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We are a software as a service (SAAS) company offering a cloud-based scheduling application. The product is unique because of its ability to handle activities requiring multiple resources over various intervals and in variable quantities. Availability of all resources can be time varying and can be limited. This makes the application ideal for environments that have several limited resources that are shared among multiple activities. Examples of these environments are manufacturing, health care facilities, hotels and event centers, movie and TV production, service industries, and educational institutions. The application is as essential to time-based operations planning as a spreadsheet is to financial planning. Although the scheduler is generic, domain peculiarities are easily accommodated.The product is an easy-to-use adaptation of a scheduler built for NASA mission planning and for several fortune-500 manufacturing companies. We are building a suite of demonstrations including an operating room scheduler for hospitals, a sports league team game scheduler, a hotel event planner and a manufacturing shop floor scheduler. Several others will follow from our user community.The application is also well suited for materials planning, "what-if" scenario evaluation, for designing different operational configurations, and for environments where frequent rescheduling is the norm. Small users have a low-cost subscription option, and the application will scale to the largest operations. There are no limits on the number of activities to be scheduled, the number of resources required, or the time horizon being used. Resources can be defined as individuals or as pools with time varying availability profiles. No preset intervals (time buckets) are assumed.Savings are derived from two sources. Less time spent by the human schedulers and more efficient use of scarce and expensive resources such as equipment, people, vehicles, or facilities.