Meetings that work, without another system to run
You are the IT manager who keeps Microsoft 365 secure and simple. AskCody runs on your Exchange room calendars and Entra ID, with no copy of your meeting data and no mailbox access, so rooms, services and visitors work without one more system to babysit.
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Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365 and modern add-ins for Outlook.
Recognized by analysts
Named a market-leading vendor in the Meeting Management category.
Why do meeting problems end up as IT tickets?
You know the queue. A room booked twice, a calendar that says one thing while the room system says another, a guest nobody registered, a catering order that never arrived. None of them are IT problems, but when rooms, services and visitors live in tools that copy and sync your Exchange data, every gap between them lands on your desk.
Each extra system is another integration to secure, another sync to monitor and another place where the truth can drift. This is what that looks like on a Monday.
The five challenges behind it
01
Data in two places
Booking tools that copy Exchange data create two versions of the truth, and the tickets that come with them.
02
Another system to secure
Every new tool means accounts, permissions, reviews and one more vendor in your risk register.
03
Workarounds and shadow IT
When the official way is slow, people book by email and spreadsheet, outside your control.
04
Tickets that are not IT
Double bookings, missing catering and unregistered guests still arrive in your queue.
05
Users who resist new tools
Employees live in Outlook and Teams. Anything outside them meets friction and support requests.
One record of every meeting: your Exchange calendars
Rooms, desks and equipment are Exchange resource mailboxes with their own calendars, and AskCody works on them directly. Exchange stays the system of record: meeting data is never synchronized to AskCody, it is read from Exchange when a feature needs it. Exchange Online connects through Microsoft Graph, and on-premises Exchange Server through EWS.
Entra ID sign-in and access by group
Users sign in with Microsoft single sign-on, and AskCody never sees or stores their passwords. With automatic user management, Entra ID provisions users and groups to AskCody through SCIM, syncing every 40 minutes. Access is set per security group, and removing someone from the groups in scope, or disabling their account, disables them in AskCody.
Calendar access, not mailbox access
AskCody asks for calendar read and write on resource and user calendars, user read for sign-in and group read for group sync. It has no mailbox access: it does not read inboxes, sent items, email bodies or attachments. Access can be limited further with RBAC for Applications in Exchange Online.
AskCody runs on Microsoft Azure, with European data in the North Europe and West Europe regions and North American data in East US and West US, and customer data stays in its region. An annual ISAE 3000 Type 2 report covers personal data protection under the GDPR.
Clear lines between IT and the workplace team
Room calendar rules such as booking windows, maximum duration and delegate approval stay in Exchange, owned by IT. The workplace team runs services, receptions and display templates in the AskCody Management Portal, and Entra ID groups decide who can see and book what. Each team owns its part, and nobody needs to file a ticket for the other's.
Add-ins in Outlook, deployed once
The AskCody add-ins are modern Outlook add-ins that work in Outlook for Windows, Mac and the web. Deploy them centrally through Microsoft Centralized Deployment, and updates arrive without reinstalling. Meetings booked in Outlook, including those with a Teams link, appear on room displays and dashboards, with no separate install in Teams.
What changes for you, and for the people around you
When the workplace runs on the Microsoft 365 you already secure, there is less to integrate, less to sync and less to support. Here is what that is worth.
FOR YOU
Simpler to run
No copy of your meeting data to sync, sign-in through Entra ID and add-ins deployed once.
FOR SECURITY
Fewer places for data
Calendar access instead of mailbox access, Azure regions you choose and an annual ISAE 3000 Type 2 report.
FOR YOUR USERS
Nothing new to learn
Rooms, catering and guests booked inside the Outlook invite they already use.
One setup for every site
A Norwegian municipality and a medtech headquarters run AskCody on one platform across many locations, so every employee books the same way, wherever they work.
150
locations on one platform at Sandefjord Municipality
5,000+
employees at Sandefjord Municipality
7
receptions connected across EMEA at Olympus
Read the stories from Sandefjord Municipality and Olympus
Ten bookers used to mean ten ways to book
“Ten different people booking a meeting resulted in ten different ways of creating a meeting, and everything that goes with it... With AskCody employees can now book rooms and request services themselves, and it gives them a kind of self-service aspect where they can take control of their own meetings.”
The whole meeting, organized in Outlook
“By using AskCody, our employees will be able to manage the end-to-end process of organizing their own meetings in Microsoft Outlook, and easily find a workplace that will perfectly fit their needs.”
One platform across 150 locations
“Our vision was to tailor the entire workflow for the individual employee. We now plan everything in AskCody. It is extremely easy for the individual employee to book meetings... In this way, we make the most of all resources across our 150 locations.”
Cancel the meeting, and the room frees up
“The biggest impact I think is simply the ease of reserving conference rooms when you’re scheduling meetings... and also when you cancel a meeting, that the conference room frees up, and you don’t have to do additional steps to go into another system and remove it.”
80 percent of reception time given back
“In general, the AskCody benefit is the time savings and removing the daily frustrations around meeting planning. The biggest benefit until now is that we have saved 80 percent of the reception time, which was taken up with dealing with visitors coming and going.”
Rooms and catering in one overview
“AskCody’s platform gives us an easy overview of available rooms, as well as quick access to book catering for our meetings. Without AskCody, booking premises is ineffective, which results in a large waste of resources.”
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Common questions from IT managers
AskCody is meeting management software that runs natively on Microsoft 365. It works on your Exchange room calendars without copying meeting data, signs users in with Entra ID, and gives employees rooms, services and visitor registration inside Outlook, through add-ins you deploy centrally.
No. Exchange is the system of record: meeting data is never synchronized to AskCody, and AskCody does not back it up. It reads meeting data from Exchange when a feature needs it. Catering and visitor orders store a small set of meeting details: room, time and host.
Calendar read and write on resource and user calendars, user read for single sign-on and group read for group sync. AskCody has no mailbox access, and a Microsoft 365 Global Administrator grants admin consent once. Access can be limited with RBAC for Applications in Exchange Online.
Users sign in with Microsoft single sign-on. With automatic user management, Entra ID provisions users and groups through SCIM and syncs changes every 40 minutes. Automatic user management requires an Entra ID P1 or P2 license.
AskCody runs on Microsoft Azure, with European data in the North Europe and West Europe regions and North American data in East US and West US. Customer data stays in the region where it is placed, and an annual ISAE 3000 Type 2 report covers personal data protection under the GDPR.
They are modern add-ins for Outlook for Windows, Mac and the web, plus Outlook 2019 and 2021. Administrators deploy them centrally through Microsoft Centralized Deployment, and updates arrive without reinstalling.
Yes. Exchange Online connects through Microsoft Graph, and on-premises Exchange Server connects through EWS. In a hybrid setup, each mailbox connects where it lives.
See how AskCody fits your Microsoft 365
Talk to a consultant about the architecture, permissions and deployment, and how rooms, services and visitors run on the Exchange you already have.
