Office space is becoming more and more precious. Going by the increase in rentals around the world in commercial business and industrial districts, it is clear that there is growing demand for office spaces. Increase in rentals, electricity usage and general cost of maintaining office spaces, it is becoming imperative to maximize the usage of the space that is already available. Today management is taking a hard look at their space investments and asking increasingly complex questions on how to ...

Most large scale organizations use Microsoft Exchange for their business communication.  Microsoft Exchange is the de-facto standard for large organizations or even organizations that are running from the cloud.  Whether it is sending emails,  chatting with staff or looking up contacts,  Exchange is a powerful tool and essential for work.  One of the most commonly used feature that Exchange offers is the ability to book meeting rooms through Outlook. Its power comes f...

Setting up and attending meetings is a common activity in most organisations. With the rise in collaborations due to geographically separated offices, work-from-home policies and frequent agile team gatherings, meeting management and room utilisation is critical to the successful collaboration and communication between team members. While the number of meetings are increasing, their management is becoming and more and more complicated and confusing. A lot of frustration results from not being...

Today's business world is one of dynamism and collaboration. With offices and people spread out geographically and across tinezones,  work is usually carried out in meeting rooms with technologies such as video conferencing and shared screens.  However,  today,  we still find businesses that do not efficiently use meeting room spaces.  In most businesses, room usage is non existent.  The staff graple with problems such as: Using a shared google calendar...

Jhonathan, a project manager at a IT services company wants to meet up with some of his team to discuss the final draft of the tender submission for a project. He rises from his table and scans the meeting rooms. Some of them seem to have their lights on, indicating that someone is using it while a few are dark. He launches his outlook calendar and looks up the rooms that are dark. To his disappoint he finds that the dark rooms apparently have meetings going on in them. Another quick scan still ...

Since the early ages, libraries have been the place where people come together to read, learn and grow. Libraries were considered the institutions for building communities and an essential component for social cohesion. If you walked into any library twenty years ago, all you would see is aisle after aisle of books and long wooden benches where people pull up a chair to sit and read in quite comfort. Discussions were not allowed and even a whisper was frowned upon by the librarian...

In this article, we explore how a simple room booking system can have a direct impact on your building energy efficiency.

We have all experienced the situation where we have had to reserve a room for an important meeting with a partner only to find that it is being occupied by a previous meeting that was extended. If you are a facility manager or a receptionist, managing these rooms, you would have also experienced inconsiderate users who fail to switch off the lights and air-conditioners and leave the projector on while rushing off for another meeting. All these small teething issues leads to t...