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History

2023

Acquisition of 50% of Datana by UltimaTech

Industrial integrator of digital solutions UltimaTek acquired 50% of Datana, a developer of solutions for industry based on artificial intelligence technologies previously owned by Lanit Group of Companies, as well as 49% of Databriz, a developer of solutions for managing business projects. This was announced on July 12, 2023 to TAdviser by representatives of UltimaTek. The second half of the share in each company is retained by the real owners and current CEOs - Vladimir Zakharov (Datana) and Mikhail Kudrinsky (Databriz). The financial terms of the transaction in the company did not disclose. Read more here.

Why is artificial intelligence difficult in industry?

The manufacturing industry worldwide is one of the most promising areas for the introduction of artificial intelligence technologies. In Russia, the current statistics are not so positive. According to experts, IT solutions based on AI are used in many enterprises inexpediently. Factories, introducing new technologies into their production, often do not change business processes - therefore they do not see efficiency. Why this happens, says Andrey Zakharov, Datana product director. Read more here.

2019: Building a company

On April 3, 2019, the LANIT Group announced the creation of Datana, which will digitalize industrial enterprises using Industry 4.0 technologies. The company sees its goal as increasing the efficiency of production in metallurgy, oil and gas and petrochemicals using artificial intelligence and data analysis. Read more here.

In addition to creating and supplying the Datana product, the company will engage in research activities in terms of optimizing production technologies, digitalizing production and technological processes of enterprises. to data As of April 2019, the company was headed by the head of the digital solutions department. Vladimir Zakharov

"The estimated savings for only one unit of metallurgical production, for example, an arc furnace or a bucket furnace, achieved when implementing our solution, is hundreds of millions of rubles a year. For business owners, this is lost money that we can help them find. The volume of the target market for the product in Russia alone is estimated at tens of billions of rubles a year. Despite the presence of competitors, the company in the next three years sees itself as one of the leaders in the market for Industry 4.0 solutions. " Vladimir Zakharov, Director of Digital Solutions, CEO of Datan

"LANIT continues to enter new markets and monitor trends. The group of companies has grown a complex and useful product that will help industrialists achieve significant cost savings through data analysis. According to our calculations, we can talk about tens of millions of dollars. Many large industries are considering working with their own data array. However, not all enterprises have enough expertise, so the Datana team was able to quickly interest the players of the relevant market. " Philippe Gens, president of the LANIT group