We have over 60 conference and meeting rooms in 4 different offices in the city; can Meeting Room Manager provide a single scheduling system for a larger organization like ours?
Yes. Meeting Room Manager takes advantage of the power of the Internet to create a unified scheduling system for everyone. With just their Web browser, personnel can access the scheduling system.
In two of the offices, we want our administrative personnel to control the scheduling, and have the remaining personnel only view the schedules. In the other two offices, we’d like everyone to be able to book their own rooms and equipment. Can Meeting Room Manager accommodate this unique situation?
Meeting Room Manager 7 has security capabilities which allow you to create different user access based on your internal security needs. This means you have full control of who has access to the schedules or what type of access they have.
We will be opening up additional 4 offices in other cities within the next 6 months, which will increase the number of rooms we manage to over 200. Will Meeting Room Manager be able to handle all that?
Yes. Meeting Room Manager 7 runs on a Microsoft SQL database to store scheduling data. This allows Meeting Room Manager 7 the ability to not only handle hundreds but even thousands of rooms and resources. You rest assured knowing Meeting Room Manager 7 can grow with your needs.
Related to our user base growth, does Meeting Room Manager provide a way to use our existing Microsoft® Active Directory system so we don’t have to manually manage users in Meeting Room Manager?
Yes. With Meeting Room Manager Enterprise edition, you can take advantage of the Active Directory support to virtually eliminate the user base management in Meeting Room Manager.
Again, related to our offices, specifically in our head office, our administration staff there has a different scheduling process from some of our other offices, how can Meeting Room Manager serve our different needs?
Yes. Using Meeting Room Manager 7's customization tool set, the MRM Architect, you can create unique reservation processes for every one of your locations. You can even choose to have unique reservation processes for different resource types. Meeting Room Manager completely re-defines the term "customization capability."
Can we use Meeting Room Manager for equipment? Our warehouse location needs to schedule loading bays and forklifts, will we be able to accommodate them?
In the same way you can accommodate different location needs, the MRM Architect will allow you to fully meet the needs of your warehouse location. You can even create two different reservation processes for your loading bays and your forklifts if you want.
Will Meeting Room Manager security integrate with my Windows domain security?
Yes, with the security capabilities built into Meeting Room Manager 7, it can be set to use your existing Windows security framework, eliminating the need for duplicate user accounts.
Will my Outlook calendar reflect my meeting schedule in Meeting Room Manager?
Yes, any meeting that you have accepted an invitation to will automatically be added to your Outlook calendar.
When we book our meetings, we typically find our attendees in Microsoft® Outlook®, does Meeting Room Manager integrate with Outlook so I can find a room within Outlook?
Yes. Meeting Room Manager 7's Enterprise edition has Outlook Scheduling, which enables your users to find their meeting attendees and search for and book an available Meeting Room Manager-based room – all from their Outlook interface. And when you change your meeting from Outlook, the change will be updated in Meeting Room Manager.
We need to track our conference and meeting room usage, what kind of reporting does Meeting Room Manager have.
Meeting Room Manager 7 comes with built-in reports, all viewable in the industry-standard Crystal Reports format. You can also connect your Meeting Room Manager 7 scheduling database to any number of leading reporting tools to design and author your own unique reports.
Does Meeting Room Manager have to be installed on a dedicated IIS server, or can I use an existing IIS server instead? Same for the Microsoft SQL database?
You can use any existing IIS server that is available to all Meeting Room Manager users with a few simple changes in the IIS configuration. You can also use an existing Microsoft SQL Server software for Meeting Room Manager, no need to have dedicated server software.
Our IT group is already overwhelmed in trying to support our organization, do you provide an option where Meeting Room Manager is provided as a service over the Internet?
Yes. Meeting Room Manager 7 provides you with the flexibility to either install the software on your in-house server or to go with the On Demand hosted service of Meeting Room Manager. With the On Demand service, you only need your Web browser to have access to a fully featured hosted account of Meeting Room Manager. Learn more about Meeting Room Manager On Demand, click here.
One of the concerns of our management has to do with technology becoming outdated, thus only providing a short term return. Is Meeting Room Manager 7 different?
Meeting Room Manager 7 is built on Microsoft .NET technology, the leading standard in software technology. Your management can feel confident their Meeting Room Manager will provide return over the long term.
