Tietoviikko reports that Finland (my home country) is the world’s best IT country according to World Economic Forum study The Global Information Technology Report 2013. According to the study, Finland is the world’s number one country when it comes to the economy’s ability to use information technology to competitiveness and prosperity. Finland has toppled Sweden from the top spot in a ranking of economies that are best placed to benefit from new information and communication technologies (ICTs). The question still remains how this result was got because there are many things in Finland ICT that are are far from very good, so are other countries just much lousier on those aspects?
At the core of the report, the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) measures the preparedness of an economy to use ICT to boost competitiveness and well-being. In this edition, Finland (1st), Singapore (2nd) and Sweden (3rd) continue to lead the NRI, with the Netherlands (4th), Norway (5th), Switzerland (6th), the United Kingdom (7th), Denmark (8th), the United States (9th) and Taiwan, China (10th) completing the top 10.
Global Information Technology Report 2013 has a nice map that visualizes the network readiness of different countries.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Experts: Finland’s country brand work has not been successful
The brand objectives of the monitoring report has been forgotten.
Finland country brand work has not been on target. This STT find a country brand researched senior researcher Katja Valaskivi and Ph.D., Consultant, Seppo Rainisto.
- The work does not appear in any of the current. Firms and the attraction of investment is one of the most important things a country brand, and in Finland it is not at all successful, Rainisto amount.
When in Finland in late 2010 country brand report was released, everyone expected a lot.
Country brand work, however, was left pending.
- The report is very idealistic, pure nature and objectives of the training. These goals are not reached, says the country brand in different countries compared Valaskivi.
The brand was designed to promote Finland’s economy, tourism and international status.
Country brand for Finland were given a total of more than 50 missions. They ranged from grandparents to share the craft guidelines for problem solutions in the global economy. The fulfillment of tasks has not been systematically followed up.
- We do not have any independent monitoring mechanism. Yes, we have made use of the report in many ways. The work is only now really taking off, says Heino.
Brands work is pulled, Jorma Ollila did not give STT schedule an interview, citing a time shortage. In addition, European Affairs and Foreign Trade Alexander Stubb will not comment on the matter.
Source: http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/2013061717159589_uu.shtml
Tomi Engdahl says:
Schools require a major overhaul, “the Finnish IT skills lag behind”
Information technology needs to get a better education in schools, calls for the University Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology, Pekka Neittaanmäki.
According to him, it to be made subject in primary school and high school. In addition, schools should shift to digital learning environment by the year 2016
“Finnish schoolchildren IT skills and use of information technology in schools are international assessments, lagging far behind comparable countries”, said in his speech Neittaanmäki eNorssi network in the seminar.
Neittaanmäki says that the Government and the Education and Culture Ministry should appoint a working group to renovate on IT training.
“IT skills are an essential part of various educational institutions graduates working life skills”
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/kouluille+vaaditaan+taysremonttia+quotsuomalaisten+ittaidot+jaaneet+jalkeenquot/a927993
Tomi says:
Finland leads foreign companies, “the engineer is here a good price-quality ratio”
The work a good price-quality ratio and engineers committed to their work. There are two reasons why foreign companies to transfer their product development in Finland now. Foreign companies have created in Finland in the hundreds of new R & D jobs, attracted by good engineering skills.
Source: http://www.3t.fi/artikkeli/uutiset/tyoelama/suomi_vetaa_ulkomaisia_yrityksia_insinoorilla_on_taalla_hyva_hinta_laatu_suhde
Tomi Engdahl says:
Finland should not run like what happened to Nokia
Finland has been delighted about the education system of good character and recognized its potential as an export product for a long time. Reputation and success has changed mammon, so far only in words. Now beginning to roll up the sleeves. Rear Travel has run long.
Only the economic outlook worm numbers are vibrant by the public sector. Finland does not go as Nokia: Complacency blinds and makes passive.
Decision-makers must rely on the path to transparency and deepen keskusteluyhteyttään, including game companies with whenever it is possible. Pry the machine can learn a lot from there.
For games and playfulness is part of the official school-Finnish.
Four ten-year-playground equipment manufacturer Lappset has a long history with IT companies, and spoken to play with technology integration perspective – long before Angry Birds parks.
Understanding of information technology in physical contrasts wrecked long ago. Information technology not only stop and deactivation. Equally, it moves and teach.
Finland is now expected to move the world of marketing phrases.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/blogit/uutiskommentti/suomelle+ei+saa+kayda+kuin+nokialle/a929170
Tomi Engdahl says:
Data Centers is intense race between the two countries
Finland competes with data centers in Sweden in particular, where community service was opened in the summer on a data center. Norway has also more strongly in the race.
Investment in Finland attractive to Invest in Finland in the organization, it is believed that the government’s planned electricity tax reduction is an important factor in obtaining new data center in Finland.
- The biggest Finnish-looking in the direction of a group of U.S. companies. When the company expand its market, the next step is usually to enter the European continent. They consider the whole, says the investment unit of drive Timo Antikainen.
IT giant Microsoft announced last week that the Nokia acquisition will establish a new data center in Finland.
Source: http://www.iltalehti.fi/talous/2013091217478802_ta.shtml
Tomi Engdahl says:
Continued buuming – again a new data center in Finland
The data center boom in Finland received today the continuation of the Vantaa opened a plush Hansa data center, taking advantage of the latest technologies in energy use and cooling. The server is hosted by a leading European operator-independent data center company TelecityGroup. The new machine at the gym havitellaan clients seeking to establish the East-West junction.
TelecityGroup acquired last year for Finnish companies Academica and Tenue. It had already been four data center, metropolitan area, is the fifth-look Vantaa.
Hansa is located in Vantaa, Martin Valley in the former Hansa’s printing house, Vantaa Energy’s 195-megawatt power plant smoke stacks in the shade. Energy supply provides two data centers pull the 10 MVA power line, but it was, however, less important reason for the rankings.
“Electricity is cheaper in Finland than in Britain, but more savings in the data center cooling capacity. Cold weather here to keep the data center cool, free of charge about 80 per cent of the year, “by City Group CEO Mike Tobin said.
“We are always in the new data centers to implement something new, and here the new invention are stacked on top of each server cabinets, between which the flow of cold air from the bottom. This has been done here in the first world. The solution is a high-performance. ”
Tobin noted that the Finnish company is a very important hub between East and West. In Finland, attracted by good transport links, good infrastructure, good skills availability, and security.
“Finland is very important to us for many reasons, one of which is the fact that Helsinki is the transport port. Russia’s connections to go through this. The German submarine cable project is important to us, because emphasizing the role of Finland. The political position of various data protection laws at the border is good, “Tobin described. As a new trump card, he mentioned the planned energy tax reduction for data centers.
The company hamuaa data center customers not only from Finland to Russia, Baltic States and Western Europe.
Source: http://www.3t.fi/artikkeli/uutiset/talous/jatkoa_buumille_taas_uusi_konesali_suomeen
Tomi Engdahl says:
Leaders believe it-cost growth in Finland
Half of Finnish organizations believe it-their costs to increase this year. Software cost growth believed to fresh respondents, nearly 60 percent of the leaders. At the same time, equipment costs, and communications were also found decreasing trends.
Survey done by Market Vision estimates in the previous rapo Finnish IT overall market growth this year to 2.1 per cent. Includes evaluation of services, hardware and software.
Market-Visio analyst Leena Mäntysaari the IT sector is one of the few sectors in Finland, which currently show the growth curve. IT procurement at higher efficiency and competitiveness, and hence savings.
IT services will focus on the most commonly integration and application development. Transition to the cloud environment will show in integration costs.
One in five believed that the unit cost savings in the future. PC desktops, printers and copiers acquired from the leaders in terms of money less. Telecommunications side of saving money with a bit of fixed-mobile network costs.
The unit contracts, the money charged tablet computers – one in ten believed that the tablet costs to rise more than 20 per cent. Although the tablets prices would decline, so they are as much use of the full costs seem to be increasing.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/cio/johtajat+uskovat+itkulujen+kasvuun+suomessa/a933803
Tomi Engdahl says:
Finnish ICT-business growth is one one of the industry’s shoulders
Mobile devices like motion by the Finnish ICT market, but overall growth is falling 0.6 percent, the market research company, Market-Visio to predict. Tablet and smartphone sales are expected to grow by almost eight per cent.
While 75 percent of all phones sold are smartphones. Next year is estimated to rise to as many as 90 per cent.
The whole industry growth figures seem modest
Mobile devices in addition to the growth seen in the IT services, which make up 30 per cent stake in the whole field of sales. The direction is changing to buying services
Market-Visio explain the ICT sector growth in the poor economic situation, despite the fact that the aim is to increase the cost-effectiveness and productivity.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/suomen+ictbisneksen+kasvu+jaa+yhden+alan+harteille/a934480
Tomi Engdahl says:
Even the cloud service can not be sold without contacts
“Finland has a strong IT expertise and the best people. In the international market determines the success of cloud computing, however, sales expertise, “says LeadDesk new CEO Olli Nokso-Koivisto, 29,
“The importance of personal contacts is not even a weathered cloud b-to-b sales. The seller must know who they can contact, and how the customer wants to buy. Too often it happens that the seller does not offer the customer the time of purchase, “he says.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/edes+pilvipalvelua+ei+myyda+ilman+kontakteja/a931820
Tomi Engdahl says:
ICT companies in Finland there has been a trend throw out workers at an alarming rate in recent times. This does not seem frighteningly young people, as seekers in training is enough.
University of Jyväskylä, informs you that the Faculty of Information Technology of applicants grew even more this fall.
“The IT industry offers a wide range of interesting tasks for experts. The young people have also noticed, “Faculty of Academic Affairs Eija Ihanainen says the release.
Source: http://www.tietokone.fi/artikkeli/uutiset/it_alan_koulutus_kiinnostaa_yha
Tomi Engdahl says:
Why sell 5 million when you can sell 5 billion?
Consumers bought from online stores last year, more than 1000 billion dollars , an increase of 22% from the previous year. This trend should be utilized.
Trading online is – for Finnish companies – in principle, a global business. Why sell 5 million when you can sell 5 billion ?
Hand on my heart, all the countries of the world, how many is a Finnish create better conditions for international web marketing success stories?
1 We are by nature international
As a small and progressive nation of global commerce is much more natural than the Finns, for example Yanks, German, or Chinese.
2 We know how to do the global digital business
In the 90′s created the world’s largest consumer electronics product Alongside business with marketing and branding is everything. 2000s möimme virtual furniture world for teenagers. Recently we sold our digital world full of birds, the internet, etc. clans Finland is not a cold and distant, and not necessarily the least expensive.
3 Self-Service = Made in Finland
Online business is self-service. Self again is probably just invented in Finland, for good or bad. In the 90′s we were the world’s number one online banking.
The service is created by tuning firm’s core machinery, logistics, my website, and customer loyalty – in top shape, so that the customer self-service experience is not only fluent in private.
4 Finland is a good test of the market
Finns are among the world’s top users of on-line shopping . There are also strong competitors such as Amazon, eBay, Swedish Kinnevik (Zalando, CDON, Nelly.com, etc.), the British ASOS. That is why Finland is a good place to test marketing. What works here, certainly works elsewhere.
5 Finnish trusted worldwide
Online trust is a hard currency. When e-commerce, among other things, price, range and availability are correct, Finnish turns in favor of the merchant. World-line people appreciate our honesty.
Or do not they?
Some people prefer to opt for the second alternative: a global and handed it to the other side of the Finnish retail trade.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/viisaat/SAS/miksi+myyda+5+miljoonalle+kun+voi+myyda+5+miljardille/a936389
Tomi Engdahl says:
Rattling technical change on the way – “will take millions of jobs”
“Intelligent machines” pose a huge global upheaval in the next few years, predicts research firm Gartner. Computer controlled systems are revolutionizing many areas, and will also bring serious negative consequences – to Finland.
Research firm Gartner presented its views on the future of last week at the event. According to the company one of the changes is particularly revolutionary. Gartner believes that the emergence of intelligent machines is “the greatest revolution in the history of information technology.” Effects can be seen widely in the society.
Intelligent machines refers to a variety of new systems. The most famous examples are self-drive cars which render the movement of people and goods. Wildest visions of personal cars will change largely automated robot taxis.
Similar transitions are seen in other areas. Intelligent assistants technology is developing rapidly. Get a taste of the given example, Apple’s Siri technology and the IBM Watson computer system. In the coming years, such systems can begin to replace people in some positions.
The same phenomenon can be seen in the industry and other business systems. Work for which only people thought to be able to, is starting to emerge automated intelligent machines.
Good jobs will go – and not compensated by
Intelligent machines can take in the coming years millions of middle-class jobs. This can also lead to significant problems.
For new types of jobs are being created, but much more slowly than the jobs lost, Gartner estimates. Intelligent machines may increase global unemployment.
“Information technology sector is changing rapidly worldwide: new technologies such as cloud services, as well as changes in customer requirements have led to the rapid modernization of existing information systems with standardized and less labor-intensive applications,”
If Gartner’s predictions are true, the phenomenon seems to Finland, which is struggling to industrial jobs to exit with. Intelligent machines taking jobs away from those areas which are to be replaced by industry, reduced demand for labor.
Gartner estimates that the technology is advancing rapidly until 2020. After automatic systems quickly begins to become common in various areas.
Forecast is in line with what, for example, auto manufacturers have previously estimated. Several brands have introduced a self-representing automotive technology. At least Google, Nissan and Mercedes-Benz have promised that the robot cars would be on sale by 2020.
Gartner’s view is that the need to start preparing for the future now. For example, if corporate IT managers will rest on their laurels, the 2020′s disaster to surprise them. After that, they will soon be unemployed by 2023, Gartner warns.
To new technologies, on the other hand will be treated with caution. This is a major technological and social upheaval, and the journey will certainly bends. Technology may not be ready for years, and the initial prices are high. Also, the legislation may have surprises in store, for example, automated systems caused by accidents can lead to serious issues.
Source: http://www.tietokone.fi/artikkeli/uutiset/hurja_tekninen_muutos_tulossa_vie_miljoonia_tyopaikkoja
Tomi Engdahl says:
Supercell – ALL WENT AGAIN!
Computer blogger Ossi Mäntylahti tells the dramatic moods of the Finnish national landscape pride was sold to large foreign investors. In his article, Pine Bay consternation summarized in the sentence “Everything went again!”
It is entered according to the press the cold capitalist foreign company has bought back the Finnish national pride . This time, we lost a major international investors in the domestic sweat and blood grown in pride of Supercell.
A priceless national assets are bought by a Japanese telecom operator Softbank and its owned gaming company Gunho. The purchase price was EUR 1.1 billion, 51 percent of the shares held. Here’s how the Japanese value the company a little over two billion euros worth. The value is significant when you remember that Microsoft paid Nokia’s phone business 3.8 billion (EUR 1.7 billion in the rest of the patent acquisitions).
Such a transaction, the right to question what is happening now Finnish workplaces.
“What Paananen and Kodisoja created, it Masayoshi Son took”
Source: http://www.tietokone.fi/artikkeli/blogit/ossi/supercell_kaikki_meni_taas
Tomi Engdahl says:
Software Entrepreneurs CEO of Supercell, namely: “Incredibly tough role in the whole country!”
Finnish Software Entrepreneurs Association’s President and CEO Rasmus Roiha to keep the game company Super-billion trade strong proof of the Finnish start-up ecosystem functioning.
“That’s incredibly hard to the entire Finnish software industry. Testimoniaali for how long the work will pay off, “Roiha incense.
Roiha that Finland has managed to build an ecosystem that supports start-up entrepreneurs as soon as the school bench press up. Behind this success is, therefore, the whole scheme of performance badge.
“The underlying long-chain, and the chain would be broken at some point, so this would never have happened,” says Roiha.
“The software business is very scalable as it can be done well. This know-how we have in Finland ”
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/ohjelmistoyrittajien+toimitusjohtaja+supercellista+quotuskomattoman+kova+merkitys+koko+suomellequot/a938354
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tieto CEO, co-determination negotiations: Finland’s IT sector can not have different rules than the rest of the world
“Not operating in Finland can be dramatically different than the rest. All of this, of course, hope that the daily need to do, ”
The company announced a co-determination negotiations for a global 770 employees and 350 jobs in Finland. Previous employer-employee negotiations have time until the end of the two weeks earlier. These are two different departments.
This is the case, as the size of the global IT industry and with it the information customers want to improve cost efficiency and competitiveness.
“Cost-effectiveness will also be pressure for us,”
Efficiency is achieved by modernizing the customer systems to newer technologies. For example, element refers to cloud services, and related automation, which reduces the amount of work and cost.
What Finnish IT sector is profitable in the future? What is the kind of knowledge that the future of the young industry is worth training?
Technology Mind embryo is important for Finland to develop wave of cloud services. Big respect to the data, he says the current global shortage of specialist.
“In practice, the first half of the year we hired a hundred new professionals. Software development, architects and project managers. “Germ can see that the client will continue to need close to the Finland professionals. Not all of the job loss in the IT sector in Finland.
“We have this too, over 5,000 experts in Finland,”
The company wants to keep up with the changing world and the industry to remain affordable prices to the rapid evolution.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/tiedon+toimitusjohtaja+ytneuvotteluista+suomen+italalla+ei+voi+olla+eri+pelisaannot+kuin+muualla/a938353
Tomi Engdahl says:
When the Finnish companies claim to be innovations, one might think that they emerge as the conveyor belt. When the government or a donor representatives speak, innovation is sorely lacking.
Unfortunately, the latter outfit is right. Finnish companies get products for the vast majority of existing products, improvement, re-positioning, packaging and branding of existing products, or re-heating.
Finnish everything from product development to only six per cent of the right to produce innovations, ie, by definition, completely new, commercial launch and commercialization of the products, which are in demand in the market. International average is 17 percent.
However, Finland invests heavily in research and development, the highest in Europe. R & D share of GDP is about four per cent, while the international comparison number is half of this.
The contradiction is devoid of common sense. Major inputs are non-existent amount of the desired results.
We have already been warned by the European Commission last April by the report pointed out that Finland will become less competitive, because product development investments, too few innovations used in relation to money and highly-trained workforce.
Finnish management consulting firm Synergy Group Europe carried out a survey last spring, which was attended by 50 major Finnish company’s R & D decision-makers. “The study showed that all the participating companies was clearly room for improvement,”
In Finland, the money is not the main obstacle to innovation. “The participants emphasized such factors as the lack of ideas and non-functional brainstorming processes. Although the company would use the time and resources in product development, corporate culture does not support the creation of innovation, “Winquist said.
Shortage of innovation also leads to the fact that often a new creation takes a lot more time than the former product or brand enhancement.
In the short term, product enhancements, and works to keep owners and investors satisfied. In Finland, as many as 56 percent of the product development investments redirected to the current enhancement of products and product applications for making, while the corresponding figure is 23 per cent globally.
“Mainly in the global market, firms have almost twice as many innovations as compared to the product portfolio of domestic and neighboring markets, focusing on companies,”
Innovation has contracted a company in trouble will not die right away, but first suffer from withering a long time. The Finnish food, furniture and electronics industry would die out because they have not been able to bring new products to consumers stimulant.
In synch with the overall picture is also bright spots. Rovio and Super-success stories are familiar, but the innovations generated elsewhere.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/uutisia/suomen+nousu+on+vaikea+koska+olemme+olennaisessa+asiassa+rupusakkia/a938493
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mere pawns
Again, large redundancies in order to prepare for the new President and CEO, Kimmo Alkio spelled it out: “The Finnish IT sector can not play by different rules than the rest.”, “Cost pressures are transferred to us when our customers want to improve their cost efficiency and competitiveness.”
Information is just one of many companies out of which workers are mere pawns in the game.
When the previous technological leaps led to a better standard of living and boring tasks to replace the machines, now automation and smart machines will replace the research firm Gartner, the human labor.
Oxford University researchers in a study, almost half of the jobs in the United States is at risk within 20 years. Gartner notes better. It is believed that the development can lead to a lasting and up to 90 percent unemployment rate.
Can only hope for that, so researchers at Oxford University as Gartner analysts are wrong.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/blogit/uutiskommentti/pelkkia+pelinappuloita/a938568
Tomi Engdahl says:
Finland’s Algorithm-Driven Public Bus
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/10/15/2335201/finlands-algorithm-driven-public-bus
“Where’s the Uber-like interactivity for getting a bus to come to you after a tap on your cell phone? In Finland, actually. The Kutsuplus is Helsinki’s groundbreaking mass transit hybrid program that lets riders choose their own routes, pay for fares on their phones, and summon their own buses. It’s a pretty interesting concept”
https://kutsuplus.fi/tour
Tomi says:
Why the Finns games are hitting through the world? Because they are in relation to others ‘quirky’, says mobile and game industry analyst Tero Kuittinen.
If Rovio alone is not enough, after the supercel is sticking his slew of this year alone, the game companies established in Finland. I hope the success continues in this wave, says Kuittinen.
Finnish game industry is not born in a year or two – even if half of the start-ups and is cropped at this time.
10 successful Finnish game companies:
Super Cell (130 employees)
Rovio (700)
Remedy (approximately 100)
Bugbear (40)
RedLynx (ca 100)
Housemarque (50)
Sulake (about 70)
Fingersoft (11)
Frogmind (3)
Almost Human (7)
Source: http://yle.fi/uutiset/suomen_pelifirmojen_10_helmea/6884901
Tomi says:
Finland’s schools IT education at the level of Jordan – the new model is applied in Estonia
Estonia is the leading countries in e-services use, and it is also reflected in the teaching of IT in schools. Finland on the other hand is in the European bottom level at information technology in school education. Now, Estonia, Finland aims to cooperate with the school to improve teaching.
n Estonia, the children have access to from the beginning to do with their hands and there are no IT textbooks. On Finnish schools omputer equipment is top-notch, but expensive equipment standing idle.
- Yes, this can be drawn the conclusion that these international surveys reveal the harsh language that we’re about Jordan’s performance in international comparisons. As a renowned ICT as a country we can not afford it, that we are not of the same digital environment being used in favor of Education Minister Kiuru granted.
Finnish teachers consider the main obstacle to ICT teaching models in the absence of good, low-service training and digital learning materials in short supply. Skylark has been negotiating cooperation with the Estonian Minister of Education Jaak Aaviksoo with IT services and the development of education. The idea would be to build a common digital cloud services, which would include the training of cloud development.
- Finland is famous for its level of education, and we have a number of ideas for the Finnish education system. But IT skills and coding education for young people, there is sure to offer Finland, Aaviksoo said.
Estonia started in some schools it-teaching in first grade, and it will continue until the end of high school. Children are taught to code, and make the games themselves, as well as to program the robots. The aim is to expand the teaching five years each for the school. It requires additional training for teachers, computer equipment and software acquisition.
- Young people are enthusiastic when they can do with their hands and to teach a robot to do things not only to learn the theory. It is a very effective way to teach such a difficult thing as coding, Aaviksoo says.
He points out that the modern world requires practical skills, logical thinking and information management. Coding is a very effective way to teach all of them. Estonia has a five-step teaching method.
- First, the students raised the most interesting. After that, they get to explore and explain what they have done. After that they should be given more information so that they understand what they are doing academically, teaching ICT Development Birgy Lorentz says.
Source: http://yle.fi/uutiset/suomen_koulujen_it-opetus_jordanian_tasolla_-_uutta_mallia_haetaan_virosta/6885099
Tomi Engdahl says:
The Finnish software industry excited about the Super Cell selling
Finnish game company Supercell sold billions of euros in Japanese. Software companies within the scope of this is to be greeted with joy and at the same time coding compulsory school subject.
“The software supports the whole of Finland’s future. How do other specialties slog hundred millionaires in less than three years? This small nation should not waste the talent, so for me, even though the coding could be primary among the compulsory subjects “, Software Entrepreneurs Association’s President and CEO Rasmus Roiha says the Association’s newsletter.
An increase in foreign ownership in Finland is to see a ghost, but as an opportunity.
Software Entrepreneurs believes SuperCell promising a good trade throughout the software industry, as it is likely to increase investor interest in the companies.
Source: http://www.tietokone.fi/artikkeli/uutiset/ohjelmistoala_innoissaan_supercell_kaupasta
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mulling over the globe: Why did Finland will be worth billions to game companies?
First, Rovio, now Super Cell. The world we are amazed Finnish gaming start-ups and the value of which has risen sky-high in the world market. Amongst the prestigious financial magazine Bloomberg wonders how the Finnish game company Super Cell can be more than two billion euros worth.
According to the newspaper our country has all the conditions to succeed, because Finland is a fertile ground for the company to set up mobile game firmoille. A recipe for success consists of three parts: the Finns are playing exceptionally high, the level of education is high and the technology is the best in the world.
In Finland, the video games are played about as much as in the United States. The survey found that two-thirds of playing games at least once a month. The biggest part of playing games on mobile devices. After all, it is natural, because the Finns have 1.8 mobile devices per person.
Also, Nokia’s success was positively impacted by the development of gaming companies, the company funded the gaming companies work on a particular Ngage and Symbian platforms.
According to Bloomberg, the Finnish higher education to increase the level of high-tech talent. Finnish technology employs the most people in the world in proportion to the number of employed.
About 40 percent of about 150 Finnish company About the game is set up in the past two years. Firms the advantage of an open community, which means, among other things, Linus Torvalds developed the Linux operating system.
Source: http://www.iltalehti.fi/digi/2013101817620346_du.shtml
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Jolla was awarded the Technology Award for the promotion of open source
The smartphone company Jolla and open-source research rewarded with the Millennium Distinction Awards awards.
Prizes will be awarded by Technology Academy TAF, which last year granted the Millennium Technology Prize.
Personal prize went to an information and service economy, Professor Matti Rossi Aalto University. Rossi has studied since 2005, open source, and the data related to business models.
The company was awarded the prize Jolla, which develops open source-based operating system for operating the phone.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/jolla+palkittiin+teknologiapalkinnolla+avoimen+koodin+edistamisesta/a940333
Tomi Engdahl says:
These experts are needed in the IT sector
Finland needs experienced project managers and system integration specialists, shows a network of consultants eWork report. Since 2007, the annual responded to the survey 80 ICT decision-makers.
EWork explained the expert in the field of ICT needs of the September-October 2013.
According to the survey of Finnish ICT talent supply is well in demand. This is what was more than four-fifths (86 per cent) of the respondents.
Very good supply and demand, as defined by the respondents 13 per cent – more than 10 percentage points higher than last year.
“The ICT sector has been around for a couple of years of running major change that has affected the employment and activity level. Investments, and recruitment was significant fading, but now the uncertainty is reduced and projects can again start”, says Magnus Silen, eWork in Finland and CEO.
However, some organizations felt that the specialized skills discovery of a challenge.
Respondents also reported, among other things, been investing more in-house training (40 per cent) and their recruitment (33 per cent). In addition, almost a third (31 per cent) of the respondents reported to have benefited from more outside labor and a quarter (25 per cent), co-brokerage firms.
Silénin of the transition poses challenges for companies in the acquisition of knowledge. According to him, agile and versatile recruitment models are growing in popularity. The ICT sector to improve efficiency and focus on the acquisition of knowledge more and more outside experts, when just the right skills must be available quickly.
Leadership skills are valued
Restructuring of the telecommunications sector will abound work force reductions and the outsourcing trend, which led the know-how is available in abundance.
According to the respondents the most wanted experts in the next six months are experienced project managers and systems integration professionals. About seven in ten (70 per cent) of respondents felt that their company project management skills necessary for large or quite large and 76 per cent of system integration know-how.
Silen estimates that the project managers, the demand is also likely to be a sign of recession is receding. Project start-up, he says, some “pent-up need.”
“Employment of the project leader, at least in the past been a clear indicator of better times. Enterprises are cautiously positive evidence, and the pit is not likely to deepen anymore,” he says.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/naita+osaajia+tarvitaan+italalla/a940621
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Why the IT sector in Finland go to the stock exchange?
In the United States this year has seen an avalanche of public listing of technology. Finland does not see anything like that, although there are a number of high-growth companies, which could very well imagine the stock exchange. Why stock market does not seem to have any inspiring Finnish technology services companies?
In September, listed a number of much smaller newcomers almost at once: the security company FireEye, artificial intelligence applied online advertising company Rocket Fuel, enterprise cloud communications platform created Covisant and SMEs, a new type of VoIP solution invented Ringcentral. Each share price has remained considerably above the listing price. Many stock market values revolve in the same league as the Super-calculated value of a recent acquisition.
Finland does not see anything like that. Supercell applied for the jackpot Japanese venture capitalists, not IPOs. Rovio’s IPO has been talked about for a long time, but the company was not excited about the idea. The only exception to the rule has been the Hedgehog Solutions, which went public about a year ago.
“Finland, it is a fact that should not be here in new technology companies on the stock exchange, even if the world is going to boom. It is the sum of many factors, “Analysis services company Inderes Sauli Vilén analyst says.
Many Finnish information technology company can have a great need to raise capital to accelerate growth in income from operations, only faster, and in general to sustain growth.
“Exchanges are a lot of good points. It enables the entire period of capital is open channel, and share more firm transparency. Technology company provides currency exchange mergers and acquisitions and rewarding, and shareholders may wish to change the ownership into cash “, Vilén lists.
Why are IPOs then does not happen?
“Stock Exchange Finance in Finland is seen as the last channel to apply for funding, when we go on the stock exchange in the world quite early. Finland sought money from venture capital investors from round to round. ”
Stock Exchange on going concern is the fact that it knows that contact with quarterly financial accounting, where you have all the time to answer to shareholders.
For technology companies listing on suspicion of holding back, for example, whether the technology company listings on the Helsinki stock the correct value.
“If you think of a major technology services companies, it is difficult to list them in Finland, that they would get a fair valuation. For example, Rovio would the world technology stock exchange listing is likely to be quite different Valuation as it should be here. ”
Too low valuation Vilén for example, increase security company Stonesoft. Its price was for many years in the doldrums, but the sale of McAfee happened to drastically louder price.
“Stonesoft Finland was valued at well below the global peer group. Only when it went to the stock exchange, the value rose to the level of control subjects, “he says.
Software Entrepreneurs Association’s President and CEO Rasmus Roiha cites many reasons to remain outside the stock exchange. The most significant is the fact that the initial public offering expenses, and the additional work required in relation to the claim the amount of money might be excessively hard, especially for the smaller company.
“A listing will have to be terribly useful, as it brings an awful lot of duties and responsibilities. Competitors will see all the time, where you go. Rovio and Super Cell will finance more easily and more cheaply by other means. Why would you do IPO, if the funding is there any other way? ”
One of the initial public offering to lower the risk of the company is the fact that trading volume is small. The resulting market value is the theoretical case.
Roiha and Vilén both regret that Finland does not seem to be the capital of investors who are willing to finance the rapid growth of technology companies aiming big enough money pots.
“On the one hand, and thanks to the Super-Rovio Slush event will be a lot of sponsors, the last of which is worth thinking about to come,”
Exception to the formula: Hedgehog Solutions
Source: http://www.tietokone.fi/artikkeli/uutiset/miksi_it_ala_ei_suomessa_mene_porssiin
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The union complains of Indian IT companies cover-up
Stewards according to information from almost half of Finnish IT workers working for the Indian outsourcing companies have been fired or they have left the company. The union needs information from India to replace the amount of workers.
Major Indian companies have made the outsourcing of Nokia, Elisa, and UPM. Nearly a thousand people have been outsourced to India, and Tata HCL’s service. Stewards According to data from outsourcing are typically followed the layoffs Indian companies. If you look at Nokia and UPM outsourced workers, almost half of them are divorced or separated.
UPM outsourced in 2012, HCL 150 employees in the company, which was terminated as a result of co-determination negotiations 40 people.
Nokia HCL breads moved to the beginning of 210 employees, of which terminated the negotiations after more than a century.
Tata Consulting Services, the company transferred to the first year, about 460 employees of Nokia. Confidence Men, approximately 30 of them resigned themselves for co-operation during the negotiations. 160 employees resigned himself and got severance packages. A further 33 were made redundant as a result of co-determination negotiations.
Operating companies in India are something other than what a trade union is accustomed to. For example, the Tata-left is not part of an employer-union technology industries. Therefore, labor disputes can not be exported to an employment tribunal, which shall be assessed in the district courts. This can be slow, says labor law professor Niklas Bruun, University of Helsinki.
- The legal process can be expensive and inconvenient. The district court settlement will typically a couple of years, the Labour Court the same happens in a few months, he says.
Source: http://yle.fi/uutiset/ammattiliitto_arvostelee_intialaisia_it-yrityksia_salailusta/6914110
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12 year old ticking time bomb in Finnish companies
Windows XP is about 12 years old and therefore out of date, and security. The last operating system support will be discontinued in April. Six months later XP becomes more dangerous as a platform that security holes are not blocked.
Despite this, Windows XP is still found in almost one third of the world’s PCs. The problems are easy to push only China and developing countries, the reason, but the Atea and Market Vision fresh market review says another.
In Finland, 40 per cent of is the problem
Market Vision interviewed for the research of more than 300 companies and public sector organizations. According to the survey 40 per cent of Finnish companies and public sector organizations still using Windows XP, at least to some extent.
The large, more than one thousand employees in organizations share is even higher, at around 62 per cent. XP has not got rid of any small less than one hundred people in organizations. XP can be found just under one third of them.
Market Vision of the problems found in a particular major public sector organizations such as hospital districts. The report, however, says that the XP problem encountered in Finland for all types of businesses and organizations.
Atea warns that the projects have now a real hurry.
One reason for the delays is the application changes. Many organizations are using any of the XP platform tailor-made for business applications, such as enterprise resource planning system. Updating your operating system will only succeed when the application has been compensated or the exercise of the new platform.
Windows XP can also be found in addition to updated data centers. Windows Server 2003 Server operating system support only runs for about a year to get XP. Old server platform is still used in many Finnish organizations.
Atea reports that Windows XP sometimes the problem is rotated in such a way that the number of services are transferred to Windows Server 2003-based servers. This can be a period of one year.
Source: http://www.digitoday.fi/data/2013/11/04/12-vuotta-vanha-aikapommi-tikittaa-suomalaisissa-yrityksissa/201315353/66?rss=6
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700 000 Euros worth Himas research in public:
“This will prevent the development of Finland”
The philosopher Pekka Himanen to push the Finnish study, to change its approach to shame.
In his opinion, in Finland there is a culture of shame that prevents the country from developing.
The proposal is the Government foresight report on the source used in a sustainable growth model – the study of the Finnish version.
Himanen to write the final report of the Finnish approach is different from the American, where the entrepreneur can not do without for example, the bankruptcy of a failed human being.
Entrepreneurship can not be born in Finland, it is a state of mind, no one will be more successful than the other.
- As well as the failure of the success of a social price is too high, Himanen writes.
Himanen need to Finland together with the success of the culture.
Finland’s biggest problems can be found in Himanen of spiritual culture. Resolution of these problems determines how the Finnish economy can cope with the sustainability gap and an aging population that is how it will reform the welfare state.
Finding the silver lining Himanen of Finland. According to Himanen, one of the country’s strengths is the confidence of culture, which is the legacy of a comprehensive social security system. Climate of confidence which a man can realize themselves, or to be creative.
International Study 354-page English-language research is published in full in the spring.
The research has raised before publication in Finland widespread criticism.
Source: http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/2013110717694744_uu.shtml
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Is that Finland to the rescue? Katainen was inspired by the “five giants”
- Start with this section, which deals with sustainable growth model, Katainen said, describing attention to the “five giants” interesting.
- Finnish point of view, there are five giants. The first is positive versus negative.
- Mentally, the transition to the abolition of nausea welfare.
- Sure, these are not exactly black and white choice of places.
- A man must be able to experience the Autonomous Community. He was considered to be of autonomy.
- Man does not get tired of the work, but that work is not meaningful. It is, therefore, an experiential thing.
- We have a welfare state, which has been badly to people.
The second reform is needed giant stride Himanen the text from the shift from a reactive, ie after the welfare of non-reactive to proactive or preventive welfare of society.
The third giant step that is required according to Himanen, is to stop treating people as objects of the welfare state
According to Himanen, fourth giant stride needed is a change in approach to well-being, “it has to undergo partial, or partial holistic or comprehensive.”
According to Himanen, the difference is similar to that of a reactive and proactive welfare of society.
The fifth is a giant stride transition from the welfare state towards a more inclusive welfare of society.
Source: http://www.iltasanomat.fi/kotimaa/art-1288618181912.html
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Economist surprise: Software companies should come twice this amount
Even though there set up more software companies than ever before, the chances we still have far better.
Thus says the Federation of Finnish Enterprises economist Petri Malinen.
This year, new software companies have set up 600. The amount is reasonably good.
Malinen, however, that the Finns have the potential to establish two times more software companies than is now the case. This means the 1200-1300 business year.
“Yes we have the know-how could be found,” he says. “Finland’s problem is that we do not have enough donors who dare to take the risk of start-ups.”
“The fact is that half of it in the field of new businesses die within three years. Part, as Rovio, the Super Cell and Fingersoft, however, the recent success, and success will always create success,” Roiha.
“Our social structure encourages a comfortable growth, but not high growth. This same problem also applies to the example of Sweden,” says Roiha.
“We have plenty of nicely growing companies, but not in high-growth companies.”
Source: http://www.tietokone.fi/artikkeli/uutiset/ekonomisti_yllattaa_ohjelmistoyrityksia_pitaisi_tulla_tuplasti_tama_maara
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The Prime Minister opened the startups Carnival
Slush startup event in 2013 has opened today at the Cable Factory. 1200 Startup In Finland, the neighboring countries and further afield scene driven event has doubled its size since last year.
The event was opened by Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/paaministeri+avasi+startupyritysten+karnevaalin+demoefekti+iski+raptorimiehen+robottiin/a947051
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Is Digital Health the Next Finnish Gaming?
http://www.slush.org/2013/11/health-track/
Let’s start with some interesting facts about Slush 2013: more than 120 startups of the health and wellness industry attended the conference this year. There were two areas specifically dedicated to digital health space: the Health Demo Area and the Health and Wellness Track. With the help of Sitra, Suunto, EIT ICT Labs and HealthSPA we could showcase these multiple startups and their disruptive products. What’s more, the winner of this year’s Showcase Demo competition is BetterDoctor, the startup that helps people find doctors. The domain is clearly booming at the moment.
Can you share your insights into the health and wellness domain?
“There is a creative explosion happening right now in this startup sector. We see lots of new companies emerging. In Finland alone we have over 100 startups that tackle health and wellness issues. Regarding products, we see unique combinations of hardware and software. There are companies that create sensors. And there are companies that build advanced algorithms enabling innovative data mining of these sensors.”
Why is Finland the right place to nurture health technology?
“Innovation starts with people. There is a lot of talent in this domain in Finland. The Finnish companies like Suunto, Polar, Vaisala pioneered this space back in the day and still today they are at the forefront. We have all components in place that are required to build successful health and wellness companies. First, we know how to create both embedded hardware and embedded software. Second, we have the classic Finnish service design and, third, we are good at UI design. Combining these disciplines in a novel way allows us to create great businesses. Valkee and PulseOn would be good examples of how people with the cross-industry experience create innovative health companies.
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Minister: Programming will be brought to schools
Information and communication technology is brought strongly to the fore end of 2014 renewed curricula, reported on Turun Sanomat .
Education Minister Krista Kiuru of information and communication technology consist of four areas. The first of these involves practical skills, such as programming. Other areas are responsible and safe operation, data acquisition and investigative work of learning as well as communication and interpersonal skills.
Information Week reached by Software Entrepreneurs and CEO Rasmus Roiha took the news of welcome: “We talked a few weeks ago supercel the context of trade and industry influencers, including game companies with the founders, and we agree, that the basic programming should be taught in elementary school.”
Roiha to emphasize, however, that this does not mean that the school should be taught programming languages such as c + + with. The school should start her logical thinking, mathematics, creativity, and problem-solving skills development.
“Students need to learn how to problems chopped to pieces. In fact, the programming will be much much later. This is just like mathematics: all starts with understanding the numbers which starts a long chain, “explains Roiha.
He pointed out that the school education would also support the security of the internal affairs. Students learn to see what the malware such as driving means.
Roiha view programming, teaching the public debate quickly got lost on the wrong tracks.
“It was very exciting to see how we were attacked. We do not want any code base. The model could take from Estonia or England, where a similar instruction to begin next year. ”
The core curriculum is the norm, which defines what is taught in Finnish schools and the values attached to education. Board of Education approved the currently available core curriculum for 2004. Councils prepare the curriculum framework on the basis of their own curriculums.
The new curriculum framework for school education begins with the autumn of 2016.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/ministeri+ohjelmointi+tulee+peruskouluihin/a947813?s=u&wtm=tivi-18112013
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Online voting working group will start working
The Ministry of Justice has appointed a working group to prepare proposals to allow online voting in elections for municipal advisory referendum electronically.
Working Group to identify on-line vote of solutions and their compatibility Finnish elections. The aim is to develop the traditional voting methods, alongside the opportunity to vote online on various media (computer, tablet, mobile). Online votes could increase the number of young people in the electoral process and make it easier mm. persons with disabilities and expatriates to vote.
Source: http://valtioneuvosto.fi/ajankohtaista/tiedotteet/tiedote/fi.jsp?oid=399971
Tomi Engdahl says:
The next growth area is already here – the location data one of Finland’s savior more
Location information technology in corporate and social activities has increased significantly over the past decade
Location information can be used to support a variety of business and society processes: for example, schools can be placed in areas where the population is calculated to proceed. Consumers will have access to a variety of GIS-based services such as GPS navigators and route guides.
In Finland there are a number of spatial data service providers.
55 companies have a combined turnover of location services in 2011 was about 131 million and they employed nearly 1 000 people. Net sales grew by 21 million euros
Now a furious mood – at least in the public debate that – the game industry at the time was about the same size. Its net sales were EUR 165 million. Gaming companies employed at the time a trade association Neogames statistics of more than 1250 people.
In 2010, the game industry was a smaller geographic area of 105 million euro turnover. Since then, only one has been almost unimaginable in public notice, though of course not without reason.
“The public sector actors should carefully define their needs and purchase innovative and productivity enhancing geographic information services competitive markets cost-effectively. Government on the other hand the operator must also ensure that your purchase high quality of expertise,”
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/uutisia/seuraava+kasvuala+on+jo+taalla++paikkatiedosta+yksi+suomen+pelastaja+lisaa/a948220
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How the Collapse of Nokia Is Igniting Europe’s Next Silicon Valley
http://mashable.com/2013/11/18/collapse-nokia-next-silicon-valley/
HELSINKI — Helsinki, Finland, is in one of its coldest, darkest months of the year, but yet, some of the hottest startups and investors meet in the remote Nordic region annually at this time to discover the next big thing in tech.
The Slush startup conference — which was held in Finland’s capital of Helsinki last week and founded five years ago by Finnish-based Rovio (Angry Birds) CMO Peter Vesterbacka — has become a gathering place for new businesses across Europe. Set up in the old space where Nokia did its research and made most of its phones during its heyday in the 1990s and early 2000s, Slush kicked off the event with a keynote from Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen, who wore (in true startup style) a blue hoodie as he discussed the need for innovation.
The story of Finland’s fascinating emergence as a hotbed for startups — quite possibly the next Silicon Valley of Europe — can’t be told without looking at Nokia, the once hometown hero of the country.
The startup scene in Finland has a unique flavor that matches the country’s culture. In a nod to its love of saunas to keep warm during the cold months, many budding companies hold major meetings and negotiate deals inside heated vestibules, where it’s encouraged to strip down to get to the bottom line in a relaxed environment. Some offices even have “meeting saunas” for this very purpose.
Tomi says:
Slush 2013: The trends and standout companies at Northern Europe’s biggest startup event
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/11/19/slush-2013-trends-standout-companies-northern-europes-biggest-startup-event/
Last week nearly 1,200 companies came together at a converted Cable Factory in Helsinki for the biggest startup conference in Northern Europe. The limelight went to BetterDoctor, a US doctor database with user rankings, and Weekdone, an elegant staff management tool, who won the two day Showcase demo and pitching competitions respectively.
But Slush 2013 was about far more than any individual startup. This year it preached cohesive ideologies and highlighted four key sectors which look to be ripe pickings for the savvy startup over the next few years.
While different markets will always require different approaches, talking to numerous startups at Slush 2013 we witnessed near-consensus in the way to become a successful entrepreneur. The three key points were: treat everything as a service, put the customer at the centre of every business decision and test early.
“You must get the prototype out there and see what customers are saying,” stresses Weekdone CEO Juri Kaljundi.
Hot sectors
Mobile Gaming
On the back of the global success of Supercell and Angry Birds developer Rovio, Finland has become a Mecca for mobile games developers and their investors.
Finance
‘Everyone hates banks’ is something we have known for a long time, but the message of Slush 2013 is that startups are now in a position to launch a full-on attack on these antiquated institutions. Relaxed regulation is leading the way for this with the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) removing money transfer premiums across the EuroZone and the Payment Services Directive (PSD) allowing companies to become ‘Payment Institutions’ – essentially banks minus loans and investments.
Gaining most coverage from this at Slush this year was Helsinki startup Holvi.
Health Tech
BetterDoctor is a predictable inclusion given its victory in the Demo Showcase category, but it was representative of a wider push for health at Slush 2013 which saw 120 health and wellness startups at the show.
Customer tracking
Finally while much has been made of cookies and their attempts to track consumer behaviour online, the last Slush 2013 trend that caught our eye was entrepreneurs’ ingenious ways to track us offline.
Most remarkable was Finnish startup IndoorAtlas, which uses the earth’s magnetic field and the digital compasses found in most modern smartphones to accurately track people where there is no GPS or phone signal. “At first it was purely academic research,” explained CEO Janne Haverinen. “The magnetic interference [from the steel structures] in buildings stops compasses. We turned this problem around to use the dead spots as a map.”
Other Notable Startups
The Finnish advantage
Aside from trends and specific standout startups one other crucial factor surfaced time and time again at Slush 2013: the significant advantages Finnish companies currently enjoy.
The most crucial part of this is Tekes, a government organisation briefed with providing grants and low interest loans to fund Finnish innovation.
Rovio, Supercell, Grand Cru, IndoorAtlas, Kiosked, Holvi , Mendor and Stylewhile are just some of the thousands of startups to have been Tekes beneficiaries.
The model is working. Finland is now third in Europe after the UK and France and ahead of Germany in attracting equity financing into VC-backed companies. On its own the Finnish mobile gaming industry will see its turnover rise from 250m euros in 2012 to 1.3bn euros in 2013. In 2014 this sector will repay all Tekes investment since it began in 1992.
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Finland has data centers in the promised land … one small problem
Finland to play in the European and the world’s best place for data centers, which can be seen on Google, Microsoft and Yandex giant projects. The biggest advantage, however, may also be a problem – it’s electric, and one of the neighboring country.
Recently, there has been told quite a few data center projects. Early this month Google announced a major expansion of the sum of Hamina data center. Google to invest in the expansion of EUR 450 million. Earlier investments with a total sum of around 800 million.
In the past, Microsoft has been told to build a data center in Northern Finland, Oulu and Kajaani, apparently. The company invests in the center of at least about 190 million, but the amount could rise much higher.
The third project has not been Less attention, but known to be a gigantic data center. Russian search engine company Yandex Mäntsälä is currently building a large data center.
Information Week reported late summer , to its knowledge, Yandex data center would initially POWeR 15 megawatts, that is Finland’s second largest after Google (about 30 MW). Yandex is the ultimate goal would be to Information Week, however, left the 50-megawatt facility.
Finland – almost the perfect place to
The matter does not necessarily come here to think about, but the Finland data center is almost the perfect place.
The data center is basically a storage for a large number of computers and storage devices. In order to work they need electricity, cooling, good internet connection, a safe environment, and some skilled labor.
In Finland, the conditions are excellent in these respects. The climate is exceptionally cool, greatly reducing the need for cooling and electricity costs. The environment is also exceptionally stable. Finland is not just natural disasters and political crises. Corruption and the crime rate is low.
The country is rich in skilled IT sector workforce, and the salaries of even low cost international scale. Furthermore, the Finnish line connections to the world are at a good level.
The most biggest advantages is the price of electricity. Giant Data Center electricity bills measured in millions or even tens of millions of euros. Electricity bill has data centers in major expenses.
In Finland, the electricity price is the lowest in Europe. Along with the need for cooling to reduce cold climate, this will bring considerable savings in data centers.
Small problem – Sweden
Finland has a data center projects a tough competitor, Sweden. Almost all of the above benefits are also valid in Sweden. The differentiating factor is, therefore, increased power, and the price differences between the Nordic countries.
Finland is improving its competitiveness by calculating the tax on electricity for data centers. Centers given the same discount as the electricity tax for industry. The impact would be about ten per megawatt-hour. To a single data center, it could mean a savings of up to a million every year.
The State participates in data centers to attract Finland mainly for economic reasons. Data centers are imported by some direct tax revenues. Much more important, however, is the creation of new jobs and investment, the impact on the Finnish economy more broadly.
Source: http://www.tietokone.fi/artikkeli/uutiset/suomi_on_datakeskusten_luvattu_maa_yksi_pieni_ongelma
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Dean of the University of Jyväskylä in Finland, Pekka Neittaanmäen of the IT skills of school children have been left behind by international standards.
It is true that the coding is not part of in the Finnish child and a young core competence. But what they seem to dominate the ruling sovereign, information technology is wide-ranging and utterly fearless use. And that is the competence that is needed now and in the future.
Minister of Education said this month that we are programming the business of creating primary school from 2016 onwards. It sounds kind of old-fashioned.
Much more important is the fact that children are encouraged to already since elementary school of information technology natural to use. It will be a stumbling block too often teachers.
“IT does not guarantee better learning. But now, the school and the outside world is too big a gap”
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/blogit/uutiskommentti/hei+me+koodataan++vai+koodataanko/a950272
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Europe’s largest software houses were listed – these five Finns reached the ranks
Finnish companies the majority of one hundred list
46 F-Secure
54 Affecto
59 Basware
62 Digia
71 Comptel
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/euroopan+suurimmat+softatalot+listattiin++nama+5+suomalaista+ylsivat+joukkoon/a950680
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Sleek is a digital Finnish Finnish
Nokia CEO Mr. Ihamuotila of the work, productivity, and risk-taking are the keys to success in Finland. Without the effective use of new technologies in Finland is not in his opinion, can not succeed.
“The bold risk-taking and investment in technology tend to go hand in hand,” he said Chamber of Commerce Forum 2013 conference, the theme of which was “Streamlined Finland Finland is a digital”.
Microsoft CEO Ari Rahkonen Rahkonen, in turn, stressed in his speech that the Finnish company field is divided into two groups.
“Forward-believers to unite companies investing in technology. Stagnant companies do not invest in technology or faith will grow. Using cloud services, SMEs, it is possible to achieve the same economies of scale as larger companies, “Rahkonen said.
“Digital technology, combined with industrial know-how is Finland’s best competitive advantage. The combination of the companies’ internal structure more efficient and enable new innovations both for products and service side, “ICT2015-Chairman of the Committee, Mr. Pekka Ala-Pietilä, said in his presentation.
Digitalisaatiokiertueen partners have been operating, including Fujitsu, TeliaSonera, Microsoft, Sofigate, Futurice, Enfo, Euroclear, Tekes and the Ministry of Transport and Communications.
Partners are on tour told how new IT operating models can be effectively utilized in the production of goods and services, and how IT investments to reap the full benefit out of it.
“Today, it is possible to make a lighter and smarter investment. Using cloud services, buy what is needed. It purchases may no longer be the gateway to investment in the cemetery, “said the event spoken of the Central Chamber of Commerce, a leading expert Ilkka Lakaniemi.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/cio/virtaviivainen+suomi+on+digitaalinen+suomi/a950690
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Collapse of Nokia took 15 000 jobs in Finland – “indicates purification”
Nokia’s collapse has exported at least 15 000 jobs, survives Employment and Economic Development Department of the calculations. Except includes NSN’s and subcontractors of both companies by the personnel reductions.
“Structural change is a good thing. It tells the purification, although it has some nasty consequences, “said Lautanala SAK in Helsinki at a seminar organized on Tuesday.
Change due to a large number of people will have at least temporarily unemployed. Jobs will be less on the sectors producing for those who produce the better.
Also, ETLA, Research Director Jyrki Ali-Yrkkö pointed out in my comment in his speech that despite the collapse in Finland, Nokia’s IT services and software sector has increased employment in recent years.
Ali-Yrkkö saw the use of software in many areas untapped opportunity. Software will also be a traditional industry. Among other things, the forest machine manufacturer Ponsse takes already more than half of the research and development investments in software and electronics.
For example, the new Scorpion Ponsse forest tractor is equipped with a network connection and a computer, which suggests that wood prices, the driver, what kind of clips from a felled tree should be done.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/nokian+romahdus+vei+15+000+tyopaikkaa+suomesta++quotkertoo+puhdistumisestaquot/a951555
Tomi Engdahl says:
Is ICT strategic skills?
In the technology industry, the progress report (1.11.) States that the information technology industry thrives better in Finland than any other technology industries. The game houses have increased their ICT’s success in early 2013. They ICT skills are critical strategy. In other areas of information and communication being strategic is not recognized, and the expected benefits achieved.
In general, ICT is expected to have a positive impact on profitability and productivity of the sector companies other than the game. At the same time, employees are dissatisfied with their digital skills. In particular, more than 100 employees, 52 percent of the directors of companies experiencing a lack of staff expertise (Soprano eSearch 2012).
Although the skills are dissatisfied, not information and communications technology skills development still be able to target. Development needs are often collected from individuals without tying them to the organization’s strategy relevant to current technology. The survey Jeni have been subjected to about a third of the organizations surveyed have, which is the organization in terms of strategic skills. The rest are not mapped or can not even say whether it has cleared up. So is the strategy and the ICT skills gap between the risk to develop?
Agile game software companies are an example of how ICT has created new business. At the same package combines business intelligence, courage to experiment and identified the strategic know-how, much of which is ICT skills.
The recipe of success copying the industry to affect the more traditional sense. It is successful, the organization has the means to identify the strategic know-how and development needs for the company. What, then, is a strategic ICT skills? For some companies, it is agility, and a programming technology, for others, it is a project or premises that know-how or the ability to define the requirements properly. Strategic changes in direction should dismount the development of skills in the end. Different areas, in larger organizations, mapping could be identified and targeted skills development better.
I dare say that information technology investments, excluding investments in employee skills are virtually useless. When knowledge is incomplete, the system does not know how to do business in the service of, or does not know how to use the right way.
My recipe is:
1. identify strategic ICT skills
2. map out your level of expertise and the necessary change
3. develop your skills as part of the strategic change.
Souce: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/viisaat/tieturi/onko+ictosaaminen+strategista/a951506
Tomi Engdahl says:
Comparison of corruption in public: Finland fell from the top spot
Opposed to corruption Transparency International comparison of Finland ranked third in this year. The organization believes that the Finnish public sector corruption occurs in the third least in the world.
Last year Finland shared the top spot with Denmark and New Zealand.
Source: http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/2013120317790455_uu.shtml
Tomi Engdahl says:
Finland collapsed in the PISA study
A recent PISA study appears in the harsh light on the Finnish education. The trend is once again on the decline.
A lot has changed in three years, at least in the case of Finland. In the 2009 survey, when Finland was second place, China’s Shanghai was overwhelming. It was overwhelming to Pisa 2012 study, but the Finnish investment has plummeted.
It is now the twelfth, when looking at the main areas of mathematics. Took third ahead of a slew of Asian countries, but also including Switzerland, the Netherlands and Estonia.
Three years ago, the main area of literacy. Now the Finnish investment for the area fell from the second to sixth.
In 2006, when the emphasis was on science, Finland was number one. Now ranked fifth in the OECD countries, only Japan got ahead.
In a study last year, only Sweden has deteriorated performance in mathematics average points more than the Finnish. The same situation was also in the natural sciences.
Interestingly, the Finnish girls are now little boys better at math, but the difference is not very large.
In the natural sciences, however, the Finnish girls are definitely better, while in 2006 the difference between boys there was virtually no. Of reading literacy girls are all over the obviously better sons and Finland, the difference is one of the largest in the world.
Source: http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/2013120317789223_uu.shtml
Tomi Engdahl says:
Evening Magazine listed the views of experts in Pisa, the results deteriorate. The causes can be found in the school, young people, parents than in society goes.
Young people’s fault
1 Young people should make a greater effort
2 Young people’s enthusiasm and interest in schooling decreased
3 Young people do not want to invest in the success of
4 Young people seeking too easy solutions, quick profits
5 School children do not like going to school
6 School attendance is no longer a commitment to
7 Other activities will take attention away from going to school
8 Young people do not know what the work means
9 Young people have a negative attitude to mathematics in particular,
10 Kids get bored because they are fed too boring math
Parents fault
11 Parents do not push the young people to study hard
12 Parents too busy, do not have time to follow homework
13 The school is the work of young people thinking is a reduction in
14 Parents should set an example of intellectual effort
15 Children should try to increase the upper limit of
Society is responsible for
16 Social change in superficial and entertaining
17 The training is no longer valued
18 Success of Finnish hunger has decreased
19 Consumer electronics scraps from the decline in the use of skills
The school responsibilities
19 Activity of young people do not know how to channel the affairs of the school
21 Old-fashioned school system should be reformed.
22 The teaching was too boring and routine
23 Education should be more diverse and varied
24 Technological possibilities do not know how or want to use
Source: http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/2013120317790805_uu.shtml
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Forecast bodes well for the Finnish game industry
The international gaming market growth figures augur well for the Finnish game industry.
French consulting firm IDATE ‘s recent study says that mobile gaming is expected to grow annually by 12.2 percent.
Figure reflects the Finnish game industry growth. The domestic game industry revenue is forecast to increase to 600-800 million. Last year, net sales amounted to EUR 250 million.
Grand crun gaming company CEO Markus Pasula says that international growth figures hardly new.
” Mobile gaming has been a bigger growth rates. Predictions have been , at least at that level ,” Pasula says.
Mobile gaming growth is the increase in the number of players , while smartphone and tablet use becomes more widespread. Most of the Finnish gaming start-ups and manufactures products specifically for smartphones and tablets.
According to the company console gaming 11.1 percent annual pace in 2017 . The online gambling is projected to grow by an annual 11.5 per cent.
“There’s always new models bring with them to grow ,”
According to the forecast , new designs manage to hold back the growth of the console side of the two digits in 2017 .
Pasula predicts that the mobile side will continue to grow for a long time the two digits .
Source: http://www.hs.fi/talous/Ennuste+lupaa+hyv%C3%A4%C3%A4+suomalaiselle+pelialalle/a1386473175408