FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 16, 2002
Dean Evans & Associates Announces New Version of Resource Scheduling and Calendaring
Software
EMS Professional 8.0 enhances collaborative features for higher education and corporate
workplaces
DENVER -- Dean Evans & Associates (www.dea.com)
has announced the release of EMS Professional 8.0 – the industry-standard room scheduling
and event management software designed for higher education, corporate and organizational
resource scheduling and calendaring. The latest version of EMS Professional offers
time saving tools to streamline the process of reservations, and improve communication
and collaboration between departments and customers.
“Professional 8.0 takes the scheduling complexities of today’s meeting-filled work
environment and puts them behind the scenes,” said Kevin Raasch, executive vice
president of Dean Evans & Associates. “We use powerful wizards, tools and visual
display features plus Web-based capabilities to improve scheduling, reduce process
latency and save organizations time and money.”
EMS Professional 8.0 tracks everything from initial contact with the customer to
final settlement of the bill, including the management of all event-related services
and resources. It comes with a complete set of clear, concise reports, including
confirmations, schedules, calendars, worksheets, invoices and managerial reports.
With the complex, detailed scheduling requirements in higher education and corporations,
these EMS reports help keep all staff on the same page and coordinate resources
that have to come together such as catering, AV, security and set-up requirements.
The optional Web-based module, Virtual EMS Professional, allows browser-based display
and real-time management of scheduled events with additional features for checking
space availability and allowing authorized users to make reservation requests through
a secured online request engine.
“Email and a fancy calendar just doesn’t cut it anymore,” said Raasch. “Today’s
customer is looking for scheduling solutions that improve workflow, work performance,
and provide high levels of service for employees and customers. EMS offers all of
that plus an outstanding reputation for customer service and the reliability of
a company that’s been in the industry for more than 15 years.”
EMS Professional 8.0 features include:
- Drag-and-Drop Reservation Book – for quick and easy
changes or making new reservations.
- *Redesigned Web Interface – features greater search
capabilities; information can be displayed in calendar-style format with the option
of showing events by the week or month.
- Enhanced Reservation Tools – includes the ability
to search for a specific room’s availability across any conceivable pattern of dates.
- *vCalendar Interface – the Virtual EMS Professional
module now supports the vCalendar standard for the quick and easy exchange of calendaring
and scheduling information between EMS and a personal calendar system such as Microsoft
Outlook.
- Detailed Conflict Information – the Reservation Wizard
can now display detailed conflict information when rooms aren't available because
of existing events.
- *Customizable Online Request Form – create and format
your own Web Questions to collect detailed reservation information.
Additional features such as Enhanced Email, New Administrative Utilities, Personal
Web Accounts, Import Logo for Confirmations and Invoices and New Pricing Tools are
available on the Dean Evans & Associates Web site at
www.dea.com/Pro/ProNew.aspx.
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 office hoteling. Their Event Management Systems (EMS) family
of software products is ideal for scheduling and managing events, rooms, services
and resources for a wide variety of educational institutions, associations, organizations
and corporations. Thousands of organizations and companies, including four of the
six largest U.S. banks and more than a dozen Fortune 100 companies, rely on EMS
software. Other users include conference and convention centers, cultural venues,
sports facilities, schools and universities, and churches. Online demonstrations
of the software are available at www.dea.com, or
call 1-800-440-3994 and ask to speak with Kevin Raasch. Screen shots of EMS Professional
are available at www.dea.com/Pro/Pro.aspx.