Yesterday, Nokia announced development outsourced to Accenture, Symbian operating system, and will cut 4,000 jobs before the end of 2012, however, because Nokia will upgrade of its major research and Development Center in Beijing, so Nokia China company will not lay off staff, but enrollment staff. According to Nokia reached an agreement with Accenture, Accenture will provide software for Symbian system responsible for development and support services, and receives about 3,000 Nokia employees, both sides are expected to sign a final agreement this summer, and complete personnel transfers before the end of this year.
The personnel changes will involve Nokia located in China, Finland, and India and the United Kingdom and United States employees, and the deal will also enable Nokia’s research and development expenditure reductions of about US $ 1 billion this year. In addition, cooperation between the two sides also include: Accenture, will focus on WindowsPhone platform, Nokia and other manufacturers within the ecosystem to provide mobile phone operating systems, business and operational services. Under the agreement, Accenture will become the preferred partner of Nokia Smartphone development, and to give priority to providing services to Nokia.
In addition, Nokia also said it planned to cut 4,000 jobs before the end of 2012, mainly related to Finland, and Denmark and the United Kingdom; and save before 2013 18% of commercial research and development costs (around 1 billion euros), while Nokia’s research and development costs EUR 5.65 billion last year.
At the same time Nokia China companies also announced adjustments to another on the China market, Nokia announced that it will in the next 18 months to expand its scale of research and development team in Beijing, as a global innovation centre Beijing, S30 and S40, and the main research and development base WindowsPhone phone. Nokia China company insiders, the adjusted mean layoffs in a global context, Nokia in China will not lay off staff, but will continue enrollment staff.
Telecommunication industry observers Xiang Ligang believes that research and development outsourcing for Nokia, Symbian, is a good move. On one hand, this allows Nokia to Trave, are focusing more on the Microsoft System Mobile; in addition, large before Nokia Symbian-user basis, while for Nokia to abandon Symbian system must ensure that the needs of these users on system maintenance, upgrading, and outsourcing is clearly Endowment Act.
For Nokia will China upgrade for its main of research and Development Center, Xiang Ligang think, this main because China market for Nokia has special important of significance, Nokia one-third around of using who are from China market, and as intelligent phone era of comes, China market huge of potential more is became Nokia again in global back Overlord status of key is located, will research and development center set in Beijing, conducive to Nokia in intelligent phone products in the implantation more China local of of application content, better to meet China consumer of demand.
/The text of the Jinghua times
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