Gazprom's subsidiary moves from AutoCAD to Russian CAD for 100 million rubles

2022

Transition from AutoCAD to Russian CAD

On September 30, 2022, it became known that the engineering subsidiary, Gazprom"" "" Gazprom Design intends to abandon software the American the company Autodesk in favor the Russian of the company's solutions. "Nanosoft development

As reported, this follows from the information posted on the public procurement website. In particular, on September 14, 2022, information appeared on the purchase of Gazprom Design for work "on the transition to domestic software products." The procedure has the format of purchasing from a single supplier, that is, the Russian vendor was chosen without alternative.

The amount of the contract is set at 99.8 million rubles. including VAT. The front of work is designed for a period until August 1, 2023.

It is Nanosoft Development that, under the terms of the agreement with Gazprom's subsidiary, should replace its decision of the American developer.

As indicated in the work schedule attached to the draft contract, the project should begin with the formation by the contractor of the software coverage specification "by specialties and functional tasks."

This will be followed by the distribution of software by working specialties and the compilation of a map for replacing the used software with nanoCAD with the formation of unified unified automated workplaces (AWS).

At the second stage, the development of functional and technical requirements (FTP) for the composition of the database of SPDS objects (design documentation system for construction) is provided. Next, it is planned to test the solution on the nanoCAD platform. After that, the enterprise specialists should be consulted and trained by representatives of the vendor to transfer and adapt settings from AutoCAD to the nanoCAD platform. The second phase of the project will be completed by "adapting the Autodesk enterprise standard to the nanoCAD platform."

The Contractor undertakes to perform works on the transition to the software products of Nanosoft Development LLC in Gazprom Design LLC, including: implementation and adaptation of nanoCAD Products at the Customer's enterprise, creation of an authorized consulting center, training of qualified specialists of the Customer (hereinafter referred to as "Works"), and the Customer undertakes to accept the Works and pay for them in accordance with the procedure stipulated by the Contract.

At the third stage, a permanent hotline for technical support of the customer's developers from Nanosoft will be organized. IT specialists of Gazprom's subsidiary will be prepared to work in the API of the nanoCAD platform. Next, a list of customer's own applications will be formed that require processing for the updated platform. Then the migration will take place throughout the customer's enterprise.

At the final stage, it is planned to create an authorized consulting center for nanoCAD platform products, train trainers, organize authorized courses, train specialists at the customer's side.

Nanosoft software is already familiar to Gazprom Design specialists. In January 2020, this company acquired from the developer a license for nanoCAD Plus for 35.4 million rubles^[1].

NanoCAD Product Line Training

From March 28 to April 8, 2022, Nanosoft Development trained Gazprom Design LLC specialists to work with the product line on the NanoCAD Platform. About this company Nanosoft April 26, 2022. Now certified consultants of Gazprom Design LLC will be able to provide methodological and technical support to designers in terms of CAD solutions of the Russian vendor.

Nanosoft Development and Gazprom Design have entered into an agreement to establish an Authorized Consulting Center. Following the provisions of this document, the vendor for two weeks introduced Gazprom Design employees to the nanoCAD Platform in its maximum Pro configuration. The participants were presented in action the work of the modules "SPDS," "Mechanics," "3D," "Raster," "Topoplan" and "Organization."

Engineers of the Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Saratov and Tyumen branches of Gazprom Design gathered at the training center of the Nanosoft Academy.

The curriculum included two courses:

• course for teachers on the nanoCAD Pro Platform;
• programming in nanoCAD,.NET API.

The course for teachers was mastered by existing specialists, who in the future will advise their employees themselves. All students received certificates confirming their competencies in working with the nanoCAD Platform.

Gazprom Engineering plans to port the software applications used in the work to the nanoCAD Platform.

The two-week training took place in the friendliest atmosphere. We were not only able to tell our colleagues from Gazprom Design about the nanoCAD Platform and its modules, but also exchanged experiences. We were lucky to interact with teaching engineers who have been working in design for many years, so the training turned out to be useful for both parties, "Sergey Spirin, Product Manager of nanoCAD Platform[2], shared his impressions].

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