Contracts & Collaborations
Accelerating Employee Experience with IoT – Haltian and Tieto Partner to Make Workplaces Empathic
Oulu-based IoT and product development company Haltian and internationally-operating Nordic software and services company Tieto, have agreed a multiannual commercial cooperation concerning Tieto’s Empathic Building service. The smart office market is predicted to double in the next five years, and the shared offering of the two companies provides customers with a faster way of digitising their office facilities. The aim of the Empathic Building
service is to increase the happiness and satisfaction of employees with respect to their work environments. The core of the service is a browser-based application that helps the employee in a multispace environment find the best facilities, people and resources for each task. Real-time data from sensors can be imported to the application to illustrate the utilization rates, temperature, noise levels – and even the location of colleagues – within the facilities. For example, Empathic Building generates space usage heatmaps and utilization reports for both desks and meeting rooms to help optimize and redesign the premises to support better employee experience. The application also provides the user with the opportunity to influence the administration and development of the facilities by supporting interaction between different agents. The administrator can create better work environments by comparing the feedback
Reetta Ruusunen, Tieto Emphatic Building, Head of Ecosystems and Partners.
with the information collected by the sensors. According to the agreement, Haltian is to provide Tieto’s client facilities with sensor solutions that enable visualisation of, for example, data on the working conditions and the utilisation rate of spaces. Setting up Haltian’s sensors has been made particularly straightforward, and they are delivered to the customer pre-connected to the service. The customer thus benefits from easier setup and cost- efficiency. In addition to Finland, Tieto’s Empathic Building service is already in use in Norway and Sweden. The companies will
now aim at expanding together in international markets.
“We chose Haltian as our partner because they are able
to provide us with a comprehensive solution and because Haltian’s Thingsee service includes options for different use case scenarios. Haltian provides Tieto with the devices, the connections and the system administration as a pre- integrated solution, thus streamlining the setup of new customer applications. The reliable data collection system allows us to focus on developing new functionalities that serve end users. Empathic Building is a fast-developing business, and flexible partners such as Haltian facilitate international scaling of our business”, says Reetta Ruusunen, Head of Ecosystems and Partners for Tieto Empathic Building.
KYOCERA Document Solutions unveils new brand proposition to enhance channel partner growth
KYOCERA Document Solutions UK have announced a realignment of its brand identity and market positioning, reaffirming the organisation’s commitment to enabling its partners and customers to put knowledge to work and transform their businesses. The new brand identity will support the ongoing evolution of the business as it seeks to help its dealers provide a more comprehensive service to their customers. Software and services are becoming increasingly critical to
KYOCERA’s long-term strategy for growth, for the company itself and its dealer-partners. The company will be launching new content management services in October and building strategic partnerships with innovative providers to develop cloud solutions, unified communications service and robust IT infrastructure. These changes combined will enable its partners to broaden
their own solution sets and take on greater responsibility for their customers’ IT estates, helping them to grow their businesses. With end users increasingly wanting to consolidate the number
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of IT suppliers they work with, there is mounting pressure on channel partners to diversify their offering, rather than specialising in one area. KYOCERA’s new brand positioning will enable channel partners to add new digital solutions that go beyond print and document management to deliver a range of benefits to their customers, improving business efficiency and productivity. Rod Tonna-Barthet, CEO at KYOCERA Document Solutions
UK, commented: “We are really excited to take our company forward to this next stage in our journey, developing our services to fully support our corporate philosophy. We have been successfully enabling businesses to improve their sustainability and operate more efficiently for a number of years, with innovative print and document management technologies. Now, as more businesses embrace the technologies of the digital transformation, we are in a strong position to expand our service portfolio, improving collaboration in the workplace through unified communications solutions and business workflows with enterprise content services.”
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