Onlanta Onlanta

Onlanta is a member of the Lanit group of companies and provides IT outsourcing, information system operation, as well as cloud services OnCloud.ru. Among the clients of the company are government agencies, credit and financial organizations, enterprises of the fuel and energy complex, telecommunications and communications, transport, trade, services, etc.

The main office of the company is located in Moscow, offices are also open in St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Nizhny Novgorod, Penza, Tver, Barnaul, Mirny. To provide services, Onlanta has a partner network in all regions of Russia.

Services

As of December 2021, Onlanta provides the following services:

• I.IT outsourcing:
  • IT Infrastructure Support
  • Multivendor Technical Support
  • Customer Support
  • System Software Support
  • DevOps Methodology
  • Monitoring IT infrastructure and services
  • Office printing outsourcing

• Cloud service OnCloud.ru II.:
  • IaaS Infrastructure Service
  • Virtual workplaces VDI
  • Infrastructure Services
  • Location in Data Center
  • Secure enterprise mail in the cloud
  • Business Applications from the Cloud
  • Multicloud

• III.Informational Safety:
  • Faking penetration IT infrastructure in () Pentest
  • Infrastructure protection using MPS
  • Organizational and administrative documentation
  • IT Infrastructure Information Security Audit
  • Secure storage of personal data
  • Kaspersky Antivirus Rental
  • Protect web applications from threats by the Wallarm WAF suite

History

2024: Acquisition of a 30% stake in Amvera

Onlanta (part of the LANIT group), a Russian service provider in the field of IT solutions and cloud technologies, acquired a 30% stake in Amvera (Amvera LLC), which develops a cloud platform for simplified deployment of IT applications. Representatives of Onlanta reported this to TAdviser on January 9, 2024. At the same time, the financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed in the company. Read more here.

2021

Launch a program to create industry centers

The Onlanta company (part of the LANIT group), together with the Startup Lab venture fund, launched a program to create industry centers in which highly specialized IT products will be developed for companies from various fields: development, law, transport, e-commerce, medicine, media. Onlanta is looking for specialists with experience in the IT industry who are ready to take responsibility for the strategic development of the industry center in the chosen area. LANIT announced this on September 23, 2021.

Onlanta experts are waiting for product managers and entrepreneurs who have relevant experience and expertise in the IT sphere as candidates for the Product Owner position. The candidate should be willing to take responsibility for the chosen direction and be aimed at the continuous development of the product. The ideal Product Owner can work in cross-functional commands and is able to independently test the hypothesis in accordance with the LEAN approach.

The program participants have to go through several stages: to form a product development strategy in one of the selected areas for one to two years and prepare for a pitch to present their ideas to the company's experts. The presentation of each participant's project should include the target audience of the product, the project implementation plan and the resources necessary for this, as well as the analysis of competitors, the unit economy and the expected results for the development of the selected direction. Candidates will have the opportunity to test one of the hypotheses within the presented strategy within two months.

Venture fund Startup Lab will collect applications, primary selection of candidates and consultation of participants on preparation for the presentation, and Onlanta experts will evaluate the ideas, strategy and general vision of participants, hypothesis testing metrics and the process of work for two months. In case of successful completion of all stages, participants will receive financial remuneration and an offer to join the Onlanta team.

For us, the launch of such a program is the first such experience, and we believe that this experiment will help us create useful products, as well as contribute to the development of Onlanta, said Oleg Konovalov, director of innovative development at Onlanta.

Together with Onlanta, the program on the set of Products Owners and entrepreneurs is a chance for experienced IT specialists to reach a higher level. For us as a foundation, this is a good opportunity to cooperate with a strong partner, which is always very valuable. This recruitment format has already proven its effectiveness for both participants and the organizer: participants not only implement an idea they are interested in with the support of the company, but also receive remuneration for their work, and the organizer attracts really strong specialists to the team, the results of which are already visible. noted Nikolai Popovich, Director of Corporate Innovation and Managing Partner of Startup Lab.

TAdviser interview with Oleg Konovalov, Director of Innovative Development

Director of Innovative Development of Onlanta Oleg Konovalov in September 2021 told TAdviser about how the OnCloud cloud business was built when the market segment was in its infancy. About successes and failures on the way to the cloud. Read more here.

2020: Services

As of 2020, Onlanta provided the following services:

• Customer Support
• Service Desk
• Office printing outsourcing
• IT Infrastructure Support
• Information security
• DevOps. Operation of Information Systems
• Post-Warranty Equipment Maintenance
• Cloud Services OnCloud.ru

2019: "Onlanta" parted ways with most of the staff after the project was completed. They went to a new contractor

In 2019, Onlant has significantly reduced its staff. According to the Federal Tax Service, in 2018 the average headcount was 336 people, and in 2018 there were 222 fewer people - 114 employees. Thus, the reduction was 66%.

Lanita told TAdviser that the decline in staff was due to the completion of a major project that was underway in 2018-2019.

The employees involved in the provision of services for the customer transferred to the staff of his new contractor, who accepted the performance of these works from Onlanta, - told TAdviser in Lanit.

The staff of "Onlanta" in 2019 has decreased by more than half "(photo -" Onlanta ")"

What project is in question, who became the new contractor, and whether there was a state contract, the company did not specify. Onlant itself also did not want to disclose these details.

Onlanta's customers, according to the company, are enterprises of the financial and banking sectors, government agencies, enterprises of the fuel and energy complex, telecommunications and communications, transport, trade, industry and services.

In 2018, Onlanta publicly announced a number of new projects related to the provision of services to its OnCloud cloud, as well as three projects related to the printing service and IT infrastructure support. She began to provide printing service to Alros and Sukhoi Civilian Aircraft. In the case of outsourcing services to support IT infrastructure, we are talking about Gazprom Gas Motor Fuel, while Onlanta won the contract back in 2016.

Vice-President of Borlas Arkady Karev, regardless of the case of Onlanta, noted that in general there is a risk of specialists leaving the company after the completion of a large high-tech project. Moreover, he noted in a conversation with TAdviser, first of all, we are talking about the risk of the key specialists of the contractor moving not to another contractor, but to the customer for further support and development of the created solutions.

This happens, but there are mechanisms how to minimize this risk. Usually, the customer and the contractor conclude an agreement not to lure key employees, at least without the consent of the parties, says Arkady Karev.

According to Karev, situations when after the completion of a large project, a significant part of the staff turns out to be unnecessary are not typical for the IT market. As a rule, companies build their work strategy, starting with determining the portfolio of products and services that they offer to the market. Then they try to develop their expertise according to the chosen strategy, and if a large project appears that has led to serious staff growth, expertise, then IT companies usually try to use this as a growth point: develop even more while this project is underway, and look for other projects where the recruited personnel will be involved.

If this has not been done, employees do not see further prospects at this place of work and move to other places, said the vice president of Borlas. So that after the completion of a large project, the team does not leave, it is necessary to invest in its training, the acquisition of new competencies by employees, re-profiling, he notes. Then it will be possible to expand their functional zones and use them in more projects, offer them new interesting tasks. At the same time, it is necessary to intensify presale work in order to ensure the influx of new projects, Karev added.

Tagir Yapparov, Chairman of the Board of the Applan Group of Companies, notes that the situation itself, when the customer changes the contractor to perform the same work, is market. In view of the requirements of the law, this is especially typical for projects on state contracts within the framework of 44-FZ and 223-FZ, when the support of information systems is carried out under annual contracts. And it happens that in one year one contractor wins the tender for escort, and in the next year another.

And since the company that performed the work has ended the term of the state contract, and it did not win the new one, the employees involved in the project are left without work. And it is logical that the one who won the new contract is trying to hire these people: it is beneficial for him that there are employees on staff who are already familiar with the customer and his tasks, says Tagir Yapparov.

Dmitry Shilov, director of the Techn oserv service and outsourcing competence center, noted that the reasons why there is a change of supplier can be both purely economic and lie in a different plane of decision-making. But in itself, the situation of transferring services from one supplier to another is not extraordinary, he considers it to be standard.

Mechanisms have long been developed that help make the transfer of services as painless as possible for all three parties, since usually the customer, the current service provider, and the new one take an active part in the process. A special transit period stands out, during which the transfer of cases takes place, says Dmitry Shilov.

The customer is interested in planning and monitoring the implementation of the transit period, which thus receives a guarantee of the quality of services. This is also interesting for the new supplier, who, together with the new team, receives the necessary competencies and experience in working with this particular customer and his tasks, says a representative of Technoserv. And, as a rule, this is also interesting to the current service provider, especially if he had a dedicated team and its disposal was calculated only for this project.

2013: Turning Year

Onlanta CEO Sergei Taran called 2013 a "turning point" for the company: "The IT market as a whole did not grow, but the growth of the IT outsourcing market continued. Along with the increase in the number of contests held by government agencies to support information systems, competition between IT outsourcing companies also grew. The cloud services sector grew by 60-100%. "

According to him, in 2013 Onlanta moved from the category of "beginners" to an "adult" business: the 2013 plan for quantitative indicators was fulfilled by 127%, and for annual growth - by 185%^[1].

The company has the opportunity to start work on a number of interesting new areas, such as, for example, corporate mobility. Experience in providing technical support services for enterprise mobile device management (MDM) solutions has emerged.

2010: Obtaining Compliance Certificates

• October 2010: The company's management system is confirmed to comply with the international standard ISO 20,000 in the field of technical support services provided to customers and employees of the company's structural divisions. The certification audit was conducted by BSI. Certificate No. ITSM 560741.
• November 2010: Compliance of the Information Security Management System (ISMS) with the requirements of the international standard ISO/IEC 27001:2005 was obtained . The audit of Onlanta's information security management system was conducted by BSI Management Systems CIS, a recognized leader in the provision of management systems certification services. In October 2011, the compliance of the information security management system was re-confirmed.

2008: Building a Company

Onlanta was formed in April 2008 on the basis of the Lanita IT services department. IT outsourcing was created at one time as an investment project. And after 1.5 years of work, it was transformed into a specialized company in order to respond as flexibly as possible to customer requests.

By the end of 2008, Onlanta conducted about a dozen projects for managing applications and IT infrastructure, outsourcing information security, and providing services to ^[2] data centers^[3].

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