On global Zero Emissions Day, software and services company Tieto announced that it is accelerating the use of green energy in all its data centres across the Nordics. The goal is to reduce energy consumption related CO2 emissions by 50% by 2020.

  Public agencies in Norway have been hesitant to utilise cloud-based solutions. However, Norwegian Railway Directorate is breaking new ground. The company has chosen to use IT solutions that are 100% cloud-based. 

Södertälje municipality has chosen Tieto as its supplier of end-user IT services and the underlying infrastructure which will take the municipality´s digitalisation journey to the next level. Tieto will also provide support with service integration and management (SIAM) solutions to coordinate and develop the municipality’s various IT services and suppliers. The contract is for five years with an option for additional four y...

Tieto has signed an agreement with Swedish municipality Nacka to deliver digital solutions and tools that will improve everyday life for individuals and relatives within municipal healthcare. The agreement is the first of its kind in Sweden, as Tieto together with partners will deliver the technology as a service to Nacka municipality. The contract is for two years with an option to extend.

Tieto and the City of Espoo have initiated a unique artificial intelligence experiment. The experiment involves combining a huge amount of social and health data concerning every Espoo resident, and customer data relating to early childhood education from 2002 to 2016. The aim of analysing this mass of data is to identify new proactive means of targeting services to citizens, for example to prevent social exclusion.

According to a new survey commissioned by software and services company Tieto, seven out of ten are worried about Internet security and more than one out of ten have been subject to data breaches. The study also reveals that eight out of ten people in Sweden and Finland and five out of ten in Norway would now consider erasing their customer data from companies' data registers. However, only one out of ten is aware of the possibility provided...

Swedish digital security company Verisec has partnered with Tieto on e-identification for the public sector. Under the deal, Tieto will facilitate the integration of a new e-identification solution from Verisec and the different systems and services that are used by Swedish authorities, municipalities and county councils. The aim is to create a mobile, secure and user friendly e-identification which makes day-to-day life easier for both citizens ...

Hot off the press! By utilising excess heat from data centre servers together with the latest technology, you can now experience the world’s first data-driven sauna. Sauna goers can muster up a sweat when people all around the world are surfing the web, searching databases and using cloud services. The Finnish-Swedish company Tieto stays true to the legacy of the sauna tradition and never misses an opportunity to slip out of the c...

Tieto has strengthened its collaboration with Microsoft to offer customers new Azure-based solutions and offerings within IoT, analytics, DevOps, storage, disaster recovery, data platform services and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Tieto’s customers will be able to access all new cloud offerings through one platform, Tieto OneCloud. Tieto claims to offer its customers the broadest and deepest cloud portfolio in the Nordic countrie...

Tieto has extended its partnership with Preem, the largest fuel company in Sweden, for the delivery of e-invoicing services. The increased use of e-invoices is expected to save Preem 1,1 million SEK over a 25-month period and further boosts the company’s environmental efforts by decreasing the use of paper.

To enhance organisations’ capability to quickly develop and deliver new high quality services, Tieto has launched Tieto DevOps Space. This new service is an important part of a suite of DevOps solutions and capabilities Tieto is developing. With Tieto DevOps Space, organisations can reduce their application time-to-market. The service contains automated processes, which makes it possible to cut the time to deploy development environmen...

Granngården has chosen Tieto as its partner for creating a next-generation solution for its e-commerce and omnichannel operations. With this new solution, Granngården aims to develop their customer experience and to lay the basis for online revenue growth and seamless omnichannel experience. Granngården has been using SAP Hybris for several years but needed to stabilise and renew its systems to strengthen their custome...

Tieto is actively investigating new cutting-edge technologies, like AI and their opportunities in various sectors. In healthcare AI can be utilised to get human centric and data-driven health and wellbeing services. To further strengthen its open partner ecosystem and presence in the Nordic healthcare sector, Tieto is joining the Microsoft AI in Health Partner Alliance. As part of its participation, Tieto will receive unique training and exclusiv...

In collaboration with the Regional Development Council of Gävleborg (Region Gävleborg), Tieto has rolled out a solution for electronic health declarations to be filled out prior to surgery. The solution enhances the safety of patients while simultaneously relieving medical staff of time-consuming paperwork and is among the first in Sweden to use the national e-service, 1177 Vårdguiden in this way.

The progress of digitalisation requires increasing the capacity for data storage. Tieto is currently expanding Finland's largest data centre by thousands of square metres. The company wants to help its customers take advantage of the possibilities provided by the growing amount of data, as well as respond to tightening security demands. Tieto opened a data centre in Espoo in 2011. The Data Centre was first provided with a EUR 10 million expa...

Tieto has been selected by a collaboration group of Norwegian municipalities (DGI) as its supplier of a new delivery platform for the six owner municipalities. The main ambition of the agreement is to create the foundation to meet future needs with digitalisation of citizen services, streamlining of processes, ensuring round the clock administration and flexible access for citizens. 

A new Virtual Reality concept for retailers is being presented by Tieto at the startup event Slush in Helsinki. With this concept Tieto aims to co-innovate new retail and brand experiences with its customers. The VR experience is developed by Tieto Experience Hub (XHub) and Tieto’s Customer Experience Management startup.

Junction is Europe’s largest hackathon, taking place just before the start-up event Slush in Helsinki, Finland. It is a converging point for developers, designers, and entrepreneurs from across the world. Junction is held on November 25-27 in Helsinki. This year Tieto is taking part with two challenges. Tieto’s first track in Junction is to bring buildings into the digital age. The Intelligent Buildings track is hosted by Tieto a...

Tieto has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Global Channel Reseller program, enabling the company to resell AWS services to both commercial and public sector customers. The program will further extend Tieto´s cloud capabilities, helping customers to be more productive, innovate rapidly and take advantage of new data-driven business opportunities in the Nordic region.

To pave the way for a future where data and records move seamlessly between different healthcare systems, different patient data management systems have been successfully tested at the OYS TestLab in Oulu, Finland. This included the seamless transition of information between the Oulu University Hospital’s Esko system, Tieto’s Lifecare database and CGI’s OMNI360 healthcare database.