Tungle Expands Reach to an Additional 350 Million Users Globally By Adding Lotus Notes Integration to its Business Scheduling Service

ORLANDO, Fla. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Tungle, the company that has simplified the scheduling of meetings for millions of users worldwide, today demonstrated at IBM’s Lotusphere conference a version of its free Tungle offering for IBM Lotus Notes and Domino, rounding out its integration with all leading business calendar systems.

The announcement is significant since, according to IBM, more than half of the Fortune global 100 now use Lotus Notes and Domino. This includes more than 80 percent of the largest banks, consumer product, electronics, insurance, pharmaceutical and telecommunications companies -- as well as more than 50 percent of America's largest 100 companies.

The addition of Lotus Notes means that Tungle now works with all major business- and consumer-oriented electronic calendar environments, including Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple iCal and Entourage for Mac.

Tungle for Lotus Notes was announced by Kevin Cavanaugh, Vice President, Messaging and Collaboration Products at IBM, during the IBM keynote on stage Monday at Lotusphere 2010. The product is also being demoed by Cavanaugh during his presentation on Tuesday, January 19th. Tungle is demoing the new product at booth #221.

Tungle gives professionals the control and flexibility to propose multiple times in meeting invitations, establish a personal scheduling page, invite others to book meetings with them and share calendars across companies, platforms and time zones, without giving up their existing calendars. As a result, users report spending significantly less time and effort setting up meetings. User feedback shows that an average Tungle user will save approximately 15 minutes every time they use the service to set up a meeting. (Click here to see videos from Tungle users speaking about how they save time with Tungle.)

Other Tungle offerings include the following:

Tungle for Mobile

Tungle for the iPhone allows users to create, send and receive meeting invitations and share calendars wherever they go, with valuable functionality, such as auto-suggest scheduling and at-a-glance availability. Later this quarter, Tungle will also offer a version for Research in Motion’s Blackberry phones.

Availability

Tungle for Lotus Notes is currently available in closed Beta to users with Lotus Notes version 8 and 8.5. Interested parties can email ibm@tungle.com for access.

About Tungle

Tungle Corp.’s Tungle.me makes scheduling meetings easy--across organizations, calendar systems and time zones--by eliminating the multiple emails, phone calls and double bookings that typically come with finding a time to meet. Tungle.me synchronizes with leading online calendar systems including Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple iCal, Entourage for Mac, and Lotus Notes (Beta), and does not require visitors to sign in or register to schedule meetings. Tungle.me supports scheduling meetings on-the-go with Tungle.me for iPhone, which is available for free download in the App Store.

Founded in 2006, the Montreal-based company is venture-backed by investors Commonwealth Capital Ventures, JLA Ventures and Desjardins Venture Capital.