VK Tech formerly VK Digital and Mail.ru Digital technologies

VK Tech develops software licensing products and cloud services that meet the key needs of businesses of all sizes - from large companies to medium and small enterprises. VK Tech's portfolio includes cloud services VK Cloud, Tarantool - middleware for working with data, a solution for business-state interaction VK Tax Compliance, as well as a line of software products for communications, personnel management, production automation and business processes.

VK Tech financials

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History

2025: VK pledged 100% VK Tech on loan obligations

In March 2025, it became known that VK pledged 100% of its subsidiary VK Tech (VK Technologies JSC) on loan obligations, which it intends to put on the stock exchange in 2025. When exactly VK laid down VK Tech is not very clear, in the reporting for 2023 this information was not, as well as in the announcement of the intention to conduct an IPO of the structure. 

VK Tech includes corporate IT services, including the VK Cloud cloud platform, the VK Workspace communication platform, acquired for 2.8 billion rubles by the developer of office applications P7-Office and other platforms.

2024

TAdviser interview with VK Teams team leader Georgy Kazimirchik

On trends in the Russian VKS market, migration problems from Western solutions and the advantages of video conferencing from VK Tech in December 2024, Georgy Kazimirchik, head of the VK Teams VKS team. Read more here.

TAdviser interview with commercial director Anton Ten

  Anton Ten, Commercial Director of WorkSpace, spoke about the trends in the mobile communication applications market, the requirements for them from the business and public sector and the advantages of the unified communication platform VK WorkSpace in December 2024. Read more here.

TAdviser interview with Product Director Dmitry Pleshakov

Chatbots, voice assistants and AI assistants have long been a part of our lives. They suggest a weather forecast, find answers on the Internet, turn on music to the mood. In business, artificial intelligence is an ongoing trend. In 2023 , more than 40% of Russian companies have implemented AI-related solutions in their processes, and this number is growing.

Together with Dmitry Pleshakov, Product Director of VK Tech, we understand how AI-based chatbots and voice assistants change the business processes and culture of communications in the team, as well as what challenges and difficulties vendors face in this market. Read more here.

TAdviser interview with VK WorkSpace Communications Platform Commercial Director Anton Ten

The global trend on online communication originated during the pandemic. After four years, employees have gradually returned to the office, but the unified communications (UC) market is still growing. According to IDC estimates, by the end of 2024 it will amount to 64 billion rubles.

What are the trends in the UC market right now? What to expect next year? What solutions do users choose? Anton Ten, commercial director of business communications platform VK WorkSpace, spoke about this in an interview with CNews. Read more here.

TAdviser interview with Product Director Petr Shcheglov

In October 2024, the holding VK and the developer of the office ON "" P7 Office announced a technological partnership. As part of the integration of solutions, cloud editors of documents, tables and presentations "" P7 Office will become available to users of "," Vkontakte"" and Mails"," Clouds Mail services. VK WorkSpace

 Petr Shcheglov, Product Director of VK Workspace, and Denis Galkin, Head of the P7 Partner Sales Center, spoke about new opportunities for corporate and private users of the VK ecosystem, development plans and the situation in the office packages market as a whole. Read more here.

VK transferred shares in three IT companies and turservice to VK Technologies JSC

VK completed the consolidation of four assets on the basis of VK Technologies JSC. The process of transferring shares in three IT companies and one travel service took place from September to October 2024.

According to RB.RU with reference to the data of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (USRUL), on September 5, 2024, VK Technologies JSC received 99% in Digital Transformation Plus LLC, and on October 10, 2024 increased its share to 100%. Previously, these assets were owned by VK LLC (99%) and Elena Bagudina (1%).

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In addition, VK Technologies received direct control over a 0.1% stake in VK Digital Technologies LLC (VK Tech), 99.9% of which belongs to Digital Transformation Plus. On September 12, 2024, JSC acquired 25% in Gudt LLC, a joint venture between VK and Lanit. The final stage of consolidation was the transfer on October 1, 2024 of a 100% stake in the tourist service of VK Travel LLC.

VK representatives described these changes as technical actions aimed at improving efficiency and speeding up the decision-making process in the company.

VK Technologies JSC, created in November 2021, initially did not conduct operating activities. The main area of ​ ​ activity of the company is the development of computer and software.

The head of the analytical department of Amarkets Artem Deyev noted that the transition to the structure of the joint-stock company can contribute to an increase in the level of transparency and trust on the part of partners and customers, since JSCs are subject to stricter reporting requirements.

Experts suggest that the restructuring may be related to VK's desire to optimize its operations in conditions of financial difficulties. According to Forbes, the company's net loss in 2023 amounted to ₽34,3 billion.^[1]

Launch of the Oil and Gas Competence Center

VK Tech is launching the Oil and Gas Competence Center. The company announced this on October 17, 2024.

The center's team will create a universal platform that will present a full range of digital solutions for managing production and sales processes in. oil and gas industries Its infrastructure and platform level will be formed on the basis of VK Tech's own infrastructure. The team of the Competence Center will be headed by Alexander Trusov, who previously held the position of head of the Center for Oil and Gas Technologies in. Innopolis University

The platform will bring together advanced solutions from software and hardware manufacturers, including the development of leading oil and gas companies and niche players specializing in creating narrow-profile business applications. A comprehensive industry solution will provide a number of advantages such as guaranteed uniformity of the technologies used and simplified integration of different systems into the IT landscape of the enterprise. The platform will be based on a private cloud, taking into account information security requirements. It will also ensure the consistency, unity and preservation of data according to the principles of the national project "Data Economics."

To develop such a strategically important industry as oil and gas, investments, competencies, infrastructure and engineering culture are needed. Industrial companies need a technology partner who will support the basic level, help develop competencies and development processes. The most effective in this role is the cloud PaaS and IaaS provider, ready to work with the internal loop. This VK Tech competence center will allow you to combine the best solutions available on the market and ensure stable, trouble-free and efficient operation of IT systems in the Russian oil and gas industry, "said Pavel Gontarev, Managing Director of VK Tech.

VK Tech has switched to a partner model of work

Since the launch of the unified partner program VK Tech in 2023, about 120 companies have joined it, and now VK Tech implements more than 70% of its projects with the participation of partners. Representatives of VK Tech told about this on October 10, 2024 at a press event. In the partner ecosystem, almost 1,000 specialists are now VK Tech certified.

Despite the fact that VK Tech is a major developer of software and cloud services, it will not be able to cover all needs on its own. Moreover, the company sets itself an ambitious task - to replace the decisions of companies that have left Russia, such as Microsoft, Google, and so on. Therefore, she finds partners. With them, products are jointly created and developed, sold and implemented, and with the help of partners the company enters new market segments.

With R7 as a technology partner, for example, VK Tech builds a complete product based on its VK WorkSpace platform, which now allows you not only to store and share files, but also edit them. And with "1C" the company cooperates in cloud services: "1C" has a product "1C: Finished workplace," built on the VK Cloud infrastructure, and it is sold by 1C franchisees. And there is the 1C: Cloud Infrastructure service, it makes it possible for customers to transfer their 1C to the VK Tech cloud and get an optimized infrastructure for the 1C product.

One of the new areas of technological partnership that VK Tech is developing is the creation of joint software and hardware systems. VK Tech CEO Pavel Gontarev noted, answering TAdviser questions, that their company created the first PACS with Depo and Yadro. First of all, we are talking about PAC Private Cloud - when a customer can purchase a VK solution for creating a private cloud based on a Depo or Yadro server and put it in their infrastructure. There is also PAC S3 - object storage from VK Tech on hardware from these two vendors. Pavel Gontarev says that this direction will develop further, and new PACS with other VK Tech solutions will appear.

On October 10, VK Tech announced a number of changes for its partner ecosystem. First, the company decided to transfer new sales of the VK WorkSpace platform using the SaaS model to the partner channel. This is an important milestone in the development of VK Tech as a vendor, said Konstantin Novikov, director of partner sales. In addition, in terms of VK WorkSpace, offered under the SaaS model, the company closed a small "hole" that was - it made an API for partners who sell on the mass market. They will now be able to integrate with this product.

VK Tech also announced the creation of a joint center with Force Distribution for development companies. In this center, partners will be able to receive technological assistance in adapting their solutions on the Tarantool platform and the cloud platform. Force Distribution was one of the very first Oracle partners in Russia, it has a database competence center, and now it is creating a separate direction for Tarantool.

In addition, VK Tech announced plans to geographically expand the partner program - now it operates in the CIS countries, where the company has already had its first partners and one distributor. According to Pavel Gontarev, the company "quite successfully" went into business in Central Asia, in particular. VK Tech already has representative offices in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. At the same time, in the next 2-3 years, the main focus will still be on the Russian market, because there is a huge demand for domestic solutions that need to be met.

The company told TAdviser that one of the vectors for the development of the partner program is the introduction of financial motivation for partners when reaching certain, pre-agreed sales indicators for some products or services: these can be investments in the partner's expertise, expansion of his practice through VK Tech, etc. VK Tech is thinking about presenting financial motivation in 2026.

VK Tech's revenue in the 1 quarter of 2024 amounted to 4.5 billion rubles, an increase of 49% year-on-year. 60% of VK Tech's turnover is accounted for by software sales to large corporate customers for on-premium use, and the remaining 40% - by sales of cloud services for NSR. The cloud is the fastest growing direction both due to the expansion of the client pool and due to the emergence of new services. As of the end of 2024, the company has a total of about 6 thousand customers.

Consideration of the possibility of an IPO at the Moscow Exchange

VK (MKPAO VK) is considering the possibility of conducting an initial public offering (IPO) of the VK Tech technological vertical (VK Technologies JSC) on the Moscow Exchange. This was announced on December 9, 2024 to the TAdviser portal by representatives of VK. According to them, such an opportunity is being considered as part of a regular assessment of VK's strategic development prospects. The decision is planned to be made taking into account market conditions.

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As of December 9, 2024, VK is completing its vertical asset consolidation and integrating corporate governance processes into VK Tech to meet market standards.

VK Tech is a provider of proprietary IT solutions for corporate clients. The VK Tech product portfolio is a ready-made ecosystem of enterprise software that includes cloud services, communication platform, HR solutions, financial and data services. Delivery of solutions is provided according to two models: On-Anticipate - granting non-exclusive rights to software in the customer's contour and On-Cloud - cloud subscription services.

"Building on VK's technological expertise over six years, we have managed to make VK Tech a stand-alone company capable of responding quickly to market demands. The foundation of the VK Tech portfolio is VK's mature technologies: cloud platform, mail service and data platform. Further development of the vertical is provided by an examination of our own team and an orientation towards an external customer, thanks to which we quickly respond to customer needs, develop and launch new popular solutions, "said Pavel Gontarev, Managing Director of VK Tech.

According to him, the prioritization of investments in own developments and the parallel development of all models of software supply became the basis for revenue growth and margin of VK Tech. For example, for the nine months of 2024, the company's revenue increased by 60.1% year-on-year to 7.7 billion rubles, the EBITDA indicator increased to 1.5 billion rubles. At the same time, more than 70% of revenue comes from VK Tech anchor products - the VK Cloud cloud platform and the production of VK WorkSpace services.

VK opens the code of its IT systems and products

On November 18, 2024, it became known that VK intends to publicly release the program code of its products and IT systems. We are talking, among other things, about developments related to artificial intelligence.

According to Forbes, referring to information received from knowledgeable persons, VK plans to intensify work in the direction of Open-Source Software (OSS - open source software). For this, two new domains are registered - opensourcevk.ru and vkopensource.ru. VK will publish products of different types in the public domain: these are, in particular, AI models, tools and libraries for developers, as well as full-fledged IT systems. As an example, Tarantool is called the VK Tech development platform, which includes a database and an application server on Lua.

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It is noted that the closer interaction of VK with the Open-Source community can lead to the emergence of new ideas and solutions, "stimulating innovation and technology development." At the same time, the openness of the source code will help increase trust both from VK partners and from ordinary users. In addition, the initiative can help attract new talented developers and specialists to the company.

Postgres Professional co-founder and deputy general director Ivan Panchenko calls the transfer of the code of his own products to the Open-Source community a bold step. In his opinion, this indicates a high quality of projects, since "a low-grade solution will not allow conscience, moreover, not only reputation is at stake." The general director of the company-developer of the Russian web server Angie Zaur Abasmirzoev also supports the decision of VK to share the code of its products. According to him, in this way VK will receive an "additional pair of eyes" from the community, which will help further improve the quality of the software.^[2]

Interview with Alexander Vinogradov

In September 2024, Alexander Vinogradov in an interview with TAdviser spoke about the creation and launch of the VK Data Platform. Read more here.

VK tech - official partner of TAdviser SummIT

Speakers from Burger King and VK Cloud will tell you how to work with data in the cloud and improve the efficiency of a chain of 800 restaurants. TAdviser SummIT 2024 will be held May 28 in Moscow, VK Cloud is the official partner of the summit. Read more here.

VK Compliance will also attend the summit and act as a partner for the event. Read more here.

VK tech expert will share analytics of trends and dynamics of the Russian corporate communications market at the Import Substitution in IT 2024 conference as part of TAdviser SummIT on May 28, 2024 in Moscow. Read more here.

VK People Hub Product Director Yegor Vorogushin will talk about the dilemmas of digitalizing business processes in the man-at-work technology cluster at the Digitalization 4.0 conference as part of TAdviser SummIT on May 28, 2024 in Moscow. Read more here.

2023

4th place in the TAdviser ranking "Largest HR-tech solution providers in Russia"

VK Tech took 4th place in the ranking "The largest providers of solutions in the field of HR-tech in Russia," prepared by TAdviser in December 2024 based on the revenue of companies from the implementation of relevant projects for 2023. Read more here.

Data for 2023

3rd place in the TAdviser ranking "The largest suppliers of their own IT solutions from the register of domestic software"

VK Tech took 3rd place in the ranking "The largest suppliers of its own IT solutions from the register of domestic software," prepared by TAdviser in October 2024 based on the revenue of companies from projects for the implementation/supply of such products at the end of 2023. Read more here.

Data for 2023

Launch a Single Business Partner Program

On September 28, 2023, VK Tech launched a single partner program for business. Integrators, developers, resellers will be able to develop technological expertise, create their own solutions based on the VK infrastructure and increase revenue from key company products to digitalize processes in organizations.

VK Tech develops IT solutions for business, including cloud services, enterprise communications tools, and solutions to optimize key business processes. Our task: to build a transparent partner program for integrators and developers of IT solutions to help them develop their business and accelerate the digitalization of companies in key sectors of the economy, "said Pavel Gontarev, Managing Director of VK Tech. - Therefore, we are moving from point programs within the framework of individual products to a single system of partner community development based on all our business solutions.

The partner program will bring together training for IT developers and integrators marketing , support and additional resources for market development. Companies will be able to make money working with all VK Tech products: from cloudy services VK Cloud and corporate communications tools to VK WorkSpace risk management VK GRC and tax monitoring solutions. VK Tax Compliance

An important focus will be the implementation and development of on-premium solutions based on customer infrastructure, as well as cloud software as a service (SaaS). To connect to the program, you need to confirm your expertise in working with VK Tech technologies and solutions. The status is valid for one year from the date of its assignment. An official list of accredited partners will be available on the website.

Tadviser interview with information security director Oleg Boyko

Companies from different industries are increasingly using cloud technology to focus on business tasks, and transferring non-core infrastructure support and maintenance and service administration functions to the cloud provider. Information security issues are no exception: the provider takes on a significant amount of tasks to protect the infrastructure. How cloud platforms help businesses increase cyber resilience, work confidently with personal data and reduce information security costs, says Oleg Boyko, Director of Information Security at VK Cloud. Read more here.

Attending TAdviser IT Infrastructure Day 2023

Evgeny Maksimov, head of the cloud sales group, during VK Cloud the TAdviser IT Infrastructure Day 2023 conference , will share cases of use private cloud as a platform for digitalization in companies from the fields,, and industries. power engineering specialists telecom oil and gas industry Read more here. [1]

2022

10th place in the TAdviser rating "Largest IT suppliers in the fuel and energy complex of Russia"

VK Tech took 10th place in the TAdviser rating, prepared on the basis of revenue from the implementation of IT projects in the fuel and energy sector in Russia by the end of 2022 and published in January 2024. Read more here.

Attending TAdviser IT Infrastructure Day 2023

Evgeny Maksimov, head of the cloud sales group, during VK Cloud the TAdviser IT Infrastructure Day 2023 conference , will share cases of use private cloud as a platform for digitalization in companies from the fields,, and industries. power engineering specialists telecom oil and gas industry Read more here. [2]

3rd place in the TAdviser rating "The largest suppliers of their own IT solutions from the register of domestic software"

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Renaming to VK Tech

On August 12, 2022, the company began operating under the VK Tech brand.

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Q2: VK's cloud business doubles revenue

The revenue of VK Cloud Solutions of VK Digital Technologies in the second quarter of 2022 doubled compared to the same period in 2021. At the same time, revenue from cloud services accounted for most of the revenues of the corporation's B2B business. In general, VK's B2B projects in the second quarter of 2022 brought in more than 1 billion rubles, which is 43% more than a year earlier. VK said in its quarterly report VK^[3].

According to the company, corporate communications services grew faster than other areas. Revenue in this area increased by 6.5 times compared to the same period last year.

VK's revenue from B2B projects in the second quarter of 2021 exceeded 1 billion rubles. The photo is designchat.com

At the end of 2021, the revenue of VK Digital Technologies was 3.3 billion rubles, almost a third of them brought subscriptions to cloud services VK Cloud Solutions^[4] At the same time, VK Cloud Solutions revenue in 2021 doubled compared to 2020. The circle of service users has expanded due to the largest representatives of the financial sector, retail, telecom and industry. VK Cloud Solutions services are used by Otkritie Bank, Moscow Metro, AvtoVAZ, UAZ, Magnit Group, Schneider Electric, etc.

In 2021, one of the most popular services on the platform was Kubernetes as a Service. Over the year, revenue from its provision increased by 60%. In 2021, at the initiative of VK Cloud Solutions partner Arenadata, Hadoop as-a-service was launched. In general, revenues from Big Data services increased 3 times, and from providing access to platform services using the PaaS model - 4.5 times. In general, the demand for PaaS grew faster than the consumption of other services, and PaaS's share in the total volume of services provided by VK Cloud Solutions in 2021 increased by 15%. Also in 2021, the demand for in-memory computing platform services Tarantool and corporate software increased. Thus, revenue from the sale of corporate communications services in 2021 more than doubled.

Yandex also notes a sharp increase in demand for cloud services. So, at the end of 2021, the revenue of Yandex.Cloud was 2.9 billion rubles. And already in the first half of 2022, it exceeded 3.2 billion rubles. Read more here

Description

For March 2022, the company's description: VK Tech is a division of VK that develops products and services for digital business development. At the heart of the VK solutions ecosystem Digital technologies are years of experience in the development of Internet services and open source technology.

In the portfolio of VK Tech -, cloud services VK Cloud Solutions in-memory a computing platform, Tarantool a business interaction platform and, states VK Tax Monitoring as well as a line of software products for, Human Resources Management production automation and. business processes

Participation in TAdviser IT Government Day 2022

VK Digital Technologies will present the SuperApp solution - a new digital approach to organizing corporate work at the TAdviser conference "IT Government Day 2022," which will be held on March 16, 2022.

Using the example of corporate communications, the expert VK Alexey Pechenin will show the work of an employee's digital workplace based on a service VK Teams created taking into account modern requirements. Learn how a single enterprise application platform solves business challenges by providing structured document handling, easy and secure storage, and files requirements for. to import substitution

The VK expert will pay special attention to how to improve the efficiency of employee interaction, ensure transparency and control of remote work with the help of a new approach. Alexey Pechenin will tell how SuperApp reduces the cost of supporting and implementing narrowly functional mobile applications, as well as strengthens information security by eliminating free cloud services.

Presentation of SuperApp at the conference "Import Substitution 2022: Real Experience"

VK CT presented the SuperApp solution - a new digital approach to organizing corporate work at the TAdviser conference "Import Substitution 2022: Real Experience," which took place on February 16, 2022.

Using the example of corporate communications, the Director of Business Development of VK Communications Alexey Pechenin showed the work of an employee's digital workplace on a basis VK Teams created taking into account modern requirements. The conference participants learned how a single enterprise application platform solves business problems, providing structured work with documents, convenient and secure storage, files as well as requirements for. to import substitution

The VK expert paid special attention to how to improve the efficiency of employee interaction, ensure transparency and control of remote work with the help of a new approach. Alexey Pechenin told how SuperApp reduces the cost of supporting and implementing narrowly functional mobile applications, as well as strengthens information security by eliminating free cloud services.

2021

As of November 2021, VK Digital Technologies is an ecosystem project based on the solutions of which are many years of experience in the development of Internet services and open source technology.

Victory in the tender for the development of services for the civil servant's workplace (WS HS)

The automated workplace of a civil servant (WS HS) will be developed by the VK group. On November 11, 2021, TAdviser was told about this by an informed source. According to him, Maylru Digital Technologies LLC offered the most competitive price within the framework of the tender announced by the Ministry of Digital Development. Thus, the Russian IT holding, better known for its b2c services, will create a multifunctional communication application for officials (more).

Nikolay Karlov on how retail chains speed up data processing

2021

Karlov Nikolai, head of the Mail.ru Digital Technologies architecture department, spoke about how retail chains speed up data processing in May 2021. Read more here.

2020

Pandemic led to a sharp increase in demand for Mail.ru services for business

In the 2nd quarter of 2020, the B2B direction brought Mail.ru about 500 million rubles with an increase of "several hundred percent" year-on-year. This was announced during a conference call with top managers of the Mail.ru at the end of July by Boris Dobrodeev, CEO of Mail.ru Group in Russia^[5]. He also mentioned that the direction of B2B in Mail.ru Group is break even.

The indicator announced by Dobrodeev is about half of the revenue that the Mail.ru received from the direction of services and solutions for business for the whole of 2019. Earlier in the annual report for 2019, the company reported that it earned more than 1 billion rubles in the B2B direction.

Against the background of the epidemic, Mail.ru noted an increase in demand for cloud services "(photo - Valery Melnikov/RIA Novosti)"

According to Dobrodeev, the main contribution to the achievement of these indicators in the 2nd quarter of 2020 was made by cloud services, and the situation due to the coronavirus epidemic significantly contributed to the acceleration of growth.

Many companies and enterprises required scaling, and many of them moved to the Mail.ru cloud to strengthen their capabilities, said the CEO of Mail.ru Group in Russia.

Answering a question from one of the analysts during a conference call, Boris Dobrodeev clarified that cloud services Mail.ru represented by two key components. The first is the traditional infrastructure as a service where the customer can deploy and process their data in the cloud. The company also provides databases for working with data online.

The top manager of the Mail.ru also recalled the recent conclusion of a cooperation agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The companies agreed to jointly launch a hybrid cloud platform for business. Its users will be able to connect simultaneously to the capacities of both Amazon and Mail.ru Group.

At the same time, the company found it difficult to estimate its current share in the cloud market. Dobrodeev noted that Mail.ru is still at the beginning of the journey: "this is a promising, but still young business." Also, he added, the cloud market in Russia is still quite small.

I think here now everyone is observing rapid growth, - says the CEO of Mail.ru Group in Russia.