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company’s operations have become increasingly global and undergone strong expansion, cooperation between the two companies has been developed using modern operating methods and tools. As a result, the
company’s competitiveness has constantly
improved.
“Digitalisation is a megatrend also in
our industry and we have made a commitment to change with times. We have seen the
benefits of the new solutions in all our five
operating countries and are eager to continue onwards on this path.”
Ari Korhola, CEO of Fatman, says that
the Technopolis case has offered the Helsinki-based family-owned company with
opportunities to “branch out into the world”.
“In a way, we have been able to grow
together. This type of know-how holds significant export potential and we want to
be involved in taking world-class Finnish
expertise abroad.”

Get the Data
The tour de force of the collaboration was
a 2012 development project, which was
aimed to make Technopolis’ service easier to
approach, and thereby, to improve customer
satisfaction. In order to do this, new tools
were created for the predictive and methodical management of property business costs.
The goal was for all essential property information to be located in one place and available for use by the entire organisation and
interest groups.
“It was a big effort to put all the information together, but it has really paid off.
Now Technopolis has sufficient master data
at its disposal to achieve a great range of
things,” says Ari Korhola.
Case in point: a property taxation stock
take was carried out on all of Technopolis’
property stock in 2012. The sites’ bases for
taxation were checked and the sites were
modelled in a SaaS property management
system. And the result? – The checks carried out by Fatman’s specialists showed
that the adjustment to property taxation had
amounted to a pretty penny and Technopolis was compensated a “significant sum”
by the taxman.