The collaboration between Rocla and Fujitsu has up till now mainly focused on the IT infrastructure services. The development of the application services has been launched in SharePoint solutions, for example.

”Fujitsu's services are excellently conceptualised which facilitated our understanding of the whole picture,” says business development director Juha Mikkonen of Rocla Oyj.

The Patja services incorporate the company's entire IT infrastructure: workstations with their software, networks and network active devices. There are alone 370 workstations at the company's offices in Järvenpää. For the time being, the company's servers are also located there.

 Patja to expand abroad?

Rocla is based in Järvenpää, Finland, with some 420 employees. The main international subsidiaries are located in Denmark and St. Petersburg in Russia. The offices in Moscow were opened in February. The expansion of the Patja agreement to abroad is being negotiated.   

The upcoming IT projects include the installation of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and related to that, updates of the Office 2007 software, whereby the company's websites, intranet and extranet will be placed on a new platform.

”We are also drawing up a road map for the upcoming years to create a schedule for renewing our key applications.”

 Soa solutions are coming our way

In a constantly evolving company like Rocla the IT solutions keep changing, too; they are never complete.

”We are anxiously waiting for the service-oriented architecture which would allow easy inter-application integration, for example,” Juha Mikkonen says.

”The hype was at its peak a few years ago, now it isn't talked about that much. But the easy-to-use applications will surely arrive at some point, which may not happen in the next generation solutions. We would all be happy to embrace a new architecture, though.”