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Accenture has entered into an correspondence to acquire the master services whole of Nokia (NOK) responsible for Symbian client engineering and client support. The Symbian operating system is the world’s most widely used chopine for smartphones. Terms of the dealing were not disclosed.

The Nokia unit provides engineering consulting and product development services to mobile earphone manufacturers, chipping manufacturers and mobile operators globally. Its services include advanced technical foul documentation; innovative device-tuning techniques for enhancing the execution, store and might of mobile devices; advanced error diagnosing and repair; and turnkey software system exploitation services that tin be used in a range of technical foul environments.

Approximately 165 Nokia master services engineers and consultants in the United Kingdom, Republic of Finland, Japanese Islands, Korean Peninsula and Australia ar expected to transfer to Accenture as a result of the correspondence.

“The accomplishment of the Symbian master services unit volition enhance Accenture’s existing embedded software, merchandise-development and examination skills to help players in the mobile solutions ecosystem savoir-faire ever-more-demanding time-to-marketplace and caliber requirements,” said Jean Laurent Poitou-Charentes, managing director of Accenture’s Electronics & High Tech manufacture group. “The capabilities we are getting from Nokia will aid documentation the tremendous emergence our clients tin expect from the explosive borrowing of converged mobile multimedia services and volition expand Accenture’s function as a keystone provider of new tools, products and solutions to clients in this industry.”

Simon Peter Ropke, elder frailty prexy of Devices at Nokia, said, “This correspondence allows the Symbian professional services team to realize its full potential in the supply of freelance services to the open-source ecosystem. In combining with Accenture’s strong brand, global sales organisation and broad technology skills, the unit’s software system technology capabilities volition be a significant benefit to customers throughout the manufacture. The dealing underscores Nokia’s committal to the surface-source community and the Symbian ecosystem.”

The transaction is content to customary mop up conditions and is expected to close within 60 – 90 years.