Open Technologies

Open Technologies is a system integrator operating in the Russian information technology market. Since 1994, the company has been implementing projects of any level of complexity in the field of system integration.

Solutions are focused on optimizing the IT processes of large businesses and enterprises to increase their efficiency and reduce costs.

Customers are representatives of all industries: economies enterprises oilgas, both power industrial trade sectors, banks financial and institutes, medical institutions, state structures, scientific educational and organizations.

Qualification of specialists of "Open Technologies" is confirmed by certificates of world manufacturers: developers of equipment and software. Employees of the company constantly confirm their competencies with world vendors. The license pool, developed over the years, allows you to carry out projects of various levels of complexity, regardless of the scope of the customer.

Assets

As of April 2022, the regional network includes 3 branches in the Russian Federation: Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, Krasnoyarsk, as well as a representative office in Belarus.

Subsidiary - OT-oil

CEOs

• 2003 - April 1, 2009 - Gizatullin Oleg Faritovich
• April 1, 2009 - March 5, 2015 - Ryzhov Nikolai Vladimirovich
• from March 5, 2015 - Polovnikov Sergey Viktorovich

History

2018

Oleg Gizatullin, CEO of Open Technologies, spoke in September 2019 about the current situation in the company. Open Technologies is about 500 employees, more than 5,000 customers, more than 55,000 cases implemented. "In recent years, our revenue has been growing, about + 23% per year, in 18 it amounted to 7 billion rubles," Oleg Gizatullin shared with the audience.

2017

Partnership with Atos

The Russian system integrator Open Technologies and the international IT company Atos SE agreed in April 2017 on a strategic partnership in terms of promoting Bull products. The agreements reached with Atos allow you to take a more flexible approach to solving the issues of building an IT infrastructure for integrator customers. Access to Bull products provides opportunities to offer a more comprehensive portfolio of solutions on the POWER platform and Intel E7-based platforms for building technology infrastructures, virtualization platforms, in-Memory processing of midrange and high end segments.

The partnership will be conducted as part of the following Bull lines in Russia:

• Escala (OEM pSeries);
• bullion (x86 platform on Intel E7)

Assets

The branch network includes representative offices in the Russian Federation, divisions in Belarus and Switzerland. The office in Uzbekistan was closed in 2014. At the beginning of 2017, the company is present in Belarus, as well as in Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, Surgut, Krasnoyarsk and Ufa.

Open Technologies experts analyze the customer's business processes, develop the optimal IT solution, implement it, and later modernize and support the created system.

2014: Dispute over the concept of the "Safe City" system of the Komi Republic

In September 2014, one of the developers of the concept of the Safe City system of North Ossetia, Alan Salbiev, had questions about a similar concept developed by Open Technologies for the Komi Republic. He suspected that this project was based on the results of their work on creating a concept for their own region. Details on the link.

2012: Development of service and outsourcing services

In 2012, Open Technologies actively provides service and outsourcing services. In this direction, the company has about 200 customers, more than 300 existing contracts and 3,000 systems for support. Customer systems are supported by the Company Service Center operating in 24x7 mode. It employs 60 experts certified by the world's largest manufacturers of server and telecommunication equipment with various levels of training and a unique set of knowledge. The quality and availability of services is guaranteed by a single regional network - Open Technologies service centers are located in large cities of Russia (Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Ufa, Surgut, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, etc.). In addition, the company has partnership agreements with federal and regional service providers. Due to this, the actual presence of the company and, accordingly, the coverage network is more than 80 regions in all federal districts of the Russian Federation. Modeling and debugging of delivered solutions is carried out in demonstration halls and server laboratories located on an area of ​ ​ about 400 square meters. m

2011: Entering the supercomputer market

In February 2011, it became known that Open Technologies decided to take up the segment of supercomputers with a hybrid CPU + GPU architecture in Russia: the company prepared a line of reconfigured clusters based on Intel servers with eight-core processors and servers on Nvidia Tesla^[1] graphics processors^[1]. For the supply of servers with Tesla, Open Technologies entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with the American company NextIO.

The number of supercomputer projects implemented by the company by February 2011, according to the company's commercial director Grigory Shevchenko, is about 10 systems since 2000.

The new Open Technology supercomputer line includes four pre-configured clusters based on CPU + GPU, providing double-precision performance of 4.55 Tflops and 9 Tflops in a 24U rack, as well as 13.47 Tflops and 17.93 Tflops in a 42U rack. The cost of the minimum configuration, according to company representatives, is about $65 thousand, and the maximum - several hundred thousand dollars. Solutions are designed for both scientific and academic customers, as well as for industry companies and enterprises.

As explained by CNews Shevchenko, his company is primarily interested in midrange projects - mid-range performance systems (in the company they include computers with a capacity of 20-42 Tflops). In Russia, in this segment of Open Technologies, according to Shevchenko, they "do not yet feel competition." The largest Russian supplier of T-Platforms supercomputers, this segment, according to the company, is not particularly interesting.

T-Platforms concentrate on large projects. We will concentrate on popularizing these decisions. We may have large customers, but we will strive to supply medium-sized systems, but in large numbers. Maybe someone else produces such systems, but we do not see them on the market, "Shevchenko said.

According to Sergey Abramov, Director of IPS RAS, by global standards at the beginning of 2011, computer systems with a capacity of about 3-15 Tflops can be attributed to midrange systems. And in this range, and in the range voiced by Open Technologies, other Russian and foreign companies work, Abramov says. For example, Kraftway and Skyrus (one of the founders of which is Abramov himself).

As for the demand for hybrid systems, Abramov believes that there is some demand for them, but it is somewhat hype. "The GPU remains a specialized, non-universal solver. It is necessary to carefully make a decision on their use, clearly understanding how adequate they are to the target tasks, "the expert noted.

• In September 2011, Open Technologies and CRT Service announced a partnership agreement

• In October 2011, Open Technologies confirmed that its quality management system meets all the requirements of GOST R ISO 9001-2008 (ISO 9001:2008). The audit was carried out by the certification body of quality management systems - CONSERSIUM LLC. According to the results of the inspection audit, Georgy Nezhdin, head of the CONSERSIUM quality systems certification body, presented Nikolai Ryzhov, General Director of Open Technologies, with a quality management system certificate and emphasized the high level of organization of business processes and the effectiveness of the company's quality management system. During the audit, the Board also highlighted the following positive aspects of the QMS: coherence of actions of various structural units aimed at obtaining the planned results; a structured system of motivation and training of personnel in the company; Application of technological innovations and advanced technologies in customer services; a well-established system of planning and reporting in business units and a general information openness of the company.

2010: Consortium with ICT

• In April 2010, Open Technologies (OT) and the ICT group signed an agreement to establish an interim consortium for joint commercial work. Its ultimate goal is to unite companies. "Within three years or less, by decision of the shareholders, a decision will be made on the legal merger (or not merger) of the two groups of companies," said Sergey Kalin, president^[2] and^[2].

Until then, the structure and shares of shareholders of companies will not change in any way. Formally, they will remain independent of each other. This agreement does not impose any restrictions on alliances with other market players.

The difference between the consortium and the established subcontracting practice, according to Kalin, is cardinal: "We combine our commercial efforts up to the unification of CRM systems, we create a governing body consisting of top managers of both companies, which faces a financial plan for the year for cross-cross sales." At the end of 2010, the consortium plans to achieve a total turnover of $315 million, of which $30 million will be received from joint work. The company does not disclose revenue data for 2009.

It is known that according to the results of 2006, the turnover of OT amounted to about 6.3 billion rubles. ICT in 2007 earned about 1 billion rubles.

The initiator of the association was Kalin. "I started working on the idea of expanding the business through mergers in 2009," he tells CNews. - Several meetings were held with several companies, exchanged commercial and financial information. Most interesting from the point of view of commercial synergy, we were answered by ICT. This does not mean an intersection by type of service and by customer. "

The activities of the two companies are divided as follows: ICT will provide services in business planning, business process design, business concept development, IT strategy and everything that is directly related to the organization and optimization of the business. OT will be engaged in IT infrastructure design, system software implementation, technical support and outsourcing.

ICT President Valery Tabakov hopes that the transition period of three years will smoothly and effectively achieve the final goal of the consortium being created. "We don't want to face the typical challenges of a merger," he says. "It is for this reason that the alliance of ICT and Open Technologies is not an amorphous structure, but a viable form of cooperation, supported by mutual contractual obligations."

Sergey Kalin was elected chairman of the consortium, Valery Tabakov was elected co-chairman. The board will also include technical, financial and commercial directors from each of the companies. Within the framework of the created consortium, according to Kalin, the companies will continue to look for partners for mergers.

• In July 2010, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation announced the results of an open tender for technological work on the development of an automated system created in 2009 to form a consolidated plan for conducting inspections and coordinating unscheduled inspections (AS SPPiVP).

As noted, only one company, Open Technologies 98, expressed a desire to participate in the bidding. The company's price proposal amounted to 215.6 million rubles. For comparison, the initial value of the state contract was 216 million rubles. Financing of works under the contract is carried out at the expense of the federal budget. However, due to the presence of only one participant, the competition was declared invalid, and in accordance with paragraph 5 of Art. 27 of the federal law of 21.07.2005 No. 94-FZ "On placing orders for the supply of goods, performance of work, provision of services for state and municipal needs," the state contract project was transferred to Open Technologies 98.

As part of the state contract, the contractor will have to equip the SPPiVP NPP with: a TC module (certification center); data storage and processing subsystem; The subsystem for finding and extracting facts analytics and reporting; Web access and information security; computer subsystem. You can get acquainted with the customer's requirements in more detail in the documentation presented on the official website for placing the state order of the Russian Federation here.

2006

• The company's revenue in 2006 amounted to 6.3 billion rubles. (according to CNews Analytics), in 2005 - 6.97 billion rubles.

1999 - 2005

• 1999 - Opening of a regional office in Perm;
• 2000 - certification by the testing laboratory of the State Technical Commission of the technological solution IRBIS - Integrated Security Solution of Information Systems;
• 2001 - opening of a regional representative office in Tyumen; Certificates of the State Technical Commission for activities in the field of information protection and accreditation for certification of informatization facilities have been received;
• 2003 - the company opens its representative offices in Volgograd, Minsk Novosibirsk Surgut,,,, and Nizhny Novgorod; Krasnodar Yekaterinburg Vladivostok Open Technologies became the general contractor of the company "" by. Svyazinvest to introduction ERP systems Oracle The project was designed for 2-3 years. In August 2006, Svyazinvest replaced the general contractor - it became a subsidiary of the telecommunications holding - ".";Svyazyintek
• 2004 - the company opens a representative office in Switzerland; the company opens representative offices in Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg, Surgut, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg and Krasnodar; Oracle Master Partner - Oracle Certified Advantage Partner
• 2005 - the company created its own Center of Competence in Information Technology; Hewlett-Packard on the basis of the company's branch in Yekaterinburg, the Competence Center was opened; Novell Gold Microsoft Certified Partner status Becoming IBM a Premier Partner on the basis of the branch in Novosibirsk, the Competence Center for; IPTV

1994

Open Technologies was founded in 1994 by immigrants from the Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering (ITMiVT) of the USSR Academy of Sciences. It was there in the early 90s that Sergey Vladimirovich Kalin, the founder of Open Technologies (today he heads this institute), was engaged in the development of the domestic supercomputer Elbrus-2. In the first year of operation, the company's staff was 17 people.

The first projects were to create computing centers, data centers mainly for banking structures, since then it was in this sector of the IT market that solutions were most in demand. Gradually, the company expanded the range of services provided, began to build corporate data networks, both local and geographically distributed. These projects predetermined access to the regions. A service center was created in the organization, in the future this practice justified itself in the regions. Today, the service constitutes a fairly tangible share of the business.

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