Softline conducted a survey of the AWS of the Ural Federal University

2022: Jobs Survey

Softline on December 6, 2022 announced that it had examined the workplaces of UrFU employees and developed a plankart for the introduction of domestic software for the university.

By 2025, it is planned to switch educational institutions to the predominant use of domestic. In software this regard, the leadership of the Ural federal university decided to study the market Russian ON and understand what products of domestic vendors can cover all the needs of employees and students while fully maintaining the necessary functionality.

Specialists investigated software that operates for more than 7 thousand jobs in 11 institutes of the university, which conduct typical educational scientific and administrative activities. As part of the survey, Softline experts identified everything software that the customer uses. In accordance with this, together with the employees IT of the UrFU Directorate, four "golden standards" were determined: four types of workstations and requirements for them, depending on the tasks performed on these. PERSONAL COMPUTER

Automated methods of collecting information were used to examine the university's PC, further analysis was carried out manually by Softline specialists. To correctly prioritize and choose the best solutions, Softline experts prepared an assessment model that substantiated all conclusions on products presented on the domestic software market. After that, the customer received recommendations on which Russian-made solutions (or free software) are optimal for performing certain tasks.

As a result of the project, a future desktop infrastructure was presented, as well as a roadmap for software implementation. In addition, Softline advised the customer on issues related to the general development of the university's infrastructure. Experts also made recommendations on the number of personnel required to ensure the operation of future infrastructure and on training engineers and technical support.

IT infrastructure is a critical link in the work of any modern university, especially for the advanced university of the region, which is the UrFU. It is important to analyze the entire infrastructure and make all the necessary improvements to meet all the requirements by 2025. In this sense, one cannot fail to note a thoughtful and deep view of the IT of representatives of the university, who understand the need to work for the future. Now the customer has a transition plan designed for 2 years, and understands: what and in what time period can be implemented, what budget should be laid for this, what should be the SOW for the performers. In addition, taking into account the initial financial assessment of the costs of the project, the university can optimally manage the existing budget, as well as use our conclusion to request additional funds for IT development, "said Pavel Puchkov, Head of the Industry Development and Import Substitution Department of the Business Consulting Department.

Softline specialists have done a lot of work in a short time. Their expertise allowed us to save time on the issue of introducing Russian software. I would also like to note the comprehensive approach of the company: in addition to solving the directly worthwhile task, specialists highlighted growth points for us in maintenance, hardware and in the direction of information security. Softline showed a deep level of elaboration of the task in the shortest possible time for the implementation of the project, - said Roman Vladimirovich Agrikov, Head of the User Support Department in UrFU.

2019: IT Infrastructure Optimization

On August 23, 2019, Softline announced that it had helped UrFU optimize its IT infrastructure.

According to the company, according to the results of competitive bidding, Softline entered into a three-year academic agreement with the Ural Federal University name of the first President Russia B.N. Yeltsin, which involves equipping software Microsoft university employees with licensed workstations and classrooms. The University was able to reduce - IT expenses, predict their size in the next reporting period, ensure centralized management, ON as well as mitigate the risks associated with sanctions for the use of unlicensed software products.

University employees conducted an internal IT audit to identify their own software needs. As a result, it turned out that the university needed to equip the main packages with operating system Windows 4,200 jobs for employees. In accordance with the requirements of the legislation, UrFU announced a tender for the supply of software. According to the results of the competition, Softline was declared the winner. The Softline team offered the university several options for an agreement. However, Softline employees, on the basis of their own expertise, immediately noted the most profitable option for the university - Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES) from Microsoft.

The main advantage of EES for the university will be quite significant savings in software costs. If an agreement was concluded for an indefinite purchase, then installing software would cost the university 3-4 times more expensive. In addition, the agreement implies that the amount of annual payments in the Microsoft price for UrFU is fixed for 3 years. The annual turnover of the project amounted to 12 million rubles.

EES will allow UrFU to more accurately predict its IT spending. This is an important bonus, given that the cost estimate for state institutions by higher authorities is approved for the year ahead. All additional costs require efforts from the university and are subject to numerous approvals.

The third advantage for UrFU from cooperation with Softline is that the university will automatically receive the latest software versions. It is worth noting that for the lack of current versions for educational institutions, fines are provided.

An additional benefit of EES is that it provides fully centralized management of purchased software.

Thanks to the agreement, the time for servicing email services was reduced, accounts were created in the mail client and a portal for automatic activation for all students of the educational institution. told Alexey Mekhonoshin, Deputy Director of the Directorate of Information Technologies of UrFU

Because of centralized agreement management, the IT department has freed up time for more important tasks. Considering that this client has a very extensive structure, such an exemption from unnecessary load will have a positive effect on all activities of the university. told Vitaly Rostetsky, project account manager