National Center for Informatization NCI

The National Center for Informatization (NCI) is an integrator of complex high-tech solutions for the digital economy. NCI creates ecosystem projects and integrated products for the development of the digital economy, as well as promotes them both in the domestic and international markets. The mission of the NCI is to initiate, coordinate and implement national and sectoral projects to informatize the Russian economy to improve the quality of life of Russian citizens. The company's portfolio includes a number of large-scale projects and demanded IT products. The decisions of NCI and its subsidiary BARS Group are used by 83 regions of Russia.

The National Center for Informatization implements a number of projects for the implementation of complex infrastructure solutions, participates in the development of the digital region, the development and implementation of information systems, and also acts as a service operator. NCI is now mastering the production of computer equipment using its own design documentation and involving REC enterprises in the production cycle. The produced equipment will be certified by Russian production and supplied to government agencies within the framework of national projects. The company supplies equipment of domestic production, with developed domestic software. In 2019, it supplied domestic equipment to equip 1,608 educational institutions. Among the integration projects of the NCI are the register of patients with coronavirus, Uniform State Health Information System, comprehensive equipment of schools with domestic equipment, AWS.

2023: Leaving the founders of the Edelweiss company

In early May 2023, it became known that [[National Center for Informatization (NCI)|the National Center for Informatization (NCI), which is part of the state corporation Rostec, decided to withdraw from the founders of the Edelweiss IT company. Read more here.

2022: Appointment of Alexey Agapov as CEO of NCI

Alexey Agapov has been appointed Director General of the National Center for Informatization (NCI, part of the United Instrument-Making Corporation (MIC) of Rostec State Corporation). On March 9, 2022, TAdviser was informed about this by the Rostec State Corporation. In this post, he replaced Konstantin Solodukhin, who will concentrate on the development of business and civilian products as deputy general director of the defense industry complex. Read more here.

2019

Pension Fund threatens NCI with termination of contract to support IBM, Cisco and EMC equipment

On September 17, 2019, the Interregional Information Center of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation (MIC PFR) sent a letter to the General Director of the NCI Konstantin Solodukhin about the decision to refuse to unilaterally fulfill the contract for the maintenance and repair of computer equipment. On September 27, this decision was overturned due to the fact that the NCI eliminated the violations. Read more here.

Revenue growth by 2 times

At the end of 2018, the National Center for Informatization (part of Rostec State Corporation) demonstrated a twofold increase in sales due to the fulfillment of federal contracts. The company's revenue amounted to 7.598 billion rubles, more than 2 times higher than last year, net profit increased 10 times. The key projects for NCI were the construction of the ICT infrastructure of the World Cup, the implementation of the Safe City systems and the development of the Uniform State Health Information System.

In 2017-2018, the NCI performed a state service contract for the provision of communication services at the 2018 FIFA World Cup. During the implementation of the project worth 10.8 billion rubles, the infrastructure of mobile communications and broadband Internet access was built at more than 230 facilities in 30 cities of Russia, a number of technologies were used for the first time. The established communication system helped to provide access to watching championship matches to a record number of viewers - its audience amounted to 3.6 billion people. Thanks to the coordinated work of the NCI, the Ministry of Communications and the Federal Treasury, budget savings in the amount of 515 million rubles were achieved. For his special contribution to the organization and holding of the World Cup, the project manager from Rostec State Corporation Vasily Brovko was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, second degree.

The second key project for NCI was the development and support of the Unified State Information System in the field of health care (Uniform State Health Information System). NCI significantly increased the functionality of the personal account "My Health" on the federal portal of public services, integrating several electronic services in demand by the population into it. For representatives of regional health departments, a system was introduced to monitor the possibility of registering citizens to see a doctor through the portal of public services. In 2018, 4.2 million people used the services of the personal account "My Health" on the portal of public services, in 2019, in accordance with the plan of the federal project "Digital Health Circuit," this number should be 6.4 million people.

In several regions of the country, NCI has introduced hardware and software complexes of the Safe City system. In the Tver region, an automated infrastructure for calling emergency services "Sistema-112" was deployed at 163 facilities. The system was implemented at 163 facilities in just 2.5 months and processed over 42,000 calls in 1.5 months of pilot testing. In the Irkutsk region, the first stage of the hydrochemical monitoring complex of Lake Baikal was implemented. Projects to create a "smart" infrastructure in the Murmansk region and the Far East are in a high degree of readiness.

Collaboration with Vostok to integrate blockchain solutions

On February 14, 2019, the National Center for Informatization (part of the State Corporation) Rostec announced that it blockchain Vostok had signed a cooperation agreement with an international product developer. Vostok will integration state Russia develop solutions based on distributed systems (blockchain) for joint infrastructure projects, and VOSTOK will implement them.

Partnership with Vostok will give NCI the opportunity to develop competencies for the implementation of blockchain technologies at the municipal, regional and federal levels.

author '= Konstantin Solodukhin, Director General of the National Center for Informatization ' Distributed data collection, storage and processing systems are one of the "end-to-end" technologies with a large, not yet realized potential. We see a request from customers to test and implement these technologies. Therefore, we chose Vostok as a supplier of distributed solutions, as a company with internationally recognized expertise in the field of blockchain systems, while being created by Russian engineers.

As of February 2019, Vostok has already announced the start of cooperation with Russian companies and corporations: Sberbank, Transmashholding, ВЭБ.РФ, Rostec, as well as with Kazakhstan's Transtelecom. Cooperation between the NCI and Vostok will also apply to these agreements. According to the expectations of the parties, the total volume of projects will exceed 1 billion rubles.

2018

Rostec and the Ministry of Health will connect 700 medical institutions of the country to a single telemedicine system

The National Center for Informatization (NCI) of the State Corporation Rostec All-Russian Center for Disaster Medicine "Defense" Ministry of Health Russia and on November 20, 2018 announced the signing of a cooperation agreement. The first joint project of the parties will be the completion of the formation of the Russian telemedicine infrastructure. By the end of 2018, it is planned to connect more than 700 medical institutions in all regions of the country to the telemedicine system. More. here

Development of a PLM system for 5 billion rubles

On July 18, 2018, Rostec and Rosatom announced the creation of a joint venture that will focus on creating a Full Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software system. Read more here.

NCI entered the Avtomatika concern

During the CIPR conference in June 2018, Rostec announced a decision to transfer 100% of the shares of the National Center for Informatization (NCI) to the Avtomatika concern. Combining the competencies of the two companies will help to form the largest developer and supplier of complex digital solutions for the civilian sphere in the structure of the electronic cluster (REC) of the corporation.

The consolidation of assets is carried out within the framework of the REC Development Strategy, which provides for an increase in the share of revenue from civilian cluster products by expanding technological competencies and bringing new product lines to the markets.

Rostec is faced with the task of increasing the share of civilian products to an average of 50%, and in the field of electronics and IT - up to 60% by 2025. At the same time, the volume of sales of civilian digital products should grow almost 4 times - up to 300 billion rubles. To achieve such results, Rostec consolidates the technological reserves of its key IT assets within the framework of the REC.

As part of Automation, the NCI will play the role of the "civilian wing" of the concern. The experience and competencies of the NCI, as an integrator of the federal level, open up new opportunities for the integrated promotion of various product areas of the REC.

The main activities of the NCI are related to the implementation of complex infrastructure projects in the civil sphere, automation of processes in public administration, industrial and social industries, development and support of various types of software.

Among the major works of the NCI in the past year are the creation of information and communication services of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the 2017 Confederation Cup, the development and support of state information systems Uniform State Health Information System and GIS CHI as part of the development of "digital health care." One of the key projects of the NCI was the comprehensive automation of the activities of FSUE Russian Post, which includes the design and development of a system with order management functions, electronic document management, and real estate management.

The company is actively expanding its field of activity and partnership in the IT market, including entering the capital of Bars Group, establishing an exporting company for domestic IT solutions RITE.

One of the key NCI projects with wide potential for implementation on the scale of the Russian Federation is "Safe City," which is aimed at creating a comfortable and safe urban environment using "intelligent" digital technologies.

At the first stage, NCI plans to develop a synchronized matrix of IT solutions of REC enterprises, based on a deep marketing analysis of market needs, production capabilities and potential of cluster enterprises. This will create a complete picture of the product lines of more than 200 cluster enterprises and their commercial prospects for effective promotion in the markets.

Plans for the Elbrus Software Development Alliance

Structures Rostec - National Center for Informatization and (I.S. Bruk Institute of Control Machines INEUM) - June 6, 2018 announced plans to create an alliance of software developers for domestic processors. " Elbrus It is planned that by the end of 2018 at least 20 development companies will join the alliance, and it will be possible to download applications for Elbrus from a marketplace created by analogy with or Google play. App Store

According to representatives of the NCI and INEUM named after Brook, the alliance of software developers for Elbrus is being created in order to widely implement solutions based on Russian microelectronics. It is assumed that simultaneously with the emergence of a significant amount of compatible software, new high-quality hardware platforms will appear - motherboards, servers, workstations, industrial PCs, which, in turn, will lead to a decrease in the final cost of solutions. The result of building an ecosystem on Elbrus processors will be an increase in the market share of Russian processors, the introduction and use of secure, trusted hardware systems.

INEUM and NCI have developed a roadmap for the development of the project, including short-term (until the end of 2018), medium-term (until the end of 2020) and long-term periods (until 2025). It provides for at least three pilot implementations of software and hardware systems based on Elbrus with functioning application software by the end of 2018.

In addition to development companies, it is planned to attract students and graduate students of the best technical universities in Russia to work on creating software. By participating in the work on the creation of applied software, students will have the opportunity not only to practically apply and expand their knowledge, but also to commercialize the results of the work.

The software ecosystem is the most important factor affecting the success of the computing platform. Russian microprocessors need a rich set of system and application software, as well as the development of personnel potential - domestic programmers who know the capabilities of domestic architectures well, - Alexander Kim, General Director of INEUM named after I.S. Bruk, is convinced.

2017

Revenue growth to 3.2 billion

In January 2018, the NCI announced preliminary annual results. According to the company, in 2017 its revenue was about 3.2 billion rubles, which is 4 times higher than last year's figure.

Among the reasons for the growth in the NCI are the change in the company's strategy and business model.

NCI switched from the vendor model to the model of the integrator of Russian high-tech solutions. Thanks to this, the company's competencies and capabilities in the IT services markets have been significantly expanded, and the circle of potential partners is growing. Now the NCI is consolidating and offering the best domestic IT products for a comprehensive solution to problems, not only in Russia, but also now abroad, "says Vasily Brovko, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the NCI, Director-at-Large of Rostec.

It is possible to predict further growth in the economic indicators of the NCI in 2018 - up to 7.5 billion rubles, says Vasily Brovko

Revenue growth was also facilitated by the expansion of the number of customers and the implementation of a number of federal IT projects. Among the largest projects in 2017 is the creation of information and communication services for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the 2017 Confederation Cup. The NCI signed a contract of more than 10 billion rubles for this project back in 2016.

Major projects were the development and support of state information systems Uniform State Health Information System and GIS OMS as part of the development of "digital health." The total volume of contracts for projects in health care concluded by the NCI in 2017 amounted to more than 760 million rubles, according to the public procurement portal.

One of the key NCI projects was the comprehensive automation of the Russian Post, which includes the design and development of a system with order management, electronic document management, and real estate management functions.

Earlier, in 2016, the NCI reported to TAdviser about the expected revenue growth to 7.5 billion rubles in 2017. The NCI at the time of publication of the material could not comment on the TAdviser difference in the expected and achieved results. The achievement of this indicator in the company is now set for 2018.

The company expects that it will be able to increase revenue in 2018, including the performance of work on orders from the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation, and the Russian Post.

Appearance of a subsidiary - RITE

In May 2017, to promote domestic IT products to foreign markets, a subsidiary of NCI was created - the RITE Russian Information Technology Export company (RITE brand, Russian Information Technology Export). Read more here.

Creation of a joint venture with VEB

In May 2017, NCI, together with VEB, jointly created a new company - NPO Conversion. This was done in accordance with the instructions of President Vladimir Putin on the conversion of defense industry enterprises in connection with the completion of the main stage of rearmament of the Russian army and a gradual decrease in the state defense order after 2018.

NCI in the company owns a share of 50.1%, WEB through the Federal Project Financing Center, which is part of it, has a share of 49.9%.

The key functionality of the joint venture was to identify market needs and find opportunities for promoting and selling the products of defense industry enterprises, their analytical support, assistance in attracting funding for conversion projects and the introduction of ecosystem projects, in particular Smart City, Electronic Health, Industrial Internet, etc.

In addition, the company should contribute to the formation of demand for civilian products of defense industry enterprises, the promotion of domestic defense industry products in the b2g market, the development of non-production competencies of employees, primarily in marketing, industrial design and analytics.

The key customers of the services of NPO "Conversion" should be defense industry enterprises working with the state defense order. At the same time, Conversion will build relations with other specialized enterprises, including state corporations, private structures and development institutions.

Restructuring of the deal with Bars Group

In 2017, the NCI carried out an optimization program, as a result of which the transaction with the subsidiary of Bars Group was restructured. As a result of the restructuring, NCI remained a shareholder of Bars Group with a 25% + 1 share stake. Bars Group CEO Timur Akhmerov in March 2018 explained to TAdviser the reasons for the restructuring of the deal. Read more here.

2016

Revenue growth by 6 times

The consolidated revenue of the NCI in 2016 increased 6 times over the year, CEO of the NCI Konstantin Solodukhin told TAdviser. According to him, organic revenue growth (excluding the indicators of Bars Group, which was acquired by the NCI) - almost 3 times.

The absolute indicator of turnover in the NCI is not called. According to TAdviser, in 2016 the company's revenue reached about 3 billion rubles.

The NCI expects that the growth rate of revenue in 2017 will continue. The organization's plans include its growth to 7.5 billion rubles.

Konstantin Solodukhin

According to Konstantin Solodukhin, the profitability of NCI calculated by EBITDA was 12% in 2016.

Among the largest projects that the NCI implemented in 2016:

• development of the Unified State Information System in the field of health care (Uniform State Health Information System),
• building the infrastructure of the FIFA World Cup 2018,
• creation of an automated order management system (AIS UZ) in the Russian Post.

In 2016, Rostec and Russian Post also signed an agreement on cooperation in the development and maintenance of logistics, CRM, ERP and other Mail systems. The main performer of these works "Rostec" sees NCI.

NCI implements a number of major projects for the Ministry of Defense and other law enforcement agencies.

The defense industry complex entered the capital of the NCI and the area of ​ ​ responsibility is delimited

The agreement on the consolidation of assets and the development of joint projects in the field of civil telecom and IT equipment was signed in June by the general director of the investment company RT-Business Development Korobov, the general director of the United Instrument-Making Corporation Alexander Yakunin and the general director of the National Center for Informatization Konstantin Solodukhin.

According to the terms of the document, the United Instrument-Making Corporation is part of the capital of the National Center for Informatization (previously 100% of the company belonged to RT-Business Development) with the transfer of intellectual rights to a partner for a number of software products - operating systems, automated control systems, technologies for creating trusted. storage systems Along with the competencies, the NCI includes a team of specialists who develop and implement product life cycle management systems (), PLM resource support systems and other types for the benefit of state customers. ON

The document means delimitation between companies of responsibilities in some areas of activity, within which "OPK" is responsible for the supply of telecom equipment and computer equipment, NCI - for the development and implementation of software.

Rostec started creating office software for the public sector

In June 2016, the National Center for Informatization (NCI), part of Rostec, and New Cloud Technologies, the developer of MyOffice applications , told TAdviser about the strategic partnership. Within its framework, companies will create a joint IT product for state and municipal institutions and state corporations - a secure operating system with a package of office applications.

The core of the joint product will be the flagship NCI solution - the protected Aurora operating system of the GNU/Linux class . As of June, it is being certified by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the FSTEC. The second component of the solution is the MyOffice application package, which combines cloud storage, applications for working with text and spreadsheets, a client-server email, services for working with contact information and an online calendar.

NCI CEO Konstantin Solodukhin expects to expand the list of import-substituting solutions that his center offers customers through a new partnership

The public sector needs a new generation of IT services - adapted for use in a secure customer infrastructure and at the same time having convenience at the level of modern business solutions. Cooperation with NCI will allow us to close this need, contribute to improving the efficiency of business processes and joint work in compliance with security regulations , "said Dmitry Komissarov, CEO of New Cloud Technologies.

The NCI notes that MyOffice is significantly expanding the list of import-substituting solutions that the center offers customers. On the basis of office applications, it is planned to develop standard products to speed up the migration of state corporations and government agencies to domestic software, the NCI explains. NCI CEO Konstantin Solodukhin expects that the interfaces and functionality of the MyOffice line will simplify adaptation to new information standards.

As part of the strategic partnership, companies also plan to jointly develop an ecosystem of domestic software products, actively exchange developments and support each other in promoting software.

Rostec announced the purchase of Bars Group

On April 20, 2016, the National Center for Informatization, which is part of Rostec, announced the acquisition of a 100% stake in Bars Group from the owner and general director of the company, Timur Akhmerov.

Bars Group CEO Timur Akhmerov (left) will become the first deputy general director of the NCI Konstantin Solodukhin (right)

After the completion of the transaction, Akhmerov will take the post of first deputy general director, executive director of the NCI, and will also retain the post of general director of Bars Group.

Bars will retain the status of a separate company in the structure of the NCI. As of April 2016, the company employs more than 1200 employees, almost 800 of them in the production unit (architects and software developers, system and application analysts, interface designers, etc.).

The company's offices are located in Kazan, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Sevastopol, St. Petersburg and Moscow.

On the basis of the combined team, an expert center for working with government agencies and state corporations will be formed and conditions have been created for the industrial development of promising import-independent software, the parties said in a statement.

The unification of teams, according to Rostec, will significantly expand the capabilities of the NCI and create the prerequisites for organizing full-cycle software production in a wide range of areas.

The combined team will work to develop national software products for critical areas and industries, including ERP systems, cloud platforms and mobile applications.

General Director of the NCI Konstantin Solodukhin, commenting on the deal, draws attention to the extensive experience of Bars Group in the market of state customers: "The company is already cooperating with the Ministry of Finance, the FSO, the Federal Treasury, Rosobrnadzor, the Ministry of Culture, Rosleskhoz, the Pension Fund, the Ministry of Emergencies and a number of regional governments."

According to Andrei Korobov, General Director of RT-Business Development, through which Rostec owns the NCI, the state corporation intends to stimulate the organic growth of IT assets, as well as make new market transactions.

NCI stopped renting personnel from Bars Group

From January to December 2015, 75 employees of the Kazan integrator Bars Group and 67 specialists from Er-Es-Technologies (also registered in Kazan and is a partner of Bars Group) worked at the NCI under outstaffing contracts.

We are talking about Java, PHP and Ruby developers, project managers, business analysts, system administrators, contact center operators, technical support coordinators.

NCI concluded contracts with Bars for 103 million rubles^[1]ER-Technologies - for 75.7 million rubles^[2]. Both companies were appointed the only performers of these services.

The most expensive employees for NCI were the developers of Ruby and Java - for each of them the company paid 238 and 225 thousand rubles a month, respectively (including VAT). The lowest-paid rented employees were contact center operators - they cost 144 thousand rubles a month for the NCI.

Interestingly, the protocol of the NCI commission on the choice of Bars Group as a contractor was signed only in October 2015, a similar document on Er-Es-Technology was signed in December 2015, and under contracts published on the public procurement website, the provision of personnel was supposed to begin in January 2015.

The interlocutor of TAdviser, who previously worked at the NCI, says that the staff of Bars Group was involved in support of the Unified State Health Information System (Uniform State Health Information System). Rostec is the sole executor of these works by order of the government, and NCI was appointed contractor of Rostec.

In 2014, Bars Group actively lured staff for this project from Forecast and AT Consulting^[3].

In 2016, the contracts for the provision of personnel were not extended, TAdviser was told by the NCI, citing "different reasons," including an increase in the number of NCI personnel. The company declined other comments on this topic. Bars Group did not answer TAdviser's questions.

One reason may be the legislative ban on borrowed labor, which was introduced on January 1, 2016 by law No. 116-FZ.

Borrowed labor is labor carried out by an employee by order of the employer in the interests, under the management and control of an individual or legal entity that is not the employer of this employee, the law says.

From January 1, only special employment agencies or organizations that are affiliated with customers of labor services can carry out labor provision activities.

As of March 2016, "about 350 people are involved in the areas of activity of the NCI." These are employees of the NCI and the United Instrument-Making Corporation, also part of Rostec, says a representative of the NCI.

The first information about the purchase of Bars Group

On February 4, 2016, from the publication of the newspaper Sheets"," it became known about the plans of the National Center for Informatization to acquire a Kazan IT company. Bars Group Such a deal would help IT "daughter Rostec " to carry out state projects.

Гендиректор «Ростеха» Sergey Chemezov

The press service of the NCI informed the publication that it was premature to comment on the "fact of the transaction" with Bars Group and added that the NCI is expanding its expertise and is considering the possibility of acquiring specialized companies. A spokesman for Bars Group declined to comment at the request of Vedomosti.

Two interlocutors of the publication estimate Bars Group at 1-2 billion rubles and explain this spread by the opacity of the company's business. Another source believes that in good economic conditions, the cost of a developer and integrator of cloud management systems can be up to 2.5 annual revenues. In 2014, it was measured at 916 million rubles (data from SPARK-Interfax).

According to the heads of two IT companies, Bars Group needs NCI to solve the tasks: in particular, the Rostec structure may be interested in the contracts that it will receive as a result of the transaction.

President of the Information Democracy Fund Ilya Massukh recalls that Bars Group participated in the creation of IT components for the Kazan Universiade, and Rostec will have to fulfill the project of the World Cup. NCI can design ICT infrastructure for the championship, Rostec reported in November 2015.

The president of the IT integrator IBSergey Matsotsky believes that Bars Group is not the only company that would suit NCI. Bars Group has a large product portfolio, but the company is not a champion in any of the segments (including the informatization of government agencies), Matsotsky explained.^[4]

CEO and Strategy Change

As it became known to TAdviser, since January 2016, Konstantin Solodukhin, who previously worked as the general director of MTT and Sinterra operators and deputy general director at Megafon, has been appointed general director of the National Center for Informatization (NCI), and also in 2008-2009 he headed Rostelecom (before its merger with interregional companies Svyazinvest).

From 2014 until his appointment to the NCI, Solodukhin served as First Deputy General Director of the Central Research Institute of Economics, Informatics and Management Systems TSNII EISU (). This institute in 2010-2012 was the main contractor for the implementation ERP of the system in, SAP and in Ministry of Defence 2015 announced the development of a protected one. operating system "Dawn"

Alexey Sividov, who worked as the general director of the NCI until the end of 2015, according to TAdviser, will remain a member of the company's board of directors, and may also head its division in Innopolis (the NCI plans to place developers there).

As the reasons for personnel castling in the NCI, they name the changed strategy of Rostec (owner of the NCI). The holding has adjusted its development strategy, in which access to the civilian IT market is now an important place. For this, on the basis of the NCI, a Competence Center for Development will be created, and the NCI team will be strengthened by the expertise of the Central Research Institute of EISU (we are not talking about the merger of these structures yet).

In the future, Rostec does not exclude the possibility of acquiring specialized companies. Also, the issue of creating a joint venture Rostec and Rostelecom on the basis of the NCI has not been removed from the agenda.

As the main areas of activity on which the NCI will focus under the leadership of the new general director, a source in the company calls the development of basic software (system and application), the implementation of large integration projects in the public sector, as well as the construction of a service model for the provision of IT services.

The synergistic effect in combining the expertise of specialists of TsNII EISU with the knowledge and experience of the NCI project team will give us the opportunity to develop a stack of independent software for the needs of the public sector as soon as possible, - Konstantin Solodukhin told TAdviser

2015

Creating an accelerator for medical startups in conjunction with the IIDF

On December 15, 2015, the National Center for Informatization and the Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF) announced cooperation in the search and training of startups engaged in the development of medical IT systems. The best teams will be able to count on investment and technological support and participation in large infrastructure projects for the informatization of domestic health care.

In January 2016, NCI and IIDF will begin to select and prepare the most promising developers for a specialized accelerator of medical startups. Preference will be given to teams that create solutions in the field of multifunctional medical devices, gadgets, information systems and services that allow remote monitoring of basic health indicators, as well as analyze medical images and large amounts of specialized information.

NCI and IIDF will select the most promising developers of medical IT systems

"Our collaboration with the IIDF will provide developers with access to unique expertise in the field of health informatization and will unite the efforts of market participants. This will help reduce the time for the development and implementation of innovative solutions intended for Russian healthcare, "said the head of the NCI Alexei Sividov

According to the development director of the IIDF Yevgeny Borisov, a joint project with the NCI will help support developing startups and integrate them into the process of informatization of Russian health care, in which more than 5 billion rubles are invested annually.

Participation in the development of the ICT infrastructure of the World Cup

On November 24, 2015, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications announced the appointment of the Rostec state corporation as the sole executor for the development of the system project "Development of Communications and Information Technologies in order to carry out measures to prepare and hold the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in the Russian Federation."

According to RBC, the contract amount will be 239 million rubles.

"By the end of 2015, Rostec specialists will assess the existing resources of telecom operators that can be used to create a unified information and telecommunication infrastructure and analyze the needs for its development. The result of the work will be a financial assessment of the total amount of costs required to provide information and telecommunication infrastructure with measures for the preparation and holding of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in the Russian Federation. Then a list of operators will be compiled who can provide the required services. To ensure stable and uninterrupted communication, operators need to build two communication channels: the main and reserve, "the Ministry of Communications said in a statement.

The direct executor on the part of Rostec, according to TAdvier, may be the "National Center for Informatization" - the company has already created a special department in which architects and engineers with experience in preparing the Universiade Kazan and the Olympics in work. Sochi

As of November 25, 2015, the subcontractor was not selected, the contract with the NCI was not signed, Rostec specified.

The project provides for the creation of a communication system and information systems, as well as support for their work throughout all activities. To provide telecommunication services at ChM-2018 facilities, a single information and telecommunication infrastructure should be deployed in all 11 cities hosting the tournament and other cities with training arenas. Data transmission networks, telephony, satellite communication, professional radio communication of the TETRA standard, as well as services for broadcasters should be launched for the competition.

Rostec agreed with Russian Post on participation in the development of ERP and CRM systems

On November 5, 2015, Rostec and Russian Post signed an agreement on cooperation in the development and maintenance of logistics, CRM, ERP and other Mail systems, as well as automated workplaces and mobile terminals of its employees.

The ERP system of Russian Post operates on the basis of 1C. This project lasted three years and ended in the summer of 2015, becoming the largest introduction of the 1C product in history. As of June 24, 2015, the number of Post employees - 1C users reached more than 40 thousand people.

The CRM system "Mail" was publicly reported only that the project for its implementation is in the process. Dmitry Strashnov, general director of Pochta, spoke about this in an interview with the Vedomosti newspaper in April 2015. Dmitry ^[5].

According to the interlocutor of TAdviser, familiar with the plans of the Post, the company may appoint Rostec as the only contractor for the development and maintenance of information systems (this possibility is provided for by 223 FZ, which regulates the procurement of state-owned companies^[6]). In this case, Rostec will be able to receive contracts with Mail without tenders, although this does not mean that all contracts for the development of IT in Mail will be concluded with Rostec.

The main performer of the work, according to a TAdviser source, will be the National Center for Informatization (NCI), which is part of Rostec.

Rostec specialists will develop the IT systems of Russian Post

The interlocutor of TAdviser close to Rostec says that in addition to NCI Rostec, other subsidiaries, in particular, RT-Inform and the Central Research Institute of Economics, Informatics and Management Systems, may be involved in projects in the Post.

Partnership with the developer of the office suite "New Cloud Technologies"

In September 2015, TAdviser became aware of the upcoming partnership between the National Center for Informatization and the New Cloud Technologies (NOT) company, which is 40% owned by former Rostelecom Vice President Andrei Cheglakov and develops products under the MyOffice brand.

According to TAdviser interlocutors, office NOT products (text, presentation and table editors, mail, address book and calendar) can be integrated by the NCI with the Praktika and# ttop Alfresco electronic document management systems, and then offered to regional and municipal officials as import substituting solutions.

EDMS Praktika belongs to the Kazan company Document Management Systems, Alfresco is an open source product. Solutions based on it in Russia are offered, for example, by Korus Consulting and Logic of Business.

CEOs of NOTH and NCI Dmitry Komissarov and Alexey Sividov confirmed TAdviser plans to establish a partnership, but refused to disclose the details, citing prematurity.

"Informatization in Russia is only gaining momentum, so NCI will have to work on a very wide range of software products - both system and applied," Sividov says. "If necessary, we intend to involve the strongest domestic teams of programmers in the projects."

According to the general director of the NCI, to solve difficult problems, the company is interested in cooperation: "We would prefer not to squeeze competitors out of a limited market, but, using the advantages of working together, to create a unique product and even act as a promoter of Russian solutions outside the country."

One of TAdviser's interlocutors says that the NCI can offer the regions a product under the code name "Automated Official Workplace" with pre-installed domestic software.

Choosing, in particular, a solution for organizing e-mail, the NCI, according to the source, considered several options. For example, the possibility of acquiring technologies from Rambler and Mail.ru was discussed, but they turned out to be not replicable and not suitable for joint work. Products based on free software were also considered, but the NCI did not find funds for the content of the team for their development. As a result, a partner model with NOT and the product "MyOffice" was chosen.

Alexey Sividov says that the NCI adheres to the ideology of a flexible approach: "That is, we will solve different problems using various tools: if permissible, then we will use free software, if not, then develop proprietary software."

Rostec and Rostelecom consolidate efforts and financial flows in NCI

In September 2015, Rostec and Rostelecom entered into an agreement on long-term cooperation, one of the main forms of which will be participation in the joint venture National Center for Informatization.

The parties to the agreement intend not only to act as customers of NCI developments themselves, but also to promote the most promising of them both to the Russian market and outside the country.

The partnership will allow combining the expertise of developers and production facilities of Rostec Corporation with the experience of Rostelecom specialists in the implementation and operation of IT systems and infrastructure, the parties said in a statement.

Russian Federation are very divided, so it is difficult for them to implement large-scale projects. Strategic cooperation of such large players in the high-tech market as Rostec and Rostelecom makes it possible to consolidate efforts, financial flows, knowledge and experience in the practical implementation of projects. This will speed up the process of creating innovative products that can compete on equal terms with foreign counterparts, "said Sergey Kalugin, President of Rostelecom.

Sergei Chemezov believes that import substitution in IT is a matter of national security

"Import substitution in the field of IT is a matter of national security. Russia has a huge intellectual and production potential, and it simply needs to be used, "said Sergey Chemezov, General Director of Rostec. - We see our main task in coordinating the efforts of Russian developers to create domestic software products for authorities and companies with state capital. We do not seek to limit competition in the state customer market. Rather, on the contrary, our companies are interested in civilized cooperation to solve complex strategic problems, which is impossible without involving various professional market players in cooperation. "

Joint venture with Diasoft Platforma

In September 2015, the National Center for Informatization (NCI) and Diasoft Platforma announced their intention to create a joint venture. According to TAdviser, the company will be managed parity, but control will belong to the NCI.

"The main task of the joint venture is the development of the domestic market for applied information systems, the construction of a universal development environment in the field of automation of state companies and institutions," the parties said in a statement.

The company intends to create an IT platform that will become a tool for the design, development and operation of highly reliable information systems intended for the public sector.

It is planned that the platform will include a business application designer, a multi-component environment for accelerated application development in a microservice SOA architecture, tools for automating design (meta-language for describing business processes and entities), tools for creating a metamodel - a repository of application objects and components, descriptions of the relationships between them.

The platform will also contain an object model visual editor and advanced tools for quickly building unified user interfaces.

According to NCI General Director Alexei Sividov, the format of the joint venture is the most effective form of cooperation that will allow consolidating the competencies of developers and taking into account the regulations, requirements and needs of state customers.

At the same time, the platform will be able to use not only the participants of the joint venture, but also independent companies of the IT market, he added.

According to TAdviser, on the part of the NCI, the creation of a joint venture is supervised by Deputy General Director Anatoly Ermakov.

Diasoft intends to enter the b2g market through cooperation with NCI, and NCI, in turn, through cooperation with Diasoft, expects to become a vendor and get its own replicated product, says a TAdviser interlocutor familiar with the plans of the companies.

FAS and Rosimushchestvo allowed Rostelecom to buy 50% of NCI

In August 2015, the Federal Antimonopoly Service granted Rostelecom's petition to acquire a 50% stake in the NCI.

"In accordance with Articles 28, 33 of the Federal Law of 26.07.2006 No. 135-FZ" On Protection of Competition, "the Federal Antimonopoly Service considered the petition of the public joint-stock company of long-distance and international electric communications Rostelecom (OGRN: 1027700198767; TIN: 7707049388; location: 15 Dostoevsky str., Saint Petersburg, 191002, Russian Federation; main activity: activities in the field of telecommunication) on the acquisition of a 50% stake in the authorized capital of the company with corporate responsibility "National Center for Informatization" (OGRN: 1147746450994; TIN: 7703810139; location: Russian Federation, 420500, Republic of Tatarstan, Verkhneuslonsky municipal district, Innopolis city, Universitetskaya str., 1, room 1000; main activity: software development and consulting in this area), and decided to satisfy this petition. "

Also, the Federal Property Management Agency gave a positive conclusion to the deal, a source close to the parties to the transaction told TAdviser and confirmed the official representative of Rostec.

The Federal Property Management Agency should send its conclusion to the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Economic Development, after which the final approval of the transaction should be given by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, says the interlocutor of TAdviser. He expects the deal to be completed at the end of September 2015.

The joint company Rostelecom and Rostec is expected to specialize in the informatization of government agencies, as well as the creation of consumer services based on state information systems^[7].

Moving to Innopolis

In February 2015, the NCI changed the company's registration address from Moscow to Innopolis (Universitetskaya Street, 1, of 1000).

2014

Alexey Sividov appointed general director

In November 2014, NCI replaced the CEO. The new head of the company was Rostelecom Vice President Alexei Sividov^[8]previously headed the Voskhod Research Institute.

Alexey Sividov headed the NCI, retaining the post of vice president of Rostelecom

RT-Electronic Services has been renamed the National Center for Informatization

In the fall of 2014, RT-Electronic Services changed its name and became the National Center for Informatization.

The first message about the creation of a joint venture between Rostec and Rostelecom

In October 2014, employees of the RT Labs company owned by Rostelecom announced a merger with one of the structures of the Rostec state corporation, a [1] source familiar with the situation told CNews. Another interlocutor of CNews, close to Rostec, confirmed this information, saying that RT Labs are planned to be merged with RT-Electronic Services, while Rostelecom and Rostec will have parity^[9] combined company^[10]

RT Labs, headed since September 2014 by Alexei Sividov, vice president of Rostelecom and former general director of the subordinate, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media Research Institute "Sunrise" specializes in the implementation of federal and regional state IT projects.

In particular, on a subcontract from Rostelecom, which is the only contractor for the development and operation of e-government infrastructure, RT Lab is engaged in the modernization of the portal of public services and the system of interdepartmental electronic interaction.

Creation of RT-Electronic Services

In June 2014, the state corporation Rostec"" announced a decision to withdraw from the authorized capital of the company. " Regionkom The transaction to sell Rostec's stake in Regionkom was closed on May 23, 2014. Commercial information and details of the transaction were not disclosed.

The state corporation said that "it does not plan to reduce its participation in projects of strategic importance for the country," in connection with which it was decided "to create a specialized company that will unite the best industry specialists into a single team."

"The company has already been established and is functioning. It is called "RT-Electronic Services." Existing projects previously in the "Regionkom" have already been transferred to it. Our strategy is to consolidate industry leaders in this company and invest in the competence of the team, "a source in Rostec told CNews.

A month and a half before leaving Regionkom, in April 2014, Rostec created RT-Business Development, which, in turn, became 100% owner of RT-Electronic Services, which was also established in April.

The latter, according to the Contour-Focus service, is located at Presnenskaya Embankment 12 (the Federation business complex of the Moscow City business center), and indicated software development, consulting on computer hardware, data processing, etc.

It is RT-Electronic Services, according to CNews sources, that will replace Regionkom and become the new system integrator as part of Rostec, which will focus on state IT projects.

The first general director of RT-Electronic Services was Kamil Gazizov, who previously headed I-Teco 's representative office in Kazan and ITC Kazan, the former IBS Kazan, from which IBS left in 2012.

One of the interlocutors of CNews said that the adviser to the head of Rostec Sergei Chemezov and the ideologist of the castling that occurred in the state corporation was the former Deputy Minister of Communications Denis Sverdlov (worked in the team of Nikolai Nikiforov in 2012-2013), who was responsible for the development of telecommunications and electronic government. Rostec was an investor in the 4G operator Skartel (Yota), which Sverdlov led before joining the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications.

Based on the current configuration, CNews announced the formation of the Kazan Iteshniki team in Russia, in which RT-Electronic Services played a key role.

The "Rostec" said that in the future they plan to expand their interaction in the direction of informatization with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Communications and the Federal Migration Service, as well as with Rosreestr, the Department of Transport of the city of Moscow and Rostelecom.

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