SilverBug launches Your Instant Office

UK: On the occasion of the first European SME Week, (6 – 14 May 2009), designed to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate new businesses, Milton Keynes based company SilverBug has announced the launch of Your Instant Office. 

Your Instant Office is a comprehensive, flexible, virtual office package, designed for UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who are looking to cut their costs and better manage their resources for survival in the current uncertain economic climate.

By providing Internet access to hosted leading software solutions, which form the core IT function for both start up and established SME companies, Silverbug’s Your Instant Office allows users access to enterprise software which otherwise would be well beyond their budget, for a simple, low cost  per-user monthly fee, starting from £55.

Your Instant Office gives businesses more choices in how they operate, and those choices might make the difference between surviving the downturn or not.

Aside from the obvious cost advantages of buying only what you need when you need it, Your Instant Office can provide other benefits:

• a business owner could now look to Your Instant Office to provide secure home-working as a viable  option for teams and cut costs that way

• if fewer staff work on site, they could look to maintain smaller HQ premises and again reduce costs

• a mobile workforce would be fully productive on the road, without needing to return to base before orders are logged and invoiced for payment which could improve cash flow

• Your Instant Office also reduces the risks to a start up business of data loss or theft  and all the associated PR and customer service problems that brings, by ensuring data and office systems are held securely and with complete disaster recovery and back up services maintained by SilverBug

Explaining the idea behind Your Instant Office, Owen Daley, CEO of SilverBug said: “Technology underpins a lot of successful businesses, but many business owners are not necessarily comfortable with how to select the most appropriate technology or know how to use it to their advantage.  Or if they are able to identify what they want, chances are they cannot operate or maintain it properly within their budget."

"Your Instant Office will take away one of the biggest headaches for both new and established SMEs and offer them a chance to look better, bigger and be more efficient by having access to big organisation technology, without the expense of set up costs or the stress of selection, installation and maintenance of the software.  Budget stresses are also removed, because with the low-cost fee per user, you know where you are on expenses every month.”

Explaning how SilverBug was selected, Sharon Williams, general manager at Authentics said: “We were looking for a professional company with big capacity remote servers to access the latest technology, within our strict budget.  SilverBug was bought to our attention as a young company providing full IT service and maintenance and as an added bonus to us – with knowledge of SAP (SAP Business One).

“Working practices have changed dramatically over recent years and a fixed office is not necessarily the way forward.  Your Instant Office allows our staff to be more flexible, working from home, on the road or overseas.  At the click of a button we can immediately access our office.  Flexibility is the way forward, particularly in these uncertain times," she added.