Stretching the Web for smarter working

Spiders do it and technical wizards do it too. But in business, stretching the web means understanding and harnessing the best internet technologies then putting them to good use to energise your IT and create business advantage. One great example is the 'virtual office.'

At Achieving the Difference we use a virtual office to run much of our business: there's a remote-hosted company intranet for keeping, managing and sharing all key statutory and financial data and documentation, projects and business development materials. We can offer our clients shared, protected access to collaborative project rooms in real time. And with fully integrated email, calendar and task sharing - all wirelessly synched to our mobiles - we can truly work anywhere, anytime.

For us it has provided an incomparable way to work together from different offices. We are more efficient, more productive and more organised. We have turned round complex bids and tenders with remote input from several partners and associates in record time - what's more, they've been successful.

There are various virtual offices on the market. We use Microsoft-based 'Spider Office' from a local Bristol technology company called SpiderGroup. Check out www.stretchingtheweb.com to find out more.

Nb. Stretching the Web is a registered trademark of 13 Spiders Ltd, trading as SpiderGroup.