Besides academic timetabling, Mimosa suits perfectly to schedule conferences and work-shifts in business and industry environments. The application is lightning fast and slim, user-friendly and it has an extremely large capacity. It has a very rich set of efficient optimisation 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 68 countries and on all continents.

Mimosa supports text file and several Clipboard formats to easily import and export your data. You can build a seamless bridge between Mimosa and any administration application and also synchronises several Mimosa files into one file. All Mimosa timetables and reports can be printed, but you can also create web pages of them and publish them in Internet or Intranet for your students, staff, clients or everyone interested or entitled. You can also use Clipboard to copy data to your spreadsheet application and adjust their layout according to your needs and specifications.

1. Mimosa is suitable for:
   • All school types
   • Colleges
   • Conferences
   • Companies
   • Employee scheduling
   • Military units
   • Organisations
   • Resource management
   • Room scheduling
   • Special schools
   • Trade fairs
   • Universities
   • Work-shift scheduling
2. Data transfer options
   • Automatic backup of files
   • Clipboard support to import & export all data
   • MS Outlook Calendar compatible
   • Text file support to import & export all data
   • Split of master file into disjoint files
   • Synchronising files of simultaneous users
3. General features
   • Automatic conflict check and conflict prevention
   • Bookings of timetable slots by all resources
   • Bookings of weeks and terms by courses
   • Calendar synchronised terms
   • Colors configurable for each course and resource
   • Combining of courses
   • Context-sensitive help
   • Course structures can be modified at each stage
   • Displaying of available resources
   • Duplicating of courses and components
   • Email and phone support
   • Examination scheduling
   • Fonts fully configurable
   • Free course structures
   • Group and personalised timetables
   • Hidden and visible comments
   • Imitating of previous solutions and room selections
   • Instant timetabling
   • Language change on the fly
   • Life-long and free software updates
   • Locking of courses
   • Manually selectable rooms for each slot separately
   • Memo box allows to adding notes to each item
   • Multi-term timetabling with variable term lengths
   • Preference storing and changing on the fly
   • Protecting of weeks and terms
   • Room capacity indicators and comparison
   • Selection optimisation
   • Course split by various criteria
   • Tree view browsing of courses
   • User interface and screen colors configurable
4. optimisation tools
   • Automatic allocating of lectures to weeks
   • Course selection optimisation
   • Efficient timetable optimisation
   • Initial assignment creation
   • Room usage optimisation
   • Selection optimisation
   • Weighted minimisation of timetable gaps
5. Reports
   • HTML versions of all reports
   • Nine report templates with user-defined report options
   • Clipboard versions of timetables and statistics
   • Timetable cells can be annotated
   • Vocabulary in reports fully customisable
6. Timetabling tools
   • Block lengths user definable
   • Bookmarking and backtracking of changes in timetables
   • Copying of timetables across terms and weeks
   • Displaying automatically linked timetables
   • Fully interactive timetabling environment
   • Hints for optimal scheduling choices
   • Instant scheduling of course lectures
   • Managing the history of up to 1000 latest actions
   • Moving of blocks (single-click, manual & automatic)
   • Redo up to 1000 latest actions
   • Remove of blocking slots
   • Swap of blocks (single-click, manual & automatic)
   • Undo up to 1000 latest actions
   • What if? tool for complicated assignments
7. Other tools
   • Automatic conversion from class to personalised timetables
   • Block scheduling schema
   • Capacity bottleneck locator
   • Cloning of schedules across terms
   • Cycling timetables schema
   • Intake scheduling schema
   • Slot timetables schema
   • Student selection schema
   • Teachers, rooms, groups/students, equipment: 8191
   • Clipboard formats: 40
   • Code lengths: 15 characters
   • Courses: 8191
   • Days in each week: 7
   • Name lengths: 63 characters
   • Resources attached to each course: 240
   • Simultaneous users on several workstations: 255
   • Slots in each day: 30
   • Sorting criteria for courses and components: 32
   • Terms/weeks in each file: 255
   • Timetables in each file: 300,000 (approximately)
   • Timetable slots in each file: 438,628,050 (=8191x7x30x255)
   • Undo/redo steps: 1000
8. Maximum capacity
9. Others

Enhancements:

• Student requirements and room capacity comparison improvements
• Duplicate entries removed from the latest accessed file list
• Incompatibility issue on some Windows 7 versions resolved
• Improvements to Set and cancel bookings selections
• Toolip changes in Courses and Components view
• Enhancements to Demo file creation wizard
• Usability changes in Edit|Copy week & Edit|Paste week commands (in Weeks view)

• Windows 7
• Windows Vista
• Windows XP
• Windows 2000
• Windows ME
• Windows 98