Sibur started looking for a domestic replacement for Microsoft services

As discovered by TAdviser, Sibur Digital, IT-insourcing company Sibura, in January 2026 opened a request for proposals for import substitution of Microsoft^[1]of reference for the request posted on the Sibur trading platform indicate that the company is looking for a solution or a set of solutions to replace the main infrastructure services. These include, but are not limited to, a single directory service, basic infrastructure services (DNS, DHCP, file servers, group policies, print services), mail system, infrastructure management system, and general-purpose operating systems.

So far, the basis of the company's basic infrastructure services is Microsoft products, such as: Windows operating systems (user and server), basic infrastructure services (ADS, DNS, DHCP, FS, PS, etc.) based on the SCCM and Exchange functionality built into Windows.

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Фото: Integrated Annual Report of SIBUR Holding for 2024

At the current stage, there are no specified functional and technical requirements for software products for replacement. Therefore, Sibur needs to compare the solutions available on the market and analyze their applicability in the company.

In addition to the technical solution, the supplier is required to have experience in introducing large installations, with at least 10 thousand users, according to the terms of reference. In addition, the supplier should be able to organize reference meetings with customers who already use the product.

In December 2025, the general director of another insourcing company Sibura, Sibur Connect, Rustam Abdrakhmanov, in an interview with TAdviser, said that as part of the company's import substitution strategy, all software - both system and applied - was divided into three main large groups. The first is what has ceased to be available at the moment, such decisions were replaced by Russian ones almost immediately. The second group is system-forming software, which is still working, but will no longer be available after a period of time. These are, for example, antiviruses, antispam, print management systems, BI tools, storage databases, firewalls, VKS. And the third group is software, for which there is no solution yet. It still works, so if these products do not concern any legislative requirements, then they are still left in the company.

And in the report for 2024, Sibur previously reported that among its goals is the systematic complete replacement of foreign solutions in the IT landscape with Russian ones within five years^[2]. Among the last focus segments in the field of import substitution of the company, for example, the creation and implementation of MES solutions, technological modeling and predictive maintenance in the oil and gas chemical industry: piloting solutions in 2024, implementation in 2025, replication at Sibur enterprises and other companies on the horizon from three to five years.

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