PRESS RELEASE: The Finnish National Archives selects Tessella’s Safety Deposit Box (SDB) and Tieto to archive Finland’s digital heritage
Oxford, UK | 10 June 2010. Tessella, the information technology and consulting services company and world leaders in digital preservation technology is pleased to announce that the Finnish National Archives has selected Tieto and Tessella’s Safety Deposit Box (SDB) to deliver their national digital archive.
Päivi Happonen, Development Director of The Finnish Archives, said; “The Finnish Archives’ task is to ensure that records belonging to the national cultural heritage are preserved. One of the many key reasons that we chose Tessella and Tieto was their proven track record of delivery.”
Sissi Kolbe, Tieto’s Director of Business Development in Information Management is delighted to continue working with Tessella; “Tieto always picks best of breed solutions and Tessella’s SDB is the perfect choice. This project follows on from our successful delivery of SDB to the National Archives of Estonia and we hope to further expand our operations with Tessella”.
Jon Tilbury, Tessella’s Director responsible for archiving technology, said; “We are very pleased to be working with The Finnish Archives and look forward to their input in the SDB User Group. They will become the ninth organisation to deploy SDB which is proving to be the long term preservation solution of choice in this demanding sector.”
Tilbury added: “We are again delighted to be using Tieto’s expertise in electronic content management and their understanding of how Nordic countries operate. We now have two successful collaborations underway in Estonia and Finland and hope to add many more”.
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About Tieto
Tieto is an IT service company providing IT, R&D and consulting services. With approximately 17 000 experts, we are among the leading IT service companies in Northern Europe and the global leader in selected segments. We specialize in areas where we have the deepest understanding of our customers’ businesses and needs. Our superior customer centricity and expertise in digital services set us apart from our competitors.
Further information available at www.tieto.com
About Tessella
Tessella is a world leader in the provision of Digital Archiving technologies, working with major governments worldwide. For more information about digital archiving solutions, visit www.digital-preservation.com
For decades, Tessella has been successfully delivering IT and consulting services to world leaders in R&D, science and engineering. We enable our clients in life sciences, energy, the public sector, and consumer industries to achieve a wide range of objectives, including, forecasting floods, developing fusion power, enhancing military sensor capability, improving drug discovery and development efficiency, and reducing risk to health and the environment in the extraction and production of oil and gas. With offices in Europe and North America, global companies rely on Tessella for business critical assignments.
Further information available at www.tessella.com
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