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AgilQuest Announces Mobile Device Access to OnBoard Workplace Management Platform
"OnBoard Scout" Allows New Freedom for Workers on the Go
New Orleans, LA, October 23, 2007
AgilQuest Corporation today announced a new portable interface to its OnBoard Workplace Management Platform. The new OnBoard Scout transforms devices such as a web-enabled cellular phone, Blackberry®, iPhone™, or Treo® into simple yet powerful workplace tools, giving users new freedom to choose workspaces whenever, wherever they need to work.
The announcement was made at the World Workplace trade show sponsored by the International Facilities Management Association (IFMA). AgilQuest is a Corporate Sustaining Partner of IFMA.
OnBoard serves an organization’s mobile workforce by allowing people to book workspaces, conference rooms and equipment, and to locate colleagues. It automatically routes an individual’s telephone extension to the workspace they choose. OnBoard serves your facility and real estate management team by managing all permanent, collaborative and shared workspaces, measuring their actual use, and producing the business intelligence necessary to support space planning, building consolidations, lease analysis and reprogramming of space.
With OnBoard Scout people can make, cancel, check-in or check-out of their workspaces or conference rooms as easily as they now make cellular telephone calls.
Torrance Houlihan, AgilQuest’s Director of Product Management said, “OnBoard Scout is the latest innovation from AgilQuest to take advantage of emerging technologies and give people access to the workplace resources they need. Now people can reserve workspaces or conference rooms from wherever they can use their web enabled cell phone or PDA. It also provides a great way for people to confirm presence so that actual use can be measured. OnBoard Scout is so simple to use, a person can choose a room with just one click."
OnBoard Scout expands the number of OnBoard interfaces that make workplace management operations simple, ubiquitous, and transparent. They include –
- OnBoard Navigator for people who administer the OnBoard application and/or manage multiple conference rooms or multiple shared workspaces in their organization.
- OnBoard Mobile, a web-based tool that empowers remote workers to locate and reserve the resources they need (workspaces, conference rooms, etc) from their personal computer anywhere in the world.
- OnBoard Connect which integrates reservation functionality with Microsoft Outlook®.
- OnBoard Kiosk which delivers OnBoard functionality to entry ways and other common areas.
- OnBoard IPPI® (IP Phone Interface) which turns a Cisco IP telephone into a workplace management tool that shows room availability, allows interactive reservations and confirms use.
With the real-time workplace information provided by OnBoard, real estate managers can make better invest/divest decisions, optimize the design of there workplace, and identify their mobile worker population. OnBoard users have documented real estate savings or cost avoidance that range in the tens of millions of dollars.
About AgilQuest Corporation
AgilQuest provides software and service solutions for the entire breadth of an organization’s space management needs, including hoteling, conference room management, and move management. But we don’t stop there. We measure the amount of office space an organization’s workforce actually needs so that managers can more efficiently and effectively manage the real estate portfolio. We provide management the tools necessary to reduce or avoid real estate costs, often in the tens of millions annually, and make life easier for employees by allowing them to choose workplaces, find availability of empty rooms and locate colleagues.
Unlike applications that simply book or assign rooms, AgilQuest’s platforms integrate with your building systems to systematically and accurately measure the actual use of an entire real estate portfolio to improve worker productivity and produce real bottom line benefits.
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AgilQuest named one of world`s largest software and service suppliers.
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"I have been impressed with the fact that AgilQuest really partnered with us in making this a success. They walked the talk, which is really important to me.”
- Russell Jay, Vice President, Equant
"The system is working so well, we are now recommending it to our own clients."
- Tom Hanszen, BearingPoint, Inc.
"Although there are several software companies that provide the management technology used for alternative office spacing AgilQuest Corporation offers the most sophisticated and popular programs available."
- Commercial Property News, November, 2004
"There are a number of workplace applications that address the operational aspects of the ‘employeecentric’ workplace. A leader in this space is AgilQuest."
- The Agile Workplace: A Research Partnership between Gartner, MIT and 22 Industry Sponsors.
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