Tieto and Edisoft Baltic, an Estonian business integration company, have agreed to co-operate in B2B integration services. Contracting parties can now provide electronic document interchange services between their customers. The co-operation covers all types of electronic documents exchanged between the business partners, starting with electronic invoices.

Aleksei Dobroman, Business Development Director at Edisoft Baltic, says: “The roaming agreement with Tieto – an expert in the field – will allow connection of electronic documents between Nordic and Baltic companies, which already make a lot of business transactions between each other. We anticipate substantial traffic between our Baltic clientele and Tieto’s customers, whereas the key accounts in Baltic countries are to be mainly from the supply chain, retail and DIY (do-it-yourself) sector. Pairing our efforts with such a leader as Tieto is will also bring long-term expertise in the European and, in particular, Nordic best practices to the Baltic and Russian users of the EDI and electronic invoicing.”

Timo Kolehmainen, Director, Value Networks Finland at Tieto, Value Networks, says: “In addition to domestic connections, organizations have a need to reach their business partners digitally also in other countries. Co-operation between the service providers to connect their networks, services and customers is a very important element in the objective of establishing interoperability for all the business partners. Edisoft is a respected and professional service provider and we are very happy that they are joining our partner network.”

The interchange service includes sending, receiving, conversion, storing, processing and transmission of the business documents between Tieto and Edisoft Baltic. Document formats are UN/EDIFACT messages, XML-based messages and other agreed standard formats.