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Put the Building in Your Pocket
Technopolis is spearheading the cause of smart
real estate management
Increasingly, real estate today is not so much about bricks and mortar but about ones and zeroes. As digitalisation takes
hold, smart information management tools are becoming more common in the industry. Nevertheless, big benefits from
e-solutions require sufficient volumes; instead of a single building going digital, how about ten buildings? Or a hundred
buildings all streamlined and optimised under the same system? – Now that’s where the true upside lies.

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ne frontrunner in the industry is Technopolis which provides “the best
addresses” for companies to operate
and succeed in five countries – Finland, Norway, Estonia, Russia and Lithuania – in the
Nordic-Baltic region. Technopolis develops, owns and operates a chain of 20 smart
business parks that combine services with

flexible and modern office space – and the
company has focused on digitalising its real
estate management in a big way.
Presently, Technopolis provides solutions to 1,700 companies (and their 47,000
employees), which means that the listed
company really has a stated interest in
streamlining its processes in a meaningful

way. Since 2004, Technopolis has worked
together with IT company Fatman in order
to optimise costs and increase productivity.

Growing Up Smart
Kari Kokkonen, Director of Real Estate and
Services at Technopolis, says that as the

Photo: Ari Talusen

(From left to right) Ari Korhola, CEO of Fatman and Kari Kokkonen, Director of Real Estate and Services at Technopolis.
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