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.

Performance indicators

2023: Fastest growth of VK Group companies

In 2023, VK's revenue reached 132.8 billion rubles, an increase of about 36% compared to the previous year. At the same time, the largest growth was shown by the VK Tech division (technologies for business) - plus 67.5% on an annualized basis with a final result of 9.7 billion rubles. Such data are reflected in the financial report published on March 21, 2024. Read more here.

2022: Revenue growth of 83%

The revenue of the Technologies for Business segment VK (includes cloudy a platform VK Cloud and solutions for working with data, corporate communications services, VK WorkSpace tax monitoring and other corporate services) ON in 2022 increased by 83%, to 5.8 billion, rubles according to the company's financial results report issued on March 16, 2023. It became the fastest growing segment of VK's business. In the ranking " TAdviser100: The largest IT companies in Russia 2023," such an indicator allowed the company to take 85th place.

At the same time, in the fourth quarter of 2022, Technology for Business revenue more than doubled compared to the fourth quarter of 2021.

The EBITDA margin of the Technology for Business segment increased by 17 percentage points year-on-year to 20% in 2022. This, as well as the growth in EBITDA margin of the Educational Technologies segment in VK, is called the growth driver in 2022 of EBITDA margin of the entire VK, which amounted to 20.4%.

VK WorkSpace corporate communications services "(photo - dp.ru)" became the main growth driver of the "Technologies for Business" direction

Technologies for Business includes various B2B services that are developing internally under the VK Tech brand. In a separate segment, this area was allocated in the fourth quarter of 2022, taking into account VK's growing focus on providing technology for the business and the growth of their share in the company's revenue. Previously, it was part of the New Initiatives segment.

Technologies for Business includes the VK Cloud cloud platform and data solutions, VK WorkSpace enterprise communications services, tax monitoring, and other enterprise software.

Among the products offered are the Tarantool in-memory computing platform, the VK Assistant digital assistant, the VK GRC system for internal control and risk management.

According to VK, the main growth driver for the Technology for Business direction was services for corporate communications on the VK WorkSpace platform. In the fourth quarter of 2022, revenue from them grew more than 3 times, and the share of services in the total income of the direction exceeded a third.

Revenue from VK Cloud services doubled in the same period.

The largest users of VK Tech products and services, according to information in the official VK Tech channels, include Rosatom"," "Mail Russia,",, Gazprombank, "," " Rosselkhozbank NLMKMegaphone Yota," "Transneft," "Ingosstrakh-Investments," etc.

Partner Program

2023: Launch of a Single Partner Program for Business

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.

History

2023

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.

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^[1].

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^[2] 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.

Revenue - 3.2 billion rubles

At the end of 2021, the revenue of the Technology for Business segment of VK amounted to 3.2 billion rubles.

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

Revenue growth up to 2.3 billion rubles

At the end of 2020, the revenue of Mail.ru Digital Technologies, the operator of the Mail.ru Cloud Solutions cloud platform and the developer of software solutions for business, exceeded 2.3 billion rubles: compared to the previous year, it more than doubled. Almost half of the revenue was provided by subscription to cloud services, indicators for all lines of software products increased. This was announced on March 17, 2021 by Mail.ru Digital Technologies to TAdviser.

Revenue of Mail.ru Digital Technologies more than 2 times 2020 year
Photo source: ok.ru

Mail.ru Digital Technologies is a division of Mail.ru Group that develops technologies and solutions for digital business transformation. In 2020, the company brought to the market a number of products and services, for the third time in a row doubled the volume of business year-on-year.

In 2020, Gazprom, VTB, X5 Retail Group, Lukoil, Rosatom State Corporation, Magnit, Eurochem, Rosseti became our customers - while more than 30% of the business consisted of services and products for medium and small enterprises. We plan to become one of the largest providers of cloud services and corporate software in the Russian market, said Pavel Gontarev, Managing Director of Mail.ru Digital Technologies.

Accelerating the pace of digitalization of big business has increased demand for cloud solutions. The revenue of the Mail.ru Cloud Solutions platform provided more than 40% of the total sales of Mail.ru Digital Technologies, approaching 1 billion rubles.

This growth was achieved due to the expansion of the subscriber base and an increase in the number of platform services (PaaS), the volume of sales of which soared 3.4 times. At the beginning of 2021, the MCS portfolio has more than 30 of its own platform solutions. More than 16 thousand customers use Mail.ru Cloud Solutions services monthly, of which 3 thousand spend more than 100 thousand rubles a month on cloud services. In 2020, the e-commerce segment showed demand significantly above the market, MCS customers were retailers X5 Retail Group, Magnit, Auchan, as well as Danone, Philip Morris, Burger King and other companies.

In 2020, the Tarantool in-memory computing platform received significant functional development. In addition to the development of Tarantool's open source code, a commercial version of Tarantool Data Grid entered the market in 2020. The solution is in demand by companies that focus on omnichannel interaction with customers and large amounts of data: banks, telecom operators, retail chains and businesses in the e-commerce segment. During the year, the platform was introduced in Gazprombank, Kh5 Retail Group, Magnit, Yota and MegaFon, a large-scale program began in VTB and a number of other companies. In the fall of 2020, Mail.ru Group announced additional investments in the international expansion of the project.

Revenue from sales of the corporate socialization platform Digital Insider increased by 70% year-on-year. The platform's capabilities have been significantly expanded: in addition to performing the functions of a corporate social network, the solution allows you to manage knowledge, user experience and organize self-service for employees. In addition, talent management functions are implemented on the platform: the processes of goal setting and assessment, training and development of personnel potential. In 2020, the social platform "Russia is a country of opportunities" was put into operation, projects were launched in Rosatom and Lukoil, the Rosseti project was launched.

The number of companies using solutions based on the Tax Monitoring platform has grown fivefold. The platform already provides digital interaction Federal Tax Service with Gazprom, Rostelecom Eurochem. Started projects with Rosseti, and. FGC UES Tele2 A transactional service is being developed integration with systems FTS that will allow companies to interact with the tax service without the participation of specialized telecom operators.

In 2020, the Digital Assistant for Business was presented - a solution for intelligent process automation. Eight thousand employees of the Mail.ru Group were the first to gain access to corporate systems using the Digital Assistant. Using the Digital Assistant, NLMK Group was able to work differently with suppliers. The project for the introduction of the Digital Assistant in Yota has started.

In 2021, Mail.ru Digital Technologies plans to expand its product portfolio and customer base. The company expects another multiple increase in revenue from software licenses and from cloud services. In addition, it is planned to launch all functional products in the form of SaaS services for users of the cloud platform.

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^[3]. 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.

Interview with Managing Director Pavel Gontarev

2020

In October 2020, Pavel Gontarev, Managing Director of Mail.ru Digital Technologies, told TAdviser how cloud technologies help combine data and make the most of it. Read more here.

Interest in the public sector

Speaking at the TAdviser IT Government Day conference on March 11, Pavel Gontarev noted that it is important to have public services within its ecosystem of the company.

All commercial ecosystems intersect with each other: everyone promotes their own front-end services and uses other people's channels to deliver services, because this applies to the field of customer experience, convenience and economic efficiency. I think that the ecosystem of the state will not become an alternative to the ecosystems of commercial companies. Both are inevitable, in the sense that sooner or later public services will be available from banking applications, from social networks, from the search bar, from other commercial services. At least we hope so because it extends the value we give to our users. And we clearly understand that within the framework of our ecosystem it is important for us to have public services, "he said.

He also shared his impressions of working in the government market in the current regulation:

Having entered this market, we deeply learned what 44-FZ is and everything else related to the regulation of government IT projects. It seems to me that the existing model will greatly complicate the state's construction of a digital ecosystem, since the model of relations with partners within the framework of public procurement looks very difficult.

2019

Revenue growth by 140%, up to 1 billion rubles

The revenue of the B2B technologies direction of the Mail.ru Group in 2019 exceeded 1 billion rubles, the company said in its annual report. Its share in the group's total income, which amounted to 87.6 billion rubles, is still small, but the direction showed high growth rates - 140% year-on-year.

In fact, we become not only B2C, but also a B2B company, - said TAdviser in the Mail.ru Group.

Mail.ru Group allocated its business products to a separate division in 2019, to the Mail.ru Digital Technologies company. The former CEO of SAP SNGPavel Gontarev headed the new direction. The division is engaged in the adaptation and implementation of the group's technology solutions for accelerating the business of partners.

The portfolio of this area includes the cloud infrastructure of Mail.ru Cloud Solutions, the Tarantool data integration platform, predictive analytics and big data services, and communication solutions.

In 2019, Mail.ru Group launched a number of new solutions and services for business "(photo - park.mail.ru)"

One of the revenue drivers of Mail.ru Digital Technologies in 2019 was the launch of a number of new products on the market. For example, the portfolio includes solutions for deploying intracorporate social networks and increasing employee engagement using digital HR technologies.

The company also began to offer not only public cloud services, but also private clouds for strategic clients, and provided the opportunity to deploy its platform industrial internet of things (Industrial IoT,) IIoT not only in the cloud, but also on the customer's side.

The set of offered solutions based on Tarantool has also expanded. For example, Nokia has created a Tarantool-based solution for automating developments in the industrial Internet of Things in Russia.

The company has a special focus on large corporate customers.

"Mail.ru Digital Technologies" develops and develops digital platforms for the largest Russian companies and corporations, including Rosatom VEB RF",,,,," " Rosseti Center "Megaphone" and Aeroflot Alfa-Bank others, - told TAdviser in the Mail.ru Group.

As part of the development of the B2B business, Mail.ru Group has formed a number of important partnerships for itself with large integrators and software distributors, including IBS Group, Merlion and Axoft.

Creating a Company

In April 2019, Mail.ru Group announced the creation of a new business area in the field of digital technologies. The new direction will continue the company's strategy for the development of the B2B direction. By the time the company was created, business products from Mail.ru Group were already available to the market: Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions cloud services, Tarantool database development project, solutions for corporate socialization and communications. Further, the main task will be to bring technologies and digital products developed by the Mail.ru Group to the corporate market, which will be able to help large and medium-sized businesses in digitalization.

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