FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 16, 2001
Accenture's Chicago Office Goes Online With Hoteling
Chicago office of Accenture implements EMS Hoteling to manage mobile
workforce, multiple sites and workspaces
DENVER -- Dean Evans & Associates' (www.dea.com)
EMS Hoteling software has been implemented at Accenture's largest metro
office in Chicago, Ill. An extension of the EMS family of event management
and scheduling software, EMS Hoteling was developed to help companies
reduce costs and track mobile employees. It efficiently schedules people,
space and resources in a complex corporate environment.
"Accenture has more than 70,000
employees and approximately 70% of them are part of the mobile
workforce," said Shawn Rabin, Americas Deployment Team Manager for
Accenture. "We can use less space to accommodate the same number of
employees, reducing real estate costs."
EMS Hoteling is a combination of DEA's
client-server application EMS Enterprise, its Web-based application
Virtual EMS Enterprise and specialized Kiosk software. It allows companies
to "office" more people in less space, increasing utilization
and providing mobile employees with all the comforts and technology of a
permanent workspace.
EMS Hoteling works by allowing employees to
make a "reservation" for temporary workspace. Accenture
employees anywhere in the world can now request space in the Chicago metro
offices. Bookings are done by phone, via an internal electronic form, and
soon through the Internet. Reservations can be made for workspace meeting
rooms, conference rooms, catering, audio visual equipment and storage.
"The concept of hoteling is catching
on because it saves time and money," said Kevin Raasch, executive
vice president of Dean Evans & Associates. "Our software makes
hoteling easy and reliable for Accenture's mobile workforce. Employees can
make reservations via the network, check-in at a kiosk when they arrive at
work and have everything set and ready to go for the day."
About Dean Evans & Associates
Founded in 1986 and based in Denver, Colo.,
Dean Evans & Associates develops, markets and supports a line of
sophisticated software products for facility scheduling, event management
and now, hoteling. Their Event Management System (EMS) family of products
is ideal for scheduling and managing rooms, services and resources for a
wide variety of organizations and corporations. Dean Evans &
Associates offers an EMS solution for virtually any facility or
organization that needs help to schedule, manage and streamline special
events and operations for greater efficiency. Users include corporations,
conference and convention centers, cultural venues, sports facilities,
schools and universities, and churches.