PCS’s recently-launched digital content management and publishing system, Knowledge, has literally reached new heights in work-anywhere accessibility – around 41,000 ft to be more precise.

As our picture shows, the Midland software developer’s managing director Phil Walker and Knowledge product manager Peter Cole have been able to access Knowledge using aircraft Wifi while on a business trip between Orlando and Pittsburgh in the USA.

Walker and Cole were on their way to a presentation to a potential customer in Pittsburgh when they used the Wifi on their airTran flight to hook up a laptop to the Knowledge system producing the Midland News Association’s Express & Star, Shropshire Star and associated weekly titles across the other side of the Atlantic.

Said Walker: “We think it may be something of a first. Not only were we able to connect to the system and pull up a view of the front page of the Express & Star, we took a picture of it and emailed it back to our headquarters in Wolverhampton while we were still in the air.

“While it was quite a neat trick to pull off, it actually demonstrates just what we mean about the access-anywhere capability that’s such a key feature of Knowledge and its Software-as-a-Service capability.

“Maybe we’ll have to change our marketing a little. In the past we’ve indicated that freedom with a picture of someone using a laptop halfway up a mountain. We’ve actually gone a little higher than that in real life.

“Everybody’s talking about working in the Cloud, we’ve shown that, in fact, we can use Knowledge not only in the Cloud – but even a few thousand feet above it.”