Widely used commercial systems that provide functionality comparable to the Scheduler tool include:

• Lantiv Scheduling Studio
• Mimosa Scheduling Software
• CyberMatrix
• myEdu
• Room Booking System
• Schedules Cal Poly

Each of these systems provides a wide variety of scheduling functionality. The goal for Scheduler is to provide the important core features found in these tools, not the full range of features found in all of them. Scheduler does provide functional improvements in three areas, when compared to most commercially available tools. These features are:

1. Automatic schedule generation
2. Integration with Cal Poly systems
3. Admin, professor, and student views

The goals for Scheduler relating to public domain source code and sound pedagogical development are not met by any of the above commercial systems.

A detailed review of each related tool follows in these subsections:

• Lantiv review
• Mimosa review
• CyberMatrix review
• myEdu review
• Room Booking System review
• Schedules Cal Poly review

Editorial Remark: For Milestone 1, each team member will produce a detailed review of one related system, and provide one column in the feature comparison matrix. For brevity, these details are not provided in the paper version of the Milestone 1 example, but are available in the online version of the example.