VTB will replace about 20 foreign systems using the Russian software production platform "Sphere"

2024: Transition to the Russian platform of technological production "Sphere"

VTB Bank April 19, 2024 announced TAdviser the transition to. the Russian process production platform "Sphere" As representatives clarified, bank as of mid-April, development and maintenance process management modules have already been implemented - import-substituted systems from the Jira Confluence company Atlassian and components of the company's Service Manager system. Microfocus VTB plans to complete the implementation of all platform modules by the end of 2024, which is expected to allow the decommissioning of about 20 foreign systems of various vendors, including Gitlab Bitbucket, Nexus and Jenkins and JFrog TeamCity monitoring systems, etc. As of April 19, 2024, about 20 thousand people work on the Sphere platform.

source = VTB Bank Official Telegram Channel

The bank began introducing Sphere in July 2023. According to Sergei Bezbogov, deputy head of the technological unit - senior vice president of VTB, the implementation of platform modules is taking place in stages, module by module - to guarantee the stable operation of the bank. Thus, about 30 system modules have already been implemented, and the implementation of at least 10 modules is expected by the end of the year.

"Of the modules already implemented -" Sphere. Tasks, "" Sphere. Documents "and" Sphere. Knowledge "- replaces the previously actively used solutions of Jira and Confluence in the bank. These modules allow you to process large amounts of corporate data, generate content, assist in decision-making based on progressive recommendation algorithms, "the top manager explained. "We expect that this will increase the performance of development and support teams by at least 30%."

Also with the product "Sphere. Data depersonalization, "which uses advanced models of artificial intelligence when automatically searching for sensitive data, it was possible to build a testing polygon from more than 100 bank systems, in which all personal data and bank secrecy are completely replaced by impersonal ones.

The Sphere platform is the development of a technological partner of the bank, the T1 holding. It consists of 40 + modules, each of which is responsible for performing specific tasks: development and testing management, software operation, engineering tools for working with source code and monitoring tools. According to VTB, until recently, these tasks were carried out using tools from various, mainly foreign, manufacturers. Import substitution of these tools is ensured by the implementation of the "Sphere." Platform modules are integrated with each other and allow you to build an end-to-end process of software production management at all stages of the life cycle.

"The Sphere platform is one of the key products of the T1 holding, in the creation of which more than 700 developers are involved. We began work on the creation of the "Sphere" long before 2023, this is already a rather mature decision. The project with VTB is the first introduction of the platform into the IT landscape of this scale. We are concentrating all efforts to meet the high requirements of reliability, fault tolerance and scalability, "said Kirill Bulgakov, Deputy General Director of the T1 Holding, Managing Director of the NOTA vendor.