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Portugal Nice acquires RTT Solutions’ testing business

June 19, 2008

Software service company Nice-business Solutions Finland Oy (Nice) strengthens its testing offering by acquiring software and mobile terminal testing business from Oulu based RTT Solutions Oy. Ownership will transfer to Nice August 1st, 2008.

Nice is a joint venture of Fujitsu Finland and Nokia.

Along the deal, 23 persons will transfer to Nice as old employees. As a head of the team will continue RTT’s acting Managing Director Toni Mettovaara.

Nice’s strengths have been in server applications and -technologies. Nice has become over the past two years also a strong actor in embedded software and mobile systems. RTT is known best for its know-how in software testing and testing of mobile terminals.

”By combining our companies’ areas of expertise we are able to expand our service portfolio and to serve our customers more comprehensively”, says Nice’s Managing Director Jouko Seppä.

”Nice is known for its reliability as software supplier. Strong basis for this has become from long history of process know-how through Fujitsu ownership. We have been able to respond to our customers’ high level quality- and efficiency challenges by being among the first in Finland to use agile software development in many of our project deliveries. In addition we follow ITIL® (ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark of AXELOS Limited)-practises in our continuous service deliveries”, Seppä continues.

”As a part of Nice we can take our development projects further more efficiently and we can develop our project working. In addition we strengthen our position as the testing supplier of our main customer”, states Toni Mettovaara.

Through this acquisition Nice’s revenue for the on-going fiscal year is expected to exceed 65 M€ and the headcount will rise to 365.

About Fujitsu Services

Fujitsu Services is a leading European information technology services company. Its business is helping its customers realise the value of information technology through the application of consulting, systems integration and managed service contracts. It serves customers in the private and public sectors across Europe including retail, financial services, healthcare and government. With an annual turnover of £2.56 billion (€3.22 billion), it employs over 21,000 people across 20 countries. Headquartered in London, Fujitsu Services is the European IT services arm of the US$53 billion (€32.9 billion) Fujitsu Group. Visit pt.fujitsu.com or uk.fujitsu.com for more information.

About Nice-business Solutions Finland Ltd

Nice-business Solutions Finland Ltd is software services and -solutions providing company. Our services cover the whole life cycle of software development from requirements specification through software development and testing to deployment- and support services. As a Fujitsu and Nokia owned company we have strong experience on collaboration with leading international customers. We provide services utilizing leading technologies and software solutions. www.nice.fi

Jouko Seppä

Telefone: Telefone: +358 50 500 2115
E-mail: E-mail: jouko.seppa@nice.fi
EmpresaNice-business Solutions Finland Oy
Managing Director

Toni Mettovaara

Telefone: Telefone: +358 50 501 4560
E-mail: E-mail: toni.mettovaara@rtt.fi
EmpresaRTT Solutions Oy

Date: 19 June, 2008