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4. FreeTime strengths
Automated scheduling of meetings is a big advantage over manual finding and assigning time. It is much easier; it saves a lot of time, and it allows more collaboration from all the participants. This automated scheduling becomes possible because of a powerful computational engine called the LEDAS Scheduler. The Scheduler is a core technology capable of solving all kinds of scheduling tasks using state-of-the art algorithms packaged into a flexible infrastructure, which allows integration into a broad class of applications.
Therefore, one of the major strengths of FreeTime is its computational power provided by LEDAS Scheduler: FreeTime is capable of high performance when finding non-contradictory schedules for hundreds of events with hundreds of participants. FreeTime processing of inputted data is always preserving "naturality" of the resulting schedule - namely for each next meeting it tries to find a schedule to affect as few already scheduled events as possible and simultaneously to respect as many constraints defined for the new event as possible.
Another important thing about FreeTime is its mobility. Since all the scheduling is done by the server, each client interface remains very lightweight and simple, keeping it powerful enough to comfortably define events and view personal agendas. Therefore, FreeTime clients for PDAs and even mobile phones with direct access to the scheduling server are available providing scheduling right at your fingertips.
Each client, be it for mobile phone, PDA, or web, provides all means to create new events, receive and provide feedback for invitations and notifications of events, scheduled by others and standard views for personal agendas.
LEDAS is planning to perform integration of FreeTime with Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes as well as to build interaction between PDA client and Palm OS built-in organizer. There are also similar plans regarding the built-in organizers for mobile phones.
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