Customers: Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) Moscow; Telecommunications and Communications Contractors: NVision Group Product: Microsoft Enterprise Agreement Subscription (EAS)Project date: 2013/02
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JSC Mobile TeleSystems announced in February, 2013 conclusion of an agreement on delivery of the software of Microsoft corporation for MTS Group in Russia for a period of three years. The contract will allow to optimize costs of MTS for IT and to increase efficiency of operation of infrastructure.
The agreement allows MTS to provide with the necessary software of Microsoft the server hardware of the operator and jobs of staff of MTS group, including JSC MGTS and retail network – RTK Ltd. The signed contract provides use more than hundred names of software products, considers a connectivity of new users and also unlimited use of relational databases of the Microsoft SQL Server.
"For our business it is very important to have the complete list of the tools allowing to work most effectively with everything to the staff of the company. Uniform products which will be implemented the operator at the all-group level increase transparency of business processes and unify procedures both in MTS, and in our subsidiary companies — the director of MTS of purchase management Valery Shorzhin noted. – Business focus of Microsoft company allowed us to receive the widest product portfolio at the attractive prices. Having entered the transaction together with the companies of group of AFK "Sistema" — AFK and its subsidiary energy company "Bashneft" — we will be able to optimize considerably the software costs and effectively implement the latest IT products".
"We are glad to development of a new stage of cooperation with our strategic partner by MTS company. We are sure that products and technologies which become available within the signed agreement will become the necessary base for further successful development and increase in business performance of MTS" — Andrey Shipitkov, the head of department of work with telecommunication and Microsoft media companies in Russia emphasized.
The devolution agreement of the rights to use the software of Microsoft is signed through Nvision Group system integrator, one of strategic Microsoft partners in Russia.
"The software — a necessary component of work of any company. But everyone has specific requirements which are difficult to be considered, especially, if it is about the large companies or holdings integrating different businesses. It is effective corporate programs of licensing, such as Enterprise Agreement Microsoft which offer ample opportunities of the choice of the most effective schemes of licensing and also a set of additional services for development of infrastructure help to solve such major problem. That the optimal scheme of licensing was selected MTS will be able to solve the maximum quantity of tasks with the minimum costs" — the director of a division of NVision Group of work with MTS group Evgeny Maksimenko noted.