Calendaring and Scheduling means many things to many people. To some, it can be a simple list that an individual maintains for managing day-to-day events. To others, it may mean the ability to schedule resources such as conference rooms, overhead projectors or even project teams. To yet another audience, it implies a system that enables users to easily schedule meetings between multiple people or teams.

Department Calendar offers a unified solution that links Notes personal calendaring together with group calendaring. This enables the effective coordination of meetings, synchronization of work schedules and tracking of other appointments and commitments. All IBM Lotus Notes/Domino e-mail users will now have access to a common calendar onto which they can directly share calendaring information among selected participants.

How can I use Department Calendar:

Scenario		Supporting Feature
"Easily view your team's schedules in one centralized calendar"		Side By Side Group Calendaring
"Schedule and track your executive team's activities"		Direct Calendar Entry
"Schedule and track appointments for your remote service technicians"		Direct Calendar Entry
"Schedule and track your executive team's travel plans"		Itinerary Scheduling & Reporting
"See a graphical view of your team's activities"		Gantt Chart View
"Quickly view a specific individual's activities on a group calendar"		Color Coding Options
"Quickly find who is available for a meeting or appointment that you are scheduling"		Who's Free
"Keep your team informed about upcoming events and deadlines"		Department Events
"Quickly see where your colleagues are during the day (who is in the office, on vacation, out sick, etc)"		DC Sign In/Out
"View calendars that contain activities pertaining to a specific topic, region, category"		Categorized Calendars
"Have a group calendar that contains only specified calendar entries from your team"		Restrict Categories
"Print monthly calendars for specific individuals or activities"		Printing Options
"Comprehensive time off request process providing accrual rules, tabulation of eligible time off and time off taken , reporting tools, graphs, etc."		DC Time Off (Enhanced)
"Simple time off request process with workflow approval, tabulates time off taken"		DC Time Off (Basic)
"Consolidate time off schedules from multiple DC Time off databases into one database so that Management/ HR teams can view all employee’s Time off data in one place"		DC Master Time Off
"View and schedule activities through an interactive Java based graphical view of your group calendar information"		DC Viewer
"Receive robust, flexible and reliable reminders on your cell phone, email, or pager so that meetings will not be missed, deadlines forgotten or tasks overlooked"		DC Alerts
"Generate "hierarchical" calendars that consolidate schedules from different Department Calendars, thus allowing your team calendars to be “rolled up” into a department-wide calendar"		DC Global Calendar