Mobile & Remote Working
Flexible working is one of the greatest sea changes in business culture today. Octavia can offer a range of solutions to enable flexible working for your employees, improving both efficiency & productivity.
Mobile Push Email
The ever increasing importance of corporate email communication means it is fast becoming a necessity, rather than a luxury, for employees to have access to their email facilities whilst on the move.
Push email allows users to send and receive email directly from their handheld device or mobile phone. Octavia have vast and varied experience in implementing such solutions utilising either Blackberry or Microsoft Exchange Direct Push technologies.
Remote Access Solutions
There are a number of different technologies which can facilitate working from remote locations:
- Virtual Private Networks
A VPN (Virtual Private Network) uses encryption and authentication mechanisms to provide secure communication between a remote user and a range of office resources such as email, printers, shared files, Intranets and databases.
- Web Based Email Access
Web based email (such as Microsoft's Outlook Web Access) offers an excellent, feature rich method for users to access their email through a standard web browser.
Exchange 2003 (or later) also enables the use of MS Outlook over an encrypted internet connection from any location without the need for a VPN connection.
- Web Based Collaboration Tools
These systems, such as MS Office SharePoint Server, allow access to documents and other company data from a remote web browser.
- Offline working
When no connection is available (i.e. on an aircraft), offline working allows users to work on company emails and documents which can then be synchronised when connectivity is restored.
Mobile applications
Organisations with field based workforces (such as field engineers) can benefit greatly from mobile applications that allow data capture and data collection on handheld devices
Our software development team are experienced in designing and developing mobile software solutions that can allow your field-based staff to be more productive.
Octavia’s offerings
Octavia Information Systems are highly experienced in the planning, implementation and support of mobile and remote working solutions including:
- MS Exchange planning and implementation
- Push email planning and implementation:
- Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES)
- Blackberry Internet Service (BIS)
- Microsoft Direct Push
- Handheld device selection and provisioning
- Advice and supply of software licensing
- Firewall and VPN configuration
- MS SharePoint design, implementation and development
- Development of hand-held software solutions
- Ongoing support and maintenance
