Tag: Finland

The International AddressGuide – now published with eastern European countries

Posted by | Oct 7, 2004 | |

The cross-border sourcing of addresses for direct mailing is becoming easier for eastern European countries: the new edition of the International AddressGuide from Swiss Post International now also includes, alongside the existing 15 countries in western Europe, new entries for Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia. The AddressGuide lists 500 providers from 20 countries and describes what they have to offer, with key figures such as the number of company addresses, decision-makers, private addresses, selection criteria, and the extent of their special address databases. To help users evaluate potential suppliers, the guide provides information such as year of establishment and number of employees. For each country, it also contains an outline of the address market with detailed information on prices, data protection, return rates, address formats and the correct salutations.

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TietoEnator signs outsourcing agreement with Finland Post

Posted by | Oct 5, 2004 | |

Finnish-Swedish IT company TietoEnator Corporation said on Tuesday (5 October) that it had agreed with Finland Post Corporation (Suomen Posti Oyj) to build a Datacenter, a new central server environment that would house all the Post’s business-critical IT system environments.

The aim of the project is to improve cost-efficiency and control in the Post’s IT services, TietoEnator said.

Under the outsourcing agreement TietoEnator Group would take on nine employees from Finland Post’s subsidiary IT Optimo on the date of signing.

The servers, currently operated by several service providers, would be moved to TietoEnator immediately the project starts.

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Finland Post standardises on BEA

Posted by | Aug 25, 2004 | |

BEA Systems, Inc. , the world’s leading application infrastructure software company, have announced that Finland Post will standardise its electronic services development on BEA WebLogic Platform(TM) 8.1. With the unified BEA platform, Finland Post can offer its partners and customers advanced Internet services designed to help reduce the complexity and costs of portal administration, development, and integration.

Finland Post currently runs several customised portals which require an extensive amount of specified expert knowledge.

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A new EEC Directive on working hours will cause serious security issues for the parcel industry

Posted by | Aug 9, 2004 | |

Trying to keep up with the myriad EEC Directives, which are constantly spawned from the Brussels hotbed of activity, is causing a nightmare for every UK industry sector. Logistics companies will not be spared the sea of paperwork as a new EEC Directive on working hours is proposed.
John Pritchard, Head of Security at Tipton based Nightspeed Secure Worldwide Express is concerned about the issues of security that the proposed new legislation will jeopardise.
He said: “If the 48 hour a week rule is inflicted on to parcel carriers it will mean taking on more staff. The parcel industry as a whole has a high turnover of drivers and warehouse staff and there is already a shortage of personnel.”

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