Import substitution is delayed. Rosatom buys SAP software for ₽776 million

At the end of December 2021, Atomenergoprom"" announced a tender for the purchase of the right to use and the provision of maintenance services ON SAP in the amount of 772.6 million. rubles It is planned to purchase about 4 thousand licenses for ERP solutions.

As told to Kommersant at Rosatom, software is purchased for "operated information systems." The state corporation will continue to use software from international developers on foreign sites, but domestic solutions are also being introduced - by the beginning of 2023, the 1C project is expected to be implemented.

Rosatom buys SAP software for ₽772,6 million

The Competence Center for Import Substitution in the Field of Information and Communication Technologies (CCICT) is not against the purchase of SAP software Rosatom"" as it was with deliveries software Microsoft. "" Transneft According to the head of TsKICT, Ilya Massukha the possibility of purchasing SAP software was discussed with Rosatom for several months.

On the one hand, state corporation structures belong to subjects of critical information infrastructure (CII), and their use of foreign decisions is unacceptable. On the other hand, Rosatom is building nuclear power plants abroad, and state corporations need to exchange data with partners in a single format for everyone, he explained.

An IT market source told Kommersant that the transition of Russian state-owned companies to Russian ERPs is unlikely. According to him, one of the main issues remains the issue of interaction with foreign partners. If the Russian company goes to domestic ERP, then its foreign counterparties will have to adapt to the new data exchange format, and few are ready to do this, he added.

Anton Malkov, Chairman of the Board of Galaxy Corporation (developer of Galaktika ERP), noted that by the end of 2021, almost 90% of state-owned companies use Western IT products.^[1]

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