TietoEnator partnership

Qt Developer Days, Munich – 14 October 2008 –TietoEnator and Qt Software (formerly Trolltech), a global leader in cross-platform application frameworks, have signed an agreement for TietoEnator to use the Qt application framework in TietoEnator’s Telecom & Media development centers.

TietoEnator Telecom & Media will establish competence centers for Qt in the Nordics, EMEA and Asia-Pacific that will offer professional services to customers worldwide.

“We anticipate good growth in the adoption of Qt for software development projects, especially in light of  Nokia’s acquisition of Trolltech,” said Ville Aittomäki, Senior Vice President, Telecom & Media, Mobile Devices R&D of TietoEnator. “We are already engaged with several customer projects involving Qt, and believe that the demand for this competence will increase going forward.”

Daniel Kihlberg Palleja, Director of Marketing at Nokia, Qt Software said, “The adoption and distribution of Qt by a significant global player such as TietoEnator underlines the growing market demand for cross-platform applications across the telecom and media ecosystem.”

TietoEnator is a professional service company providing IT, R&D and consulting services. With approximately 16 000 experts, TietoEnator is among the leading IT service companies in Northern Europe and the global leader in selected segments.

TietoEnator Telecom & Media is one of the largest suppliers of R&D services to the telecom industry, with around 6 000 experts dedicated to delivering value-added IT and R&D services to operators, network equipment providers, mobile device manufacturers and media companies. The company uses its industry-wide expertise to enable market players in the emerging digital media ecosystem to create new revenue streams.

TietoEnator has well over 1 000 engineers working in the mobile device R&D, with significant presence in Europe, China and India. Its focus is in creating cutting-edge mobile device software for leading global platform technology vendors, handset manufacturers and operators in the wireless communications industry.

Qt is a cross-platform application framework. Using Qt, you can develop applications and user interfaces once, and deploy them across many desktop and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code.