FORCE - Development Center

FORCE is a center for the development, integration and construction of information systems, infrastructure solutions, technical support and training.

The company's customers are public sector organizations, financial institutions, insurance companies, fuel and power enterprises, construction companies, telecommunications companies, as well as companies in such industries as science, education, transport, E-commerce, information communities.

Performance indicators

2021: Revenue decrease by 5.1% to RUR 19,593 million

At the end of 2021, FORCE's revenue amounted to 19,593 million rubles, down 5.1% compared to 2020, which allowed it to take 30th place in the ranking of TAdviser100: The largest IT companies in Russia 2022.

History

2023: Composition of FORCE Group of Companies

As of August 2023, the FORS GROUP includes:

• "FORCE - Development Center,"
• "I-FORCE,"
• FORS Telecom,
• "FORCE Distribution,"
• " FORCE Training Center."

The Group promotes its products and services under the "FORCE" brand.

2022

TAdviser interview with Elena Borhart and Larisa Antonova

Experts from the FORCE-Development Center company spoke about the specifics of working in the new reality in an interview with TAdviser: Elena Borkhart, head of sales of services, and Larisa Antonova, director of the Technical Support Center. Read more here.

TAdviser interview with Andrey Burin, Head of Public Sector

The head of the department for work public sector with the company "FORCE - Development Center" (FORS GROUP) Andrey Burin in an interview TAdviser in January 2022 spoke about the peculiarities of development IT in federal and regional authorities, assessed the prospects of the platform "," and State that also shared the secrets of motivating IT specialists in a new reality. Read more here.

2021

TAdviser interview with Yevgeny Efimenko CEO

How to ensure stable growth in the current conditions and in what direction the company is developing, in May 2021, TAdviser was told by Evgeny Efimenko, General Director of FORCE - Development Center (FORS GROUP Companies). Read more here.

Partnership with UiPath

On March 15, 2021, FORCE - Development Center (FORCE Group FORS GROUP) announced the conclusion of a partnership agreement with UiPath, a developer of products for robotic process automation (RPA). The UiPath platform provides an intelligent, multifunctional development environment to automate any type of routine process in any industry.

As part of the partnership agreement, it is also planned to deliver and implement the UiPath platform to customers interested in reducing operating costs and optimizing their activities in general - both through ongoing projects and recently launched ones.

2020

Revenue - 20,640 million rubles

At the end of 2020, the revenue of the FORCE company amounted to 20,640 million rubles.

Inclusion in the TAdviser rating "The largest IT suppliers in Russian retail"

The company "Force" is included in the rating "Largest IT suppliers in" Russian retail by revenue for 2020, "prepared TAdviser in July 2021. More. here

Inclusion in the TAdviser rating "Largest IT suppliers in banks"

Force is included in the rating "Largest IT suppliers in banks" by revenue for 2020, "prepared by TAdviser in October 2021. Read more here.

Inclusion in the TAdviser rating "The largest IT suppliers in the Russian public sector"

Force is included in IT public sector Russia the rating "Largest Suppliers by Revenue for 2020," prepared TAdviser in December 2021. More. here

2019

Partnership with Forsyth

On November 22, 2019, Force - Development Center announced a partnership agreement with Forsyth, a Russian software supplier. According to its terms, Force will supply, install, configure, implement and maintain Forsyth software. Analytical platform, "advise customers and assist them in choosing the optimal solution configuration for them.

Product "Forsyth. Analytical Platform "is an integrated set of high-performance tools for creating industrial analytical systems using machine learning and artificial intelligence methods.

At the moment, the demand for affordable domestic fully functional analytical systems, comparable in their capabilities to Western analogues, is actively growing on the Russian market. In our opinion, "Forsyth" is just such a product. This is a mature BI platform of Russian production that will significantly increase our capabilities as a developer of not only analytical solutions, but also systems for budgeting and financial analysis, especially when working with the public sector and business structures with state participation. Forsyth is also considered by us as a promising tool for use in complex projects related to Data Mining, modeling and forecasting based on big data, - said Dmitry Bibichev, Director of the System Integration Department of Force - Development Center.

The joint efforts of the partners will be aimed at promoting Russian analytical software products that will help customers create modern systems for reporting, analysis, modeling and forecasting of data.

The Forsyth digital analytical platform contains a complete set of tools for creating a full-fledged analytical application. It can be used to solve most problems related to analytics - preparing and loading data, maintaining routine reporting, creating interactive panels, maintaining a metadata repository, configuring the NSI support subsystem and many others.

Partnership with Unidata

On July 9, 2019, FORCE-Development Center (FORCE Group of Companies) and Unidata announced the conclusion of a strategic partnership agreement. Within the framework of cooperation, companies will implement joint projects on data management, namely, to solve the problems of centralized data collection, standardization, quality verification, analysis and statistics, uploading to third-party information systems.

The Unidata platform is used to manage basic information and reference information (MDM, NSI), business processes ( BPM ), control and ensure high data quality (DQ). It provides a tool for automating the decision system (Data Governance). The main features of the platform are rapid implementation, high performance, architecture flexibility and taking into account the specifics of the customer's business processes.

FORCE plans to conduct its own development on this platform, use its capabilities in its finished products and in project activities - when solving the problems of optimizing the enterprise architecture, providing new functionality of existing application systems and creating a management decision-making system.

The use of Unidata platform technologies in Data Governance projects will enable FORCE to offer customers a comprehensive service that includes high performance and stability of the data warehouse with the ability to choose the way to organize databases, clean them up and enrich them, the availability of scale-up and support different styles of master data management. Analysts, developers and administrators of FORCE have been trained and become certified specialists in Unidata technologies.

Partnership with Visiology

The companies FORCE-Center for Development (FORCE Group of Companies) and Visiology (Polymedia Group of Companies) announced in June 2019 the conclusion of a strategic partnership agreement. It provides for joining forces to create and promote solutions based on the Visiology analytical platform through joint projects in the field of digitalization of state and corporate governance, where FORCE traditionally has strong competencies.

As an integrator, FORCE will use Visiology's analytical tools in its products to quickly and efficiently solve customers' problems, while providing services from business consulting to technical support for users.

TAdviser interview

In April 2019, Dmitry Bibichev, Director of the System Integration Department, answered TAdviser questions on the cloud services of Force - Development Center (Force Group of Companies). Read the interview here.

Oracle Cloud Cloud Management Center in Russia

In March 2019, FORCE - Development Center (part of FORCE FORS GROUP), Oracle Cloud Managed Service Provider (MSP) and platinum partner of Oracle Corporation, announced the creation of a Cloud Services Management Center to expand the offer, localization and support of Oracle Cloud services in Russia. FORCE in Oracle MSP status provides customers with a ready-made business solution based on the Oracle public cloud, when vendor services are accompanied by their own partner services.

The Cloud Services Management Center, a division of FORCE - Development Center, is specially created to coordinate the implementation, support and development of cloud solutions on the Oracle Cloud platform. It is distinguished by the degree of readiness of business processes to support a new direction, the presence of its own technological environment and the required number of certified specialists, knowledge of technical skills and specialized tools with guaranteed quality of service.

By migrating workloads to the Oracle cloud while optimizing your resources and outsourcing your systems to everyday operations, you can reduce IT costs by up to a factor. At the same time, significant resources are freed up to solve other, more complex problems.

FORS Cloud Core Article

2018

Digitalization of road works: how to improve quality, saving money. TADetali

Sergey Chistyakov, head of the development department of complex projects at FORCE - Development Center, told what solutions change the level of IT penetration into the road industry, how to implement them and what result to expect at the exit. Read the details

TAdviser interview

In May 2018, Andrei Tambovsky, director of technologies at FORCE Group of Companies, and Yuri Zyatkov, executive director of FORCE - Development Center , spoke in an interview with TAdviser about the situation in the Russian market for cloud services and services provided by FORCE in this area.

2017

Oracle Cloud MSP Status

On September 1, 2017, FORCE - Development Center, a platinum partner of Oracle Corporation, announced its entry into the Oracle Cloud Managed Service Provider (MSP) partner program. This program provides partners with the opportunity to combine Oracle Cloud Platform services with their own services, offering customers a complete solution for the public cloud.

FORCE has demonstrated compliance with the necessary requirements for participation in the program - in particular, has confirmed its level of competence in Oracle IaaS and PaaS cloud services.

The company is forming a package of services based on Oracle Exadata Cloud Machine and Oracle Cloud Machine, which will allow customers to maximize the benefits offered by these cloud services. FORCE will also offer consulting services in the field of cloud services security, regulatory development and ensuring the interaction of heterogeneous environments when migrating existing databases and applications to a new cloud platform.

2016

More than 1000 projects over 25 years

By September 2016, over the years of work on the market, more than a thousand large projects were completed for the public sector, banks, telecommunications operators and industrial enterprises. Force works closely with the Moscow Department of Information Technologies, having completed several dozen projects on automation of urban, housing and communal services. The company also took an active part in the creation of the Unified System of Interdepartmental Electronic Interaction, developed its own solution for creating a regional segment of e-government, which is used in a number of regions. Among the largest state customers of the company are the Federal Tax Service, the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation, the Federal Treasury, and MGFOMS.

Automate budgeting, planning, and consolidation of financial statements without purchasing licenses

In May 2016, FORCE announced a service to automate budgeting, planning and consolidation of financial statements without the need to purchase expensive software licenses.

The Customer pays only a monthly subscription fee, the size of which is determined by the number of users, the amount of functionality used and the duration of subscription to the service. Such a board will be available even to small companies that previously could not afford to purchase certain licensed software.

A simple calculation shows that the amount of payments for the year will be significantly less than if a full-fledged project to implement such a system had to be implemented, purchasing software and hardware, technical support and paying for the work of specialists who are not easy to find on the market. Moreover, this difference will be even more noticeable with a small number of users, which is typical for medium and small businesses.

The project of implementing a budgeting system with the purchase of the necessary equipment and licenses for similar software in some cases can cost 6 times more than with the use of the offered service.

At the same time, the system can be deployed both in its own FORCE cloud and on the customer's server capacity. The equipment can also be leased. Note that in the FORCE cloud, specialized hardware and software high-performance complexes are installed, which meet the most stringent requirements for fault tolerance, reliability and scaling.

The data center infrastructure provides complete fault tolerance for the systems located in it, and the object corresponds to the Level 3 reliability level in the categories "project," "construction" and "operation" with an availability rate of 99.999% and meets the PCI DSS requirements in terms of ensuring reliable data protection. The operation of the FORCE cloud is carried out by experienced and certified specialists throughout the stack of solutions. Real-time customers can access the demo version of the service, as well as conduct tests on their own data and select the necessary level of functionality that meets the needs of current business tasks.

In a typical scenario, based on the budgeting methodology used in the customer's company, an application is developed that works in the FORCE cloud, and then an agreement is concluded to provide a service for administering this application and providing users with access to it. Further development of the project can go in several directions - increasing the number of users, implementing additional functional requirements, or solving new tasks for managing business efficiency.

BPS Services for Oracle Hyperion-Based Business Process Support

In May 2016, the FORCE Development Center announced the start of providing services based on the EPM platform Oracle Hyperion. Oracle BPS (Business Process Services) enables companies to support business processes to manage their performance based on subscription fees without purchasing software licenses or caring about the technical aspects of systems. This will help reduce one-time costs while making IT costs more predictable and manageable.

The system can be deployed both in the form of a cloud architecture on the server power of a data center located in the Russian Federation and on the client's site. The standard package of services includes: configuration, administration and maintenance of applications for managing the company's performance. As additional services, FORCE offers audit and optimization of existing applications, their migration to new versions, as well as the implementation of other business tasks at the request of the customer.

Oracle Hyperion's EPM platform is an integrated suite of business applications to support business performance management processes, including strategic modeling, planning, budgeting, financial reporting consolidation, and profitability management.

Composition of FORCE Group of Companies

As of January 2016, the FORS GROUP included:

• "FORCE - Development Center,"
• "I-FORCE,"
• FORS Telecom,
• "FORCE Distribution,"
• " FORCE Training Center,"
• FORS-Vyatka.

2015

The total revenue of the company in 2015 exceeded 8.5 billion rubles. Structurally, 45% of revenue comes from IT services, 25% from software development, and the remaining 30% from software distribution and infrastructure solutions.

At the end of 2015, according to the rating agency "Expert RA" FORCE is included in the TOP-10 of companies in the direction of "Software Development." According to IDC research of the Russian IT services market, FORCE was included in the TOP-5 of service providers for technical support, maintenance and software implementation in 2015.

2013

Oracle Solution Delivery

In May 2013, FORCE delivered both classic Oracle equipment and Oracle infrastructure solutions of the Engineered Systems class, which are presented in the FORS ExaStack Studio engineering demo center and are available for testing. The FORCE Demo Center is one of the few in Europe where you can test applications on any of the existing ExaStack class hardware and receive a full range of services for this product line - from application testing to auditing, DBMS migration, design and configuration of ultra-high performance and reliability systems, and in any configuration that the customer needs. The highest level of expert expertise was confirmed by the vendor and recognized by partners and customers.

Big Data: a new direction in FORCE activities

FORCE announced at the beginning of 2013 the start of a new Big Data direction for itself, within the framework of which it is planned to conduct research projects, use the results obtained in order to solve practical problems and develop expertise in general. The first projects have started, testing and work is underway to create industry demonstration stands, including at the specialized Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine software and hardware complex.

Unlike traditional IT services, it uses fundamentally new, principle-based approaches and technologies that allow you to extract the necessary information from huge amounts of unstructured data from a wide variety of external sources - from Internet sites and social networks to complex information systems.

Today it is one of the fastest growing segments of the IT market. According to IDC forecasts, it will grow about seven times faster than the ICT market as a whole, and by 2015 its global volume will reach $16.9 billion. Cumulative planned growth (CAGR) will thus be 39.4%. At the end of 2012, analysts assure, the Big Data segment should grow by almost 50% to $7 billion. According to the most optimistic estimates, 75% of organizations in the world with more than 500 employees plan to invest in business analysis solutions in the next 12 months. And, despite the fact that in Russia there are not so many real projects of this kind, the beginning has been laid.

It is planned to carry out activities in the following key areas:

• development of expertise in the field of Big Data technologies;
• implementation of research projects on the basis of Oracle hardware and software platforms;
• promotion of technologies and obtained research results for solving practical problems;
• preparation of a demonstration stand with examples of relevant industrial systems;
• conduct internal and external workshops to disseminate ideas, methods and approaches to the use of Big Data technologies .

Technologies include Oracle Data Mining and Oracle R Enterprise for in-depth data analysis, Oracle Endeca Information Discovery for intuitive analysis with advanced search capabilities in the context of fuzzy search criteria, Hadoop and MapReduce for distributed data storage and processing, and NoSQL for efficiently storing huge amounts of non-standard data. A separate class of solutions are hardware and software complexes that use innovative in-memory technologies. Note that FORCE has its own demo center ExaStack Studio with an almost complete stack of Exa-class solutions from Oracle, including Exalytics In-Memory Machine, Exalogic, Exadata & Database Appliance.

2011: Opening of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine Demo Center

On April 19, 2011, FORCE - Development Center announced the opening of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine Demo Center. In the ExaStack Studio Demo Center, partners and customers can directly familiarize themselves with the capabilities of this powerful computing complex, see its advantages over standard server equipment and get all the services in one place - from preparing a test script to training on a real machine, migrating databases and applications and delivering the product itself. Due to the fact that FORCE specialists deal with specific tasks every day related to improving the performance and optimizing the work of client applications, their knowledge is not only theoretical, but also supported by "live" practice of an applied nature. On the basis of FORCE ExaStack Studio, customers and partners with the support of FORCE specialists can:

• Development of the test scenario;
• Data Transfer for Testing:
• Selection of test environment;
• Carrying out load testing with subsequent analysis of its results;
• Preparation of recommendations for modification of application databases to ensure optimal operation on Oracle Exadata;
• Migrating databases and business applications to Oracle Exadata.

The FORCE Training and Consulting Center conducts authorized training on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine with laboratory work on an active machine, with real data and applications. Upon graduation, students gain practical knowledge and skills in setting up, testing, administering, configuring, operating and scaling the Oracle Exadata computing complex.

2010: More than 400 implemented implementations. Company Products and Services

As of February 2010, the Force Development Center, a Russian developer of information systems, offered both its own solutions for enterprises in various industries and solutions of partners, primarily the strategic partner - Oracle Corporation. The company provided IT consulting, system integration, technical support, training for Oracle products and technologies.

The company has more than 400 implemented implementations. The customer base consisted of more than 1000 organizations, with many of them successful cooperation has been going on for many years.

The company "Force-Center of Development" offered an integrated approach to solving the customer's problems, which could include services:

• Delivery; ON Oracle
• IT consulting;
• Development and implementation of information systems;
• Enterprise Application Integration;
• Implementation of ERP systems;
• Building decision support systems;
• Building Internet/intranet solutions;
• Information security;
• Technical support;
• Oracle product and technology training.

1999: Creation of a company as part of Force Holding

The company "Force-Center of Development" was established in 1999 as an independent company within the holding of FORCE - developer of information systems, partner of Oracle Corporation in the territory of Central and Eastern Europe.

1991

The FORCE company was created by scientists of the All-Russian Research Institute of Systems Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences.