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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.