Conferon Rolls Out New Meeting Consolidation Solution By Marian Calvin, Director of Marketing Do you know exactly how many meetings your organization had last year? How much they cost? Where they were held? If you answered no to any of these questions we have a solution for you: Conferon’s MMS. Conferon MMS is a web-based solution that gives meeting managers the ability to track planning activity company-wide while capturing total meeting expenses in one central database. Powered via a strategic alliance with PlanSoft®, Conferon MMS™ is customized specifically for an organization’s meeting planning environment. This is a powerful tool kit that will give a meeting planner—of any skill level—a technological and outsourcing advantage. The program is designed to help reveal efficiencies and cost saving opportunities while facilitating flawlessly prepared meetings of any size, small, medium or large. Conferon MMS puts the full menu of Conferon's services at a planner’s fingertips with a direct link to Conferon experts. MMS allows you to: Research facilities and suppliers Create online Requests for Proposals (RFP) Consolidate and track "history" and budget data Negotiate preferred rates through tracking vendor expenditures Stay connected to industry professionals through discussion forums and personalized e-mail accounts Support preferred vendor relationships Manage event schedules The advantages to a CFO are as valuable as the advantages to a planner. While planners benefit from the efficiency and time saving of an automated process, CFOs and Purchasing Managers benefit by tracking all meeting costs through a centralized database. Because MMS is web-accessed, the program can be used in every office with centralized monitoring and control over costs and productivity. Security features give the MMS administrator the ability to add or delete users, restrict user access, modify links and corporate information, and recognize preferred suppliers. MMS’ reporting capabilities plus its budget analysis tools provide the big picture controllers need. MMS also helps encourage universal usage with customized pages that look similar to a page from the client’s own web site or corporate Intranet. The utilization of the software is made possible by a strategic alliance with the PlanSoft Corporation, the leading Internet-based, business-to-business solutions provider for the professional meeting planner. The unique nature of this alliance is that for the first time ever, a web-based meeting consolidation tool set is being combined with professional planning resources and expertise. Conferon MMS provides the perfect combination of speed, accuracy and consolidated savings of a web-based solution and the friendly, professional consultation you have come to expect from Conferon.