Introduction
Events, the secondary business problem that this software
solves. The management and organization of the variety of events can be
daunting, but entirely manageable within the ESP Software. Events can span the
serious, with business conference that may include break out sessions to the
casual event like a tour of a local landmark. Here are some of the technical
highlights and details.
Highlights
- Complete Management of Master Events Sub-Events and Facilities.
- Complete Conference Configuration Including:
- Room Configurations.
- Room Equipment.
- Break-Out Sessions.
- Speaker Configurations.
- Hotel/Conference Facility Management
- Event Attendee Costing/Fees.
- Host Budget and Expenditures.
- Sub-Event Management including:
- Table Seating
- Golf & Tennis Play
- Tour Excursions
Details
The other half of ESP deals with the setup and management of the Master
Events, and any of the Sub-Events that might be needed to support your event effort. It is
a simple process to create a new master event and apply certain settings for its specific
characteristics. Once you have entered the initial settings, you can start creating any
sub-events that would pertain to the support of your complete special event, conference or
training.
Master Events
If a company wanted to hold a 3 day Internal Training
Session for their management employees, it would just be a matter of adding the new Master
Event with the location and dates. If you choose a conference/training style event, then
the Conference Configuration Wizard would step you through the rest of the process
collecting the necessary details to build the beginning framework of the event. Once the
Wizard is complete, you can fill in the specific details like; room configuration,
equipment needs, and speaker assignments.
Hotel/Facility Management
The Facility Management will provide you with the means
of managing; conference rooms, sleeping rooms, key personal, and airport destination
commute times and transportation methods. This portion of the system is intended to
augment any vendor's system already in place.
User Costing
Most any conference or training session that you attend
usually has admittance fees for Attendees to take part. The Master Event settings allow
you to configure these costs for Attendees and Vendors.
Budgeting and Expenditures
Any company going through the expense of putting on an
event would like to keep an eye on their Expenditures for all the different support areas.
ESP provides a method of tracking those expenditures for each Master Event allowing a
company to evaluate incurred expenses across multiple events.
Sub-Events
Table Seating: When your ready to put on
the Gala for your attendees the Table Seating Wizard will make your job easy. All you need
to do is provide the wizard with enough information and it will create all the necessary
configuration files along with adding the event for all the confirmed Attendees. All
that's left is to assign each attendee a specific table seating assignment.
Sporting Events: If your attendees or their guests are
interested in playing either Golf or Tennis the system allows you to manage it similar to
the table seating assignments. In the Golf module, you can assign players to a specific
foursome number. The system will even provide the tee times along with shuttle times from
the main hotel. With the Tennis module you can have either singles or doubles and assign
each player or team specific court times.
Excursions: The Excursions module is best suited to
manage any type of Tour or special side trips, that your attendees and their guests may be
interested in. Excursions can be a tour of a local museum, a local attraction, or even
just a shopping trip to one of the local shopping centers. You will be able to keep track
of just a few people or even the largest group with little effort.
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