ARINSO International (Euronext Brussels: ARIN), the European specialist in HR Management Systems, is proud to announce that it has been selected by Finnair, the leading Northern European aviation service enterprise, to develop a state-of-the-art HR Management & Payroll System for its 8,000 Finnish employees.

The project, which spans 2005 & 2006, is a 3,000 man-days contract. It will consolidate the current SAP HR system at Finnair which will include a complete Finnish Payroll module. Upon completion, the new HR Management System will allow Finnair to streamline HR processes and improve services rendered to the business by the HR department. ARINSO's e-Query will enable HR users to generate extremely fast custom queries against all SAP HR data.

This project is the result of a fruitful collaboration between ARINSO and Finnair, which started early 2004 with the implementation of a Performance Management solution. This solution went successfully live for 500 managers in a very short timeframe using the ARINSO's e-HR QuickStart Template for Performance Management.

Ari Kuutschin, Vice President HR and Project Leader is convinced that this project brings significant value to Finnair: "While comparing several alternatives, we have selected ARINSO International as we were impressed by their unique HR focus and references, particularly in our industry. Finnair wants to use technology as a driver to optimize HR Service delivery towards its employees. The way ARINSO implements SAP HR solutions for our managers is truly userfriendly and allows our HR professionals to focus on value added services to the company. In addition, the introduction of a new payroll system is a key part of our HR service delivery"

Marjukka Maki-Hokkonen, Managing Director ARINSO Finland adds: "ARINSO focuses on HR Technology for leading employers across all industries, but particularly in the airlines industry we have a solid client base across Europe and the world. Among our customers we count industry leaders such as Airbus, KLM and Air France. This SAP HR implementation at Finnair also confirms ARINSO's growing and strong presence in the Nordic countries. Finnair will represent one of the largest and arguably the most complex Finnish showcase so far for SAP HR payroll and we are confident to deliver this on time and budget, with a first subpopulation scheduled to go live by March 2005."

ARINSO International (Euronext Brussels: ARIN) is a global HR Services partner offering comprehensive HR business solutions to the world's largest employers. ARINSO is dedicated to HR Excellence through Strategic Consultancy, Outsourcing Services and Technology Integration Services.
ARINSO was founded in 1994 and currently employs 1,750 staff in 22 countries: Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Poland, US, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand & Morocco.
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