The myOffice application was considered by the consultancy company IDC as one of the ten best technological projects in Portugal

Lisbon, Portugal -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/21/2012 -- The Avila Business Centers, a company of turnkey physical spaces for renting and leader in the virtual offices market, announces that its Virtual Office project (myOffice application) won a CIO Award 2012 during the CIO Summit 2012 which has as objective to spread IT and communication projects with impact in organization businesses, and good practices at a national and international level. This is an event with the IDC signature, a company worldwide leader in the marketinelligence area. After winning the Call Center trophy in 2011, the Avila Business Centers stands out once again winning this important award.

The myOffice application is a Pioneer Project at an international level and presents itself as the perfect solution for professionals and companies not needing a permanent Office, but who require a strong corporate image with the support of a Professional secretariat which guaranties the treatment of all information.

The myOffice application was developed by the Avila Business Centers, a 100% national company, leader in this market in Portugal. This virtual office application, which is available for iPhone and Android mobile devices, was developed in partnership with the Portuguese companies Swipe Twice and WATERDOG mobile, responsible for the placing of the product on the Apple App Store and on the Android Market, respectively.

Since the application is oriented towards an increase of the entrepreneurship productivity, it works as well on the computer, with automatic integration to the email and SMS, allows the Business Center to be always in contact with the client. The myOffice shows the client all the information online and in real time (messages, telephone calls, correspondence arrival) and also allows him to use this same platform to book online meeting rooms in office centers of other countries.

The CIO Summit 2012 took place at Centro Cultural de Belem, in Lisbon, and counted, among other speakers of nominated companies with the presence of Carlos Goncalves, CEO of the Avila Business Centers which presented the Avila Business Centers' Case Study: Virtual Office (myOffice application).

"The Virtual Office is changing the way companies and professionals work. Many times it does not pay off to buy or to rent an office when we can work anywhere, having a professional secretariat, prestige address and temporary work spaces", said Carlos Goncalves.

The responsible was clearly proud with this distinction which, besides testifying the quality of the solution, shows the nature of the myOffice as business enabler. "The myOffice was created with a technological basis precisely to ensure the adaptation to companies' needs and an optimization of its procedures. We feel it is an added value for the daily basis of our clients, and this nomination gives us even more confidence in the myOffice". Besides, this award "will reinforce the notoriety this app already has at an international level, making it easier for its internationalization process in the Software as a Service model, which predicts the constitution of an International Network of Office Centers using the myOffice app", concludes the responsible.

About the Avila Business Centers
The Avila Business Centers 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 400 national and international clients and is member and representative in Portugal of the major network of Business Centers 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 Republica and in Avenida Joao Crisostomo. For more information visit http://www.avilabusinesscenter.com.

About the CIO Awards
The project "CIO Awards" from IDC was created to show the market in general, that in moments of economical, financial and social difficulties, several companies and governmental organizations decided to bet on the dynamization and innovation of their activities, with the information Technologies support, generating a series of projects which contributed for the positive development of these entities. Know more in http://www.portalidc.com.

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One of the concerns nowadays is the fixed costs that are associated to an Office space. Which are the strategies companies are developing in this domain?

Lisbon, Portugal -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/24/2012 -- Besides a redefinition of their location they are betting on the spaces rationalization and on new models which translate, on the one hand, a charges reduction and, on the other hand, a balanced cost-benefit relationship.

It is precisely here that the turnkey office solution comes up, also designated by "Office as a Service", a still recent concept, but that is gaining more expression facing the added values it offers, both for small and big companies.

The "Office as a Service" consists on the renting of an Office in a Business Center, included in the monthly amount a gather of services essentials to the entrepreneurship activity: 24h/7 days a week access, reception service, personalized telephone answering, Internet, telephone line, furniture, maintenance, electricity, water and daily cleaning. In the monthly rent is also included the use of meeting rooms equipped with state of the art technologies for presentations and training sessions.

The "Office as a Service" is a model offered by Office Centers located in prestige addresses with good accesses, both by car and by public transportation being this also a credibility factor facing the possibility companies have by being based in Premium locations and use of modern Office facilities.

Many of the companies hiring this service have the need of telephonic and face to face service, without having to hire people for the job – this service is included in the rent – other added value is being more focused in their core: when the personnel is absent, the Business Center's secretariat assures the answering, receives the correspondence and forwards the messages and calls externally, in real time.

Besides the image, the flexibility is another advantage of this model: companies may open an Office with two collaborators and if they need to increase the structure they may move to a bigger space within the building, keeping the address and the contacts: the criteria of the amount associated to the Office is the area and not the number of work stations; besides the Virtual Office or the Coworking may also be a solution, in the case the company chooses the telework or to reduce to the minimal the personnel structure.

In the current recession context, differentiation is the keyword, besides cost control. Companies betting on the space rationalization but that keep as a demand the comfort and quality of the facilities, the office's central location, the client's proximity and the service's efficiency, are those which will gain the new challenges.

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At the conference organized by the Avila Business Centers in December in Lisbon, was come to the conclusion that choosing Coworking and virtual offices is a rational measure and an intelligent choice.

Lisbon, Portugal -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/29/2011 -- The Avila Business Centers, company of turnkey physical work spaces for renting and leader in the virtual offices business in Portugal, organized the first national conference on virtual offices, Coworking and other models representing the office of the future. The Your Office Anywhere was a perfect stage to discuss the future of businesses and encourage the entrepreneurship.

With the participation of more than 150 professionals, the Your Office Anywhere served to discuss tendencies, identify investment opportunities in times of economical difficulties and find a path towards the office and professionals of the future. The conference was composed by two panels who discussed the current situation of physical offices renting market and the new technologies which allow a professional to have ones office available anytime anywhere, using technological mobile platforms.

Among the speakers were specialists in the real estate consultancy, architecture, business centers, Coworking, IT and mobile applications, with a special highlight to Carolina Rendeiro, a recognized leader and expert with over thirty years of experience on the Business Centers industry in the USA, CEO of the consultant Right Space Management and director of the Global Workspace Association (ex- Office Business Center Association International), the major worldwide association of the business centers, Coworking solutions and virtual offices sector.

There were also present Marco Santos, responsible for the Microsoft Business Office Division in Portugal, Paulo Silva, CEO of Aguirre Newman and Mariana Seabra from Jones Lang LaSalle.

The main conclusions were as follow:

FIRST PANEL: THE OFFICES´MARKET IN PORTUGAL

- Jones Lang LaSalle identified a present scenario characterized by a "hostile economical climate" and by a "market affected by austerity measures, low levels of confidence and lack of Prime offer". These facts take to, according to Mariana Seabra, a rental retraction and the showing up of clients demanding more Prime quality products at accessible prices.

To fight these tendencies, the responsible reminds that owners will have to create incentives to the renting in order to increase occupation.

However, to Mariana Seabra, the crisis also generates opportunities: "Occupation of Prime spaces at lower prices and a strong presence of pharmaceutical and loan defaults companies, which are financially fine! Like so, for the Jones Lang LaSalle responsible, 2012 is the year of the 3 'Rs: rethink, reposition and re-launch. Mariana Seabra also reminds that clients will be focused on "the use of new technologies in the next ten years", situation which will end up to affect "the entire market".

Aguirre Newman pointed essentially to new Human Resources tendencies for the second decade of this century. "The world is demanding for us to reinvent ourselves at a Human Resources level. It is time for mobility, this is the keyword. New work concepts have arisen: interaction, flexibility, communication, sharing". Together with new concepts connected to the Human Resources, also showed new space tendencies: the co-working (to which Patricia Liz calls the " golden brainchild"), the hot-desking (will stop being residual to become normal; flexibility to rent a room by the hour or by the day), virtual office (capability to be in the office without having a work space, a reality which leads to a restructure in the real estate agents activity; way of not taking chances on the investment in order to rent a physical space; way of having security in an uncertain period), and the open-space.

SECOND PAINEL: CONSUMPTION TRENDS IN THE VIRTUAL OFFICES AN NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Carolina Rendeiro was the main presence of this conference and spoke of her experience in the USA market, where she is since 1978. "Since then, this industry already had many names, but it started with an answering named call centers", reminds the expert.

"In the USA we fight against time lost in transportation to get to work and what matter is the technology for users to interact with the office. The society is at the break of an historical change", counts Carolina Rendeiro. The Global Workspace Association (GWA) director has always been quite positive during her intervention and was not tired of repeating that in each of the crisis she went through, opportunities were created: "Statistics are the same all over the world. In the USA each crisis is an opportunity, it's the existing mentality. Some sectors will never exist again and people are prepared to do the change", underlined Carolina Rendeiro.

Regarding the major trend of the moment in the USA, Carolina speaks for the preference companies have on having bigger spaces to offer for Coworking areas. "Starbucks, the Hyatt and Marriott hotels have already demanded information to be part of the GWA and enter in this industry", reveals the offices and business centers market expert. However there is a counter with which the American market is facing on: "Banks are not financing business centers in the USA, unfortunately. Investment comes only from the private sector and the major commercial investors in the real estate area are trying to diversify their portfolios".

Pedro Coutinho from WATERDOG mobile began to speak of the history of the mobile terminals, which started in 1973 with the mobile phone from Motorola created by Martin Cooper, showing after the first Smartphone of the world that reached the market in 1992, Simon. According to him, at that time there were no conditions for the Smartphone to be worthwhile for users. "Only in the latest years communications started being very useful to us. From2009 onwards the mobile data tripled. Until 2015, the multiplication is going to be even bigger", warned Pedro Coutinho.

With mobile devices and applications, users may, according to him, control all the business services of the company: ERP, CRM, Project management, documental management and billing. "Currently, we are more advanced than getting home and connect to the company' server. We may have on our Smartphone and tablet all that is kept in the office PC".

Rui Lopes Swipe Twice' Partner, presented the myOffice app as a case study "The myOffice is a contact and management platform in real time, which sends to the client all information online. This is, sends all the messages, phone calls, correspondence arrival which are send to the client" reminded Rui Lopes. The app is free for all Avila Business Centers clients and is also available for those willing to see how it works: all you need to do is search for "myOffice" on the App Store and choose the option "Demo User" that appears on the pop-up window.

In 2012, Rui Lopes revealed the app is going to have an optimized version for iPad and the internationalization is going to happen: "Any business center will be able to buy this technology". In order to put myOffice even more wide-ranging and effective, Rui Lopes advanced a series of new functionalities also previewed for the first months of 2012: online schedule of meeting and Coworking rooms and subscription online of the office service from the app. "With this we may have a virtual Office in a space of 1 or 2 days", guaranteed the responsible of Swipe Twice that also reminded other gains of the myOffice app: "The user has the possibility to see ABC partners abroad, that belong to the eOffice Network and, in the future to the myOffice International Network.

Marco Santos, Microsoft Director, showed how easy it is to have collaborative action at a distance with interconnection with different office software, counting with the help of the SharePoint and Lync recent services. "The presence in this conference is a new alliance and that is why we have accepted the challenge", began to state Marcos Santos. From his presentation, the Microsoft responsible highlighted three data regarding the countries' reality: "Portugal is 30% inferior in terms of productivity in relation to Europe, according to a study from the PEA (Portuguese Entrepreneurship Association), Portugal works in average 9 hours per day, says the OECD, which is too long for the existing production; 83% of the companies with more than ten people already use broadband; and a very concerning data: the IDC says the amount invested by the SMEs in technology is diminishing.

For Marcos Santos, the future of productivity has everything to do with the offices. "We have to be productive apart from the devices we use, to use the information the more comfortable way: on-premises or in the cloud, or a mix of both. There must be a redefinition of the concept of productivity, a major easiness to access content, to share with clients and colleagues". Afterwards, the presentation of Marcos Santos was quite practical and captivated the audience with an interaction in real time with a colleague from Microsoft where together edited documents remotely and communicated recurring to a conference call with the help of SharePoint and Microsoft Lync resources.

He also demonstrated that is possible to improve productivity, using technology, showing some indicators beyond any doubts: 301 per cent of ROI in 7,4 months, savings of 25/50% in dislocations costs, savings of 20% in IT budget, reduction of requirements in training in 25% and more 10% of savings in indirect costs.

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The new functioning models of work spaces was the central theme of the Annual Conference of the Office Business Center Association International (OBCAI), made this month in the USA, to the extent of being voted the change of its designation to Global Workspace Association.

Lisbon, Portugal -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/20/2011 -- In practice, it's just a name adjustment to a new reality: the offer of global solutions, which goes far beyond the traditional office and which contemplates the new solutions: the virtual Office, the shared work spaces (Coworking) and the distant secretariat (Virtual Assistants).

Since a while ago that Office Centers are not just to rent rooms: nowadays they are true Business Centers and of Networking, where companies and professionals find support in the business initial phases, and also in a growing period, by making upgrades and downgrades accordingly to your needs, using a turnkey service, of punctual work spaces and meeting rooms.

Flexibility and costs rationalization are the key words. The latest data published in the USA refers that 40% of the country's work force may work remotely, being that new technologies have been giving an effective answer to the professionals and companies needs, with a special highlight to the mobile applications which have been appearing in the market, like LiquidSpace, for workspace booking or myOffice, the first virtual office worldwide application for mobile devices, available in the Apple App Store, in the Android Market and optimized for other smartphones.

Analysing the themes presented at the International Conference and the new consumption tendencies, one concludes that Portugal, despite its reduced market, presents a good performance at this level, not only at a facilities quality level but also in to what concerns the innovation and adoption of new concepts in expansion throughout the world, like coworking, for example. Portugal presents surely one of the highest growth taxes of Europe in what concerns the opening of coworking spaces, not only in Lisbon and Oporto, showing that our entrepreneurs are aware of this market's evolution, which is no longer an exclusive of the entrepreneurs working within four walls and in one place. Today the Office is where you want it: with all the advantages at the balance level between your personal and professional life, productivity, costs rationalization and mobility increase.

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The physical and virtual offices company opens another Web based communication channel now on the Apple iTunes store, with free subscription of podcasts.

Lisbon, Portugal -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/28/2011 -- 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 Goncalves 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 Espaco 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 Republica and in Avenida Joao Crisostomo. For more information visit http://www.avilabusinesscenter.com

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Lisbon, Portugal -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/13/2011 -- In the recent years, brands divulgation through video has had an exponential growth, not only because there are more and more IT technologies which allow doing it in a free and intuitive way, but also because the Internet and the Social Networks came to potentiate the so called viral effect of these contents. From the several known examples, where Apple is a fundamental benchmark, there are several companies from the real estate sector which have been ceased the advantages of the video as an alternative or complement to more "static" contents as texts and photos.

Nowadays the corporate video is within the reach of any company not being anymore an exclusive of the major brands or publicity agencies. A simple search on YouTube or Vimeo allows identifying good practices of companies which, in two minutes, can present effectively a brand, product or service, on a low-cost philosophy, minimalist, and betting on the message authenticity, without major technical productions. Also in this area, the USA has been pioneer. Looking into this market, we face several websites which are genuine television channels, with the major objective of broadcast journalistic plays or interviews to the responsible of small companies which have been highlighted by their products and services innovation. How do target companies capitalise this exposition?

Simply by putting the respective videos on the corporate website, broadcasting them on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. In Portugal, one interesting example is the Infofranchising TV from the Franchising Information Institute (http://www.infofranchisingtv.pt), but, certainly, other channels will arise soon.

Besides the traditional corporate video, the VideoPodcast support is becoming more used, catched on by Apple in 2005, and which may have a major impact for the brands communication. Normally they are opinion articles, small interviews or presentations and their hosting is free on websites like iTunes, for example.

The use of the video as a way to broadcast our brands came to embody the old saying: "a picture is worth a thousand words". But now internet came to ease that task and any company may put into practice this objective.

About Avila Business Centers
Founded in 2004 with the name Espaco 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 Republica and in Avenida Joao Crisostomo. For more information visit http://www.avilabusinesscenter.com

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A few months ago I was surprised by a potential client, coming from Japan, who was interested on installing her company in an Office Center in Lisbon.

Lisbon, Portugal -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/17/2011 -- The first thing she made was to put a compass on the floor to see if it had a good Feng Shui, and the second was to ask about aspects related with the Technologies adopted by the Center. This approach is a clear example that the paradigm in the office rental area is changing: besides the physical space (area, common spaces, accessibilities) professionals and companies are more and more worried with the well-being and with the technologies at their disposal in order to guaranty the efficiency of the work processes and, above all, the professionals' mobility.

The flexibility is in the order of the day and the mobility is increasingly a critical factor nowadays. The sale of half a million iPad2 in the USA, in the first launching day, demonstrates well the need people have to be always contactable, allowing them to access the office wherever they are.

As the executive above mentioned, modern professionals seek more and more Office solutions which assures them an efficient control of their business, mainly at the client relation level – in this area have been highlighted Virtual Office applications for mobile devices, which are being used for companies having a physical Office, besides those adopting a virtual Office: the main advantage is the Access in real time to received telephone contacts, as well as messages and correspondence received. All these data are reported to a secretariat based in the Office Center which gives distant support and makes a telephone answering with a high personalization degree, besides having voicemail-to-email solutions, covering a 24h/7 days a week.

On this domain, Portuguese companies have shown a great know-how in the international market, being pioneers with the launch of the myOffice app, available in the Apple app Store Apple since 2010 and in the Android Market since March of the present year. This way, Business Centers are able to offer companies the better of two worlds: on the one hand turnkey services of Office rental with 24 hours access, meeting rooms and administrative support and, on the other hand, state of the art technology which contributes in a decisive way to the productivity increase.

Carlos Goncalves
Avila Business Center
http://www.avilabusinesscenter.com
http://intelligentoffices.blogspot.com

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Lisbon, Portugal -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/11/2011 -- A study made by the American company Virtual PBX to representatives of more than 600 SMEs, concluded that 61% affirms to choose virtual offices due to a higher mobility and 54% due to costs reduction. Whether for the mobility, costs reduction or for other reasons, the study proved that in 59% of the cases, the inquiries are more effective when working from home.

Nowadays productivity is the word of the day, efficacy as well, existing a huge will to maximize profits. Many companies invest on the well-being of the collaborators, realizing that it will bring profit to their company. Working conditions have improved for many people but they continue to be the cause of stress for the majority.

A reality which is becoming more common is the adhesion of Portuguese professionals to the Virtual Office concept. As a Clinical Advisor and Instructor and the behavior area, I'm essentially interested on the effects this kind of work has on people, in emotional and behavior terms. There are several areas very important to be analyzed and developed, like time management, personal organization, motivation, among others. Today I dispose myself to analyze the effect this kind of work has on stress.

I dare saying stress affect us all. What causes it? Without a doubt the way we deal with the situations is determinant. But external causes also perform a significant role. Many of these causes are connected to work: poor space conditions often aggravate by the open space philosophy; traffic (many people take one hour or more between home and work); difficult relationships in companies where there isn't the concern to provide for a good training or even coaching; personal look, among others. In the virtual offices situation, many of the causes of stress have already been eliminated or are deeply reduced.

In relation to the work space, one doesn't have to deal with the discomfort, reduced space, colleagues' noise or other kind of problem. If you work at home, the work space is your own, personalized according to your taste (and not the boss's) and organized by you. You also have the major advantage to be able to start working soon after you get up; you don't have to displace in transports neither having a special appearance. This point outs to another benefit: who works in its own space spends much lesser money on clothes, and what spends is in clothes one likes and not on the ones needed to use in the company. The same happens in relation to transports, which for the majority of people they represent a considerable expense. These advantages will not eliminate stress, but they will reduce it considerably.

However despite its great advantages, the virtual offices still present some difficulties. The companies adopting them will have to deal with other kind of situations, different from the traditional companies. They need to develop new ways of work planning and performance evaluation. The training continues to be fundamental, but in this case it will be more in the motivation, self-control, personal organization, time management, compromise, distant leadership areas, among others.

Analysing the benefits and the difficulties of working at a distance, we may verify that albeit it is not adaptable to all kind of people and demands a reformulation on the way of work by the companies' leaders, this alternative may reduce significantly the sources of stress, besides stimulating a bigger growth and independence of the person, that will be much more responsible and autonomous.

Filomena Santos
Instructor and Clinical Advisor
Author and facilitator of the course To Reduce Stress, e-learning, Moodle Platform
Facebook: Filomena Santos (Clinical Advisor)

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Lisbon, Portugal -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/11/2011 -- 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 Goncalves, 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 Espaco Avila Business Centers, the company changed its designation to Avila Business Centers in 2011.

Besides renting "ready made" 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 myOffice app for mobile devices: Android, iPhone and iPad.

Currently it counts with more than 200 national and international clients partner 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 Republica and in Avenida Joao Crisostomo. 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.

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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, Portugal -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/25/2011 -- 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 Goncalves, 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 Espaco Avila 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 Republica and Avenida Joao Crisostomo. For more information visit http://www.avilabusinesscenter.com.

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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, Portugal -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/25/2011 -- 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 Goncalves, 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 Goncalves.

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 Goncalves 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".

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About Avila Business Centers
Founded in 2004 with the name Espaco Avila 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 Republica and Avenida Joao Crisostomo. For more information visit http://www.avilabusinesscenter.com.

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Avila Business Centers application for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch which allows the management of an Office at a distance, is going to be in the spotlight at the Tech Media Europe.

Lisbon, Portugal -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/03/2011 -- 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 Centers' 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 Goncalves, Avila Business Centers' CEO.

About Avila Business Centers
Founded in 2004 with the name of Espaco Avila 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 Republica Avenue and Joao Crisostomo Avenue. For more information visit http://www.avilabusinesscenter.com

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Recently, Mike Gedye, senior director of the Global Corporate Services Department from the consultant CB Richard Ellis has published a Report suggesting ten resolutions to meet the challenges in the real estate area for 2011.

Lisbon, Portugal -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/19/2011 -- This Report is particularly interesting because the presented resolutions establish a parallel between situations adopted for daily life and we conclude that any resemblance is not purely coincidental…
Resolution number 9 is inserted in the chapter "Improve Communication" and has as theme" Work Smarter". Gedye highlights that currently there are flexible work organization solutions and reinforces the importance of companies to focus on their main activity, and for that they should bet on an effective management premises and of work spaces: organizations may effectively take advantage of flexible work organization solutions by adopting a more effective environment which may be tuned with the business needs and equipped to improve productivity and cost efficiency.

According to CB Richard Ellis, if companies adopt these strategies they will increase their productivity levels, taking advantage also of the mobile technology and of higher tendency for the use of wide and collaborative spaces (also named of coworking spaces), in case companies do not need permanent offices to work.

Answering to companies' needs searching for efficiency in their work places and of costs rationalization without prejudice for the team motivation levels, there are several solutions that can be adopted in our market. Office Centers position themselves as a valid alternative, offering services in outsourcing based on a turnkey philosophy, both at office rental, coworking and personalized secretariat levels.

In practice, a company may install itself on a serviced Office in a space like Avila Business Center, with leading edge technology, administrative support and meeting rooms, having a monthly fee and working on flexibility optics, namely on what concerns transition to bigger or smaller spaces, accordingly to the market and the company evolution.

Besides physical offices, companies may choose the virtual office solution, with more accessible costs (between 50 Euros and 85 Euros plus VAT per month). The Virtual Office allows the use of temporally work spaces, plus a prestige address, professional telephone answering and correspondence reception with online notifications.

This is an innovating concept where Avila Business Center and Swipe Twice, two Portuguese companies, are pioneer and are at the vanguard at a worldwide level: currently exists an application named "myOffice" which allows access to your office wherever you are, being available in the App Store for iPhone and iPad users. Soon, naturally, appear new versions for Android or Blackberry devices.

These are just some opportunities examples in the real estate and work space management areas, at a time where the access to credit for office acquisition is very limited and companies have a liquidity need to develop their businesses, searching solutions that contribute to improve their productivity.

Carlos Goncalves
Avila Business Center CEO

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Avila Business Center (a company that manages Office Centers and Virtual Offices solutions) developed the first worldwide virtual offices application to the iPhone.

Lisbon, Portugal -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/01/2010 -- 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 Goncalves, 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. Republica and in Av. Joao Crisostomo (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 http://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.

For more information you may visit the website http://www.swipetwice.com

Application Specifications:

1) – The phone calls notifications have full information about the message left, the name/company that contacted the client, date/hour and level of emergency;

2) - Correspondence notifications have information about the sender, date/hour of reception and type (normal/registered);

3) Fax notifications have information about the sender date/hour of reception, as well as the subject. Both the correspondence and the fax can be scanned and sent to the client.

4) Messages notifications have information about the person who transmitted it, date/hour, as well as the subject.

5) The client manages the notifications by selecting the "Done subject" or "answered call" options. The registers can also be deleted.

6) The client can automatically forward the notifications by email so that another person can be aware of the situation and proceed with the subject.

7) The same way, the client may contact the secretariat directly by email or by phone, asking for additional information about the notifications or demanding cooperation to give sequence to the subjects.

8) myOffice also allows you to have information about the several partners of eOffice international network, being able to demand for information by email or by phone on the services given, as well as make meeting appointments, offices reservation and virtual offices hiring.

For more information:

Joao Damasceno
Communication Director
Tel.: 210 995 054
Telm.: 912593788
joao.damasceno@livecomunicacaoglobal.com

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Avila Business Center (a company that manages Office Centers and Virtual Offices solutions) is developing a virtual Office application to the iPhone.

Lisbon, Lisbon -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/09/2010 -- Known as myOffice, this is the first worldwide application to be developed exclusively to the iPhone and oriented, specifically, to the virtual Office activity. The application is being developed in a partnership with SwipeTwice, based in Oporto, and it will be 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, still in analysis, namely at the international Office center network eOffice level, represented in Portugal by Avila Business Center.

Besides myOffice for the iPhone, Avila Business Center is also developing a Mobile Site, to allow the access from other smartphones, namely the Blackberry.

This project was developed after a study made to 250 Avila Business Center's clients companies, among which 82% having 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 center of Lisbon.

For Carlos Goncalves, 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 it's clients".

About Avila Business Center
Avila Business Center, leader on the virtual offices market, is a Business Center located in Av. Republica and in Av. Joao Crisostomo (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 centers and being managed from the United Kingdom.

For more information you may visit the website http://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.

For more information you may visit the website http://www.swipetwice.com

For more information:

Joao Damasceno
Tel.: 210 995 054
Telm.: 962 922 122 (Sandro Bernardo)
joao.damasceno@livecomunicacaoglobal.com

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