Software Selection for Schedule Management

This presentation discusses the selection of three software for schedule management based on cost, reliability, and efficiency. The software options include Acuity Scheduling, Wrike, and Findmyshift.

SCHEDULESCHEDULE
MANAGEMENTMANAGEMENT

AIM OF INVESTIGATIONAIM OF INVESTIGATION
 The main aim of investigation is to find out three most accurate and significant
software of scheduling management at work out of 5.
 This report will be discussing various kinds of software related to Scheduling
management like that of Acuity Scheduling, Wrike, Findmyshift, Upkeep and
SimplyBook.me.
 Further selection of 3 most suitable software will be done based on their cost,
reliability, efficiency and desirability.
 Then identification of criteria for evaluation will be performed so that weightage to all
criteria could be given with justifying them as well.

INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION
 Schedule management is that process which is meant to communicate, develop and
maintain all procedures that are related to time and resources.
 So in this assignment, we will focus on 3 main software of schedule management
including weighting criteria and justification of each of them.
 In order to make work easier and assessing clients with payments, reminders and
booking these schedule management software is required to be implemented within
organisations.

SIGNIFICANCESIGNIFICANCE
 This investigation will be significant in order to identify which type of software will be
best suited after evaluating all its features, cost, budget, specification, advantages and
demerits of other software as well.
 Most importantly they need to consider the project initiation or implementation cost
with the effective communication system.
 So this cost could rise at any point of time making it difficult for company as they will
be having limited resources to be applied for project.
 These are some of the some limitations which will be highlighting significance of
scheduling management that are required to be applied within projects.

LIST OF AVAILABLE SOFTWARELIST OF AVAILABLE SOFTWARE
 Software would be making work and activities of company easier with the cost of
implementation could be sometimes higher than others.
 Scheduling is that part of project management which enable listing up of deliverables
and milestones of including initiation and end dates as well.

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Acuity Scheduling
Acuity scheduling is mainly used as the
personal assistant for scheduling works for
better appointments with clients and customers
as well.
This will be saving most of the time and cost
for company and thus giving them chance to
pay in more easy and fast manner.

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Wrike
This software will schedule and manage
multiple work or projects of professionals
so they could bring their work from
messenger and emails to Wrike.
This will be organising all working of
professional and then brining up their
timetable on task list which is visualising
complete day plan and on Kanban boards
as well.

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Findmyshift
Findmyshift is one of the best scheduling software
that will be used by any professional or business.
There are many basic features that are making this
software to stand differently from others like that of
shift reminder, text messaging and reports with first
month free trials.
The cost of this software is slightly higher than
others which are around $35 per month while it
would not be having any sort of training.

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Upkeep
This will be maintaining asset
management solution for the whole team
which is a modern type of software to be
used.
Upkeep is mainly used by
manufacturing, hotel, oil and gas,
distribution, restaurants, education,
churches, food processing and packaging,
construction, facilities management,
warehousing, municipalities and fleet

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 This software is very much popular among those industries
which are having multiple maintenance from tablets and
desktop of clients and team of company.
 All updates will be notified timely as work is been created or
changed so that business is running effectively.
 The starting price for this software will be about $25 per
month based on user and if bill is given annually then price
will be $29.

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SimplyBook.me
It is offering extensive but rather simple online
booking systems which are working for all the
companies.
All type of companies and services could be using
Simplybook.me like that of education, event
management, hair salons, private trainers, Gyms,
consultants and financial advisors as well.
Under this clients could synchronise all their
appointments, calendars, membership and sell
products as well.

SOFTWARE SELECTIONSOFTWARE SELECTION
 After listing all the 5 available software for the task this part will
be selecting 3 software based on their cost, reliability and
efficiency from all the above.
 So for this schedule software Wrike, Acuity scheduling and
Findmyshift will be used and evaluated from the rest software
available.
 All these software are very accurate, important and cost effective
for schedule management in this order these are chosen.

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