NSN selected Accenture to outsource its IT applications requirements. The deal is spread over a period of three years. NSN will outsource its human resources and finance & control functions to Accenture as well as corporate-wide tools and platforms.

"Nokia Siemens Networks has successfully partnered with Accenture over recent years," said Manfred Immitzer,chief information officer of Nokia Siemens Networks. "This agreement allows us to draw on the application services expertise of a trusted business partner to help provide our IT capability with additional flexibility, greater agility and increased cost management."

Veli-Pekka Lappalainen, a senior executive with Accenture`s Communications & High Tech group, said, "Accenture's relationship with NSN spans more than a decade, well beyond NSN`s formation in 2007. We continue to look forward to helping NSN leverage its IT investments to increase operational performance and gain cost efficiencies."