Welcome to the August edition of Peterborough Workspace Newsletter.
Since our last newsletter, we continue to be pleasingly, virtually full with some internal movement and one new business joining us, Oxbridge Technology, about whom more later. One thing that has been noticeable given the ongoing debate about where we actually are in the economic recovery is the increase in the number of enquiries we have been receiving which looks like excellent news for the area.
As mentioned above Oxbridge Technology is the latest company to move into Workspace House. Director Ian Watkins and his three colleagues work with companies whose technology is vital to their business by maximising reliability, availability and usability of their clients systems. They do this through a combination of proactive monitoring, maintenance and working with their clients to provide them with IT and Telephony systems that enable them to forget about their technology and get on with running their businesses.
Ian said, “being an IT company we had lots of servers and other IT equipment which was housed in a large server cabinet. Not only did this take up a lot of space, it also generated a lot of heat and noise”. In the last twelve months Ian has seen a lot of changes in the way that Oxbridge Technology's clients get the IT Services that they need to run their business. “We have been able to leverage those same changes for our business and cut our costs significantly in the process," he continues. "We are now using Cloud Services for our file storage rather than a local server and a hosted system for our telephones. By using these in our business we have significantly cut our costs, the space needed for our IT systems and have moved office easily and with relatively little pain! David and his team at Workspace House have made it even easier!” Contact Ian and his team at http://www.oxbridgetechnology.co.uk
Here at Workspace House we like to see a healthy movement of businesses which usually means that we have meet our aim to help businesses grow and then move on to perhaps bigger and, dare we say, better premises. At the moment we have project team with us under the name of GPL Product Technology. Technical Director Michael Reid said “Other tenants may have noticed the dusty footprints appearing in the corridor nearest the coffee machine like the invisible man or mysterious white coated figures carrying bowls and buckets around. The cause of this is the novel new material that we have been developing in unit 72.
This project, supported by the Centre for Sustainable Engineering is to find a replacement for plastics which use the world's diminishing supplies of oil in large quantities and contribute to global warming and the large amount of landfill that still goes on.
Using only easily available minerals we have started to get products that are suitable for use. As Edison said “It is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration” when developing something new and the last three years of hard work have demonstrated that very clearly.
Our work is increasing steadily and in the near future we will have to be looking for something larger so I would like to thank Peterborough Workspace treating us with patience and giving us a place to get started.”
So at some stage in the not too distant future, we may be saying a fond farewell to this business and looking for another new business to join us and hopefully prosper. GPL illustrates that Peterborough Workspace is ideal for start up and new businesses, particularly those who operate from home who want to get to the next level. Even if our available units may not suit at this time, please feel free to call me or come in for a chat to see how we may be able to help in the future.
This month Peter Mulhall of Business Link has provided some more thoughts on selling, which as ever are very relevant to people working in small businesses particularly. As ever, well worth spending time going through and my thanks as ever to Peter for producing the article for us.
Enjoy the rest of the summer.
David Newman
Project Director
tel: 01733 390707
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