Meeting rooms are among your most important assets, and since real estate comes with an exorbitant price tag, it’s important to know how your workspace is being used. Evaluating and maximizing meeting room utilization is crucial to improving your company’s operational effectiveness and lowering real estate costs. The key to utilizing workspace as optimally as possible lies in scheduling it in an efficient manner. Room scheduling software is a simple yet powerful tool that streamlines the booking process, eliminates its complexity, and saves you time. There’s more to resource booking than just meeting rooms, however. There are many resources that may be available to book in an organization, such as the following: • Hot desks• Catering and other extra services • Bicycles• Cars• Audio/visual equipment• Parking spots •

One of Denmark’s largest universities, the University of Southern Denmark has more than 19,000 students and nearly 4,000 staff members. The university holds many internal meetings that take place across 55 meeting facilities, so they needed a way to streamline the meeting planning process. It took university staff a considerable amount of time to schedule a single meeting because they had to locate a suitable room and arrange for the proper equipment, tables, and services to be delivered in time for the meeting. In order to significantly cut down on the time spent planning meetings, the University of Southern Denmark decided to implement a resource booking solution. They decided on Resource Central by Add-On Products, a resource booking system that integrates with Microsoft Outlook^®. Resource Central was a

Meetings are an inevitable part of doing business. They are time-consuming, but scheduling them shouldn’t have to be. At the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia Inc. (CCI WA), arranging meetings was troublesome prior to the implementation of Resource Central, Add-On Products’ meeting room and resource booking software for Microsoft Outlook^® and Exchange. CCI WA is a member-based, non-profit organization with approximately 300 staff members located across Western Australia and the Northern Territory. 220 of those staff members work at CCI WA’s head office in East Perth. Before adopting Resource Central, CCI WA staff used a spreadsheet to arrange meetings and resources and the file frequently got corrupted. Employees spent far too much time going back and forth to set up meetings and it was tedious,

You can use Add-On Products’ resource booking software Resource Central to book virtually any resource imaginable and our customer case studies attest to that. Yet when most people think of resource booking software, they don’t realize how powerful and impactful it can be. The Municipality of Fredensborg in Denmark is an example of an organization using resource booking software for the greater good, all while achieving cost savings. Fredensborg has adapted Resource Central to their needs, using it to support their transition to ecologically friendly transportation. In alignment with the goal of the Danish Commission on Climate Change Policy and the Danish government to become independent of fossil fuels by 2050, the Fredensborg town council adopted a Climate and Energy Strategy in 2011. The strategy aims to put

Business meetings are connected to productivity and success, but you can only get so far on an empty stomach. It’s important to provide meeting attendees with high-quality catering in order to keep meetings running smoothly and optimally. Utilizing corporate catering services allows you to continue meetings without the fuss of going to a restaurant or cafeteria. However, booking catering for a meeting can be a time-consuming hassle without the right tools at your disposal. Levels of business productivity and efficiency are closely related to organizational skills. By investing in resource booking software, you can dramatically enhance organization by relying on built-in software procedures to get the job done. Imagine being able to book an important meeting and simultaneously add all of the extra services you need, including catering.