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Over the past 20-25 years, large Russian companies in all sectors of the economy have been guided by the "best in class" principle when choosing IT solution providers. For this reason, the choice very often fell on foreign products: for example, in the class of heavy ERP systems, SAP is the undisputed leader in Russia, and in the class of large database management systems (DBMS), Oracle has long been at the top. In recent years, project management products and task trackers from the Australian company Atlassian have gained popularity in the corporate environment.
Despite the fact that all czech republic cell phone number list these foreign vendors left the Russian market after February 24, 2022 and stopped supporting their products, leaving local customers alone with their current and strategic tasks, many corporate users are in no hurry to switch them off. The reasons for such reluctant import substitution include the lack of fully functional Russian analogues (or the practice of their successful use in large structures), the fact that over the years of use these products have "grown" into other corporate information systems, and considerable investments, the amortization of which will take years.
According to many IT directors, most foreign IT products deployed in Russia remain operational, although all corporations have disconnected them from the external circuit and blocked the possibility of automatic updates for security reasons.
"As long as foreign IT systems work, we will keep them. Another thing is that this period will not be long: maximum 3-5 years. And during this time we will replace them with domestic systems," comments the head of the information technology department of PJSC Surgutneftegaz Rinat Gimranov.
Deputy General Director of Lukoil-Technologies LLC Alexander Pruzhinin believes in the possibility of longer-term operation of imported solutions: "In recent years, a vicious practice has developed of changing systems and their versions very often. If we go back 10-20 years, the systems lived much longer. Stable, well-developed systems can function for a long time, and the question is not whether it will be possible to use foreign solutions, but whether something will change in our processes and regulation (including the processes implemented in these systems) so much that they will no longer cope. If the situation from the point of view of the internal logic of the corporation's work does not change much, then foreign systems can also work for a long time." He added that most such systems are modular, and they can be replaced in parts. "Large developers have never provided us with 100% boxed solutions - we have always finalized them with the help of local partners and internal resources," Alexander Pruzhinin recalled.
Sergey Kolodey, CEO of SIGMA LLC (since May 2021, a 100% subsidiary of the Inter RAO group), said: "Inter RAO works exclusively on domestic IT solutions, including 1C and its own developments."