How to Solve the Problem of Car Traffic in London Olympics 2012

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Less than two days ago, I've came across some news related to the concerns by the Mayor and the Olympics Organisers, about the issue of traffic congestion during the up coming London 2012 Olympics games.

The London 2012 Olympic Organisers have identified travel and specifically traffic congestion as the number one concern leading up to and during the Olympic games.
The organisers are aiming to persuade motorists to ditch their cars for the period to ease congestion and allow efficient travel of athletes and spectators to the games, on time.
One of the proposed solutions, and in line with one of the environmental goals of the games is to encourage home working.

Smartinfo are a local company to the Olympic site (based in Shoreditch East London) who
specialised in enabling firms to have effective home working with an array of IT and communications solutions to make the home worker seamless with the office.

The two most important tools for the majority of office workers is the telephone and their computer. Smartinfo specialized in providing phones which connect back to the office over normal broadband - so the home worker is a free extension of the main phone system and can answer and make calls as if sitting at their desk.

The additional benefit is the home worker has access to all the advanced full features of a business phone system, such as call recording, 1000s name directories, customer number presentation, mobile phones can even be joined to the office as an extension for sales or other field based staff - so they are totally integrated wherever they are.

The second area Smartinfo will help the '2012 Traffic Dodgers' is on their computing, where again the majority of workers spend all day. Smartinfo have two solutions for this remote access of the office PC or the business life changing 'Cloud computing'.

Moving a company over to cloud based computing has a number of benefits. A worker can work from any computer, as all documents and features are accessed on line, so PC age or operation system are no longer an issue, users can also choose to work on a Mac or even an Ipad if they wish, don't tell the boss but even a playstation could be used to access documents or spreadsheets.

Workers can even access their whole office from the palm of their hand via a smart phone or tablet such as iphones and ipads. From a business owners point of view thousands even tens-of thousands can be saved on unnecessary hardware and manpower to maintain it, for instance you can throw out your £2000 server, no need for and IT manager £20k pa or no need for an external IT support company @ £200+ per month.

For customers who don't currently have a server and have been questioning if they should, cloud based computing no-brainier is the way ahead. A simple smartinfo solution includes a shared company calendar, secure email on your desktop and all other devices, all fully synchronised and the best Spam filtering in the business, from postini services.

Smartinfo supply and support and manage the whole ecosystem from the mobile
phones and home IP phone to the up-to-date hardware such as ipads and Macbook airs, everything is configured so it just works and business can carry on doing the business they know best not have to manage countless IT, Mobile phone and Computer crashes!

Zak Coogan, CEO of Smartinfo, commented "We are delighted to help the 2012 team reduce traffic on the roads and achieve their green environmental goals. We have been providing home working and flexible solutions for years and hope the adoption of these practices will have a lasting legacy far beyond the games in the areas of work-life balance, the environment and giving London and UK companies a greater edge and competitive advantage.

Visit us on www.smartinfosystems.co.uk or follow SmartInfo on Twitter (www.twitter.com/SmartInfoUK ) and facebook  to see how your east London business can dodge the 2012 traffic.

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Smartinfo are a full service ICT (information Communication Technology) provider based in the City of London but offering nationwide coverage for Telephone systems, IT equipment and all associated services. We were founded in 2003.