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Solutions for developers and system integrators
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• Are you looking to develop scheduling functionality?
• Is absolute scheduling accuracy critical for your business?
• Are daylight saving changes hurting your bottom line?
Scheduling is one of the most fundamental business activities and is present
in many of the organization’s critical systems and business processes. Despite its
importance, most scheduling applications available today have limited support for
Daylight Saving Time (DST) changes and require constant adjustments and patches
to keep up with the changes. Furthermore, calendars, an integral part of most scheduling
applications are always based on 24 hr days while in fact a day when daylight saving
starts is a 23 hr day and day when daylight saving ends is a 25 hr day! This lack
of inherent support for daylight saving changes can result in wrong time translations,
scheduling errors and damage to your bottom line.
ScheduleOnce provides enterprise-grade scheduling solutions that are inherently
designed to support Daylight Saving Time changes. This means that our calendar grid is
not a static 24 hr display, but one that adjusts dynamically to any Daylight Saving Time
event. Any scheduling activity, whether a time conversion, calendar sharing,
or publishing of availability is automatically adjusted for Daylight Saving Time changes
in more than 300 geopolitical regions worldwide. We have built our own time zone
and Daylight Saving Time database with a country-based taxonomy for maximum usability,
and we constantly keep this database updated with any DST change. ScheduleOnce is
also the owner of a pending patent for absolutely accurate calendar sharing over
multiple geopolitical regions.
In addition to their accuracy and inherent support for Daylight Saving Time changes, ScheduleOnce
solutions were designed for usability, scalability and performance and built
on the ASP .NET platform with the latest Web 2.0 technologies.
If you need to develop scheduling functionality for your enterprise or for your
clients, ScheduleOnce can cut your development costs and speed your time to market.
We support a variety of licensing methods that range from object code to royalty
or royalty-free source code licenses. In addition, ScheduleOnce provides ongoing
support and services that ensure the success of our customers.
ScheduleOnce components are available to address the following needs:
1. Time zone and DST database
Our time zone and Daylight Saving Time database supports more than 300 locations worldwide and is built with a country-based taxonomy for maximum accuracy and end user usability. ScheduleOnce offers an annual subscription to its time zone database. We constantly keep our database up to date on any DST changes and provide you with these updates throughout the term of your subscription.
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2a. Discrete time conversion engine
Converts a selected date and time to every time zone, taking into account the hour differences and Daylight Saving Time changes in every region.
Includes:
1. Master time zone selector
2. Slave time zones selector
3. Date selector
4. Hour display selector
5. Specific hour selector
6. Converted times in all time zones in text format
7. Conversion engine and DST database
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2b. Continuous time conversion engine
Converts large blocks of time (specific hours over several days) to every time zone, taking into account: hour differences between the time zones, DST status (in effect or not) and skipped and repeated hours caused by DST start and end. The conversion is done from a master timeframe to a slave timeframe, making sure each hour in the slave timeframe corresponds an hour in the master timeframe. This conversion engine is patent-pending.
Includes:
1. Timeframe selector (days and hours)
2. Master time zone selector
3. Slave time zones selector
4. Weekly view and navigation to different weeks
5. Conversion engine and DST database
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Event scheduling
Includes of a page for initiating the meeting, a page for providing replies and a page for evaluating replies.
3a. Time suggestions by a master calendar
One user (master) suggests alternative times for a meeting. The other users (slave) can rate each time (as “preferred”, “good” or “not good”). The ratings are then summed up in a table to provide an easy evaluation of the best meeting time.
Includes:
1. Timeframe selector (days and hours)
2. Specific hours selector (start hour and duration)
3. Master time zone selector
4. Slave time zones selector
5. Weekly view and navigation to different weeks
6. Selection ratings (Preferred\Good\Not good)
7. Ratings summary
8. Selected time in all time zones in text format
9. Conversion engine and DST database
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Event scheduling
Includes of a page for initiating the meeting, a page for providing replies and a page for evaluating replies.
3b. Time suggestions by a slave calendar
One user (master) defines a timeframe for a meeting (days and hour range). The other users (slave) can suggest times for the meeting. The suggested times are then summed up in a free\busy interface to provide an easy evaluation of the best meeting time.
Includes:
1. Specific hours selector (start hour and duration)
2. Master time zone selector
3. Slave time zones selector
4. Daily and weekly view and navigation to different days\weeks
5. Free\busy interface summery
6. Specific hour selector
7. Selected time in all time zones in text format
8. Conversion engine and DST database
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Event scheduling
Includes of a page for initiating the meeting, a page for providing replies and a page for evaluating replies.
3c. A combination of both methods described above
Suggestions by master and slave calendars
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4. Absolutely accurate calendar sharing across time zones
Converts a master calendar view to a slave calendar view where each hour in the slave calendar view corresponds to an hour in the master calendar view, regardless of any time zone and daylight saving changes in the master or slave regions.
Includes:
1. Master time zone selector
2. Slave time zones selector
3. Timeframe selector (days and hours)
4. Specific hours selector (start hour and duration)
5. Weekly view and navigation to different weeks
6. Conversion engine and DST database
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