The market of EDMS grows in Russia on a third in a year

The research center TAdviser announced a release of the first overview "The EDMS Systems in Russia 2013". By estimates of TAdviser, the Russian market of the electronic document management systems (EDMS) and services in their implementation in 2012 made of 25.6 billion rubles from which three quarters were the share of implementation services and about 6.4 billion rubles – directly on revenues of vendors from implementation of licenses. In an interval from 2011 to 2013 annual growth of the market is estimated at 20-35%.

In uniform base of implementations of the TAdviser Center for all history of observations it is saved up for the end of September, 2013 of 2382 EDMS projects, from them 580 – it is complete in 2011, 411 – in 2012, 254 – in three quarters 2013 (but year is not completed yet, and delivery of projects often happens under the end of the year).

By estimates of TAdviser, really in Russia more than 1 thousand implementations of EDMS annually are implemented. As for decrease in number of projects in 2012 by 2011, first, data only on open projects (the name of the customer is revealed) get to base, and, secondly, in base more than 500 implementations of EOS Group, data on which TAdviser has in addition, are not considered.

Certainly, the share of platforms of implementations is not comparable to a share of platforms in the market on the total revenue of vendors more likely the first indicator characterizes the level of penetration of the platform in the market. As most vendors does not open proceeds from sales of licenses, to judge indirectly their volumes allows to judge the cumulative number of licenses for all projects in base on implementation of the specific platform implemented for 2012.

Apparently from the chart given above, the largest players of the Russian market of EDMS are Case (EOS Group) DocsVision, Directum and other local products. It is just that exceptional case in the Russian market business of software when specifics of local business and the legislation defined competitive advantages for domestic developers. However, an essential role is played also by the western platforms - Documentum Microsoft SharePoint IBM Notes/Domino each of them occupies the specific niche.

The EDMS large integrators to which share tens of projects of implementations in 2012 fall are ELAR, Digital Design, ELMA, Cognitive Technologies (Cognitive technologies), InterTrust, CROC, Business Logic and also EOS Group which is also engaged in implementation of own products.

Revenues of some system integrators in the market of EDMS in Russia, 2011-2012, thousand rubles

TAdviser, 2013

The largest projects, according to TAdviser, in 2012-2013 were implemented mainly in government institutions, banks, telecommunication companies, engineering and mining companies.

The EDMS largest projects in the commercial sector of Russia on number of users for 2012 - the first three quarters 2013 *

TAdviser center, 2013
* on the basis of data on the projects placed in TAdviser base and completed during the period from January, 2012 to September, 2013 with number of users more than 1 thousand.

For example, in 2012-2013 such large projects as implementation of Documentum in Rosatom (50 thousand users), by Delo-Web within Justice state automated system (48.5 thousand users) were sold in the Russian market of EDMS, in the Central Bank implementation Case (EOS Group) on more than 60 thousand users is carried out to two projects, in Rostelecom the EMC Documentum system on 56 thousand users is implemented, in "Sberbank of the Russian Federation" - in Docsvision 50 thousand employees work.

Respondents of TAdviser experts are sure of EDMS market prospects in Russia. Vladimir Andreyev, the president of DocsVision company, noted that if to be guided by Docsvision system sales volumes, then on average for the last 3 years (2011, 2012, including the forecast for 2013) he can estimate growth of the market around 35-40%.

Oleg Beylezon, the chief architect of ECM of Business Logic company told TAdviser that the essential factor providing the reviving interest in EDMS - expansion of functionality of such systems. An important role, the expert believes, also played transition of the Russian ECM vendors to the platforms of the class ECM giving great opportunities for content management using a "boxed" system that reduces costs for its implementation.

Alexey Budin, the CEO of ELMA, notes a tendency to use of a stack of EDMS and BPM technologies. "Before our eyes BPM as a set of managerial acceptances passes from a stage of fine is far in a stage of the effective present", - he said. Maxim Krylov, the head of practice of operational efficiency and controlling of business processes RDTECH, considers that one of the most important features of development of the Russian market of EDMS is evolution of the EDMS platforms towards functionality of ESM-systems. "By estimates of the different analytical agencies, the market of ECM solutions steadily grows and grows quicker, than the software industry in general", - he agrees with colleagues on the market.

Ivan Laskin, the area development director of ECM (EDMS) Haulmont, notes that new information technologies and the related applied tasks demand from the companies of active use of information resources. "It dictates the increasing requirements from clients to functionality of EDMS. Also the market should react to growth of a trend of mobility in everyday life and work", - he told TAdviser.

Artyom Chubrayev, the CEO of Atlas Soft, on the contrary, considers that now the Russian market of EDMS is filled with the overloaded solutions offering to the customer the excess functionality complicating implementation and work with systems. "We go some other way. For us the ideal is a system 'with two buttons' which will allow to solve the most complex problems easily and easy", - the top manager summarized.

Andrey Linyov, the CEO of InterTrust company, considers that in the market of EDMS "ideological crisis is available". An exit from it – in change of the place of EDMS in an information structure of the enterprise. From the independent system servicing tasks of office-work and document flow of the enterprise, EDMS is transformed to the convenient tool aimed at support of primary activity of heads and specialists of the organization — work with personal and collective tasks, plans, information. And the traditional functionality of EDMS should play a role of technology service, Linyov is sure.

Maxim Galimov, the director of perspective researches of Directum company, predicts that in the future an EDMS/ECM system will develop under strong influence of interests of end users. "Social functions, gamification, various, including mobile client applications are here those things which already appear in ECM systems and will develop in the future. Besides, to me sees that there will be a specialization of the corporate software, there will be more and more specific solutions of automation of business challenges based on ECM systems, and deployment methods for many of such solutions will change on cloud", - the top manager considers.

It is interesting that believe in EOS Group companies that in the next years so strong growth of the market of EDMS in Russia will stop as there is already its saturation, many projects represent upgrade of already implemented solutions.

Pass to the complete version of the overview of TAdviser of "The EDMS system in Russia 2013"