The best texts of TAdviser of 2017

State

Alexey Kozyrev, Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications: need for officials for their today's type, of course, will disappear

The professional's interview with the professional - the new format of publications of TAdviser allowing as to us seems, it is much deeper and more interesting to open the discussed issues. Alexey Kozyrev, the Deputy Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, and Alan Salbiyev, the chief of the department RSO-Alania on information technologies and communication became the first professionals who agreed to participate in a conversation in such format.

Alan Salbiyev and Alexey Kozyrev at a conference of TAdviser talked about development plans for digital economy and the electronic government of the second generation

The interview took place during the TAdviser IT Government DAY conference in October, 2017. Speakers discussed issues of digital economy and creation of the electronic government of the second generation, perspective of reduction of number of officials and algorithmization of activity of state agencies. Read the complete text.

As well as who spends the federal ICT budget of Russia. We analyze digits of 82 ministries and departments

Article contains the rating of costs of federal state agencies for information technologies and communication and also the analysis of process of coordination and plans of informatization of the largest state customers of IT is carried out. Read the complete text.

IT revolution in Moscow: as the city in the next five years will change

Andrey Belozerov, the former deputy head of DIT of Moscow Artem Yermolaev, and nowadays - his adviser for technologies of smart city, in an interview of TAdviser in April, 2017 told in what direction technology development of Moscow will move in the near future. Read the complete text.

Research of TAdviser: The largest state procurements of products and services of Oracle in Russia in 2016

The analytical center TAdviser conducted a research of purchases of licenses and technical support services of software of Oracle by the Russian state departments and the companies with the state participation. Based on a research the ranking of 50 largest purchases of 2016 was prepared. Read the complete text.

In the Russian public sector Agile-transformation begins

In April, 2017 at Presidium of Council under the President of the Russian Federation for strategic development and priority projects the subgroup on use of flexible approaches in the state projects appeared. The purpose of new subgroup - to provide increase in efficiency of authorities due to use of flexible approaches which already proved in the commercial sector. First of all, it is about use of such approaches in IT projects. Read the complete text.

Practice extinguishes: as Rostelecom lobbied, prepared and won the huge tender

In July, 2017 the Novgorod OFAS recognized that the Agency of Development of the Novgorod Region (ADNR) violated the law on the competition at biddings on the project of creation in the region of a hardware-software complex of photo and video fixing of violations of traffic regulations. The relevant decision was published in a card file of solutions of the regulator. FAS came to a conclusion that at biddings at the choice of the supplier of this project primary conditions of participation were provided to Rostelecom. Read the complete text.

Business

The most profitable IT companies in Russia

In August, 2017 the analytical center TAdviser released a ranking of the IT companies on the value of net profit – TAdviser Profit 50. It became clear that most of all money from implementation of IT products and services in Russia in the form of net profit is received by foreign producers of gadgets LG, Apple, Samsung and also the Russian vendor of billing systems of "Petter service" and the American corporation IBM. Read the complete text.

The largest IT companies in Russia

In May, 2017 the analytical center TAdviser prepared a new ranking of 100 largest companies working at the Russian IT market. For the last year change of the leader did not happen, however the rating was replenished with new names, and in ten the largest companies there were several motions. Read the complete text.

The largest insourcing IT companies in Russia

The revenue analysis of IT insourcers of the large companies which is carried out by TAdviser shows that in the last several years order amounts at the vast majority of them grow. Also exceptions meet, but in general it is possible to say that the insourcing model in the large companies in Russia got accustomed. Read the complete text.

Owners of Merlion and their business projects outside IT market

If to trust digits of the stated turnover, the Merlion company as of 2017 is the largest Russian IT distributor. Its revenue exceeded 190 billion rubles. Can brag of comparable, but more modest indicators unless National Computer Corporation (the distributor of OCS) and Lanit (Treolan, Comptek, DiHouse). Owners of OCS and Lanita are more or less clear (the first belongs to NCC whose owners are Alexander Kalinin, Evgeny Lachkov and Leonid Goldenberg, the second belongs to Georgy Gens), with Merlion it is harder and harder. TAdviser tried to understand this question. Read the complete text.

Sberbank started new mega-DPC in Skolkovo. Photo

Sberbank started the first stage of the new mega-DPC located in Skolkovo. The bank states that its data center - the largest in Russia and one of the largest of this sort in Europe. Read the complete text.

1C or Galaktika? Than are similar also what the main Russian ERP vendors differ in

Domestic ERP systems gradually become fashionable among the companies of different scale. TAdviser tells about approaches to business of two largest Russian developers of these systems. Read the complete text.

Young growth of import substitution. 5 companies applying to take the place of world IT giant in the Russian market

Against the background of sanctions of the West against Russia and the state course towards import substitution in the market more and more domestic software developers appear. Some of them seriously apply for "biting off" an essential share of the Russian market at the largest world IT giant. TAdviser selected five brightest startups of an era of import substitution and analyzed as their business at this conjuncture develops. Read the complete text.

Revelations of clients: 10 main claims to IT contractors

TAdviser communicated to a number of big customers of IT products and services and found out what problems they most often face during the work with suppliers. Read the complete text.

Thousands of programmers of Sberbank moved to new office Agile Home. Photo

As of the middle of May, 2017 more than 4 thousand moved to new office of Sberbank in Moscow which is equipped under work of commands in an Agile-format human. The new office of Sberbank under the name Agile Home completely will occupy the business center building in Moscow to the address Kutuzovsky Avenue, 32/1. In it there are 16 floors. In the long term here about 9-10 thousand employees of Sberbank will be able to work. Read the complete text.

700 programmers: as the local development center Intel was beyond kodopisatel on a pointer

The development center and researches of Intel in recent years considerably evolved in Russia in terms of examination, the importance at the global level and a range of solvable tasks. R&D Intel in Russia as of the beginning of 2017 has divisions in Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow. In total in them about 700 developers work. Read the complete text.

RedSys and CompuTel appeared in pledge at bank of owners of Technoserv

As TAdviser knew in March, 2017, RedSys company, CompuTel of Systems Management and Magellan signed agreements on opening of a credit line and providing the bank guarantee with Promsvyazbank. Before accomplishment of agreement obligations of RedSys, "CompuTel of systems management" and Magellan will be in pledge at the bank belonging to owners of Technoserv system integrator Alexey and Dmitry Ananyevym. Read the complete text.

Whose affiliate programs are recognized the best among the Russian software developers. Rating

In April, 2017 the agency of business development Advanced Business Development (ABD) provided to TAdviser results of a research of affiliate programs of the Russian software developers which formed the rating basis "The best affiliate program in IT-2016". Also experts of the agency carried out the analysis of a status of affiliate programs at top-20 the vendors included in rating. Read the complete text.

As 1C will restart export business

Sergey Andreyev, the CEO of 1C Company of International at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in May, 2017 told about plans and priorities in the field of business development of 1C in foreign countries. Read the complete text.

The largest outsourcers of support of SAP solutions in Russia. Ranking of TAdviser of 2017

The analytical center TAdviser prepared a new ranking "Outsourcing of support of SAP solutions: the largest players in Russia" in which data on the income of the largest service partners of SAP for 2015-2016 from the corresponding services are provided. Read the complete text.

Employees demand bankruptcy of the IT contractor of the Russian Railway and salary payment

In March and April, 2017 eight former employees TransIT filed to law enforcement agencies petitions on signs of crime under the Article 145.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation regarding nonpayment of the salary to the employees over two months. After check of prosecutor's office it became clear that from May, 2016 till April, 2017 the employer owed to 283 employees over 40 million rubles. Read the complete text.

Tadvisertest: Whether you know the Russian IT market?

TAdviser prepared the test from 13 short questions of people, the companies and products of the Russian IT market to Read the complete text.

IT

Accelerators of calculations: graphic processors had a serious alternative

The linking of CPU Intel Xeon used for acceleration of calculations with GPU from Nvidia at the beginning of the 21st century began to be considered as the standard "de facto". But time goes and emergence of the gate arrays of FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Frray) programmed by the user as an alternative of GPU became one of several signs of the changing situation. Read the complete text.

Research of the market of artificial intelligence in the Russian Federation

Based on the research "Current Trends in the Market of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning" conducted by analytical center TAdviser and Jet Infosystems company, the size of the market of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in Russia will be about 700 million rubles in 2017 and will grow to 28 billion rubles by 2020. The financial sector, retail and the industry will be drivers of this market. Read the complete text.

Revolution in Tsodostroyeniya approaches

New resource-centrichny approach to creation of DPCs can raise indicators of scalability and adaptation to loadings and also to lower capital and operating costs of provider. Read the complete text.

Why implementation of IT systems does not result in the expected effect? Zri in a root

In process of development of IT landscapes and increase in quantity and variety of IT systems by a subject of the increasing criticism and discontent of end users there are problems of quality of data. Chief information officers consider versions of possible solutions, but the market can propose only point solutions for specialized tasks. In article prepared especially for TAdviser by the expert Alexey Eremyashev it is offered a complex view of a problem of low-quality data and the strategy of management of their quality. Why implementation of IT systems does not result in the expected effect? Zri in the root Read the Complete Text.

Techno revolution in retail trade. What it will be?

Technologies radically change practice of interaction of buyers and sellers. Having talked to retailers and having estimated the best practices of application of IT in retail of TAdviser and Corus Consulting prepared infographics and the overview of perspectives of emergence of these shops of the future. Read the complete text.

As data became raw materials of the 21st century

The ordinal numeral "fourth" - the fourth transformation in data view, the fourth paradigm in science and "The fourth industrial revolution" occurs in this article three times. From where it undertook – it is unclear, however the fact that all three are integrated by the data which became crucial raw materials of the 21st century is natural. Not accidentally data were called oil of "The fourth industrial revolution". Read the complete text.

What will lead merge of the Internet of people, things and services to

Integration of the information technologies and concepts which are actively developing in the 21st century creates premises to formation of local and even national cyberphysical systems. In material which especially for TAdviser was prepared by the journalist Leonid Chernyak, it is told about modern understanding of an essence of such systems and the history of their emergence. Read the complete text.

How to create the digital enterprise. 6 stages on the way to the Industry 4.0

The German academy of Sciences and engineering described the main steps which the enterprise should make to correspond to the concept "the Industry 4.0". In material these stages and premises of digital transformation at which the modern companies aim are considered. Read the complete text.

Why the silicon photonics is considered a source of the next information revolution

It is possible that sometime means of silicon photonics all huge DPC can be turned into uniform hyper scaled computer and if to take into account success achieved by then in the area artificial intelligence, then it is simple to imagine something like the Ocean on the Solaris described by Stanislav Lem. So far present servers and DPCs on the status remind the PC in their stay before emergence SATA and USB: inside there are inconsistent ribbon cables, outside — serial and parallel ports for a mouse, the keyboard and columns. But in 2025 the picture will become other: everything will be unified and connected on optical fiber that will provide qualitatively a different approach to a number of tasks, in particular, to scaling and high-performance computing. And all this will become possible thanks to achievements in the field of silicon photonics. Read the complete text.

Disaggregation of memory will allow to accelerate work of popular applications much

In article "Revolution in Tsodostroyeniya Approaches" need for disaggregation of resources at the level of the server and the level of DPC in general was proved. But on the way to general disaggregation there is an obvious barrier. It is connected with the remaining restrictions on speed and on a delay time at data transmission between the processor, memory and DWH. Read the complete text.

What is hyper convergent infrastructure and why it became so popular?

It is no secret that for the best use of resources, in any systems, information not the exception, resources should be collected in the general pools they could be redistributed reasonablly. In computing optimization regarding use of resources began long ago, with the systems of distribution of time. Then virtualization queue came. In the second decade of the 21st century focus of attention was naturally displaced on hyper convergence and disaggregation because at this level of development of technologies it is possible to create resource pools by these two alternative methods. Read the complete text.

Personnel

Chief information officer any more not that. As the role of CIO and the requirement to it changes

The profession of the Chief information officer is, perhaps, most "digital" of a set of the new professions which appeared at the end of XX - the beginning of the 21st centuries. But at the end of the second decade of the 21st century it is already at all not that Chief information officer who went on office with the screw-driver in 2000. Then the place of the Chief information officer in a corporate food chain was simple and clear – the network works, data under protection, applications do not fall. Severe graduates of "mekhmat" provided "digital rest". They considered all users by something average between the blonde and a monkey, and any dialog began with a phrase "there is no technical capability". In realities of 2017 this picture looks wildishly. Even more often statements that at the peak of demand new generation of IT managers who work not "from opportunities of IT systems", and from business tasks sound. What the new generation and what specifically changes happened in the Chief information officer's profession is - TAdviser dealt with experts. Read the complete text.

As women restrict men in IT market in Russia and the world

Gender balance of the organizations – guarantee of its productivity and creativity. Are guided by this thesis increasing number of global corporations which undergo difficult process of transformation today. Being built in new digital reality, they change approaches not only to technologies, but also to corporate culture. The new HR policy consulting and IT grandees sets a task to align the number of men and women in commands – at the expense of the special encouraging programs. The Russian business only begins to look for approach to gender issues. However, sensitively reacting to the world agenda, women more active come to the domestic IT industry. Read the complete text.

Why Data Scientist is more sexual, than the BI analyst

Due to growth of popularity of data science (DS) there are two obvious questions. The first – in what consists qualitative difference of this recently created scientific direction from the business intelligence direction (BI) existing several decades and actively used in the industry? The second - perhaps more important from the practical point of view - with what functions of specialists of two related specialties data scientist and BI analyst differ? Read the complete text.

The system administrator died. Long live system administrator!

The profession of the system administrator is transformed as a result of the next round of technology development. What to prepare to specialists in this sphere during an era of the coming digital economy for, in special material of TAdviser the journalist Leonid Chernyak tells. Read the complete text.

40 main appointments of 2017 in the Russian IT market

TAdviser summarized what staff movements happened in the Russian IT market in 2017. Read the complete text.

Interview

TAdviser Interview: The chief information officer of VTB Sergey Baranov - about the new strategy of informatization

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of Plans to turn into the IT company. The main thing for us is a banking business

Sergey Baranov, the Head of the Moscow Department of Information Technology of VTB bank, in an interview told TAdviser about merge of IT infrastructures VTB and VTB 24 within consolidation of banks and IT strategy till 2019. Read the complete text.

TAdviser Interview: New CIO of Freight One about the main IT priorities

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of Uryas

Transition to SAP is our main project now

Vadim Uryas appointed in January, 2017 the Deputy CEO for IT of Freight One (FO) in an interview of TAdviser told about plans for development of IT strategy, approaches to management of IT and parts of the large-scale project on transition to the SAP platform. Read the complete text.

Alexey Mitenkov, OMK: In our company one of the most developed IT landscapes in Russia

Alexey
Mitenkov

the Essence of what we do accurately reflects the known motto of Microsoft: "Change to win"

Alexey Mitenkov, the CIO and to intelligent systems of protection of OMK, in an interview of TAdviser told about how the IT strategy of the metallurgical giant changes what there is an IT budget of and what perspective technologies are planned to implementation. Read the complete text.

Chief information officer of OSK Anton Dumin: The era of centralized systems ended

Anton
Dumin

comes a new era Now, its sense consists in robotization

About why tough centralization and complete import substitution in the ship-building industry are impossible, in an interview of TAdviser the director of the department of IT of United Shipbuilding Corporation Anton Dumin told. Read the complete text.

TAdviser Interview: Vadim Pestun, the Chief information officer of SUEK, about a role of information technologies in coal production

Vadim
Pestun

Ya I hope that on some of assets of SUEK pilotless dump trucks will run and to fly drones

Modern process of coal mining depends on IT practically at all stages. On each of them problems of optimization, production management and quality control are solved. About what IT platforms are used in holding and what technologies are necessary at production and transportation of coal, in an interview of TAdviser Vadim Pestun, the Chief information officer of the Siberian Coal Energy Company (SCEC) told. Read the complete text.

Vladimir Pulyaev, Power Machines: Domestic IT-produktov-liderov are not enough so far, and they are not in some segments simply

Vladimir
Pulyaev

We select IT solutions, proceeding from functionality, but not the country of origin

Vladimir Pulyaev, the Chief information officer of Power Machines company, in an interview of TAdviser told about the IT strategy of the company, about its relation to IT outsourcing and a trend of import substitution and also about how Power Machines prepare for changes which are born by the fourth industrial revolution. Read the complete text.

The chief information officer of Dixy Vladimir Muravyev - about IT strategy, perspective and risky technologies in retail

Vladimir

our IT strategy is directed to br by of Ants to satisfying the client and to increase efficiency of own business processes

Vladimir Muravyev, the Chief information officer of Dixy, in an interview of TAdviser told about IT strategy and priorities of the company, new technologies in retail and investments into startups. Read the complete text.

CIO Biocad Evgeny Pochkayev - about what own development is better than ready software, and microservices is better than "systems monsters"

Evgeny
Pochkayev

In the western solutions is not present any disruptive ideas

The vice president for information technologies and operational development of a pharmproizvoditel of Biocad Evgeny Pochkayev in an interview of TAdviser in November, 2017 told why the company is focused on leaving from the western IT solutions towards own developments why refused outsourcing of computing resources and in what advantages of transition from "systems monsters" to microservice IT structure. Read the complete text.

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