IT Insights in Russia

2022

Ozon and Wildberries ask the government to consider them IT companies and extend IT support benefits to them

Ozon and Wildberries believe that as part of providing support to the IT industry, companies like theirs should also be able to receive some benefits on an equal basis with IT companies. This follows from statements by representatives of these companies on March 26 at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, dedicated to discussing the upcoming third package of IT industry support measures. More details here.

Sovcombank for the year created one of the largest IT insights in the Russian market

About a year ago, Sovcombank assembled a team of about 2 thousand employees in its new insights company, Sovcombank Technologies. By the number of employees, Sovcombank Technologiya can be called one of the largest IT-insourcing companies in Russia, according to TAdviser ranking. More details here.

2021

Maksut Shadayev: we must limit the over-ambitions of state-owned companies in terms of the development of incorcation

Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation Maksut Shadayev during TAdviser SummIT 2021 answered the questions of the IT community. One of the issues touched on the topic of IT insights in state-owned companies. The Minister noted that it is necessary to actively discuss whether it is necessary to set criteria for state-owned companies regarding internal development, what share of total expenses can be spent on internal IT development and in what cases, and what should be used to stimulate the market. That is, whether it is necessary to limit incorcation in some way.

{{quote 'We started this discussion. It is clear that this discussion is painful for state-owned companies. They believe that they should fully control the products and that the market simply cannot provide the necessary class and level systems, but somewhere there should also be a balance. We are discussing this, but I believe that we should limit some super-ambitions in terms of the development of insourcing. Especially where there are commercially successful products on the market. The criterion here will most likely be this: it makes no sense to develop technology if there is a mature market for such products in demand. But this is only the first part of the solution to the problem.

I will not talk about the control figures for admission to universities - it is clear that we are trying to use all our administrative levers to give priority in the IT training system. And there, control figures for admission to budget places, in IT specialties grow significantly. But here it is also necessary to change the quality of education. Quantitatively, we will begin to graduate more specialists, but the issue of quality remains, and it is necessary to start from school. This year, the government supported our initiative: starting next year, we are launching a large high school training program, which will have the opportunity to learn programming languages ​ ​ for free, and in full-time format.

It is clear that this will not succeed everywhere, in full-time format, but in urban agglomerations it is quite real. For example, the lyceum of the Yandex Academy is a very good principle when a digital company negotiates with the regions on its own. While these figures are insignificant, they are unlikely to significantly change the personnel situation in the market as a whole, but we are now looking at models. And those models that have proven themselves well since next year will have to launch.}}

Full interview with Maksut Shadayev here.

What the largest Russian IT-insourcing companies focus on in the "insidious reality"

In 2020-2021, the epidemiological situation associated with the spread of coronavirus infection influenced IT insourcing, as well as the entire IT market. On the one hand, it accelerated digitalization, and on the other, it forced companies in the industries most affected by the coronavirus situation to reduce costs, including for some IT projects. This affected the situation of incorsing companies. After talking with representatives of a number of major IT insiders, TAdviser found out what companies focus on in the "insidious reality," and what measures they are taking to be attractive employers for IT professionals. More details here.

M.Video-Eldorado relies on insights development and Agile. Interview with Victoria Kunina CDO

Complete digitalization of the customer experience and transformation from a traditional retail company to a technological one - among the priorities of M.Video-Eldorado. To achieve this, the company is significantly redesigning IT management models and approaches to development, strengthening the insights component in it, and also significantly expanding its staff. Victoria Kunina, director of digital transformation at M.Video-Eldorado, spoke about how this happens in an interview with TAdviser. More details here.

2020

Alrosa is completing the centralization of IT in an insourcing company. Its revenue approached a billion rubles

The revenue of Alrosa IT, the insorsing company Alrosa, in 2020 amounted to 964.4 million rubles, according to the data in the database of legal entities Kontur.Focus. The company received a net profit of 23.1 million rubles.

Alrosa IT is a legal entity registered in October 2019, which acts as the basis for the consolidation of IT specialists of the Alrosa group and the further development of IT competencies and expertise. In 2020, IT specialists working in Udachny, Aikhal, Lensk, Ust-Kut, Moscow, Novosibirsk were transferred from Alrosa and subsidiaries to Alrosa IT, TAdviser explained in the company. The press service added that the work of Alrosa IT in these locations is organized in the format of a service model, taking into account best practices.

The completion of the centralization program is expected in 2021. During the year, specialists working in Mirny, Yakutsk, St. Petersburg, Smolensk, Arkhangelsk and all other regions of Alrosa's presence will move to Alrosa IT. The expected number of employees at the end of 2021 is 700-750 people, taking into account the involvement of new personnel, explained TAdviser in Alrosa.

More details here.

Digitalization of construction: why box solutions will not replace incorcation

Pavel Gushtyuk, head of the information modeling department of the Aeroplane development group, which sells large-scale real estate, talks about the pros and cons of two main approaches to the digital development of the company. More details here.

Sibur unites digital and IT specialists in one company under the leadership of Alisa Melnikova

On April 30, 2020, Sibur announced the transformation of IT processes: all IT and digital competencies of the petrochemical group, as well as directions for the development and operation, digitalization of processes, advanced analytics, industry 4.0, corporate data management are combined in a subsidiary of Sibur Digital. Previously, it was called Sibur IT. Competencies are combined to achieve maximum effects from the digital transformation program, the company explains. More details here.

CIO Raiffeisen Bank Nikita Shvetsov - on the transfer of key development to incorcation, borrowing the practices of Google and Facebook

Over the past few years, the number of IT specialists inside Raiffeisen Bank has grown by about three times, exceeding 1.5 thousand people. One of the reasons for the expansion of the staff is the transfer to incorcation of the entire key development. For what Raiffeisen Bank did this, what difficulties it faced and how it borrows the engineering practices of leading technology companies in an interview with TAdviser was told by Nikita Shvetsov, CIO Raiffeisen Bank. More details here.

2018: Rosneft subsidiary takes the title of the largest IT employer in Russia from Sberteh

In October 2018, the TAdviser research center analyzed data on the number of employees in the largest IT companies in Russia and came to the conclusion that the leader in staffing is Sibintek, the Rosneft IT company, and not Sberbank Technology, as it was previously believed. More details here.

2017: How Russia's largest corporations are increasing internal expertise on the latest technologies

Compiling the ranking of the largest IT insights for 2017, TAdviser talked with representatives of a number of major Russian companies and found out the development of internal competencies in the field of what new technologies they give priority. More details here.

Major IT Insights Companies

TAdviser annually monitors trends in the IT insights market in Russia and the dynamics of revenue of the largest insights IT companies. More details here.

IT Insights in Russian Railways

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