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Mimosa is a Finnish scheduling and course planning software for use in any kind of school and university of varying type and size. Besides academic timetabling, Mimosa suits perfectly to schedule conferences and work-shifts in business and industry environments. The application is fast, user-friendly and has an extremely large capacity. It has a very rich set of efficient optimization tools and interactive timetabling selections for all kind of scheduling tasks. Mimosa is used by thousands of institutions, become very popular and spread fast through the Internet to several schools and businesses in over 60 countries and on all continents.
"It's such a relief finding your software - like a sort of "At last someone has done this intelligently" - In the last few weeks I have evaluated probably 15 or 20 pieces of software, and none of the others come close to your solution - typically as luck would have it, yours was one of the last I tried!!"
--- D.L.P., Plymouth, United Kingdom
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MORE ABOUT MIMOSA
User-friendliness prevents you from making common mistakes; instead you receive useful hints, answers to what-if questions and you also have the context-sensitive help or access the tutorial on our webpage. You can create all or some of the timetables either automatically, or interactively and in any order. Mimosa permits flexible working flow by allowing you to change any part of data or constraints even after scheduling of timetables, while still preventing you of making any errors. The revolutionary 1000 step undo/redo selection makes manual timetable scheduling a simple and enjoyable process.
Free upgrades and free support. Purchasing Mimosa license entitles users to upgrade Mimosa to its latest version, free of charge. Free email and phone support is provided and users can also access our discussion forums when they want be in touch with other users.
Openness of the software allows you to move data easily to and from other applications via numerous Clipboard selections and the text file conversion tools. Use your spreadsheet software to input data and create own reports and layouts from Mimosa data, if the numerous options of reports do not suit all your purposes. It is easy to add your own notes and data for administrative needs and also hide them from published reports.
Enormous capacity of Mimosa allows you to manage up to 300,000 timetables, 30 slots in a day of a 7-day week, 255 terms and over 8000 codes in a single small file. No third-party databases or additional software is used with Mimosa in order to guarantee maximum performance, reliability and easy maintenance, combined with low end-user price.
Mimosa is slim and fast. It uses only a couple of megabytes of the computer memory and disk capacity. All actions are instantaneous even when using a large data set. Instead of using external databases, Mimosa utilises its own efficient integer arithmetic based and fully optimised engine to perform demanding scheduling tasks fast and reliable.
Flexible architecture enables Mimosa to fit for all types of users, very easily. It supports all school and university or other academic insitutions, organizations and companies, since you can easily configure the application for your special scheduling needs or apply the included templates and sample files. You can define the needed resource types and calendar schema according to the special requirements. You can also set bookings to slots and terms, lock selected courses and set protection to terms in order prevent unwanted mistakes.
Professional approach will ensure that you can always find the right means for every task among its 600 menu selections, including also the efficient timetable optimization tools, which enable you to create a good initial solution, minimize the gaps in an existing solution or optimize students' course selections, just to name few. Mimosa has been used to schedule timetables by thousands of institutions over several years, and the intense co-operation with of our clients has enabled us to create an extreme rich and robust toolbox for the most demanding scheduling environments.
Several departments can use Mimosa simultaneously and automatically merge their files over a network, expanding its capacity even larger. The network extension is not based on any specific network architectures, and it takes into account the dynamic nature of Mimosa data files and does not block the files while others are working.
"We are looking at several other scheduling packages but I personally like the user interface of your product."
--- B.B., Ontario, Canada
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SOME EXAMPLES OF EDUCATIONAL CASES WHERE MIMOSA IS USED
Class-Teacher Timetabling: This problem is normally associated with secondary or primary schools where the students are scheduled as a “class”. All students in the same class take exactly the same set of courses. Typically, teachers and classes are busy most of the day, and the problem is to find times when each teacher can meet with his/her required classes with no conflicts.
Course Timetabling: In course timetabling, the system is used to help the user determine the day and time to offer each section of each course. The objective is normally to find a course timetable that minimizes the number of (potential) student conflicts while respecting teacher, room and equipment restrictions. Unlike the “Class-Teacher” setting, students typically have more flexibility in selecting courses, which adds to the complexity of the problem.
Student Scheduling (Student Sectioning): Student scheduling normally occurs after the timetable has been determined. In some schools, courses can be offered in more than one section (i.e., different instructors may offer the same course at different times) and a student scheduling package helps the user decide which students should be allocated to each section to minimize student conflicts and balance section sizes.
Teacher Assignment: Normally, each teacher in a school will have a number of different possible courses that he/she could teach. The teacher assignment problem helps the user to assign teachers to courses to maximize teacher satisfaction, cover all of the required courses and avoid conflicts.
Classroom Assignment: Classroom assignment normally takes place after the timetable has been fixed. Each course section must be assigned to a specific classroom to meet capacity, location, preference and special equipment restrictions.
All these cases can be used in a same file with a user-defined calendar and/or terms selection. Other supported special cases are Fully personalized timetables, Block scheduling, Intake scheduling and Cycling timetables, just to name few.
"By far, Mimosa is superior to any scheduling product I have researched and believe me, I have researched many."
--- M. W., Washington, U.S.A.
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ARE THERE OTHER USERS?
Currently thousands of schools and universities of varying sizes (15-11,000 students) use Mimosa in all parts of the world. Many businesses also use Mimosa. There hardly exists any school type that has not been tested for compatibility. It is so flexible that it can be applied in all kinds of institutions and schools, from primary schools to universities and from vocational schools to colleges. Mimosa is currently used in a similar version at least in the following types of institutions:
Adult Education Centres, Aviation Institutions, Boarding Schools, Business Schools, Charter Schools, Christian Schools, Colleges, Commercial Institutes, Comprehensive Schools, Conferences, Dental Schools, Departments of Corrections, Elementary Schools, High Schools, Hotel and Restaurant Schools, Institutes for Arts and Handicrafts, Intermediate Schools, International Schools, Junior High Schools, Marine Training Facilities, Military Institutions, Naval Institutions, Nursery Schools, Police Academies, Polytechnic Institutes, Pharmaceutical Universities, Preparatory Schools, Primary Schools, Prisons, Private Schools, Public Schools, Rehabilitation Centres, Religious Schools, School Boards, Schools of Agriculture, Secondary Schools, Seminars, Steiner and Waldorf Schools, TV stations, Universities, Vocational Schools...
If you still encounter new features you would like to add to Mimosa, we will do our best to include them in the future versions.
"Thank you again for the good application. What the imagination permits, that does Mimosa too, which means that the software does never restrict the intended scheduling implementation."
--- A. S., Finland
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WITH MIMOSA TIMETABLING CAN BE GREAT FUN!
Once you have started to input your data in Mimosa, you will soon forget how complicated a task you are actually working with. You do not necessarily need any pencil or paper while you work, since all data is now at your fingertips, and you can forget all those pitfalls and conflicts you previously tracked. You can easily jump from one window to another, view the data from any angle, find, sort, browse and schedule first, then add any of the missing resources. You can print your reports on any printer or as web pages, or select one of the numerous Clipboard formats, and use the spreadsheet software as your companion.
Mimosa is not only an efficient timetabling machine. No way! It lets the user control the scheduling process in various ways and always provides the most relevant information where it is currently needed. All steps in timetabling are easy to undo and
redo, and it is a snap to go to back to any previous or bookmarked step. Forgetting all unnecessary details and demanding multidimensional thinking does not only make timetabling an enjoyable process, but also enables viewing completely new opportunities to solve the puzzle and make others happy too!
"I love this program! It makes a dreadful chore almost fun - like a puzzle, but a workable one! We will buy the full version as soon as our school gets a bit larger, but we are grateful for the use of the free version in the meantime - thanks!"
--- T.C., U.S.A.
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OUR GUARANTEED SUPPORT
With Mimosa you are never alone; if you do not find the solution to your problems in our documentary, you can be in contact with us anytime. We are used to serve our customers promptly and professionally worldwide.
You can always email or call us in case of any questions.
You will also receive emails of latest updates and hints plus case studies how you can increase your productivity with Mimosa.
You can always download the latest version of Mimosa plus supplementary material from our homepage, if you have joined the upgrade program.
"I am beginning to use Mimosa-Lite, and I am becoming more and more enthusiastic as I discover all the things that the program can do...The program has been a godsend, and I'm keen to use it to its full capacity."
--- M.P., Alberta, Canada
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Note: Mimosa is also very suitable software for employee scheduling, room and facilities scheduling, examination scheduling, appointment scheduling, attendance scheduling, meeting scheduling, block, cycling and intake scheduling, recurrent event scheduling, resource scheduling, staff scheduling, trade fair scheduling, conference scheduling and organization scheduling.
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