AgilQuest(r) Releases OnBoard Navigator New release extends functionality to administrators and meeting planners
RICHMOND, Va.—February 2, 2007—AgilQuest Corporation today announced a major release of its OnBoard Workplace Management System. OnBoard version 4.0 includes the new OnBoard Navigator, designed for administrators and meeting coordinators who manage the shared desks and conference rooms in their organizations.
OnBoard is a software platform used by corporate real estate and facilities managers to measure the actual utilization of workspaces. OnBoard helps them determine which spaces can be eliminated, shared, or reconfigured. OnBoard also helps workers reserve workspaces and conference rooms and locate colleagues, and can automatically reroute telephone extensions to workspaces on specific dates or upon check-in.
OnBoard includes a number of interfaces that make operations simple, ubiquitous, and transparent. They include: * The OnBoard Mobile interface, a web-based tool that empowers mobile workers to locate and reserve the resources they need to work whenever and wherever they need to work. * The OnBoard Kiosk for making onsite reservations and check-in, * The OnBoard XRM (extended resource manager) which integrates reservation functionality with Microsoft Outlook(r), * The OnBoard IP Phone Interface which shows room status, and allows interactive reservations and check-in via Cisco IP telephone systems.
The new OnBoard Navigator takes advanced meeting planning and coordination capabilities to the next level. Not only does Navigator integrate seamlessly with all of the other AgilQuest OnBoard applications, it brings an extended suite of functionality to the people who manage multiple conference rooms or administer the shared workspaces in their organization:
* Navigator can display four distinct reservation console views so that the user can choose the view best suited to his or her work.
1. Day View—a calendar/diary like view that let's people view all reservation activity "at a glance" 2. Calendar View—a view designed specifically for people who need to monitor the activity in a large number of rooms 3. List View—a highly configurable spreadsheet like view of activity that allows people to zoom in on just the information they want 4. Floor Plan View—a graphical view of activity based on a schematic of the workplace
* Greatly increased personalization—not only can users store application configurations like color, list content and order, etc. but they can also create lists of people and rooms of special interest to them to speed the reservation process. * Telephony Management console to view and control telephone switch activity across the enterprise
Torrance Houlihan, AgilQuest's airector of Product Management says, "OnBoard 4.0 is our most significant release since the OnBoard Workplace Management System was initially launched. It is our most robust and functional release ever, while also being our easiest to use. OnBoard has always been the best way for people to make and manage their own workplace reservations. With the release of OnBoard 4.0 and the OnBoard Navigator we have extended that functionality to the meeting planner and administrator in an easy to use, yet remarkably powerful application."
With the real-time workplace information provided by OnBoard real estate managers can make better invest/divest decisions, optimize the design of there workplace, and identify their mobile worker population. OnBoard users have documented real estate savings or cost avoidance that range in the tens of millions of dollars.
About AgilQuest Corporation AgilQuest provides systematic business solutions that help organizations maximize the use of their facilities and workspaces while enabling people to work whenever and wherever they need to work. AgilQuest products and services identify the workers who are the most mobile and have the least need for dedicated office space which can then be divested or used for expansion. Corporate management can now make real estate and facility decisions that result in tens of millions of dollars in cost savings while providing a work environment that attracts and retains the best talent. Please visit the AgilQuest web site at www.agilquest.com.
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