I’m out of the Office!

Do you or your colleagues work out of the office – as though you are in the office? Are you travelling with your laptop and need continual access to your work email, diary, documents etc? Do you want your access to your email from your mobile phone?

Our clients have come to rely on these mobile methods of working – and it has transformed their business!

So what are some of our clients doing?

The Mobile Phone Story

A property company where the Senior Partner wants to read Outlook email, diary and tasks on his O2 XDA mobile phone – as well as open PDF attachments whilst inspecting properties! The mailbox is synchronised automatically using the latest Exchange Push technology. This uses Microsoft Active Sync for Windows Mobile and Exchange 2003

The Laptop Story

A Lighting Design Consultant has a Microsoft Small Business Server in his office travels to the USA and the Far East with his laptop and need continual up to date access to his Mailbox. He found (like many other people!) that VPN connections can be problematic. He can now synchronise his laptop with the office securely without needing a VPN connection, using the latest Microsoft technology - Outlook Synchronisation over HTTP for Exchange 2003 has made life on the move far less stressful!

The Home Workers Story

Many of our clients now have staff who want to work from home. Let’s take an example. A client who produces Sales Promotion Items (twinkling pens and lollipops) has an offices and remote workers in China, Pakistan, Paris, as well as Kensal Green!. His staff outside the main office need to work on their PCs as though they are in the office – using Microsoft Terminal Server with a fast Broadband Symmetric ADSL line from Easynet workers in Pakistan feel they are almost in the Office and use all the Office applications such as Outlook, Sage Accounts, ACT! Contact management etc.

This gives an idea of what Creative Solutions have successfully achieved for their demanding clients! Below is a list of the technologies we apply:

• Outlook synchronisation – Travel with Outlook and synchronise with the Exchange mailbox

• Outlook Web Access (OWA) - Get Outlook using a Internet Browser

• Outlook Mobile Access – Any mobile phone which has access to a GPRS browser can see their email on the phone

• Smart Phones with Windows Mobile – Using Push Technology continual up to date Email, Calendar, Tasks and Contacts as it changes in the office!

• Terminal Services – allows people to work outside the office as though they are in the office!

This gives some idea of the Out of Office technologies our clients are actively and successfully using today!