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.
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.