TIETOENATOR CORPORATION PRESS RELEASE 14 APRIL 2003 11.00 AM 1(2)

TietoEnator and Bergens Tidende enter into strategic partnership

TietoEnator has signed an agreement with the Norwegian newspaper Bergens Tidende on development of a Content Management system to manage all information objects in the media house by means of a sophisticated media and product archive.  The initial frame for this agreement is 9 million NOK.

The system will replace the media house’s existing archive systems and will also be configured to manage electronic sources used in editorial planning and research. Over the course of 2003, the system will be deployed for newspaper publishing. By early 2004, the system will be able to cope with all forms of publishing utilised by the daily paper, Web-based services and TV.  The system will be geared to monitoring all available news sources, and instant location of text, photos, graphics, audio and video files with the aid of TRIP – TietoEnator’s multimedia archive.

”Our cooperation with Bergens Tidende gives TietoEnator an outstanding opportunity to offer a very competitive solution to this industry. We already have a number of very interesting components for business critical multimedia archiving and location that have been deployed over much of Europe, Australia and in China. We are now combining these with a solution for the newspaper and multimedia industry that means a considerable improvement of the editorial procedures, says Michael Wittwer, General Manager at TietoEnator Resource Management, Norway.

”With this solution, Bergens Tidende consolidates its ranking in the information technology top division, and is primed for the multimedia of tomorrow’s world. With our new process-integrated content management of intelligent objects, along with multimedia handling of audio and video, we are set to boost our in-house quality and productivity considerably. The media house of Bergens Tidende will now be in a position to face most of the challenges that we have come to expect in a market where re-use and cross-publishing are keywords, and in which we have yet to see the final development in digital products, says project editor Magnus Rustøy, Bergens Tidende.

Bergens Tidende is Norway’s largest newspaper outside Oslo, and also the country’s fourth largest retail-sale paper. The company has also developed Internet services that rank among the most popular outside the capital city. Furthermore, the company celebrated the new millennium with an investment in the local television station, TV Hordaland.

Since as early as 1995, Bergens Tidende has been using TietoEnator’s integrated production system, MPress, for advertising and editorial work. The new standard solution for content control and product management will be closely integrated with the existing production system and will operate as an integrated unit.

Development of the solution, which also comprises an ”e-paper”, i.e. an electronic version of the paper, is in the hands of TietoEnator Resource Management in Oslo. The solution will be state-of-the-art in terms of architecture, openness, integration, and usability. TietoEnator will be offering the solution both in Norway and abroad to media companies, of which a number have already expressed a keen interest in the prototype developed last year.

TietoEnator Resource Management is a business area of the TietoEnator group with 1,400 specialists supplying solutions in the fields of IRM (Information- and Content Management), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), HRM (Personnel systems) and FRM (Financial systems).

For further information, please contact:
TietoEnator Resource Management AS:
Michael Wittwer, General Manager, +47 22347816, michael.wittwer@tietoenator.com

Bergens Tidende:
Magnus Rustøy, Project Editor, +47 55214506, magnus.rustoy@bt.no

TietoEnator is one of the leading architects in building a more efficient information society and the largest IT services company in the Nordic countries. TietoEnator specialises in consulting, developing and hosting its customers’ business operations in the digital economy. The Group’s services are based on a combination of deep industry-specific expertise and latest information technology. TietoEnator has 13,000 experts in more than 20 countries. www.tietoenator.com

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