AFFECTO PLC PRESS RELEASE 14 JANUARY 2008 Affecto supplies a new case management solution to the Finnish Ministry of Education The Finnish Ministry of Education has chosen the Finnish IT service company Affecto to be the supplier of its new case management solution in a public bidding contest. The new solution makes the operations within the Ministry's administrative branch more efficient as it speeds up the maintenance and management of various electronic processes, such as electronic services and digital signatures. The organizations involved in this project are the Ministry of Education, the Finnish National Board of Education (FNBE), the National Board of Antiquities, the Arts Council of Finland and Regional Arts Councils. FNBE will be the first one to implement the new solution in coming October. The new agreement signed by the Ministry of Education and Affecto is a continuation to their previous cooperation. The new solution replaces the Ministry's previous case management solution that Affecto supplied already in 1995. The total value of the agreement is around one million euros. The delivery of the new system starts immediately and the Ministry will take it in use at the beginning of 2009. The case management solution includes all the work processes related to official document management and administrational case register. The system also covers document archiving, workflows and customer data management. As a first part of the whole solution Affecto will deliver the electronic process for government grants. The solution will be based on Open Text technology and Microsoft SharePoint solution. "The features and costs of Affecto's solution met our requirements for the new system best. Furthermore, our long cooperation has been very successful and we are happy to continue with Affecto in this project which is very significant to us," says Irma Nieminen, Head of Information Management, Ministry of Education. "The demand for enterprise content management solutions is increasing as organisations seek for solutions that make their operations more efficient and speed up their services. We have developed our ECM solutions actively in order to meet the increasing needs of our customers. We also appreciate long customer relations very much. Therefore we find it very pleasing to continue our cooperation with the Ministry," states Ray Byman, Senior Vice President, Operational Solutions, Affecto Finland. For further information, please, contact: Affecto Finland, SVP Ray Byman, Operational Solutions, tel. +358 205 777 823 Ministry of Education, Head of Information Management, Irma Nieminen, tel. +358 9 1607 7379
Affecto supplies a new case management solution to the Finnish Ministry of Education
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