from Dean Evans and Associates, Inc.
In recent years, environmental awareness has become an important topic in business, as it should be. Everywhere you turn these days you see "green products"... "green initiatives"... "green solutions." Sometimes, however, it's the green you don't see that is having a significant impact on the environment.
If your organization considers it a priority to treat the earth gently and you want to know about some of the very tangible ways in which using well-designed facility scheduling software and an interactive online calendar can make a significant difference, there are many:
Smaller, More Efficient Scheduling Staff
Meeting and Event Space Optimization
Having the means to quickly and easily reserve the right rooms with the right amount of setup and teardown time between sessions can make a world of difference in how space is utilized and ultimately allow you to do more with less. Often, organizations that are spending a great deal of money to reserve offsite meeting space or are considering moving to a larger facility because of the perceived lack of space internally, after implementing a facility scheduling system, realize that they have all the room they need.
The (Nearly) Paperless Office
While few scheduling operations can claim to be 100% paperless, there are a number of functions within EMS that can help you achieve near-zero paper consumption. The ability to email reports directly from the system, the availability of online space request forms and integrated event task reminders are just a few.
We're pleased to announce that work is complete on new major releases of EMS Enterprise (5.0), Professional (11.0) and Lite (7.0). Documentation updates and other pre-release processes are in their final stages, after which the products will be rolled out.
Also set to be released is the greatly enhanced and newly renamed EMS Workplace Version 5.0 (formerly EMS Hoteling). This system now has even more functionality for organizations that use a "hoteling" or "hot-desking" strategy to coordinate office space for their mobile workforce.
Some of the powerful new features* you'll find in these releases are:
Expect an email from us announcing availability in the next 3-4 weeks. And looking a little further out, new versions of EMS Campus and EMS Master Calendar are scheduled for release later this year!
*Functionality varies by product. Check out the What's New document for your product in the Customers Only area of our website or talk with your account representative for details.
You've invested in top-of-the-line facility and resource scheduling software. Be sure you get the most out of each new release!
Take advantage of these resources which will be available as the release happens: