I currently use a piece of crap called Resource Scheduler. I could practically wax poetic about how bad it is, and I will if someone asks, but suffice it to say I am tasked to look for a new product. Here’s the rough criteria:
- It need to be web-based and accessible to asnyone on our network intranet to view a schedule or book a room.
- It needs to book rooms and other meeting resources like data projectors, laptop computers and so forth, at several locations with different administrators and meeting "approvers’ in each location.
- It needs to have a catering component for food orders from our kitchen.
- It needs a pretty flexible query section to generate management data, things like hours booked per quarter, attendance numbers, etc.
The surprising thing the would NOT be a requirement is a billing function, as these rooms are used almost exclusively for inhouse customers and don’t involve charges.
If it matters, the meeting rooms in our hospital book 12-15k meetings a year.