Productivity. Now. Enabled by Tieto and Microsoft® Lync™.
Microsoft launches Microsoft Lync today, 17 November, and Tieto will continue to deliver enterprise services based on the latest Microsoft technology.
As a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner and one of only 3 Voice Incubation Partners worldwide, Tieto works together with Microsoft to deliver voice enabled solutions based on Microsoft® Lync™. The Voice Incubation Program enables Tieto to achieve early and fast the highest possible competence within this area, and it contains a strong joint go to market concept. The countries we focus on in this program are Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Czech Republic and Russia. Tieto has been heavily contributing to the concept and feature development of Lync in the early adopter organization for utilizing new enterprise voice capabilities provided by Lync.
In the networked economy, speed, quality and responsiveness are imperative for businesses to succeed. Excellent service experience is what 
customers require. Tieto works together with Microsoft to help its customers to improve their service capabilities by increasing their productivity. Tieto's Mobile Unified Communicatoin and Collaboration as a Service helps information workers to do their job faster, easier and with better quality. Regardless of the place, network and device.
Tieto’s worldwide recognized competences and capabilities within the area of Mobile Network Integration in combination with the newly launched Lync from Microsoft enable enterprises to improve productivity by taking advantage of the advanced Lync voice functionalities today.
"Microsoft is pleased to be working with Tieto in delivering customers a comprehensive UC solution," says Rich Miller, Global Alliance Manager at Microsoft Corp. "The combination of Tieto’s deep understanding of mobile network integration as well as the industrial business processes and Microsoft’s product/technology within Unified Communications will provide the solution and business value to meet the needs of our mutual customers."
"In the high-paced networked economy, information worker productivity increases its importance every day. Business processes require faster collaboration between people. With UCC services, business processes can be made faster, easier and ultimately more productive. Together with Microsoft, we are with our combined offering able to deliver real value to our customers, now" says Michael Wittwer, Global Alliance Manager at Tieto.
"Tieto has committed to adding value to its Customers by enriching and expanding the Tieto Service Portfolio using latest the technologies," says Jussi Mikkonen, Head of End User Services at Tieto.
As a key MS UC partner and as part of the Voice Incubation Partnership Tieto will participate in the MS Lync launch event in the following countries:
- Denmark, Copenhagen, 17 Nov
- Czech, Brno and Prague, 24 -25 Nov
- Finland, Helsinki, 29 Nov
- Sweden, Stockholm, 3 Dec
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For further information, please contact:
Jussi Mikkonen, Head of End User Services in Tieto
jussi.mikkonen@tieto.com, +358 50 375 9839
Michael Wittwer, Global Alliance Manager in Tieto
michael.wittwer@tieto.com, +47 9285 7417
Veli-Matti Nurminen, VP, Heading the integration services in Tieto
veli-matti.nurminen@tieto.com, +358 50 385 9911
