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:. 26th July 2011 - IPAM uses Avila Business Centers' digital marketing success case
IPAM uses Avila Business Centers' digital marketing success case
The performance of this physical and virtual offices centre on its relation with the media and with social networks was approached in the discipline of Digital Marketing Plan on the Digital Marketing Post Graduation in the Portuguese Institute of Administration and Marketing.
Lisbon 26th July 2011 - The Avila Business Centers, company of turnkey physical work spaces for renting and leader in the virtual offices business was the company choose for a Case Study on the IPAM (Portuguese Institute of Administration and Marketing).
The Avila Business Centers was selected as a case study for the Digital Marketing discipline of IPAM Digital Marketing Post Graduation. Among other topics was analyzed the social media and digital marketing strategy of the company, which has highlighted itself on the business centres and virtual offices area, since it adopted an integrated online communication model, which includes a daily plan of Social Media Communication with emphasis on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
The students of this subject also had to analyze how to manage a quarterly communication plan close to online media, clients, potential clients and partners: press releases publication, newsletters and mail shots with articles and news from the Avila Business Centers activity area.
Another area focused by this study had to do with the Avila Business Centers services disclosure and the eOffice network through the myOffice application present on the Apple app Store and on the Android Market, as well as the company’s presence on Facebook and Twitter.
According to Carlos Gonçalves, this IPAM initiative represents the “recognition of Avila Business Centers’ work and the bet on digital marketing, which has been a major gain”.
The CEO of this office centre recalls also other aspects which contribute to Avila Business Centers recognition: “This is only possible do to competent partners; not only in communication advisory, but also on the mobile applications area we are developing, where Avila is already considered an international reference on the virtual offices domain.”
According to the responsible of the discipline of Digital Marketing Plan on Lisbon’s IPAM, Avila Business Centers’ choice “allowed analyzing the digital marketing application on a broader sense, from social networks to the more traditional communication channels like blogs and newsletters".
Remember that Avila Business Centers had already been recognized by their work, with an invitation to participate in the Tech Media Europe event (January 2011), one of the major European initiatives on the technological innovation domain, where the myOffice application was presented.
About Avila Business Centers
Founded in 2004 with the name Espaço Avila Business Centers, the company changed its designation to Avila Business Centers in 2011. Besides renting turnkey physical work spaces, is leader in the virtual offices business where presents solutions with prices between 55 and 85 Euros per month, with several services associated, among them legal and financial support, personalized telephone answering and access to the potentialities of remote management of the myOffice app for mobile devices: Android, iPhone and iPad. In May 2011 was created the brand Franchise Set-Up, to support start-up franchised companies.
Currently it counts with more than 300 national and international clients and is member and representative in Portugal of the major Business Center network in the World, the eOffice International Network, with more than 300 locations and managed from the United Kingdom. Avila Business Centers has its premises in Lisbon, in Avenida da República and in Avenida João Crisóstomo. For more information visit www.avilabusinesscenter.com.
Avila Business Centers opens a franchising network
The national company, expert in physical and virtual offices renting predicts the opening of the first centre in Oporto until the end of the year. In 2012 are to be followed Madeira and Luanda.
Lisbon, 20th July 2011 – The Avila Business Centers, a company of turnkey physical work spaces renting and leader on the virtual offices business, comes to announce the opening of a franchising networking which will start in Portugal and should arrive to Angola in 2012.
Aiming at the business consolidation in the national market, it is previewed the opening of a franchised business centre in Oporto city until December, broadening the concept afterwards, in 2012 to Madeira (Funchal) and Angola (Luanda).
The Oporto franchisor will be part of the eOffice network, which includes more 300 offices at a worldwide level, and of which Avila Business Centers is the representing in Portugal.
“The Avila Business Centers is analyzing some proposals of potential franchisors, however there will be a special prudence in the choice, in the measure where this will not be a typical franchisee/franchisor relation: it will be more of a partnership relation based on the network functioning, with advantages at a clients referencing level both national and internationally”, explains Carlos Gonçalves, CEO Avila Business Centers:
Avila Business Centers potential franchisees have to follow some basic requirements:
Location: city centre, on a prestige address (Prime Central Business District or Central Business District).
Building: of offices, modern both inside and outside. Reception service and security inside the building, if possible 24 hours a day. In alternative should be guaranteed the video surveillance outside working hours and on holidays/weekends;
Areas: between 180 and 400 m2;
Accessibility: easy Access by car, metro and parking in a 500 metres range.
“All the companies which choose the Avila Business Centers space in Oporto have Access to the myOffice platform, the base of the most complete virtual office solution in the market and available for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, Android, Blackberry, Nokia and other smartphones and to an answering and secretariat personalized service”, underlines Carlos Gonçalves.
About Avila Business Centers
Founded in 2004 with the name Espaço Avila Business Centers, the company changed its designation to Avila Business Centers in 2011. Besides renting turnkey physical work spaces, is leader in the virtual offices business where presents solutions with prices between 55 and 85 Euros per month, with several services associated, among them legal and financial support, personalized telephone answering and access to the potentialities of remote management of the myOffice app for mobile devices: Android, iPhone and iPad. In May 2011 was created the brand Franchise Set-Up, to support start-up franchised companies.
Currently it counts with more than 300 national and international clients and is member and representative in Portugal of the major Business Center network in the World, the eOffice International Network, with more than 300 locations and managed from the United Kingdom. Avila Business Centers has its premises in Lisbon, in Avenida da República and in Avenida João Crisóstomo. For more information visit www.avilabusinesscenter.com.
Avila Business Centers launches video podcasts in iTunes
The physical and virtual offices company opens another Web based communication channel now on the Apple iTunes store, with free subscription of podcasts.
Lisbon, 18th July 2011 – The Avila Business Centers, company of turnkey physical work spaces for renting and leader in the virtual offices business, reinforced its communications with clients, partners and the public in general with the availability of a podcast channel in the famous iTunes store from Apple.
With this entry on the iTunes, the Avila Business Centers becomes the first Office center at a worldwide level to launch regularly free video podcasts on this platform, which has around 225 million users registered with credit card.
“The importance of the video in our daily lives is now fundamental. It is becoming a publicity channel for the services paid by Avila Business Centers in order to get the attention of future clients and another mean to pass our message of modernity, quite far from the typical Office center”, explains Carlos Gonçalves CEO of the Avila Business Centers.
Anyone with access to the iTunes Store, whether from the PC or Mac, iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch may subscribe this video podcasts. For that you only need to make a search inside the store by “Avila Business Centers” or than, trough the browser, by the link http://itunes.apple.com/pt/podcast/avila-business-centers-podcast/id413812019.
At the moment there are eight videos available – four in Portuguese and four in English – on themes like “Office 3.0” or “Small is beautiful”. These are articles and news which highlight the future of work spaces and of the new Virtual Office and Coworking solutions with the Avila Business Centers mark.
The broadcast strategy of these videos will also be supported with the use of the social networks, namely the page of the Avila Business Center on the Facebook.
About Avila Business Centers
Founded in 2004 with the name Espaço Avila Business Centers, the company changed its designation to Avila Business Centers in 2011. Besides renting turnkey physical work spaces, is leader in the virtual offices business where presents solutions with prices between 55 and 85 Euros per month, with several services associated, among them legal and financial support, personalized telephone answering and access to the potentialities of remote management of the myOffice app for mobile devices: Android, iPhone and iPad. In May 2011 was created the brand Franchise Set-Up, to support start-up franchised companies.
Currently it counts with more than 300 national and international clients and is member and representative in Portugal of the major Business Center network in the World, the eOffice International Network, with more than 300 locations and managed from the United Kingdom. Avila Business Centers has its premises in Lisbon, in Avenida da República and in Avenida João Crisóstomo. For more information visit www.avilabusinesscenter.com.
Avila Business Centers creates franchise Set-Up
The national company specialist in physical and virtual offices rental developed a new concept meant to support start up franchised companies.
Lisbon, 9th May – The Avila Business Centers, a company of turnkey physical work spaces renting and leader in the virtual offices business, has just created a new brand to support start up franchisees: the Franchise Set-Up. This product, based in a virtual office, is oriented towards franchised companies which do not need a permanent physical space, at least when beginning of their activity.
The Franchise Set-Up is a low-cost solution which allows, with monthly amounts between 65 and 85 Euros + VAT, to immediately start-up the business (with services activation within 24 hours), using a prestige address in Avenida da República in Lisbon, meeting and work rooms, personalized telephone answering, access to a contacts management online platform and correspondence reception.
The new Franchise Set-Up packages include one month discount facing the conventional modalities of virtual Office and do not compel the client to any contract loyalty. The Avila Business Centers has several franchisees brands which have choose this option, such as Home Instead (domiciliary services) and Publipan (advertising supports).
“The Avila Business Centers had the ideal answer to this kind of situation. The existent infra-structure offered by Avila Business Centers was fundamental for the success we had in the start-up”, refers Paulo Neto, Master Franchise Director of Home Instead.
Tristão Bacelar, Area Developer of Publipan also highlights the advantages of this offer: “I can have access in real time to the Office with the myOffice application. My work has a major commercial component and I do not need to be permanently in the office. The contact at a distance with the secretariat is fundamental to have a quick answer, both close to clients and suppliers.”
According to Carlos Gonçalves, CEO of Avila Business Centers the creation of this product “comes in the sequence of several demands we had from franchisor companies looking for a low cost solution, but functional and smart at the same time, to propose to franchisees which did not need a permanent office.”
The completion of this project allows, on the one hand, franchisors to reach easier to franchisees working in a controlled costs optics and, on the other hand, entrepreneurs willing to develop their business and find in the virtual office the perfect solution to start a franchising, considering the flexibility and price advantages.
“The fact that companies have access to a virtual Office online platform unique worldwide, operating in PC and mobiles platforms, such as the iPhone, iPad and Android, allows them to manage their business with higher efficiency, being this one of the major differentiation factors of the Avila Business Centers", concludes Carlos Gonçalves.
About Avila Business Centers
Founded in 2004 with the name Espaço Avila Business Centers, the company changed its designation to Avila Business Centers in 2011. Besides renting turnkey physical work spaces, is leader in the virtual offices business where presents solutions with prices between 55 and 85 Euros per month, with several services associated, among them legal and financial support, personalized telephone answering and access to the potentialities of remote management of the myOffice app for mobile devices: Android, iPhone and iPad. In May 2011 was created the brand Franchise Set-Up, to support start-up franchised companies.
Currently it counts with more than 200 national and international clients and is member and representative in Portugal of the major Business Center network in the World, the eOffice International Network, with more than 300 locations and managed from the United Kingdom. Avila Business Centers has its premises in Lisbon, in Avenida da República and in Avenida João Crisóstomo. For more information visit www.avilabusinesscenter.com.
Avila Business Centers develops a Pioneer application for Android
Lisbon, 30th March 2011 – Avila Business Center (a company that manages Office Centers and Virtual Offices solutions) has just made available the version of its myOffice app for smartphones with Android operating system.
The myOffice app is the first worldwide application for physical and virtual offices developed exclusively for mobile platforms and it’s available since today in the Android Market. The application was developed in partnership with WATERDOG mobile, a national company with offices in Oporto and in Lisbon, and it will be free of charge for all Avila Business Centers’ clients, being also available a demo version in the Android Market.
myOffice application allows professionals to have real time information of telephone contacts, correspondence arrival and fax notifications as well as access to one hundred European Business Centers belonging to the eOffice network, represented in Portugal by Avila Business Centers.
Through this functionality, users may visualize on Google Maps the Business Centers location, and make online reservations of meeting rooms, offices and virtual offices, besides being able to demand for information on other services.
In the informative area of the app were introduced contents about the Avila Business Centers as well as the myOffice International Network, whose launch is previewed for May 2011.
Besides the myOffice for Android, the Avila Business Centers is also developing a mobile site, to allow the access from other smartphones, namely the Blackberry terminals.
«This project was developed after a study made to 250 Avila Business Center’s clients companies, among which 82% have a favourable opinion in relation to these applications, showing the utility these technologies represent nowadays to companies and the opening of them for the innovation of their work processes.», highlights Carlos Gonçalves, Avila Business Centers’ CEO.
Avila Business Center wants with this new product, to try to give a more effective answer to the companies’ needs that are in constant mobility, being an effective solution for professionals working in a telework regime, for freelancers and for organizations geographically spread and that have adopted a virtual Office in Lisbon city centre.
«The partnership with Avila Business Centers was and will continue to be a higher gain for WATERDOG mobile, considering it comes up in the moment we are still a start-up focused in the design and development of mobile applications. The myOffice, which is now also available for Android, is of Great utility for Avila Business Centers’ offices clients, since it allows a unique interaction at a distance », explains Pedro Coutinho, founder and partner of the WATERDOG mobile.
«We are in a moment where cloud Web based solutions are assuming more and more importance and we are going to continue to bet in that sense. The myOffice is an example of an application which fits in this reality », concludes the same responsible.
About Avila Business Centers
Funded in 2004 with the name Espaço Avila Business Centers, the company changed its designation to Avila Business Centers in 2011. Besides renting turnkey physical work spaces, is leader in the virtual offices business where presents solutions with prices between 55 and 85 Euros per month, with several services associated, among them legal and financial support, personalized telephone answering and access to the potentialities of remote management of the myOffice app for mobile devices: Android, iPhone and iPad. Currently it counts with more than 200 national and international clients and is member and representative in Portugal of the major Business Center network in the World, the eOffice International Network, with more than 300 locations and managed from the United Kingdom. Avila Business Centers has its premises in Lisbon, in Avenida da República and in Avenida João Crisóstomo. For more information visit http://www.avilabusinesscenter.com.
About WATERDOG mobile
The WATERDOG mobile is a Portuguese startup focused in the design and development of solutions for mobile devices, namely for iOS (iPhone and iPad), Android and Windows Phone 7. The company was founded in 2011 and although it has initiated recently its activity, it counts already with the development of a gathering of innovating applications for clients in several activity sectors. To have more information contact the WATERDOG mobile team in http://waterdogmobile.com.
Avila Business Centers launches new brand for workshops and networking
The Avila Corporate Club – Workshops & Networking Events is going to be a privileged place for Avila Business Centers’ clients to exchange contacts and share business experiences.
Lisbon, 10th March 2011 – The Avila Business Centers, a company of turnkey physical work spaces renting and leader in the virtual offices business, is going to start, on the next Monday, 14th March, a series of workshops which are going to happen together with the launch of the brand Avila Corporate Club - Workshops & Networking Events.
The first one is going to be subordinated to the theme Corporate Communications 3.0: LinkedIn & 4 G and it will be ministered by Ricardo Andorinho, CEO from MBU Intelligence, a company with its head office in one of Avila Business Centers’ offices. This workshop will take place in the TB Store auditorium (Avenida 5 de Outubro, 26B), an Apple Premium Reseller store, between 10 and 13 hours.
The Avila Corporate Club translates itself in a set of free training initiatives with an entrepreneurship networking component, intended to clients and partners of ABC. These workshops are innovating in Portugal, since there isn’t a Business Center developing this kind of initiatives.
The idea came from the fact that Avila Business Centers have currently 300 clients from different professional activities, being able to provide to them business synergies opportunities through an informal networking, on a workshop environment. Accordingly to Carlos Gonçalves, Avila Business Centers’ CEO, this kind of initiative “makes all sense in this economic recession context and need of exchange of contacts and promotions among companies”.
Avila Corporate Club events are going to be organized every two month and will take place at Avila Business Centers’ premises or in auditoriums of partner companies during one morning. “The number of participants does not exceed 30, to facilitate the interaction and the exchange of contacts in order to potentiate partnership and business relationships”, explains Carlos Gonçalves.
The mission of these workshops will be of promoting the competence transmission and the contacts exchange among companies having a virtual office or a physical office at Avila Business Centers, being an excellent opportunity to potentiate new businesses on and informal environment. Considering most of them are micro companies and SME in a startup phase, this is a good option to contact with other companies.
Avila Business Centers invites a client or a partner to minister the workshop, which translates itself in a training session with a small commercial component where it is possible to promote the company. It is given priority to companies which highlight themselves by the innovation of their products or services.
Carlos Gonçalves reinforces the importance of these new initiatives: “Our Business Center strategy passes by the promotion of regular networking sessions among our clients and business partners, besides inviting them to present workshops on innovating themes, as it’s the case of this first workshop. It is an excellent opportunity for companies to acquire knowledge and to promote among each others.”
As for Ricardo Andorinho, speaker in this first workshop on the 14th of March, “the participation of MBU Intelligence in this workshop represents an excellent opportunity for small and medium size companies to get in touch with innovating strategies of online marketing, through a LinkedIn tool, besides getting to know the 4 G, which is still a recent model, but represents a new paradigm in the way of thinking and of managing the organizations human resources. MBU Intelligence has a practical approach of these themes which fits perfectly on the format conceived by Avila Business Centers”.
About Avila Business Centers
Founded in 2004 with the name Espaço Ávila Business Center, the company changed designation in 2011 to Avila Business Centers. Besides renting turnkey physical work spaces for companies, is also leader in the virtual offices business where presents solutions with prices between 55 and 85 Euros per month, with several services associated, among them legal support, personalized telephone answering and access to the potentialities of the remote management of the myOffice app for iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad). Currently it counts with around 300 national and international clients and is member and representative in Portugal of the biggest business center network in the world, the eOffice International Network, with more than 300 locations and managed from the United Kingdom. Avila Business Centers has its premises in Lisbon, in Avenida da República and Avenida João Crisóstomo. For more information visit www.avilabusinesscenter.com.
myOffice app updated and compatible with iOS 4.3
Launched in October 2010, the exclusive and pioneer application from Avila Business Centers comes now with new functionalities to create an even bigger interactivity with users.
Lisbon, 10th March – The Avila Business Centers, a company of turnkey physical work spaces renting and leader in the virtual offices business, announced the updating of the myOffice free app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The myOffice, now in the 1.5 version, is totally compatible with the iOS 4.3, the next release of the Apple mobile platform.
In relation to the previous version, this new release grants myOffice of information about the 100 European Business Centers belonging to the eOffice International network, represented in Portugal by Avila Business Centers. Through this functionality, users my visualize in Google Maps the location of the Business Centers, as well as make online reservations of meeting rooms, offices and virtual offices, besides demanding information on other services.
The myOffice 1.5 version also has the useful Push Notifications, allowing clients to receive notifications in real time on the iPhone screen, iPod touch or iPad, even when the application is inactive.
In the informative area of the app, were also introduced two institutional videos about the Avila Business Centers as well as information about the myOffice International Network, whose official launch is preview for May 2011.
This app continues to be totally free and has a demo version without usage limit, allowing a non client user to know the application in detail. This functionality enables these users to receive notifications of eventual promotions and warnings about the adhesion of new Business Centers to the International Network.
Accordingly to Carlos Gonçalves, Avila Business Centers’CEO, “this new version of myOffice app came to reinforce the advantages of this application, which already counts with around 600 downloads at a worldwide level. We enhance the introduction of the “push notification” and a new Demo version for potential clients without usage limit. We are proud to be the first and only Business Center in the World with a Virtual Office application for Smartphones and iPad, being that the success of this app is also due to the commitment of our technological partner Swipe Twice.”
About Avila Business Centers
Founded in 2004 with the name Espaço Ávila Business Center, the company changed designation in 2011 to Avila Business Centers. Besides renting turnkey physical work spaces for companies, is also leader in the virtual offices business where presents solutions with prices between 55 and 85 Euros per month, with several services associated, among them legal support, personalized telephone answering and access to the potentialities of the remote management of the myOffice app for iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad). Currently it counts with around 300 national and international clients and is member and representative in Portugal of the biggest business center network in the world, the eOffice International Network, with more than 300 locations and managed from the United Kingdom. Avila Business Centers has its premises in Lisbon, in Avenida da República and Avenida João Crisóstomo. For more information visit www.avilabusinesscenter.com.
myOffice recognized in a European technological event
Avila Business Centers application for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touc,h which allows the management of an Office at a distance, is going to be in the spotlight at the Tech Media Europe.
Lisbon, 25th January– The myOffice app, developed by the national company SwipeTwice, for Avila Business Centers, was selected to participate in the technological event Tech Media Europe, happening in Oporto in the next day’s 2 and 3 of February. Organized together with the private organization Europe Unlimited, which supports projects focused on innovating Technologies, by the Portuguese Association for the Development of the Communities and by Porto Digital, the Tech Media Europe is one of the main technological events for the corporate sector that happens in Europe.
The myOffice app was selected among other 35 other European projects and it’s going to be presented during this congress to a panel composed by financial investors from the technological entrepreneurship area. Launched in October 2010, the myOffice platform assumes itself as the first of the kind at a worldwide level, allowing the management in real time of a physical or virtual Office from an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. In this app, Avila Business Canters’ clients may see all messages, telephone calls or correspondence arrival directed to them. The application is free of charge for all Avila Business Centers clients, being able to download it through the App Store. It’s previewed the launch of the app for Android and Blackberry smartphones for the first quarter of 2011.
«The myOffice app nomination for the Tech Media Europe is the recognition of the work developed by Avila Business Centers in the virtual offices innovation domain, and the strategic partnerships developed with Portuguese companies in the mobile Technologies area, namely with SwipeTwice. We believe the fact that myOffice is an application oriented towards the client and companies which need to be in contact with the virtual Office in real time, has strongly contributed to the selection in this Project. It will be an excellent promotion opportunity of myOffice, a software 100% Portuguese which is gaining more and more international notoriety», said Carlos Gonçalves, Avila Business Centers’ CEO.
About Avila Business Centers
Founded in 2004 with the name of Espaço Ávila Business Center, the company changed designation in 2011 to Avila Business Centers. Besides renting turnkey physical work spaces for companies, is the leader in the business of virtual offices where presents solutions with prices between 55 and 85 Euros per month, with several services associated, among them legal support, personalized telephone answering and the access to the remote management potentialities of the myOffice app for iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad). Currently it counts with more than 200 national and international clients and is member and representative in Portugal of the major business centers network in the world, the eOffice International Network, with more than 300 locations and managed from the United Kingdom. Avila Business Centers have their premises in Lisbon in República Avenue and João Crisóstomo Avenue. For more information visit www.avilabusinesscenter.com.
Espaço Ávila Business Center renews corporate image
The company of entrepreneurship work spaces renting and virtual offices solutions is now named as Avila Business Centers and adopts a new logotype.
Lisbon, 12th January – The Espaço Ávila Business Center, a company of turnkey physical work spaces renting for companies and leader in the virtual offices business, entered the market in 2011 with a renewed corporate image, namely with the adoption of a new logotype, a new slogan and the change in the company’s designation, which is now named as Avila Business Centers.
The Avila Business Centers wants, with this identity renewal, to reinforce the brand internationalization strategy. Carlos Gonçalves, CEO of the Avila Business Centers, explains the motifs of this decision: «The Word “Espaço” is withdrawn due to two factors: the company is more and more turned to the international market, being this term difficult to pronounce for foreigners. The second aspect has to do with the fact that, currently, the Avila Business Centers offers not only work spaces for company, but mainly support services focused on the virtual Office, where it assumes as innovation leader in this area ». Just a reminder to say the company launched in October 2010 the myOffice application for iOS (iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch), which allows users to manage the Office communications at a distance, being currently the sole company of the kind at a worldwide level to have this resource.
Besides the logotype change, which maintains the wigs stylization in dark red but includes the designation change in which is highlighted the stylization of the “A” accent mark, the slogan also changes: from ‘Fly Higher’ to ‘Your Office Anywhere’, to emphasize even more the virtual offices resources potentialities and the future partnerships of the Avila Business Centers in some countries: «It is going to be launched the franchising network and a new international project to be broadcast still in this month of January ». For all this, Carlos Gonçalves, announces that 2011 is a «turning point » for Avila Business Centers. «This rebranding aims to consolidate and reinforce the notoriety the brand has in the market, by keeping the Avila Business Centers identity and values it incorporates namely the charm offices offer, the personalized service, the modernity of the facilities and the technological innovation », concludes the CEO.
About Avila Business Centers
Founded in 2004 with the name Espaço Avila Business Centers, the company changed its designation to Avila Business Centers in 2011. Besides renting turnkey physical work spaces, is leader in the virtual offices business where presents solutions with prices between 55 and 85 Euros per month, with several services associated, among them legal and financial support, personalized telephone answering and access to the potentialities of remote management of the myOffice app for mobile devices: Android, iPhone and iPad. Currently it counts with more than 200 national and international clients and is member and representative in Portugal of the major Business Center network in the World, the eOffice International Network, with more than 300 locations and managed from the United Kingdom. Avila Business Centers has its premises in Lisbon, in Avenida da República and in Avenida João Crisóstomo. For more information visit http://www.avilabusinesscenter.com.
Lisbon, 20th October 2010 – Avila Business Center (a company that manages Office Centers and Virtual Offices solutions) developed the first worldwide virtual offices application to the iPhone.
Known as myOffice, this is the first worldwide application developed exclusively to the iPhone and oriented, specifically, to the virtual Office activity. The application was developed in partnership with a technological Portuguese company, SwipeTwice, based in Oporto, free of charge for all Avila Business Center’s clients, being able to download it through the App Store.
myOffice application will allow professionals to have real time information of telephone contacts, correspondence arrival notifications and other functionalities, namely at a location and contacts from other business centres of the eOffice international network level, represented in Portugal by Avila Business Center.
Through the application it may be demanded information by email or telephone about the services paid by the Business Centers, as well as scheduling meetings, offices reservations and virtual offices hire.
Besides myOffice for the iPhone, Avila Business Center is also developing a Mobile Site, to allow the access from other smartphones, namely the Blackberry and Nokia.
This project was developed after a study made to 250 Avila Business Center’s clients companies, among which 82% have a favourable opinion in relation to these applications, showing the utility these technologies represent nowadays to companies and the opening of them for the innovation of their work processes.
Avila Business Center wants with this new product, to try to give a more effective answer to the companies’ needs that are in constant mobility, being an effective solution for professionals working in a telework regime, for freelancers and for organizations geographically spread and that have adopted a virtual Office in the centre of Lisbon.
For Carlos Gonçalves, Chief executive officer of the company “this project confirms Avila Business Center as a reference in Business Centers and Virtual Offices market, betting on the constant innovation of their products and on the adoption of state of the art technologies in order to have value close to its clients”.
About Avila Business Center
Avila Business Center, leader on the virtual offices market, is a Business Center located in Av. República and in Av. João Crisóstomo (Lisbon), dedicating itself also to the rental of physical offices based on a philosophy of “ready made” service. Founded in 2004, presents, since then, several virtual offices modalities (has Virtual Offices’ packages available from 55 Euros to 85 Euros plus VAT, per month) being leader on the market with more than 200 national and international clients. Since 2008 it is a partner and representative in Portugal of eOffice International Network, the major Business Center network in the World, with more than 300 centres and being managed from the United Kingdom. For more information you may visit the website www.espacoavila.com.
About SwipeTwice
SwipeTwice is a small software design and development company focused on creating distinctive iPhone, iPad and iPod touch applications. The company was founded in the spring of 2010 and aims to evolve into a fully iOS and MacOS developing studio in the near future.
At the present SwipeTwice is working on several apps to be released soon on the Apple Store and is also working with companies and institutions developing custom solutions.
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