Transform Actionable Online Calendars into Meaningful Information

By Nancy Nafziger

An online actionable calendar has the greatest chance of success when a calendar-publishing tool can be configured to create any type of customized calendar.

There are many examples of customized calendars that can be created with a calendar-publishing tool such as Kinetic Calendar, from IT help desk calendars to consumer testing schedules. 

Kinetic Calendar lets you easily create, manage and view BMC Remedy data in a calendar format for virtually any purpose.  Actionable online calendars enable effective communication of changes and other events across functional groups within an organization.

Kinetic Calendar is built for multiple uses. Common examples include: Release Management, Outage Calendars, On-call Support Scheduling, Training Scheduling, ITIL Process Reviews, SLA Monitoring, Vacation, and Facility Resource Management.

Thinking outside the box, here are four more compelling calendar-publishing tool applications:

• Visibility into IT governance related activities. With a calendar-publishing tool, you can visually display critical compliance information and provide easy 24/7 access to it for all users. An actionable calendar will display a complete and accurate view of compliance information. You can also display compliance events in a daily, weekly or monthly calendar format. To learn more check out the Kinetic Calendar Video—Visibility Into Governance Activity.
•  Visibility into location-based changes. Today’s large organizations often have multiple locations and they need to display location-based activities or events during a certain period of time on a calendar format. For an overview of how to use Kinetic Calendar to provide location-based change information check out the video—Location-Based Changes.
• Visibility into Asset Management information. A calendar-publishing tool can provide visibility of BMC Remedy asset information in a calendar format. For quick tour of how to get visibility and control of production go live management, support contract management and warranty management, check out the video—Managing your Assets.
• Visibility into Change Management. Actionable calendars enable better control over change management processes by providing users a way to configure any BMC Remedy data information to display in a change calendar format. Calendars can be published online for any number of user groups and tailored to meet their specific visibility needs into the change management process. To learn more check out the white paper—Better Visibility into Change Management.

In most organizations, it is imperative to have visibility to critical time-based information in an online calendar format. However, this doesn’t mean that all organizations have exactly the same needs. Think about your own applications for online calendars. How can you transform actionable online calendars into meaningful information for your organization?