Tungle, the company that makes scheduling meetings easy, has stated that its Tungle.me software is now available for IBM's (News - Alert) Lotus Notes collaboration software. 

IBM Lotus Software delivers robust collaboration software that empowers people to connect, collaborate, and innovate while optimizing the way they work. With Lotus users can drive better business outcomes through smarter collaboration.

Tungle.me makes it easy for people to schedule meetings across organizations, calendar systems and time zones by eliminating costly double bookings and the endless back and forth of finding a time to meet.

Tungle said its software now works with all major business- and consumer-oriented electronic calendar environments, including Lotus Notes, Microsoft (News - Alert) Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple iCal, Entourage, and is also available on the iPhone and Blackberry.

Lotus Notes is the client side of a client-server, collaborative application developed and sold by IBM who has described the software as an integrated desktop client option for accessing business e-mail, calendars and applications on IBM Lotus Domino server. With Tungle.me now available for IBM Lotus, users can set custom availability and synchronize it with their Lotus Notes calendar. Once meetings are scheduled, they are automatically updated in the background.

Chris Miller, Director of Connectria (News - Alert), a provider of customized IT services to name brand clients globally has said that Tungle for Lotus Notes helped streamline the maintenance of free time across multiple calendars inside and outside of company. It helped reduce emails and scheduling conflicts. Miller was part of a group who tested a beta version of the software.

Tungle CEO Marc Gingras has said that with the introduction of Tungle.me for Lotus Notes, many millions of additional business people around the world can spend more time being productive and less time playing scheduling ping-pong.

Ed Brill, Director of Messaging at IBM added that Tungle.me is a great way to set up meetings outside users' organization, where free-time search is not typically possible.