Admiralty Shipyards has introduced the iSpace platform for organizing joint work and automating business processes

2024: iSpace Platform Implementation

On July 29, 2024, Conteq (Contecos) announced that Admiralty Shipyards JSC had implemented the iSpace platform for organizing joint work and automating business processes.

According to the company, the moral and technological obsolescence of the electronic document management system operated since 2013 on the basis of Microsoft SharePoint has put the oldest St. Petersburg enterprise JSC Admiralteysky Shipyards before the need to choose a platform for automating business processes. The time has come to update the software and update the processes automated earlier.

Admiralty Shipyards JSC, the heir to the traditions of the Admiralty Shipyard, founded by Peter the Great in 1704, is part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC, is engaged in civil and military shipbuilding. Management processes at the enterprise, as in the entire shipbuilding industry, cannot be called typical due to complex routes and specific requirements.

The updated system for collaboration and automation of business processes was supposed to include the necessary functionality, easily integrate with other systems and complexes used in the enterprise, be intuitive, as similar as possible in terms of use to the existing system based on Microsoft SharePoint and provide opportunities for further development and scaling in-house employees of the enterprise.

To begin with, the specialists of Admiralty Shipyards JSC studied the systems available on the market that are allowed for use at critical infrastructure facilities in the Russian Federation. As a result, eight analogues of Microsoft SharePoint were chosen for a detailed comparison, including such well-known products on the market as ELMA, Directum, Docsvision and 1C: Document Flow.

Based on the results of the comparative analysis, the iSpace business process automation platform was chosen as an alternative to Microsoft SharePoint for implementation - a domestic low-code/no-code development with the ability to self-service, which has an optimal level of security and wide integration capabilities. Hosted on your own servers, the system allows you to configure workflows and create business applications on the fly, ensuring optimal performance and maximizing the involvement of personnel in automated processes through an intuitive interface, flexibility and functional saturation. An important iSpace opportunity has also been the combination of ease of implementation and affordable cost.

SharePoint's import substitution for the domestic iSpace platform took six months, including formalizing requirements, deploying and configuring the platform, and training users.

The complexity of the project was to ensure optimal performance for a large number of users at the same time - about 2,000 employees of the enterprise use the system every day. However, thanks to a thoughtful architecture The iSpace platform can be scaled for use in an organization of any size and is not limited by the number of users or the amount of data processed. In the first three weeks, more than 16,000 tasks were created in the system.

According to company representatives, employees of Admiralty Shipyards JSC had no difficulties adapting to the platform - the iSpace interface is easy to use and largely repeats the familiar Microsoft SharePoint. In just six months, Admiralty Shipyards JSC received a replacement for Microsoft SharePoint, sold entirely on domestic software.

Employees of the company can control access to documents, store confidential data on individual servers in closed subnets, including using encryption, use various data authentication modes, control user access at all levels of the platform, conduct a detailed audit of the system, and optimize performance due to horizontal scalability. All this - without the need to rebuild the processes previously implemented in the company from scratch.

During the project, the iSpace platform was also integrated with the EDCunited shipbuilding corporation, the access control system and the R7 Office office suite.

In the near future, Admiralty Shipyards JSC plans to expand the use of the iSpace platform to automate other business processes, including import substitution of the corporate portal - the creation of a single information space on the iSpace platform.

Admiralty Shipyards JSC was looking for the most suitable analogue of Microsoft SharePoint, and we are glad that the company opted for our solution. The iSpace platform allows you to automate business processes at enterprises of any scale - even in such large ones as Admiralty Shipyards JSC. As a result of the project, Conteq specialists have created a solution for atypical document management with the optimal level of security, confidentiality and opportunities for further development. told Strotskaya Anna, Head of the iSpace Department, Conteq

Conteq specialists have introduced electronic document management based on iSpace in Admiralteyskiye Verf JSC, having developed a fast-acting and safe replacement of Microsoft SharePoint completely with domestic software. The team on the part of Conteq completed all the work competently and on time. told Mikhailov Sergey Petrovich, Head of the Information Technology Department of Admiralty Shipyards JSC