The crash of the US-American energy tycoon Enron was spectacular and it was a perfect test bench for Lookeen.
Enron started of perfectly.
The fusion of Houston Natural Gas and Internorth formed Enron back in 1985. Soon after the fusion, they became the biggest natural gas distributor in the USA and Great Britain. Changes in the top management and planned projects in India allowed the shares to climb between December 2000 and August 2001 from $ 20 to over $100 a piece.
But in autumn 2001 Enron had to admit, that they had financial problems and turned to the Department of Commerce. An audit was issued and under growing pressure, Enron was forced to provide a revised version of the quarterly financial statement and the result was devastating:
The revised statement showed that there was a loss of more then half a billion U.S. dollars. Enron had to admit to fraudulent claims of more then 1.2 Billion U.S. dollars in the previous year. As a result the shares fell so deep, that they were taken of the stock market in December.
Enron was ruined
The crash of Enron left more then 20.000 employees jobless, with their retirement provisions and their savings in form of Enron shares gone. The trial following the crash handed out penalties and prison sentences to managers and accountant clerks, but was unable to retrieve the money lost.
To avoid this happening again, the SEC and the controlling institution for energy trade published a cleaned up data file of Enron, containing 500.000 Emails in may 2002.This data is used for analysing and testing purposes of universities and companies. Among the resulting projects is the SimStudent-Project of the Carnegie Mellon University, another is a publication of the School of Computing in Queens.
What has that got to do with Lookeen?
A data file with the size of the Enron-File is in a lot of companies rather common today, especially because of the increased E-Mail traffic. Corporate projects, increased correspondence and, unfortunately, Spam-Mails are causing the mail accounts of the associates to overflow regularly. The search for the right mail, the proper annex, relevant documents, pictures or presentations on an exchange server, on mobile data carriers or the hard drive needs more and more time.
Therefore the quality management of Axonic Informationsdienste GmbH used the publicly available Data Package of Enron as a test bench to run Lookeen through last tests and to gain structured testing protocols. The task is, to search and index the file with a size of six GB within an acceptable timeframe. Lookeen can be tested under conditions as they are in Companies: reliability, speed and quality are tested over and over again and improved if necessary.
Karlsruhe, December 19th 2007: Axonic has released the new search tool Lookeen®, an add-in for Outlook® 2003/2007.
After over two months of an intensive open Beta test with over 1.000 participants Lookeen® is now available as a 14 days free trial at www.lookeen.com. For the first weeks, Lookeen® can be purchased at EURO 34,50 (regular price: EURO 49,90). Find your emails in your inbox again, or search for contacts and appointmemts in your calendar with a single search!
Today the open Beta test of Lookeen has started. Lookeen is a new search tool for Outlook 2003 and 2007. The search tool can be downloaded under www.lookeen.com.
With Lookeen the user will ‘find’ instead of ‘search’, manage and organize large amounts of Outlook® information efficiently, and free up a lot of precious time for other things. Finally a empty inbox! Lookeen uses a simple interface integrated in Outlook. It searches with lightning speed in attachments, too (e.g. Powerpoint®, Word® or PDF-Files).
Good news for Outlook users having several PST files (personal folder files) or additional archives or exchange stores: Lookeen search includes every store of the user’s Outlook account. Furthermore the user can see correspondence with people and groups on a single click! Or find every information in your calendar, contacts or fure sure in your inbox!
The sales version will be released this year, so Axonic, the manufacturer of Lookeen. We recommend to do a backup of your Outlook data during the beta phase. Further details concerning price structures are not announced yet.
