One of Chicago’s leading business graduate schools has selected NFS’ Rendezvous venue management solution to manage all the centre’s resource management requirements.

Established sixty years ago, Lake Forest has strong ties to the local business community and offers its MBA program from three campuses.  It also offers on-site classes at corporate locations and so required a venue management system that could be installed across its entire site.

Rendezvous is an advanced browser-based venue management system allowing the careful allocation of meeting rooms, food services and other resources.  It can also be fully integrated with Microsoft Outlook which was a key requirement of this leading graduate school.

Greg Kozak, VP, Information Technology said, “Prior to Rendezvous our users had to use a separate system to book rooms even though everyone at Lake Forest uses Microsoft Outlook as standard. As our rooms and resources were managed through another system, many users were not properly booking rooms and this led to terrible problems with scheduling conflicts.”

With Rendezvous, Lake Forest has saved significant time and money in addition to solving its existing problems with the double-booking of rooms.  Users can now book meeting rooms, resources and foodservice using Rendezvous in addition to handling billing using a single system.