Poll of TAdviser: Chief information officers of Russia do not want SaaS yet

During the survey of TAdviser conducted in September, 2010 it became clear that the SaaS model has low penetration in developed the IT expert of the Russian business due to the lack of interesting offers from providers.

Among the respondents (33%) who participated in a research a third recognized that will hardly begin to use this model in 2011 as does not see its obvious advantages. Only 10% noted that they will precisely use this model, and another 10% already mastered it in practice.

Estimate the probability of use by your company of external services on the SaaS model in 2011? Source: TAdviser, 2010

It is interesting that 50% at the same time recognized that they could come to use of the SaaS model in 2011 if solution providers made advantageous offers. It is obvious that in the Russian market the range of the solutions advanced on model software as service is still not too big, as complicates the choice of potentially interesting solutions for business.

"The settled market "Software as Service" in Russia and other countries where MTS works, so far not", - confirmed the director of group of MTS of IT Valery Shorzhin. His company, for example, owing to the large volume of transactions and high quality requirements of work of systems intends to move towards creation of "private cloud" of MTS group for use of uniform applications in group scales.

As the Chief information officer of Baltika company Hermann Epstein commented, his company just does not see obvious advantages of SaaS of model and will hardly begin to use it next year. According to him, similar solutions can be useful other plan: or to divisions of the companies with the low level of automation for the solution of local tasks, or to the small companies with insufficient resources for full automation, but at the same time needing local automation of the high level for separate functions.

"The large companies do not need similar services", - Epstein considers. It believes that it is even harmful to large business of SaaS as it increases costs for integration of information flows and complicates business process integration, the connecting several departments.

Chief information officers participated in poll of TAdviser along with others:

• Vyacheslav Shanaurov (Basel Aero),
• Hermann Epstein (Baltika),
• Dmitry Nazipov (VTB),
• Oleg Weinberg ("Computer Center Kay"),
• Igor Bakaldin ("MIEL-Nedvizhimost)",
• Valery Shorzhin (MTS),
• Igor Khokhlov ("Sheremetyevo Airport (MASh)").

In total participated in poll 15 CIO, part of them gave answers on the condition of anonymity.