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