Tieto continues as a supplier of Outokumpu’s IT infrastructure services and has signed a five-year contract whereby Tieto will provide Outokumpu with next generation infrastructure services. With Tieto’s solution, Outokumpu enhances its competitiveness by improving operational efficiency through global standardisation and decreased time-to-market.

The continuation contract includes a transformation of the IT infrastructure to provide efficient support to Outokumpu’s various business functions. Outokumpu’s objective is to reduce costs, improve quality of service, mitigate risks and integrate services. Tieto provides multi-cloud capabilities based on the Tieto OneCloud solution which is a combination of public and private cloud capacity platforms with a unified service experience for Outokumpu.

“Tieto will help us to improve stability, optimize the cost base and enhance our competitiveness”, says Matti Suurnäkki, CIO at Outokumpu.

“We are delighted that Outokumpu has chosen us to provide their infrastructure services. I look forward to continuing our common mission to support Outokumpu’s strategic initiatives by modernizing the IT”, says Jaakko Tapanainen, Head of Industrial and Consumer Services Finland at Tieto.

With this delivery, Tieto will help Outokumpu in improving the overall quality level of service and enable the standardization of processes on a global level. In addition, Outokumpu will gain modern, scalable and cost-effective IT infrastructure that ensures business continuity and meets the future business needs.