MyOffice - The First Virtual Office Application Worldwide Was Nominated For The IDC CIO Awards

The Avila Business Centers Virtual Office application for iPhone, iPad and Android was distinguished with a nomination for the IDC prizes
Lisbon, 21st March 2012 The Avila Business Centers, a company of turnkey physical spaces for renting, saw its myOffice solution be named for the IDC CIO Awards. The CIO Awards aim to distinguish companies which turn to IT solutions to improve and optimize their business procedures, to show innovation in the creation of products or services, in their capacity to improve productivity of workers and use of the information to improve the decision processes. The awards have as objective to get to spread these solutions for companies to realize how partnerships between the so called IT areas and competence suppliers can bring forth positive results. We are very proud with this nomination, said Carlos Gonalves, Avila Business Centers CEO. Besides attesting the quality of the solution, it demonstrates the myOffice nature as business enabler. The myOffice was created on a technological basis precisely to ensure an adaptation to the companies needs and the optimization of their processes. We feel it is an added value for the day-to-day of our clients and this nomination gives us even more confidence in the myOffice, concluded. The CIO Awards are going to be revealed on the 19th of April 2012. The jury is composed by Carlos Maralo, Director of Semana Informtica, Fernando Bao, Associated Professor of the Statistics Superior Institute and Information Management of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Jaime Quesado, Strategy, Innovation and Competitiveness Specialist, Jos Dias Coelho, Cathedratic Professor of the Economy Department of the Univerdade Nova de Lisboa and President of the Portuguese Association for the Development of the Information Society, Jos Tribolet, Cathedratic Professor of the Engineering Department of the Instituto Superior Tcnico and President of the Executive Commission of the INESC, Pedro Veiga, Cathedratic Professor of the IT Department of the Faculdade de Cincias, President of the Foundation for the Scientific Computation and for the Research Team of the IDC Portugal . Launched in 2010, the myOffice was the first Virtual Office application worldwide oriented exclusively for PC/Mac, iPad and Smartphones. The myOffice allows professionals and companies having a virtual office to get notifications in real time about received telephonic contacts, correspondence and fax arrivals. In practical terms, companies start

having access to the office, not only on their PC/Mac/iPad, but also on their mobile phones, wherever they are. Clients can also have information about other Business Centers of an international network with around 300 partners, being this very useful in internationalization processes or in the development of projects abroad through this mean they may, for example, open a virtual office in other countries and book meeting rooms. The application is available for iPhone, iPad and Android devices, although it is foreseen the launch of the versions for Nokia and BlackBerry, among others.

About the Avila Business Centers Founded in 2004 with the name Espao vila, 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 Repblica and in Avenida Joo Crisstomo. For more information visit www.avilabusinesscenter.com.

About the CIO Awards The CIO Awards from IDC were created to show the market in general that, in moments of economic, financial and social difficulties, several companies and governmental organizations decided to bet on the dynamization and innovation of their activities, as the support for the information technologies, generating a series of projects which contributed a lot for the positive development of this entities. Know more at www.portalidc.com.