BusinessSolve signs Consulting Partner agreement with Advanced Workplace Associates

BusinessSolve signs Consulting Partner agreement with Advanced Workplace Associates, UK’s leading independent workplace transformation consultancy

- BusinessSolve’s Hotdesk Manager is ‘simply the best resource scheduling tool available’, according to leading consultancy -

4th December 2006, London, UK – BusinessSolve, developer of the award-winning scheduling solution Hotdesk Manager, today announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA), the UK’s leading independent workplace transformation consultancy. With growing interest in hot desk solutions, and confidence that Hotdesk Manager is ‘the best scheduling solution we’ve seen’, the announcement marks an unprecedented move by AWA by agreeing to endorse a software solution from a third party.

Under the terms of the Consulting Partner agreement, AWA will integrate BusinessSolve’s Hotdesk Manager into its consulting offering to current and future clients and support its deployment, whilst Business Solve will provide technical back up and ‘in flight’ support. AWA will also offer an outsourced utilisation monitoring service based on a unique set of reports that will only be available through AWA.

Hotdesk Manager can help to increase the capacity of buildings by up to 25% by simply improving the efficiency in the use of available space. As Andrew Mawson, AWA’s Managing Director points out: ‘From the many studies we have undertaken as part of out transformation activities, we know that most buildings are only utilised at a rate of 45% under traditional approaches to work and workplace.’

With escalating rental prices and rising building maintenance costs, businesses are considering how they can get more out of their existing space. This requires new working practices – such as hot desking and remote working – and demands the deployment of solutions that will facilitate them. In addition, increasing concerns about the environment is forcing a reassessment of established working models; businesses are under pressure to reduce their carbon footprint and to be seen as ‘good corporate citizens’ by encouraging their staff to adopt environmentally friendly working practices. Combined, these trends are driving increasing numbers of clients to seek consultation about alternative working practices and solutions provided by AWA.

To address this need, AWA assessed the scheduling options available. After evaluating the products on the market, it decided that BusinessSolve provided AWA with the flexibility that it needed from an industry partner, while Hotdesk Manager provided its clients with the flexibility and scalability they need from a scheduling solution.

Mawson added: “We entered into an agreement with BusinessSolve because of the flexibility of the product and the willingness to recognise the need for flexibility as a company. This means that between us we can tailor the most appropriate solutions for our clients. Hotdesk Manager is the best workspace scheduling system we’ve seen.”

AWA also believes that the deployment of Hotdesk Manager addresses three critical staff-related aspects of hot desking; Hotdesk Manager’s facility to pre-booking desks and other office resources in advance, assures staff that the desk and the office resources they need are available, enabling them to be productive the moment they arrive at their selected hot desk. As the solution also allows users to see which of their colleagues have booked a desk, they can book their desks according to who else they will be sharing the office with that day. Finally, Hotdesk Manager can be used as a powerful reporting mechanism for a company’s management board, revealing peaks in desk activity, and establishing which resources are either over- or under-used. This valuable feedback enables companies to optimise their hot desk policies and practices, and the resources needed to support it.

BusinessSolve’s Hotdesk Manager has been successfully trialled in the UK and across Europe, where the user community has stated that the cost savings in terms of real estate, energy and support services are considerable. Hotdesk Manager links effortlessly with existing scheduling software, is platform independent, and its interface can be customised to adhere to an organisation’s branding guidelines. BusinessSolve’s scheduling solutions have already been successfully deployed at the Welsh Assembly and the Home Office, as well as in a broad range of private sector sites.

Nigel Reading, BusinessSolve’s Business Development Director, said: “Advanced Workplace Associates’ decision to partner with a third party is an unprecedented move for the company. It is indicative of the confidence that it has in BusinessSolve, and in Hotdesk Manager. We look forward to a long a successful relationship, bringing an effective and powerful hot desk solution to the growing numbers of organisations that want to deploy a hot desking strategy.”

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Pricing and availability:
Hot Desk Manager is available now from BusinessSolve, and three versions are offered: for individual or small teams; for multiple users; for enterprises with dispersed locations globally. For pricing details, please visit: http://www.businesssolve.co.uk/

Companies interested in applying for the free trial should contact:
Nigel Reading, tel: 00 44 (0) 20 8757 5794, email: nreading {at} businesssolve.co(.)uk

About BusinessSolve:
BusinessSolve’s software solutions are in daily use at many of the worlds leading organisations. These powerful web based solutions prove quick to deploy and easy to use, and have established BusinessSolve as a world leader in providing intuitive resource scheduling solutions. Organisations often have many resources to manage including; Meeting Rooms, Hot Desks, Car Parking, Personnel, Apartments, Pool Cars to name but a few. All our solutions have been developed to manage any resource types across multiple locations, these may be accessed via the web or Touch Screen panels, enabling users to update their requirements on the move.

About Advanced Workplace Associates:
Advanced Workplace Associates is an independent, multi-disciplinary workplace transformation consultancy based in London. Our aims are to assist organisations to improve their business performance by implementing advanced approaches to work, the workplace and workplace management. To do this we bring together skills and experience in the fields of Business, People, Technology, Process, Workplace, Design and Facilities Management, working in an open and holistic style with our clients.
http://www.advanced-workplace.com