ESPOO, Finland, May 21, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- TietoEnator and Svenska Kraftnat have signed a three-year agreement that allows TietoEnator to take over the development, operations and support of Ediel, an information system for players on the Swedish power market.
Svenska Kraftnat is responsible for the supply of electric power throughout Sweden and must therefore ensure that there is a fair balance between electrical power supply and demand within the national electricity system. This requires an effective exchange of information with all the players on the market.
Swedish power companies can, through the Ediel system, exchange information, for example prognoses, agreements regarding production levels or the purchasing of different production alternatives. Communication is based on a common standard, EDI (Electronic Document Interchange). The optimised development, operations and support of Ediel will provide more effective operations with a higher level of quality. This also means that Ediel users will get quicker access to new services and functionalities.
"This agreement is further proof of TietoEnators strength within Information and Messaging. The confidence that Svenska Kraftnat has in us strengthens our position as the leading provider of solutions for Enterprise Application Integration on the Swedish market," said Mats Wikstrom, MD, TietoEnator Network Business.
For more information, please contact: Mats Wikstrom, MD, TietoEnator Network Business telephone +46 910 829 37/ Mobile phone: +46 70 6822738 Nils Linden, Departmental Head, Svenska Kraftnat telephone 08-739 7916/mobile phone +46 70-588 7916.
With almost 12,000 employees and annual net sales of EUR 1.1 billion, TietoEnator is a leading supplier of high value-added IT services in Europe. TietoEnator specialises in consulting, building and hosting its customers' business operations in the digital economy. The Group's services are based on a combination of deep industry-specific expertise and latest information technology. www.tietoenator.com
Svenska Kraftnat is a group of companies with three subsidiaries and eight associates, of which the Nordic power exchange, Nord Pool is the largest. Company turnover for 2001 was almost 3 billion kronor. The parent company, Svenska Kraftnat, operates the national electricity grid comprising Sweden's approximately 15,000 km long 220 and 400 kV power lines, as well as stations, overseas links, IT systems etc. The company has approximately 260 employees and most of them work at the head office in Vallingby, Stockholm. Svenska Kraftnat provides work for an additional few hundred people contracted to operate and maintain the national grid all across the country. More information can be found on their website www.svk.se
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