Anyway, good point. This place I worked about 12 years ago had a product actually called Meeting Maker that could be made aware of where things were, so schedules accounted for travel. It even knew people had to eat, so if you wanted to skip lunch you had to tell it. This was invaluable for the sales team, as they drove to rural hospitals all about Missouri, so driving times were non-trivial to them.

I haven’t seen as smart a system since then. That same office also had other neat stuff, like an (internal) IM client, before we knew enough to call it “IM.” Sometimes it feels like things are going backwards.

Within the last couple of weeks there was an announcement of an application that helped you reach appointments. It worked with your current location, calendar, and traffic status to ping you with a notice of when you had to depart in order to make your next appointment.

Like you stated; no new software needed just a unique approach to integrating existing functionality to address a business, not technical, solution.

Sorry for not providing the link to the solution.