The Meetings Analyzer was designed to address the following requirements and features.
Useful, Inexpensive and easy-to-use
Self-contained, requiring no online services or access
No tracking of information of any kind - personal or otherwise
Provide methods to determine the value of your time
Provide methods for determining the per-hour cost of a meeting
Remember the last settings used for calculating the meeting costs
Save and recall meetings and restore the cost calculation algorithm used and the associate configuration parameters
Meter a meeting in real time while allowing the user to perform analysis on existing meetings or experiment with various algorithms and associated parameters to determine the per-hour meeting costs
Pause a meeting and continue such as may be required during a lunch break
Rate a meeting
Assign responsibility for the meeting to an individual
Backup meetings both internally and to files. Restore either from internal memory or from backup files
Simulate meetings to project meeting costs on a per meeting or for multiple meetings such as weekly bimonthly or monthly meetings
Sort, filter or display meeting details using user-selected criteria
Perform statistical analysis on groups of meetings based on meeting type or meeting lead