Beating the 'Big Freeze'

Snowbound Britain: Worst snowstorms for 18 years

January 2010

With average temperatures plummeting to minus 4 degrees across the country and snow binding the transport network to a standstill it was no surprise to read in the daily newspapers of the chaos that the recent winter weather has caused to business in the UK. Financial losses are estimated at £1.2bn with at least £230m of that due to staff absenteeism.

The impact on individual businesses varied depending on their strategies for dealing with these events. When the ‘Disaster strategy’ book gets dusted off the shelf it’s normally to action a plan that is reserved for disasters. However, if you were a customer of Celaton during the ‘big freeze’, you wouldn’t need to reach for your ‘Disaster strategy’ book because your information processes would be immune to such events and would continue to operate flawlessly regardless of your staffs inability to ‘make it in’.

The recent cold weather and snow has highlighted Celaton's ability to protect its customers from disruptive events by seamlessly handling its customers information streams including incoming post, fax, email and attachments into a highly automated process that leverages its own state of the art technology to minimise human intervention, save for decision making processes, which is it enables via the web, email or even mobile devices. Regardless of where operators, line managers or executives are located in the world, in house, off shore or at home, Celaton technology enables them all to operate as one team, night or day, rain (snow) or shine.

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