The Outlook® Add-in makes the organisation of telephone and web conferences part of the familiar Microsoft Outlook® platform. In just the same way as making a meeting request, telephone and web conferences can now be simply and directly organised using the main Outlook® Calendar. So now booking a conference is just as easy as scheduling an appointment. The new Outlook® Add-in from Lindenbaum will be made available to employees within specific sections of Telekom Deutschland AG as from 2011.

Many of us plan and organise our appointments using Outlook®. Meetings are easily scheduled in Outlook®, with participants receiving their invitation by email. A list of confirmed attendees, location and duration of the meeting are all available at a glance.

Now the same can apply to the organisation of telephone and web conferences, and indeed so much more: using the Outlook® Add-in from Lindenbaum there is no longer any need to leave the familiar Outlook platform, which has now been logically extended. Moreover, the integration of conference management into users’ day-to-day work environment helps strengthen the bond between the customer and the conference service provider.  

“We considered the needs of our customers when developing the Outlook® Add-in,” explains Dr. Ralf Nikolai of Lindenbaum GmbH. “It is our aim to provide solutions that facilitate the use of conferencing and help make the day’s work? more successful.”

There are clear benefits to be gained by using the Outlook® Add-in:

• The ability to book from a familiar work platform, without the need to log in to the web front-end of the conference application.
• Once successfully booked, all conference participants will automatically receive email invitations containing all the relevant access data. The invitation text can be drafted in Outlook.
• Automatic entry of the conference in the Outlook® Calendar. Conference appointments can be edited or cancelled using the schedule window, or rescheduled using drag and drop.
• Comprehensive options such as conference recording or online presentations are also available through Outlook®.
• Outlook® proxy function: e.g. an assistant can book the conference, the emails are sent from the conference manager’s account.

The Conference Outlook® Add-in is compatible with Outlook® 2003 to 2007 on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. The Add-in is designed for use in a number of languages, currently it is available in German and English. Integration within a corporate environment using Single-Sign-On is guaranteed.                

Would you like more information or to test the Conferencing Outlook Add-in from Lindenbaum for yourself?
Please contact us on customer-care@lindenbaum.eu