1. MIMOSA

• Mimosa scheduling optimization software is one of the most versatile scheduling software globally used by schools, universities, and organizations for any scheduling task.
• The company leverages a collection of efficient optimization algorithms behind its scheduling software technology that enables it to handle scheduling difficulties smoothly and reliably.
• It is the preferred tool for course scheduling in thousands of schools and universities around the world and is widely used in many other business contexts, from the scheduling of internal meetings and training courses right up to the planning of large international conferences and music festivals.
• The various types of scheduling optimization services offered by the software to the higher education industry include class-teacher scheduling, course scheduling, student scheduling (student sectioning), and teachers assignment scheduling and classroom assignment scheduling.
• The software helps in course scheduling optimization by stipulating the day and time for each section of each course. It assists in creating a course timetable that minimizes the number of gaps in student timetables while taking into consideration the availability of teachers, as well as rooms and the use of special equipment.
• Student scheduling (student sectioning) services offered by the software helps in optimizing the scheduling of students that should be placed in each section to minimize student conflicts arising from the students in different sections opting for the same course and balance section sizes.
• Teachers assignment scheduling services help in the optimal assignment of courses to the teachers, making sure that they are satisfied with the results and all the required courses are covered, and conflicts are avoided.

• Mimosa caters for all kinds of schools, universities, and businesses in over 80 countries globally and on all continents with over 7,000 institutions and businesses using the same.
• The company caters for a wide range of educational institutions ranging from adult education centers, universities, veterinary schools, vocational schools, vocational universities, business schools, charter schools to high schools, kindergarten, military institutions, and more.
• Some of the 80 countries served include Albania, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Barbados, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, United States, Zambia, and more.

2. ADESOFT

• Adesoft provides its scheduling optimization software solutions for the higher education industry under the name 'Ade Campus,' with its technology specially dedicated to higher education and research.
• The scheduling optimization services offered by the software include design and management of quality and balanced timetables, classrooms optimization by hiring out unoccupied classrooms, simulation and scheduling of training courses, optimizing human and equipment teaching constraints like alternating courses, student and teaching staff availability, and optimizing student attendance solutions.
• The services provided by Adesoft's scheduling optimization software averts time wastage in the design and organization of balanced and coherent timetables, issues in incorporating last minute changes briskly, a large but unoptimized number of classrooms and hassles in optimizing last minute delivery of information to student, staff, and teams.
• 'Ade Campus' integrates into the everyday tools like the intranet, portal, MS Excel, MS Word, and more, and can be leveraged across multi-OS solutions like Windows, and Linux. It can be interfaced with other solutions like API, and web services and can be integrated into the Information System like LDAP, SSO, and SAML2.

• Adesoft's scheduling optimization software services have been used to manage over one million students across 50 universities,  250 higher education establishments, and 15 training centers.
• The company provides its services across eight countries namely France, Belgium, UK, Canada, the United State, Brazil, Italy and Morocco and in five different languages.

3. BEST

• BEST provides its scheduling optimization software solutions for the higher education industry under the name 'Bullet Education Suite' across Europe and the United States.
• The company's 'Bullet Education Suite' is an automatic scheduling optimization software primarily designed for higher education institutions to provide them with a set of software solutions tailored to overcome the complexity of timetabling processes.
• The software solution helps institutions optimize their time table scheduling and truncate 55 hours  up to 90% of the time spent on creating and managing timetables with time on elaboration on timetables being reduced from 55 hours to 10 hours using BEST's software solution.
• BEST also offers 'Bullet Exam Planner' software solution that helps institutions automate and optimize their examination scheduling by easily accommodating all the academic staff and students to their corresponding activities and ensuring a balance between students, supervisors, and classroom distribution during examinations.
• The Company's 'Bullet Classroom Allocator' software solution automates and optimizes the allocation of classrooms by making the most of the available classrooms in a cost-effective manner, guaranteeing a maximized classroom usage.
•  'Bullet Calendar' is another scheduling optimization software tool by BEST with an integrated decision support system. The same guides an institution through the daily management of its activities and events and also works as an academic schedule that controls the occupation of all resources such as academic staff, classes, and classrooms.

• BEST's scheduling optimization software services have been used to manage over 200,000 students, teachers, and staff across 150 institutions and six countries.
• Apart from the focus on the education industry, the company's scheduling optimization software solutions are used by a variety of other industries such as healthcare, tourism, and leisure, production, logistics, transportation, retail, security, sports, and services, among others.
• BEST provides its services across Europe and the United States with key locations in Portugal, SanFrancisco, Boston, and Berlin. The company's headquarters are based in Portugal. 

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