Oracle Calendar 10g is powerful time management built for today's enterprise. Combining advanced group and resource scheduling functionality with a wide range of access methods, Oracle Calendar delivers up-to-date calendar information - anytime, anywhere, and on any platform you need it. An extensible platform based on a centralized real-time architecture, Oracle Calendar 10g provides the ability to connect time and location-based information across Oracle Collaboration Suite and other enterprise applications to optimize business processes throughout your organization. Advanced Group and Resource Scheduling Streamline business processes with Oracle Calendar’s advanced group and resource scheduling features:
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Use the calendar’s intuitive interface to view one or more persons' agendas at a glance, choose a meeting time and perform automated conflict checking, easing the process of booking meetings and avoiding scheduling conflicts.
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Maximize the use of shared resources such as meeting rooms by conducting searches based on geographic location or seating capacity, or you can even integrate resources with your workflow system, enabling administrators to reject or approve access to highly valued equipment.
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Create, modify and delete complex meetings quickly and efficiently, by using pre-defined groups, recurrence rules, and support for multiple time zones. Or let Oracle Calendar do it all for you with automated suggestions for meeting times based on invitee and resource availability.
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Real-Time Accuracy Work smarter with Oracle Calendar’s ability to connect you directly to the calendar server to access up-to-the-minute user and resource information. Unlike Microsoft Exchange’s® message-based time management system, with Oracle Calendar there are no lags, no message queues and no data replication; the data you receive is always current and completely accurate.
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Access for Everyone Oracle Calendar provides a full range of client access methods to serve the most diverse workforce, from the integrated Oracle Connector for Outlook, to the rich feature set of the desktop clients (for Windows, Mac and Linux), and the anywhere convenience of the web client. In fact, flexibility and choice are what Oracle Calendar is all about, because everyone has different ways of managing their time.
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Time Management Fit for a Suite Oracle Calendar is integrated with the rest of Oracle Collaboration Suite to optimize business processes for increased productivity. Oracle Mail offers a user-friendly, web application for managing mail as well as a view into your Calendar. The TimeBar view provides users access to calendar appointments and reminders, with direct access to the Oracle Calendar Web client for creating and editing meetings. Oracle Real-time Collaboration. Oracle web conferences can be easily set up and accessed through Oracle Calendar and instant messages can be launched via your Calendar. Embed Time Management into your business processes
As enterprises look for ways to integrate calendaring data directly within their existing corporate portals or build custom applications, Oracle Calendar’s standards-based developer tools include a Web Services Toolkit that provides XML and SOAP based mechanisms to allow access and the transfer of calendaring data to other applications, and the Calendar SDK uses the iCalendar standard for data representation to facilitate data interchange.