CommuniGate Systems

Areas of activity

CommuniGate Systems specialises in creating scalable, multi-functional Internet communications solutions based on open standards. CommuniGate Pro solutions are designed to convey e-mail, voice, video, files and provide unprecedented Internet communications security for web-centric and mobile users. CommuniGate Pro provides carrier-class integrable solutions for Fixed Mobile Convergence, IP Centrex, hosted PBX, Session Border Controllers.

Clients

As of February 2018, among the company's clients are the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russian Railways, Kazakhtelecom, Shri Lanka Telecom.

History

2024: Stalkersoft complaint in CommuniGate Pro rights case not upheld

The second cassation court of general jurisdiction decided to dismiss the complaint of StalkerSoft JSC and programmers against the decisions of the courts of the two previous instances in the case of rights to CommuniGate Pro. On February 9, 2024, TAdviser was informed about this by the representative of Anna Butenko and the exclusive rights company created by her to the communication server CommuniGate Pro of SBK JSC Anna Bolshakova. Read more here.

2023

Rescheduling of cassation appeal in CommuniGate Pro rights case

On December 14, 2024, the Second Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction postponed the consideration of the cassation appeal of Stalkersoft against the decisions of the courts of the two previous instances, which had previously recognized Anna Butenko, daughter of the creator of the Russian communication server CommuniGate ProVladimir Butenko, the legal heiress of her father. The next hearing will take place on January 18, 2024. This was announced on December 14, 2023 by a representative of SBK JSC. Read more here.

TAdviser interview with commercial director Anton Ten

Since 2018, disputes have continued to subside around the CommuniGate Pro unified communications platform. Over the past few months, there have been more and more questions and rumors - Anna Butenko, the heiress of one of the creators of the CommuniGate Pro product, by a court decision, became the owner of exclusive rights to various versions of the CommuniGate Pro program, which caused a huge reaction in the Russian IT market. In his interview in November 2023, Anton Ten, Commercial Director of StalkerSoft JSC, a company that has been involved in the development, technical support and implementation of this platform for many years, shared his view on the situation and told what is happening with the company and product now. Read more here.

SBK will develop CommuniGate Pro

In negotiations with StalkerSoft, an end has been put, they lasted more than two months, Anna Butenko told TAdviser in October 2023, who was recognized by the decision of the appellate instance of the Moscow City Court on July 10, 2023 as the sole legal owner of the Russian communication server CommuniGate Pro. According to her, the development of the product will be carried out by the SBK company. Read more here.

Staltersoft has lost the right to release the CommuniGate Pro server. It passed to the daughter of the late product creator

On July 11, 2023, it became known that the Staltersoft company, which sells the Russian communication server CommuniGate Pro, lost its rights to this product by a court decision. Read more here.

2022

TAdviser Interview with Head of Corporate Sales Anton Ten

Anton Ten, head of corporate sales at CommuniGate Systems, spoke about the development of domestic communication products under sanctions pressure and the prospects of Russian software in June 2022 in an interview with TAdviser. Read more here.

Vladimir Burgov - CEO of CommuniGate Systems

Since February 2022, Vladimir Burgov took over as CEO of CommuniGate Systems, replacing Maria Trishina.

2019

Technology Partnership Agreement with Open Mobile Platform

On February 5, 2019, it was reported that CommuniGate Systems, developer of the multi-protocol communication server CommuniGate Pro, and Open Mobile Platform, developer of the Sailfish Mobile OS RUS mobile operating system, entered into a technology partnership agreement. The company's specialists successfully tested the existing functionality of mail services and agreed to conduct regular compatibility tests of their solutions in order to create a comprehensive infrastructure with the participation of a secure mobile platform, server components, as well as user applications.^[1]

Partnership with Postgres Professional

In July, CommuniGate Systems and Postgres Professional announced the launch of a technology partnership. Future versions of CommuniGate Pro will rely on the Russian DBMSostgres Pro. Development companies have entered into a technology partnership agreement to build and promote joint solutions.

2018

Company logo until 2021

Technological Partnership Agreement with Rosplatforma

On November 15, 2018, it became known that CommuniGate Systems and Rosplatforma announced the conclusion of a technological partnership agreement and the compatibility of their software products.

Based on the results of compatibility tests, the companies confirmed the successful integration of their products in various IT landscapes. Based on these developments, CommuniGate Systems, Rosplatforma and their partners can create specialized configurations and hardware complexes (PAC) for various purposes, as well as ensure their high-quality implementation and support among customers.

In joint solutions CommuniGate Pro and "Rosplatforma" as a guest OS "Alt" the Russian operating systems , the enterprise-level line created by the company "" BASEALT based on an independent repository "" is used. Sisyphus The compatibility of CommuniGate Systems and Rosplatforma products OS with Alt has already been confirmed during previous tests.^[2]

How to use artificial intelligence in contact centers? TADetali

CommuniGate Systems Commercial Director Vladimir Burgov helped figure out how to automate and optimize the operation of the contact center and whether it is worth using chatbots.

TAdviser interview

In March 2018, CEO CommuniGate Systems RussiaAleksandr Malyshev in an interview with TAdviser spoke about how the sales of the CommuniGate Pro platform affected its inclusion in the register of domestic software, how this product differs from competitive solutions and what restrains the IT import substitution process in Russia.

2014: Rights to the product remain with Russian citizen Vladimir Butenko

For 2014, the international company of Vladimir Butenko is called CommuniGate Systems, and solutions based on CommuniGate Pro are used around the world. Among the clients, according to the official website, NASA, Mercedes-Benz, Ebay, etc.

In Russia, CommuniGate Pro is used in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Duma, Rostelecom, Sberbank, etc.

The rights to CommuniGate Pro belong to Vladimir Butenko, who is a Russian citizen. According to the Focal.Contour database, he is registered as an individual entrepreneur. The development of the product core is carried out directly by Vladimir Butenko, and customers are provided with a rich API for improving the system on their own by^[3].

2013: Widespread use of the company's products worldwide

• Headquartered in Mill Valley, California
• Offices in the USA, Germany, Japan and Russia
• 10 years of profitability

• ISPs (Verizon, British Telecom, Deutsche Telecom, Orange, Rostelecom, Beeline, Mango, MTS, Tele2, Sipnet)

• Sales through in-house channels and 189 global partners

• Strategic agreements with HP, Intel, Alcatel-Lucent, IBM, Adobe
• About 12,000 customers worldwide
• About 130 million users with 47 million "voice users"

2005: Opening an office in Russia

The Russian office of the company was opened in 2005.

1993: Stalker Software founded in the United States

In 1993, Vladimir Butenko founded Stalker Software in the USA ("if the product is not made in the USA, it will not" go, "" the programmer explained the reasons for this step). At first, the company specialized in developing utilities for the Macintosh, and in 1998 released the first version of CommuniGate Pro for the Rhapsody operating system (later called Mac OS X).

1991: Vladimir Butenko founded the company in Germany

Vladimir Butenko founded the company in Germany.

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