eFACiLiTY's Facility Booking or Facility Reservation system helps streamlining of reservation and usage of common and individual facilities  by  businesses  within a facility or building complex. The internet/intranet based web enabled facility booking, approval and billing operations across organizations enhances operations work flow and efficiency. The facility utilization is optimized to a great extent providing costs savings. Meeting rooms, conference halls, desk space, office space auditoriums, high cost equipments, training facilities, car parks etc. can be booked via the system. The system also helps the organizations wanting to implement Hot-desking or desk sharing or work space sharing. The intuitive visual floor plan based booking of facilities makes the system very use friendly to end users and administrators. Visual Booking The visual facility layout designer helps organizations to bring their own facility floor plans and design the layout of the various facilities. This provides the ability and ease for the users to click on the building, click on the level and click on a facility and make a booking. The facility designer is integrated with the system for administrators to create their on facility layouts using AutoCAD floor plans or simple JPG images.

Features
Facilities Directory Quick Booking for simple booking of facilities Detailed Booking for booking multiple facilities across schedules Confirmation, Rejection, Suggestion of alternate facilities Booking Re-confirmation Workflow Re-allocation, Cancellation, Extending / Pre-ending bookings User / User Group wise Facility wise Privileges for booking	Email / SMS notifications on Requests, Approvals and Cancellation Requests for Catering Department for supply of Refreshments PAX / Number of Seats based searches for optimum utilization Utilization Analysis Billing of Reservations & Cancellations Inviting Internal & External Attendees for meetings Scheduling of Refreshments Orders to Catering Pre-registration of Attendees with Visitor Management

Visualization using Floor Plans
	Users can book for facilities by clicking on the floor plans of their buildings
	Occupied and Available facilities displayed using floor plans
	Administrator can construct facility layouts using their AutoCAD Floor Plans
	Macromedia Flash based displays for simple navigation, booking and administration
	Totally customizable for each organizations use
	Colleague Finder to locate colleagues based on their meeting schedules
Microsoft Products Integration
	Display of Calendars of Invitees for finding suitable times for meetings by integrating with MS Exchange Server
	Meeting Requests updated on MS Exchange Calendars using MS Outlook provides acceptance / cancellation workflow and meeting reminders
	Microsoft Active Directory integration (optional) for user login, privilege control, invitees selection
	Active Directory based Windows Integrated Authentication (optional) for "Single Sign-On" authentication and logins

Benefits
	Facility Booking - Anywhere (Global Access), Anytime (24 hours)
	Self Service and better utilization of available facilities
	Centralized booking avoiding overlaps
	Floor Plan based visual booking enables absolute ease of booking
	Meeting Request Work flow integration helps better planning for all
	Reminders using MS Outlook helps meetings to happen on-time
	Integration with the Visitor Management System provides automatic registration of visitors
	Catering requests made while booking eliminating the need for separate requests
	Key Process Indicators & Custom Reports - development engines enables easy analysis and control