1C-Bitrix

1C-Bitrix is a Russian developer of site and corporate portal management systems, as well as a cloud service for organizing and automating the work of Bitrix24.

The total number of projects created on the 1C-Bitrix platform exceeds 200,000 (data from March 2017). 1C-Bitrix is a technology partner of more than 12,000 web studios and web integrators. More than 1,800,000 companies in 225 countries and territories of the world are registered in the Bitriks24 cloud service.

Decisions

1C-Bitrix software products - systems for managing company sites, online stores, social networks and communities, corporate portals and other projects (as of March 2017):

• "1C-Bitrix: Site Management,"
• 1C-Bitrix: Enterprise and
• 1C-Bitrix24 is a cloud and box version.

The development and technical support of the 1C-Bitrix: Site Management product is carried out by Bitrix, which specializes in the development of software products for managing web projects and multifunctional information systems for conducting commercial activities on the Internet.

Performance indicators

2023: Revenue growth by 42%, to 4.6 billion rubles

As TAdviser found out, the revenue of one of the largest subsidiaries of 1C, 1C-Bitrix, reached almost 4.6 billion rubles in 2023, an increase of 42% compared to 2022. Net profit, according to the database of legal entities Kontur.Focus, "grew by 34.6%, to about 1.4 billion rubles.

The explanations to the financial accounting published in the FTS database say that one of the main factors in the increase in sales revenue was the growth in demand in the market for software designed to manage sales (CRM) and the tasks of companies.

According to TAdviser, published recently in the review of the Russian CRM market "Estimates, trends, largest suppliers and prospects," in particular, in 2022, market growth slowed down to 8%, its volume reached 23.5 billion rubles. And according to the preliminary results of 2023, the volume of the Russian CRM market will increase to 28.2 billion rubles with a dynamics of 20%.

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Among other growth factors, the explanations for the 1C-Bitrix financial reporting also indicate an extension of the functionality of the proposed software. For example, in November 2023, the company presented a new version of one of its key products - Bitrix24 Vega. Bitrix24 CoPilot is integrated into it - a neural network that helps to solve various business problems.

In addition, the role in revenue growth in 2023 in explaining financial reporting is also assigned to activities and solutions related to the implementation of the main areas of 1C-Bitrix marketing policy.

With an increase in turnover in the reporting period, 1C-Bitrix also increased expenses on ordinary activities - from 1.97 billion rubles to 2.86 billion rubles. This is due to an increase in license payments to the copyright holders of the distributed software; Sales maintenance and maintenance costs labor costs and insurance premiums.

The average number of employees during the reporting period amounted to 157 people.

In 2023, the company paid record dividends to its founders - 1C and Bitrix24. The total amount of dividends amounted to 1.358 billion rubles, for 679 million rubles each.

History

Revenue growth by 12.8% to RUB 2,495 million

At the end of 2021, the revenue of 1C-Bitrix amounted to 2,495 million rubles, an increase of 12.8% compared to 2020, which allowed it to take 151 place in the ranking of TAdviser100: The largest IT companies in Russia 2022. The revenue from the financial statements for 2020-2021 is indicated. excluding VAT.

2020: Revenue - RUB 2,212 million

At the end of 2020, the revenue of 1C-Bitrix amounted to 2,212 million rubles.

2018: Presence in the top ten most popular CMS in the world

The Austrian company W3Techs, which researches the Internet, has compiled a report on content management systems (CMS). Approximately 0.7% of sites studied use the 1C-Bitrix: Site Management system, which is the ninth indicator among CMS. Read more here.

2017

Changes in the Ukrainian "1C-Bitrix"

The Ukrainian company 1C-Bitrix became a subsidiary of the American Bitrix Inc., as announced in June 2017 by its CEO Dmitry Suslov on the Facebook social network. In addition, the name of the company was changed to "Bіtrіks24," all products in Ukraine will now be sold under this brand. The company plans to finally transfer all activities to a new brand by the end of the summer of 2017. According to Suslov, nothing will change for the company's clients and partners, the terms of the agreements with them will be preserved ^[1]

Suslov also announced the company's receipt of a new license, which allows it to do business outside Ukraine, and the opening of the Bіtrіks24 office in Poland. The current employees of the Ukrainian office will work in the Polish office, but activities in Kyiv will not be interrupted. In total, eight people work in the Ukrainian "Bіtrіks24," this is the marketing and client department. The company intends to recruit employees in Ukraine and Poland.

See also Ukraine's sanctions against Russia

Getting into the top 20 most expensive companies on the Runet

• 1C-Bitrix entered the top 20 most expensive Runet companies according to Forbes. For the first time, a company for creating web projects and CRM systems was included in the rating of the Russian edition of Forbes.
• As of March 2017, the Bitriks24 service registered 1,800,000 companies in 225 countries and territories of the world. Included in the 10 best CMS according to the international magazine PC Magazine.
• More than 200 thousand projects have been implemented on the 1C-Bitrix: Site Management platform. More than 40 thousand online stores have been developed. More than 13 thousand companies are among the partners of 1C-Bitrix.

2016

1,400,000 companies are registered in the Bitrix24 service

As of September 2016, the Bitriks24 service registered 1,400,000 companies in 225 countries and territories of the world. Of these, more than 20% of registered organizations demonstrate high activity in using the service, TAdviser cited data in 1C-Bitrix. The largest company using Bitrix24 has more than 50 thousand employees. Bitrix24 is localized into Russian, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese (simplified and traditional) and Ukrainian.

As for CMS "1C-Bitrix: Site Management," more than 130 thousand projects have been implemented on the platform, more than 32 thousand online stores are operating, and more than 13 thousand partners of the company are developing sites on 1C-Bitrix.

As of September 2016, 2.7 thousand ready-made modules for sites, as well as ready-made design solutions and site projects, were published in the Marketplace application store for 1C-Bitrix: Site Management. The application store for cloud Bitrix24 contains 262 modules, and the increase in applications added by partners by 2015 leaves 7%.

Closing the site about e-commerce Prograbli.ru

In August 2016, the Prograbli.ru e-commerce site published by 1C-Bitrix stopped updating.

2013: 120,000 companies registered in Bitrix24 service

Total sales growth in 2013 was 42%. At the same time, revenue growth from sales of the social intranet "Bitriks24" amounted to more than 500% compared to the previous year. In the summer of 2013, this project switched to self-sufficiency, they say in "-1C Bitrix."

The company told TAdviser that such a high growth rate in sales in this area can be explained by two factors. The first is that the functionality of the service "got" into the current needs of the market. The company believes that "there are simply no analogues and competitors for Bitrix24, with the same number of services and functions, perhaps, on the market today, which creates unique opportunities for growth." Secondly, the market for cloud services for business itself is growing very quickly today.

At the beginning of 2014, more than 120 thousand companies were registered in the Bitriks24 system. Of these, more than 15% of registered organizations demonstrate high activity in using the service, TAdviser cited data in 1C-Bitrix. The largest company using Bitrix24 has more than 2.5 thousand employees.

As for the results of the 1C-Bitrix: Site Management platform, as of the beginning of 2014, according to the company, more than 100 thousand customers use it, more than 25 thousand online stores operate, and more than 10 thousand partners of the company are engaged in the development of sites on 1C-Bitrix. The partner network grew by 20% in 2013.

More than 1.3 thousand additional functional modules for sites, as well as ready-made design solutions and site projects, have been published in the Marketplace application store for 1C-Bitrix: Site Management. 1C-Bitrix notes that the number of applications, paid and free, is increasing by several dozen every week.

The number of application developers for Marketplace, in turn, increased by 70% over the year, and sales growth amounted to 240%. In addition, a separate Marketplace for Bitrix24 was also opened in 2013.

2012:40% revenue growth, 8,000 partner companies

The total revenue growth in 2012 was 40% compared to 2011, the company estimates the total profitability at 35%. The growth in sales of ready-made web applications in the 1C-Bitrix: Marketplace catalog amounted to 1000%, while the number of developers increased by 100%: more than 300 development companies published over 700 web applications in the catalog.

The partner network of 1C-Bitrix increased by 20% in 2012, now it includes more than 8,000 companies in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other countries of near and far abroad. The total number of projects created on the 1C-Bitrix platform exceeded 70,000.

2011

Revenue growth of 40%

Total revenue growth in 2011 was 40% compared to 2010. The growth rate of profit compared to 2010 is more than 50%. The total profitability of the company in 2011 was 30%. The company's revenues from sales of the 1C-Bitrix: Corporate Portal product grew especially actively - the growth rate was 2 times higher than the growth rate of another product of the company - the popular 1C-Bitrix: Site Management web project management system.

Of the significant events in 2011, it is also worth noting the start of sales of web applications for sites and corporate portals created on the 1C-Bitrix platform. The success of this launch is confirmed by sales indicators and the active expansion of the 1C-Bitrix: Marketplace catalog. At the end of 2011, the catalog sells more than 500 web applications for sites and corporate portals from 140 companies - 1C-Bitrix development partners. Since November 2011, there has been a support program for web application developers on "1C-Bitrix" - Bitrix 4D.

1C-Bitrix reported that the number of websites implemented on the 1C-Bitrix platform exceeded 50,000. According to the international W3Techs rating, 1C-Bitrix ranks 1st in the world among commercial CMS and 13th in the world in the overall list of web project management systems. According to an analytical study by iTrack, every second site in Runet that uses commercial CMS runs on the 1C-Bitrix: Site Management platform.

Free CMS Threat Study

Bitrix, Inc., the US representative office of '1C-Bitrix', published a 16-page study in February 2011 describing '10 pitfalls' of free content management systems. Alternatively, Bitrix offers its own products distributed under the terms of'hybrid licensing'. Most of Bitrix's arguments are unproven, according to a WordPress developer. The Bitrix, Inc. report begins by stating the fact that free CMS are used today in 90% of the most visited sites by Alexa rating. However, this is not the whole picture, Bitrix assures: 'As it turns out, SPO is mainly used in low-traffic sites with basic functionality'.

The authors of the report recognize the advantages of free CMS, in particular, TYPO3, WordPress and Joomla! 'These systems would never have become so popular if they had any fatal errors. They meet most of the requirements for simpler sites, and can even be adapted for use in online systems that have a high load '. However, in fact, everything is not so good, since 'software customers must pay attention to a number of factors that do not allow this concept to fully fulfill the requirements of the real business'.

The main content of the report is a point by point consideration of ten 'pitfalls' when using free CMS - supplier dependence, hidden costs and dubious total cost of ownership, lack of functionality'out of the box', ergonomic flaws, dubious security, a highly competitive market, technical support shortcomings, bias from medium and large companies, platform dependence and legal difficulties.

6,000 partner companies

The number of partners of 1C the company "-Bitrix" in July 2011 exceeded 6000. 1C-Bitrix partners - web studios, web integrators, advertising agencies, 1C-Franchisee and hosting providers that offer services for creating complex web projects (sites, online stores, corporate portals, Internet solutions) and managing them based on 1C-Bitrix software products.    The 1C-Bitrix partner network covers Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and other countries of the former USSR, which allows each customer, regardless of the complexity of the project, to choose a developer in his hometown or his country, or work with the contractor remotely, without losing either speed or as a project implementation.    According to 1C-Bitrix estimates, about 8,000 companies - professional developers of corporate Internet projects - work in the Russian and CIS markets at that time. 6,000 of them are 1C-Bitrix partners. Long-standing partnerships connect 1C-Bitrix with leading web studios and agencies in Russia. Among them: Articul Media, Defa Interactive, QSOFT, Individ, ADV, Artemy Lebedev Studio, Red Keds, 1C-Rarus and many others. 

2010: World's 1st most popular commercial CMS

In 2010, 1C-Bitrix: Site Management (according to the W3Techs rating) came out on the first most popular place in the world among commercial CMS and 13 in the overall rating of all CMS.

In 2010, 1C-Bitrix products were selected for their websites and corporate portals by the State Duma of the Russian Federation, MTS, EUROSET, Sochi2014, RUSNANO, OUR Radio, GLONASS, EMS Russian Post, Alrosa and many others. A feature of 2010 was the rapid development of the Russian market for corporate information management systems. This is evidenced by the growth rate of sales of the product "1C-Bitrix: Corporate Portal," which doubled the same indicators "1C-Bitrix: Site Management."

2010 was marked for 1C-Bitrix by the confident growth of the partner network: at that time it has 5500 companies from Russia and the countries of the former USSR and is the largest network in the CMS market.

1C-Bitrix software products are certified for compliance with the requirements of the Russian Federation for information security (FSTEC of Russia) and personal data.

Platform performance increased by 430%. This is evidenced by the independent load testing conducted in 2010.

1C-Bitrix platform updates: New product versions released:

• "1C-Bitrix: Site Management" 9.0,
• "1C-Bitrix: Site Management" 9.5,
• "1C-Bitrix: Enterprise Portal" 9.0,
• "1C-Bitrix: Enterprise Portal" 9.5,
• "1C-Bitrix: ASP.NET Site Management" 5.0,
• "1C-Bitrix: ASP.NET Site Management" 5.5,
• As well as new versions of industry solutions "1C-Bitrix: Portal of a state institution," "1C-Bitrix: Conference site," "1C-Bitrix: Site 1C: Franchisee."

The most important development of 2010 was the Hermitage concept, which combined technologies and interface solutions. "Hermitage" simplified the development of the system of managing the site and products of the company, reduced the share of erroneous user actions, saved time when making changes to the site, reduced the cost of training employees. Hermitage was praised by users and developers.

The 1C-Bitrix: Site Management line has been supplemented with a new edition of the First Site, designed for companies starting a business online.

Launched Marketplace - a catalog of third-party solutions developed for the 1C-Bitrix platform, including industry solutions, site templates, services and additional modules.

A new Solution SaaS "Corporate Portal for Rent" has been released, allowing you to open your intranet portal without ordering a large-scale implementation or self-deployment. In the middle of the year, the educational program "Academy 1C-Bitrix" was launched. The program included 22 authorized training centers, independent IT training centers, universities, business schools.

1C-Bitrix Partner Program

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