TAdviser Overview: Remote Operation

The period of self-isolation showed that the transition of employees to a remote mode of work can be implemented in a variety of ways. Indeed, in each case, this is, in fact, an individual project for the reorganization of business processes based on IT. Alexey Bugay, Deputy General Director for Commercial Activities and Marketing of BIA Technologies, told TAdviser how to turn the forced problems of self-isolation of employees into new opportunities to increase business efficiency.

The transition to remote operation is an excellent "pilot project" for companies to begin a big transformation - a transition to a new level of organization of business processes and IT systems. Alexander Vasilenko, Head of VMware Russia and CIS, told TAdviser what the new combination of IT and business will look like in the near future, and why remote work will teach companies to combine the convenience of work for employees with business security

Many of us went to work from home and right now in emergency mode, business around the world organizes remote work for its employees. The pandemic spurred companies to such a transition, but not everyone was ready to work in a new reality. In an interview with TAdviser, business architect, member of the ICL Services remote work project working group Alexei Gottsdanker told how to quickly switch to a new format and what needs to be done to ensure the safety of the employee's remote workplace.

Valentin Gubarev, Director of the Computing Systems Department of Krok, in an interview with TAdviser spoke about the experience of transferring employees to the remote location, as well as about the risks and benefits arising in this regard.

It is said that from the pandemic of coronavirus the world will come renewed. Cloud professionals are confident that during this update, the corporate sector will finally say goodbye to the fear cloud and try out the most "tasty" aspects of cloud technologies and services. Maxim Zakharenko, CEO of Oblakoteka, told TAdviser why IT life during and after the pandemic will be connected with clouds.

Many companies are forced to create infrastructure for remote operation in avral mode, said Yulia Kudryavtseva, director of strategic development at Forsyth. In an interview with TAdviser, she told what solutions will help organize remote access efficiently.

In an interesting time, we live: users of various organizations, primarily government agencies and state-owned companies, are really involved in import substitution, which the state sets the vector of the corresponding movement. Among other things, these transformations open up new prospects for classic Internet companies. Alexey Pechenin, director of customer relations at the Mail.ru for Business platform, told TAdviser how "Mail.ru for business" turns into the largest player in the corporate communications market.

The epidemiological situation makes it necessary to switch to a remote mode of operation not only those organizations that had previously been set up to switch to this format of workflows, but also everyone else - those who had not even thought about the "remote" recently. They are perhaps the hardest, because we are talking about a significant transformation of business processes. Sergey Poltev, Head of Modern ECM Solutions at EOS, talks about effective practices of organization of remote work with the help of SED/ESM solutions.

2-3 years ago, the heads of Russian companies could not even imagine that most employees would work remotely. In 2021, this phenomenon of the economy became the main trend of its life and development. Many organizations are taking this step, as it becomes possible to hire highly qualified employees from the regions, reduce office rental costs and increase staff loyalty through flexible working hours. It is for these reasons that, even after the pandemic, most companies plan to continue to use the remote or hybrid form of work and develop the IT infrastructure of virtual desktops (more).

Lockdown radically changed the conditions for doing business. By creating restrictions in some markets and provoking an explosion of activity in others, the pandemic has become a stress test for all classic business models. The main task of the corporate communication platform during the period of self-isolation was to prevent the isolation of employees from business processes: from making or executing decisions, from colleagues who are required to lead or with whom to interact. They were most consistent with unified communications platforms - such as Mango Office. About why UC systems remain in demand after quarantine, expert "Mango Telecom" Elizaveta Zhukova - especially for the portal TAdviser (more).

HPE offers a full range of VDI solutions that will help you meet your immediate needs for remote work. Designed for VMware and Citrix environments, HPE VDI solutions are designed to provide secure and efficient access to applications and data, and to support a wide range of user requirements in the areas of healthcare, government, financial services, education, manufacturing, and retail (more).

SoftwareONE specialists will help build the architecture and implement a comprehensive solution for organizing VKS and working together with built-in telephony based on Microsoft Teams products (free licenses for 6 months) and AudioCodes (free licenses for 3 months). Teams-based cloud telephony provides standard user-defined calling features on IP phones, mobile devices, and full-featured clients, along with an extensive set of capabilities for IT administrators (more).

From March 23 to July 31, 2020, VMware offers special discounts (+ to existing) on Workspace ONE, Horizon Cloud and Horizon 7, and also makes it possible to buy temporary licenses of Workspace ONE and Horizon, valid for 3 or 12 months, in addition, it is possible to get free trial access to Workspace ONE for 30 days with full technical support (can be increased to 6 months) and a solution for creating remote virtual desktops - free of charge for 45 days - Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure. Experts will SoftwareONE help you to choose the most profitable solution configuration based on your needs and implement the project as soon as possible (more details).

1C issued an anti-crisis delivery of the 1C: CORP Document Management system for 10 thousand rubles for quick organization of remote work - this is 77 times lower than the usual price of such a kit. Up to 100 people can work in it at the same time, and the license will last 180 days from the moment of activation (more details).

In a crisis, many business decisions are an all-bank game. It is all the more important to quickly adapt to the new format of work and build business processes to the changed market rules. ELMA, the leader in the implementation of BPMS in Russia and the CIS, has released the low-code platform ELMA4. The solution will not only support, but even increase the efficiency of the company, thereby getting out of the crisis, possibly in more winning positions compared to competitors (more details).

The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and the massive transition to remote work demonstrated the importance of workflow automation. Its integral components in any organization are the office, document management and task management. SED THESIS automates these areas and allows you to go to work from home as painlessly as possible. In addition, the system helps to solve inevitable issues: ensuring the protection of information, organizing communications between employees, maintaining productivity, maintaining control (more).

Corporate messenger eXpress allows you to conduct instant messaging, conduct video and audio conferences, exchange documents in accordance with generally accepted corporate security requirements. The platform has proven to be safe and convenient for business communications. Not without reason, it is chosen by the largest Russian corporations (more).

During the pandemic, flexibility and adaptability became key survival factors for most companies. You can quickly strengthen your business in these areas with IT solutions, such as BPMS platforms, that allow you to manage business processes and administrative regulations. At the same time BIA Technologies TAdviser , I found out how the attitude towards this class has changed ON and how today it helps to manage changes (more).

CommuniGate Systems Russia has opened free access to the CommuniGate Pro platform, which allows you to create enterprise communication systems. In fact, there was a free trial period - you can deploy the product in a couple of hours, and then refuse if it is not needed (more details).

The rapid penetration of digitalization in all aspects of company activity is radically changing the style and working methods of IT departments. Former server rooms have become real data centers with all the attributes: failure-free operation of engineering infrastructure and application systems, increasing functionality in accordance with business needs. All this comes against the backdrop of rising capital expenditure (CAPEX) on equipment and licenses, changes in regulatory requirements, as well as the desire of management to reduce non-core costs of the company. Are these seemingly mutually exclusive goals achievable? [2] (more).

In the spring of 2020 remote operation - theme No. 1, due to the pandemic and universal self-isolation, companies are actively looking for important processes with which solutions you can quickly transfer to remote mode and avoid a decrease in productivity. One of the most effective solutions today is theVizari Platform, developed by the Scientific and Production Center. Business automatic equipment We asked the developer representatives domestic software to tell you what the problems are the Russian with the organization of remote work and how to solve them the fastest (more).

In a pandemic, the market shrank almost instantly - according to forecasts in April, retail sales in Russia will decrease by more than 35%. TAdviser together with 1C have prepared a list of tips: how to survive and remain effective in such a difficult time (more).

In recent years outsourcing market Russia , it has been steadily growing. This approach allows large companies to focus on basic business goals, and medium-sized businesses often lack the competencies to fully service their information systems. We asked the director of the technical center consulting RDTECH Pavel Shmelev to list the main advantages outsourcing and tell why the companies give their own support to the side (DBMS more details).

The coronavirus pandemic set a new task for companies - in a short time thousands and tens of thousands of employees had to be transferred to remote work. Thanks to these demands, more and more complex secure solutions for remote work are emerging in the market. One of these services in March 2020 was launched by Rostelecom-Solar (more details).

The time of total quarantine and employee transition to remote operation is a great opportunity for IT to demonstrate its ability to become a real support for the business in a difficult situation (more).

Coronavirus has forced many companies around the world to switch to "remote." For some companies, this has become a natural process, and they have simply scaled existing remote working practices. In some companies, this was a serious challenge for IT and IB, which needed to adapt the business processes of companies to the new conditions (more details).

In a pandemic, the criticality of a number of business solutions increased sharply, their standard deployment times were reduced by 10 times, and companies sometimes needed to transfer several tens of thousands of workers to remote work in three weeks. TAdviser asked VMware representatives how the load on the network infrastructure has changed in recent months, what the difficulties faced by their customers and what to expect next (more).

The introduced self-isolation regime obliges us to work from home. In this regard, many companies faced a real problem - how to transfer employees to remote mode of work without losing the quality of its performance? After all, everyone has different home conditions, and they directly affect the convenience and effectiveness of interaction and fulfillment of employee duties. To help companies survive this difficult period without loss, the distributor of IT and AV equipment "InTER" together with Poly (Polycom + Plantronics) made a selection of the most popular products for organizing a professional home office (more).

Digital transformation will not help businesses predict the "next coronavirus." However, it will provide flexibility and mobility that will allow it to cope. Whatever the future prepares, those companies that respond faster and better to the next global challenge and can implement "Plan B" without stopping the part of the business that continues to work (more) will benefit.

With the rapid growth of employees working remotely, the load on the company's IT infrastructure is growing at an appropriate pace and it becomes more difficult to control the actions of users. You can solve this problem with appropriate IT solutions. So, for example, they arrived at SME Bank, they introduced a system for monitoring the actions of preferred users of the NT SCDPU (more details).

The 2020 crisis reminded everyone that our world is in fact unstable, complex and uncertain. One way to achieve certain business sustainability is through accurate predictions based on data and mathematical modeling. We asked BIA-Technologies experts to talk about how mathematical models work - services that mimic the organization's response to any management impacts with high accuracy. [3] (more).

Coronavirus has changed a lot in our lives. In particular, a new direction has emerged in the business of IT companies - the rapid and problem-free migration of enterprise IT systems of customers to a state of remote operation. Before offering such a set of solutions and services to its customers, CRIC tested their performance and efficiency on itself (more).