Leading Management Centres Implement Rendezvous For Room, Training & Resource Scheduling

June 22, 2009 - PRLog -- NFS Hospitality, the leaders in hospitality software solutions have provided their Rendezvous solution for many leading management centres and schools including prestigious organisations such as Cranfield University, Said Business School, ifs School of Finance and Lake Forest School of Management.

Cranfield University is one of the country’s leading destinations for dedicated Masters & Doctorate study with an enviable reputation for study in aerospace, automotive and motorsport, defence, engineering, health, management, manufacturing, environment and water.

Cranfield Business Centre recently identified a need to improve the management of their large number of training & meeting rooms, streamline inventory control and have the ability to email booking details across the campus to departments which have requested use of the facilities.

In answer to their needs, the industry renowned Rendezvous meetings management solution is now helping them with the management of their meeting room requests making the process seamless and more professional when booking their rooms and facilities. Rendezvous is also providing them with the ability to be able to send confirmations across campus to departments and makes double-booking of equipment a thing of the past. Effectively, they have moved to a self-service model of booking with the ability to book training and other events on a 24/7 basis.

Demonstrating that their forward thinking hospitality software solutions are cutting-edge, NFS Hospitality are hailing their latest project with The ifs School of Finance as a huge success. NFS are providing their innovative Rendezvous package to the school to aid them in their quest for automated notifications to be sent out by their booking system in relation to meeting changes and the improvement of quality management information - two aspects the school felt were lacking when carried out by their previous system.

Paving the way in meeting room management and event management software, the team at NFS Hospitality set up the Rendezvous package to provide easy to use diary views of all bookings, as well as activity taking place within the facility. Ideal for a major educational event where some types of external booking are not possible on the day required, the daily, weekly and monthly views of availability and bookings by booking status are now invaluable to the booking team.

The ifs School Of Finance is a registered charity incorporated by Royal Charter, providing financial education to financial services professionals and formal qualifications from GCSE level through to undergraduate degree level. They also provide a range of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) services through membership, and executive education through master classes, seminars and prestige lectures.

Established in 1996, Oxford University’s Saïd Business School is one of Europe’s youngest and most entrepreneurial business schools, with a reputation for innovative business education. The School combines the highest standards of academic rigour with a practical understanding of business and wealth creation.

The Saïd Business School required an effective and efficient IT solution to run a centralised room booking system; allowing the online booking of rooms and resources for all members of staff, plus the accurate management and implementation of requests for resources. Rendezvous more than met their requirements and has revolutionised their booking process with it’s easy-to-use browser-based user interface. The booking of training rooms, educational courses, events and conferences is now effortless.

In addition, users can assign information pertaining to room set-ups, define changes such as room hire, or assign user definable extras such as tea, coffee, other catering items, resources such as flipcharts, OHPs, data projectors etc at particular times. The additional benefit is that all items can be configured with cost prices allowing for chargeback information to be gathered. Therefore, all revenue relating to an event is captured and maximised.

Seeking to increase efficiency, the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management has selected Rendezvous from NFS to book its rooms and other resources. Lake Forest is a leading business graduate school in the Chicago area. Established 60 years ago with strong ties to the business community, its MBA program now operates from three campuses and also offers on-site classes at corporate locations.

Greg Kozak, VP in Information Technology, said, “Prior to Rendezvous our users had to use a separate system to book rooms, though all our users ‘live in Outlook’. As our rooms and resources were in another system, many users were not properly booking rooms and we had many scheduling conflicts.”

NFS provide the total solution for management centres including accommodation management, food and beverage and implementation services. All our solutions are backed by a 24/7 helpdesk facility. For more information on any of the hospitality software available from NFS Hospitality, please visit their website at http://www.nfs-hospitality.com.

About NFS Hospitality: NFS Hospitality Corporation is an international software provider committed to the highest quality level of product, service and response. The company was established in 1993 and has been expanding rapidly, leading the industry in terms of integrated solutions and business consultancy. They have offices in the UK, Ireland, USA and South Africa as well as business partners in the Middle East and Far East.

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