Can there be a tool that lets you know how many meetings you attend in any given period of time and how much time you spend in them? Will it be able to tell you if you have been spending the right amount of time for the right things?
To tell you honestly, there is a tool that does just that.
Calendar Analytics, is a free add-on application to Microsoft Office which has recently been released by Microsoft. The tool analyzes the contents of a user’s Microsoft Exchange or Outlook calendar by aggregating the meeting data that resides in the user’s Microsoft Exchange Schedule. Presented on a dashboard, the analysis can be accessed from within Microsoft Excel. A personal analysis is also possible, but the user will have to add detailed tags onto each scheduled meeting.
Calendar Analytics Tool is an application developed using Microsoft PowerPivot. The latter itself is an Excel add-on, and it lets users create their own business intelligence applications.
PowerPivot is expected to be used as a tool for self-service business intelligence which is supposed to encourage more office workers to build out their own PowerPivot BI applications. This app by PowerPivot is easy to use, but it also requires Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Microsoft Office Excel 2010 to operate.
More information can be found at
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216226/Microsoft_app_analyzes_busy_personal_schedules
Your Toronto IT consulting professionals at Idealogical are always on the lookout for great tools to help you work more efficiently. If you run across something that we should investigate, let us know.
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