The Russian Pension Fund has chosen a company to switch from PO IBM to PostgreSQL. It will take ₽140 million

On October 23, 2024, it became known that Social Fund of Russia it was starting to transfer the personalized accounting system the Americandatabase management systems IBM from DB2 to domestic. PostgreSQL According to the results of the tender, which ended in October 2024, the Russian company "" was chosen as the project contractor, Software Company which will receive ₽140 million for the work.

According to CNews, the process of migration of databases of regional branches of the Pension Fund will begin on October 10, 2024 and will last until December 5, 2025. The main work will be carried out in the Moscow branch of the fund.

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The decision to switch to domestic software is associated with the departure of a foreign company IBM from Russia in June 2022, after which system support and software updates ceased. The project is aimed at improving the reliability and security of the information system.

The personalized fund accounting system operates on the IBM iSeries server. As part of import substitution, it is also planned to switch operating system Windows from domestic to domestic. Linux

Since 2015, Soft Company, selected for the implementation of the project, has been cooperating with the Pension Fund and has fulfilled 69 successful contracts totaling more than ₽4 billion. The company employs 160 specialists as of October 2024.

In 2024, Soft Company has already signed contracts with the fund to support the Maternal Capital information system worth ₽151 million and to support software and hardware systems for ₽112 million.

The company is owned by three co-owners who also own LLC "" - Amtel-Soft another major contractor of the Pension Fund, which has concluded 20 government contracts over the past five years.^[1]

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