Calendar Service - Overview

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Introduction

Oracle Calendar is an online calendar service for faculty and staff at the University of California, Irvine. It is operated and managed by Network & Academic Computing Services for campus units. Oracle Calendar provides a common infrastructure for calendar services available to subscribing departments. Participating users can easily schedule meetings with one another as well as manage calenders on others' behalf, while integrating resources such as conference rooms, front desk or lab staffing, and other elements of the workday schedule.

Oracle Calendar automates calendar management and meeting scheduling, while helping departments to manage and share resources like conference rooms and projectors. Oracle Calendar is well suited to supporting University-wide meeting scheduling. It offers a robust server architecture and desktop client software for the Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Solaris platforms, as well as access via the web and PDA synchronization.

Since the service's launch in November 1999, it has grown into a popular calendaring solution throughout UC Irvine. For a list of departments who use Oracle Calendar for their calendaring needs, please see the organizational map.

Why Use Oracle Calendar?

Oracle Calendar automates calendar management and meeting scheduling, while helping departments share resources like conference rooms and projectors.

There are a number of advantages to using the online calendar and group scheduling software, Oracle Calendar.

• You can access your calendar via a Web browser. Whether you're at a meeting across campus or at a conference in Europe, you can access your calendar wherever you can use a web browser.
• You can access your calendar via a Personal Digital Assistant (PDAs). Many people now use PDAs, such as Palm™ Handhelds and Handheld PCs based on the Microsoft Pocket PC platform.
• You can access other people's calendars and they can access yours. Many of the campus departments use the Oracle Calendar service, making it very convenient to schedule meetings across campus. You can also specify who can access, and have viewing rights to your calendar in order to check your schedule.
• You can notify meeting attendees via e-mail. You can send your invited guests, as well as people not using Oracle Calendar, all the details on that important meeting via e-mail as soon as you schedule the meeting.
• You can access your calendar at any time of day or night, except for during service maintenance. Service maintance is performed every Friday evening between 9:00 PM and 12:00 AM.

Updated: November 26, 2007

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