Organizing a meeting can be a major headache, especially when you’re setting up one across several time zones. Incessant calls, voicemails and follow-up messages are part of your regular lot, and all the hard work you put into the preparation doesn’t seem to pay off well.

Meeting Maker will help you save time and eliminate these hassles of setting up the meeting. Mac lovers agree that Meeting Maker is one of the best calendar and scheduling solutions around. It has been quoted as “the leading real-time, cross-platform enterprise calendaring and scheduling solution, designed to meet the diverse and complex scheduling requirements of organizations from small workgroups to the largest enterprises.”

Meeting Maker runs on whatever platform available: Mac, Windows, Java, or UNIX, and since the software adapts to all 319 time zones across the globe, meeting time synchronization won’t be a problem anymore when your boss tells you to organize the next international web conference. Mac users particularly like the following Meeting Maker features:

A Calendar that’s More than the Usual. With Meeting Maker, there’s more to calendars than the usual rows and columns of dates. Simply click on Meeting Maker’s URL from your favorite web browser to get a quick view of the calendar. If you’re itching to know what your colleagues’ schedule looks like for the week or month, you can view their calendar too; proxy access makes this possible. Use the Calendar Integration feature to directly publish web events of your choosing into your personal calendar. Utilize the HTML Publisher feature to publish your calendar as a web page – links, events, updates and all. You can even print your calendar if you want to.

Collaborative Scheduling. The collaborative features of Meeting Maker prevent the occurrence of double bookings. A user can create a work group to invite, and using the Master Schedule feature, can check the availability of the members in attending a meeting. The Share Availability feature makes the broadcasting of time vacancies possible, while the Auto-Pick feature automatically picks the most immediate period when all members of the workgroup are free to attend a meeting. The software routinely sends email notifications – even to people using other platforms such as Outlook – as soon as a meeting is scheduled, while the Notify Link allows users to respond by confirming their attendance or absence from the meeting.

A Navigation Experience that Puts You at Ease. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to use the software. Meeting Maker provides you with user-friendly navigation tools for the usual functions. If you’re not the biggest fan of reading volumes of text, you can still stay current by viewing events, banners and to-do lists at a glance.

A Bundle of Technical Freebies from a Dedicated IT Team. When you’ve stayed long in business, you’ll realize that the smallest matters are those that mean a great deal to your success. Meeting Maker’s IT team understands you, so they made sure you can truly maximize your use of the software. Freebies include a limited IT overhead which ensures that your network does not get slowed down by traffic congestion, read-and-write proxy functions which allow group sharing of calendars, and quick synchronization with Palms, Microsoft Outlook and Blackberry.

Simply put, Meeting Maker is a gold mine for businesses. Why Mac users and various organizations across the world love the software comes as no surprise at all.