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MyOffice - The First Virtual Office Application

Worldwide Was Nominated For The IDC CIOAwards

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 ofturnkey physicalspaces 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 andoptimize their business procedures, to show innovation in the creation of products orservices, in their capacity to improve productivity of workers and use of the informationto improve the decision processes. The awards have as objective to get to spread thesesolutions for companies to realize how partnerships between the so called IT areas andcompetence suppliers can bring forth positive results.

We are very proud with this nomination, said Carlos Gonalves, Avila Business CentersCEO. Besides attesting the quality of the solution, it demonstrates the myOffice natureas business enabler. The myOffice was created on a technological basis precisely toensure 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 useven more confidence in the myOffice, concluded.

The CIO Awards are going to be revealed on the 19th of April 2012. The jury is composedby Carlos Maralo, Director of Semana Informtica, Fernando Bao, AssociatedProfessor of the Statistics Superior Institute and Information Management of theUniversidade Nova de Lisboa,Jaime Quesado, Strategy, Innovation andCompetitiveness Specialist,Jos Dias Coelho, Cathedratic Professor of the Economy

Department of the Univerdade Nova de Lisboa and President of the PortugueseAssociation for the Development of the Information Society,Jos Tribolet, CathedraticProfessor of the Engineering Department of the Instituto Superior Tcnico and Presidentof the Executive Commission of the INESC, Pedro Veiga, Cathedratic Professor of the ITDepartment of the Faculdade de Cincias, President of the Foundation for the ScientificComputation and for the Research Team of the IDC Portugal .

Launched in 2010, the myOffice was the first Virtual Office application worldwide orientedexclusively for PC/Mac, iPad and Smartphones. The myOffice allows professionals andcompanies having a virtual office to get notifications in real time about received

telephonic contacts, correspondence and fax arrivals. In practical terms, companies start

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having access to the office, not only on their PC/Mac/iPad, but also on their mobilephones, wherever they are.

Clients can also have information about other Business Centers of an internationalnetwork with around 300 partners, being this very useful in internationalization processesor 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 foreseenthe launch of the versions for Nokia and BlackBerry, among others.

About the Avila Business CentersFounded in 2004 with the name Espao vila, the company changed its designation toAvila Business Centers in 2011. Besides renting turnkey physical work spaces, is leader inthe virtual offices business where presents solutions with prices between 55 and 85Euros per month, with several services associated, among them legal and financialsupport, personalized telephone answering and access to the potentialities of remotemanagement of the myOffice app for mobile devices: Android, iPhone and iPad. In May2011 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 memberand representative in Portugal of the major Business Center network in the World, theeOffice International Network, with more than 300 locations and managed from theUnited Kingdom. Avila Business Centers has its premises in Lisbon, in Avenida daRepblica and in Avenida Joo Crisstomo. For more informationvisit www.avilabusinesscenter.com.

About the CIO Awards

The CIO Awards from IDC were created to show the market in general that, in momentsof economic, financial and social difficulties, several companies and governmentalorganizations decided to bet on the dynamization and innovation of their activities, asthe support for the information technologies, generating a series of projects whichcontributed a lot for the positive development of this entities. Know more atwww.portalidc.com.

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