Meeting maker millennium 8.5: Meeting Maker.

www.meetingmaker.com Software, $95 and up per user, plus server and maintenance fees

This tool provides collaborative personal and group scheduling capabilities for school districts. Before scheduling meetings with individuals or groups, users can view the available times of their colleagues, and then reserve needed resources. The software's add-on modules for connectivity with Microsoft Outlook helps users collaborate with others and better manage their calendars. Enhanced lightweight directory access protocol integration provides schools with central user authentication capabilities for simplified user account management and security. Other features include the ability for users to access their calendar from almost anywhere by using a standard Web browser, while the Intellisync module provides the capability to synch calendars to a variety of devices, including Blackberrys, Treos, Palms and pocket PCs. This release can run on Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris platforms.

WebEvent View 2.0, a Web-based event calendar management solution designed to help school districts cut costs and increase revenues, is also new. It integrates event calendaring and scheduling into one enterprise-wide system, enabling educators to communicate public event information to external audiences via a Web site. License fees starts at $18,750 for up to 1,000 users.

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