around the entire world.
Security: Encryption with VPN
Users from outside the company network can offer their knowledge and participate through the so called VPN (Virtual Private Network). This ensures that the participants of projects always are provided with information’s up to date and without redundancy.
Using the online mode you work within the infrastructure of your company and adjust information’s in real time with your system. If the connection to the company network is disabled, you just turn your exchange server into the offline mode. This creates a copy of your inbox, which in turn allows you to still have fast access to your data.
This copy of your inbox is regularly updated by the mail server when you are online. Once the connection is enabled again, Microsoft Outlook will switch back into the online mode. Changes made by you, while there was no connection to the server, are automatically adjusted as soon as the connection is enabled again.
Of course the synchronization of the worldwide data is a challenge for the exchange server. For example, if an operator uses a cell phone and has an UMTS connection, an adjustment of large files would take way to long.
Therefore Microsoft uses the so called “cached mode” since the exchange server 2003. In the cached mode, the exchange application possesses an automatic online/offline-management, which is running in the background. This equilibrates the encumbrance of the connection to the exchange server because some of the contents aren’t aligned despite the connection to the exchange server is established.
Bulletin boards and product reviews that are dealing with search tools, often complain about the fact that most tools aren’t able to search and index all exchange inboxes in all modes.
Especially for this case of application, and for a professional environment in general, Lookeen was developed.
We at Axonic Informationsdienste GmbH are aware of the fact, that the base principle of development for Lookeen is the compatibility to exchange servers.
After the release of Lookeen the feedback is thoroughly positive and a huge amount of encouragement reached us. All involved in this dialogue profited of it.
Companies used the smooth support of exchange servers as the reason for choosing Lookeen over other search tools.
Archives or inboxes that are on the exchange servers are simply added in the Lookeen options and because of the Lookeen terms of references, we spoke about in a previous article, all particulars of the handling of the exchange servers and their clients can be individually configured.
Lookeen supports the exchange server indication in all modes, no matter if you are online or offline, if you are using the cached or the uncached mode. With Lookeen you search through all of your data in a few seconds, even on your exchange servers.
Lookeen is looking for new employees
As a young, dynamic company in the field of software technology Axonic Informationssysteme GmbH is on course for success.
We are looking for new employees – if you’re interested please take a look here (only in German):
The new Lookeen 2010 is available now!
We would like to invite you to see for yourself the quality as well as the performance of the new Lookeen 2010. Get your free trial version* here.
By creating Lookeen 2010, we developed the search tool of the next generation. Your advantage: Due to the new features of Lookeen 2010, you will be able to find information even quicker, easier and in a more efficient way:
- Preview of mails, attachments or files in the familiar Outlook format
- Highlighting of the located search words (multicolour)
- Intelligent analysis of your inbox with “Lookeen Analytics“
- Quicker loading of Outlook
- Network Detection: Intelligent indexing of the network resources
- Automatic detection of newly added Outlook archives
- Configurable search favourites with quick access
- Search history management
- New feature “display more results”
- Select all action (STRG-A) possible
- Indexing of different data in recurring appointments
- Automatic indexing of attached mails
- Many new Outlook data arrays now searchable (e.g. location in appointments)
- Now available: one Lookeen configuration file for all Outlook profiles
- 20 new GPO commands for enterprise usage
- Improved drag&drop features
- Image preview (for .jpg, .png, .bmp, .tif, etc.)
- And many other new features…
*For users who have Lookeen licences of the versions 1.x and 2.x, the upgrade will be available for an attractive price amounting to 19.90 €. Simply use our upgrade-centre to download the upgrade.
The purchase price of the full version is still 34.90 €.
Lookeen 2.3 is available – free update!
After an exhausting but fruitful stage of development, last week it was finally so far – the new version Lookeen 2.3 has been released.
In the development, our attention was this time focused, to meet customer requirements and to implement some new features. The participants in the beta phase were impressed by the performance and the speed of the new Lookeen 2.3.
As always, we’ve fixed some bugs and added new features.
Here are the most important facts:
- Improving the search with the *- operator
- Improved search results
- Index now faster
- A simplified and more stable handling with Group Policies
- Improved stability and performance on Windows 7
- Additional Feature: Lookeen remembers the last opened tab
- Additional Feature: Lookeen starts the index delayed to the start of Outlook (performance gain)
- Additional Feature: Search without a local index is possible now
Overall, the new 2.3.1.1242 Lookeen offers a variety of enhancements and improvements. Make yourself a picture and try Lookeen 14 days for free.
As also announced in the previously Newsletter of Lookeen, the version 2.3.1.1242 will be a prerequisite for future updates. Therefore the update remains free for customers of Lookeen 1.x and 2.x versions.
We would like to take this opportunity to address ourselves to the selected group of customers, our friends and acquaintances who have supported us during the beta phase. Thank you for your engaged assistance and your suggestions that help us to improve Lookeen steadily and purposefully.
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